The first few days of school have been wonderful!
They have been all about getting to know each other, connecting, getting comfortable in the classroom environment, becoming familiar with the classroom routines, learning our Morah's and friend’s names, and most importantly playing, singing and having a great time together.
At IJP the children are viewed as collaborators: they are competent, curious, inquisitive, unique, and creative. To this end, we are starting their school year, and for many of the children their school career, with an exploration of the concept of self, with an All About Me unit.
Drawing Self-portraits is a great way for children of all ages to explore the concept of self. It is something they will do on a monthly basis in Kitahs Gimmel & Daled. We decided to try our hands at it this week in Kitah Bet. There are many skills being acquired as your child creates their self-portrait. They are developing basic math skills such as shape recognition and understanding the part to whole relationship. They are naming facial features and learning color recognition.
Some conversations while drawing self portraits:
Yoni drew his self portrait and as he finished, he got up and went to the sign in board and took off the picture of himself and brought it to me saying "Yoni".
Morah L: "Shaya what color crayon would you like to use to draw your eyes?"
Shaya: "Blue"
Hannah drew on her self portrait and said "hair" then she drew some more and said "nose"
An invitation to draw: The center was set up with a mirror on a stand, paper and crayons.
The children loved looking at themselves in the mirror.
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We looked in the mirror identified each part of our face and then we drew
.We noticed that everyone's face is different, well, almost everyone:
These twins have faces that are identical! How cool.
Morah Leah
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