In the Classroom...

A staple in my first grade curriculum is 'Super Hero Family Portrait's!!!" The students get a kick out of developing ideas for each family members super powers. Then, they get to decorate each members costume including capes, masks, boots, and dare I say "underwear on the outside of their clothes!!!" The kids eat this project up like candy.

My objective is to have kids drawing "shape people" rather than the dreaded "stick people." I always have the students draw in sharpie rather than pencil at this age. Because if I give them pencils they erase non-stop. Eventually, tear their paper up or you have half erased figures everywhere. But, when they use sharpie they are forced to go for it. If they make a mistake, they transform it into a "happy accident." And this is what they look like in the beginning.