October 31, 2007
I like to think outside the box. Give me a box and I’m going to try and figure out how to do something different than everyone else. I’m like that.
Curriculum dictates that tomorrow I am supposed to teach a first grade art lesson on the Mona Lisa. Dude. Have you ever seen a first grader try to draw a portrait? It ain’t pretty. Stick figures abound. In first grade it’s hard to even get them to draw all the components of a face: eyes, nose, mouth, so you can forget about some artful portrait. So me? Being the rebel that I am, I have decided that fine, we will do portraits tomorrow. We will even draw faces. BUT. We are doing snowman portraits. Because I like to draw outside the lines. I mock the Mona. The director of this program is going to hate me…. ![]()
October 31, 2007 at 9:49 am
Wouldn’t Jack-O-Lantern portraits be more appropriate to the season? To tie back to Mona Lisa, you could even teach it as La Jaconde-O-Lantern.
October 31, 2007 at 10:15 am
Doofus. And no. Halloween will be over. Gawd. That would be like….breaking the rules. ;D
November 1, 2007 at 2:41 pm
My first grader did draw me once. I had a heart head and a bunch of butt. I think Snowmen portraits are better. They got back…. LOL…
November 1, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Candid- LOL!!!!!!!
November 1, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Snowmen? A monkey could draw a snowman.
Do you teach monkeys?
Monkeys are funny.
November 1, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Once again Fab, you have left me speechless.
November 2, 2007 at 8:26 am
why not better let the kids to draw their faces and that way you will see how they look at them selfs.. it’s a good way to find oout the reason of each kids personality
At least.. if you draw snowmen.. ask them to draw a suspicios smile as the one on the monalisa
hehehehe.
November 2, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Whistlers mother would be a better one to do. A woman in a chair. Much more perspective involved and the chair could have rockets too.
November 7, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Sabrina- We definitely talked about expressions. They did a great job!
Les- ok did I mention the kids are six?