Directed Drawing

This afternoon we did a little art activity using directed drawing and our work is stinking cute!!
Directed drawing is a great exercise for listening and following directions.  The students know they have to stay focused and follow the directions, or their drawing won't turn out.  Everyone was listening this afternoon and all our pictures turned out.  Directed drawing will raise the confidence of our little artists as they see that they can draw something and it does look like a scarecrow!  We finished off our work with pastels and we apologize if it got on our clothes.  We were working hard!

Asking questions is a great way to start a new investigation.  So, we brainstormed questions we would ask the four children who live in India, Peru, Ukraine, and Tunisia if we could meet them.  We then learned the words hemisphere and equator as we looked at a world map.  I used my nesting sock monkeys (ask your child what they are) to teach the concept of continent, country, province, city and community.  It is hard for us to understand, but we are working on it😅  We are now working on our first map - labeling and coloring.

Even and odd numbers continue to be a problem for us so today we read Even Steven and Odd Todd and created an anchor chart for ourselves to we can remember important facts.  We played a game of Buzz and learned that even + even= even and odd+odd=even and odd+even = odd.  Interesting.

Headphones and a rock for next week please.
No school tomorrow or Monday

Have a great family weekend!