Help me give my students foam white poster boards and markers for creating self portraits.
$387 goal
This project expired on May 22, 2020.
This project expired on May 22, 2020.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
I work in a Title I school in a small community with an amazing group of eighteen kindergarten students and their families. I say families as well because I truly believe in educating the families as well as the students.
"Children should leave each day with smiles on their faces and stories in their hearts!" Author unknown.
The school I work in has had a lot of turnover with staff during the last couple of years, and some of that has to do with the dynamics of the area, but also within our community. Working with these families truly makes you go the extra mile to help the families and students have a better life when they walk through your classroom door.
Many of my students are English language learners from single-family homes, have no pre-school background, and their families struggle to make ends meet. Incorporating activities and engaging learning opportunities in my classroom that follow students home is one of my goals when families have me as their teacher.
My Project
Kinder Artists is a self-portrait art activity where students will draw then paint a self portrait to display for Kinder Graduation. Self portraits give students the opportunity to draw incredible details in their own way. Finished work includes facial features made with tons of different shapes and lines, clothing with small design elements and backgrounds that tell you more about a students life.
Drawing is also about activating the imagination and being inventors.
Drawing teaches children to see, to observe beyond what they know and to slow things down. These Kinder Artists are excited to draw/paint a self-portrait to display to family and friends during their Kindergarten Graduation.
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