Self Portraits!

In honor of conferences this week we focused a lot on self reflections and of course had to do our mid year self portraits. Students had the opportunity to reflect on which subjects they like best at school and how they feel they do at listening, following directions etc. It was quite interesting to see who I thought was being too hard on themselves as learners! I will of course share those documents with you at conferences this week!

Self Portraits 

To start our self portraits we talked about the fact that we are all learning how to be artists, which means that there will be no perfect way to draw yourself and that is ok. Some students said phrases like "I'm no good at art" and we talked about the fact that we will always be learning, growing and changing. Our class motto is "The more you practice the better you get!" First we started by drawing our head, eyes, mouth (that was the hard part!), ears etc. Then we colored our faces with color crayons and finally water colored the background. I have never seen the kids work so hard and their hardwork shows in the beauty of these self portraits. You can see them all displayed in our classroom when you come to conferences, but here are a few previews!

A student colors in her self portrait.

A student adds watercolor to his background.

 Here are a few of the finished ones! I love the details they added!

High Fives!

Along with our school's behavior tickets "Goldfish" our class has started using High Fives which are our class coupons that students get when I see them doing something exceptional, helping out a friend, cleaning up an area they weren't working at, doing a task without being reminded etc. Students have been collecting these High Fives and I finally opened our "Coupon Store" for students to buy reward coupons with their High Fives. Some of the coupons include No Shoes (getting to take your shoes off in the classroom for one day) Bring a Stuffed Animal to School (getting to bring their favorite stuffed toy to school for one day) and more! Students love looking at our chart to decide which coupon they are saving for and I have loved seeing students collaborating and sharing their tickets. I have heard "Hey if you save 5 and I save 5 we can buy something that is 10 tickets together!" When you get the chance ask your child what they are saving for or how many High Fives they have saved at school so far!

The green is the poster with the coupons displayed and the box below is where students can buy the physical coupons.

Well that is all for this week. I can't wait to see you all at conferences and to continue all of the fun I have with your children every day!

Smiles,

Miss Adams