This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day.
We are a uniform school.
Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless or being raised by grandparents.
My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.
My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.
My Project
Drawing portraits of orphans in Syria and other countries is what the art classes will mainly be doing this year in distant learning. The theme is community service with art. This project is to support the Memory Project during this pandemic with drawing 10 orphans from Syria, the second country students will learn about before drawing the portraits. To meet these students through their photograph and by drawing them, learning about their country is a great community service project using art that we have participated in for 8 years and 15 different countries.
The main projects students will be working on in distant learning this year at their homes is a community service project of reaching out to orphans in different countries by drawing their portraits and giving the hand-drawn portraits to them to keep.
Students are connecting with children their own age in a different country, learning about the history of Syria, learning how people live in Syria, and this year they will learn how to digitally draw a portrait on their Chromebook's at home during distant learning.
Students start out researching the country and looking for pictures about the country from the internet. They then draw the portrait with the pictures collaged in the background. They are learning new art skills and techniques working with technology. New this year is drawing portraits digitally at home. The goal is to draw 90 orphan portraits this year.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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