Self-portraits and Finding Rainbows to Making Rainbows...

Self Portraits

We love working with children on their self portraits at St John's. It is also a wonderful  tool  to measure growth in children's skills throughout their time here. 

Monday

On Monday, Eva started to work with the children on their self portrait

Elizabeth

Gigi

Lucy

Betsy

Lily

Tuesday 

Camila

Camila

Susan - " I want to draw myself as a baby!"

Dru - " I have green eyes"

Gus was working very hard to draw many details he noticed on his face and said    " I have lots of eye lashes! and my smile is wicked!"

Wednesday

Henry tried several shade od hair color before finding a perfect matching one. Lily said  - " I want to draw the  red bow in my hair"

Henry

Lily is helping Henry finding the right "hair" color he needed

Lily

Leo was very interested in watching  how Max draws his portrait

Max spent a fair amount of time drawing his flower shirt and his bird headband.

Thursday 

Elizabeth, Max, Leo, and Lucy worked on their portraits together

Elizabeth made several drafts before getting her eye lashes the way she wanted it.

Elizabeth's portrait

Lucy was excited to draw her second portrait and noticing that her ears also had sink on and her hair was so "flowy" and long.

Max was excited to draw another portrait of himself, this time wearing a blue flower shirt!

Chasing Rainbows at School

Betsy and Lily are catching real  Rainbows in the hallway

Blue Stripes

The children mixed different shades of blue to dye the fabric stripes

Yellow Stripes

The children mix different shades of yellow

Indigo and Violet AKA Purple!

What colors do we need to make Indigo and Violet, AKA Purple? Red and Blue, the children loved mixing red and blue to create several shade of purple!

"We love it !! Now we have to make pink stripes " - Betsy

Betsy and Elizabeth - "We have to make pink because we always use pink when we draw rainbows at school"

Pink 

According to Betsy and Elizabeth, the best part about dying fabric is the clean up part!
Betsy said - "Teachers are so lucky because they get to do the washing, that's my favorite chore"

Have a wonderful and colorful weekend!!