March 09, 2011

Self Portraits - Kindergarten

 

We're over half way through the year, and I like to revisit self portraits a few times in Kindergarten.  Today we talked about how shapes make up our body & what parts connect to what(though I still had one student tell me after his head came his foot?!?! ha ha).  I loved what my kiddos came up with!! Some of them really added a lot of interesting details. 
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I have a student in this same class that I really want to help, but I'm at a loss of what to do?  At this point of the year, she is still not even giving me a head with arms and legs coming out.  I just don't think she's developmentally ready.  Any thoughts?? 

Here is the image that she gave me.

4 comments:

  1. I LOVE self portraits when my kids do them, I encourage them to do one at home about once a year and I keep ALL of them! Someday they will be really interesting to look through all of them to see the progression of their art. As reminder I never ever said I would not be an art nerd mom...I have become a minivan driving soccer mom and may even have boy scouts, but I will be the art nerd mom!

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  2. I wouldn't worry about that one student - looks like they aren't developmentally ready for the next step.

    I had a student who was the step above this - cookie people. Heads with arms and legs coming out of it - no bodies. He drew bodies like this until half way through 2nd grade. We did a lesson on dancing and movement for our portraits -- the he drew a picture of himself dancing and all the sudden there was a body!

    I'd encourage this student and just let them keep creating -- the cookie person will appear and then one day so will the body. This student just needs to draw shapes right now.

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  3. I agree with Ms. Novak. I have a student who draws similarly, and are severely delayed in all areas. I let her work along with us on her own. Sometimes the occupational therapist comes and works with her during art, but she just needs lots of practicing.

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  4. Give her some shapes of construction paper to build a person, sometimes young ones just need an opportunity to visualize a person in a different way with out having to conceptualize it themselves in a self drawn manner. We use hand writing without tears in our school district for our kindergarten classes and they have "mat man" which is a song, and wood pieces plus a mat body that the kids build him as they sing the song. I am sure if you google it you can find the song and or a video of this process. It has helped my 4K kids tremendously at the start of the year better conceptualize the parts of a body and thus their self portrait drawings (I have them draw a self portrait each month to help record their growth and understanding). Just a thought. SueG

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