The Shape of My Heart

First grade artists are practicing drawing basic geometric shapes and for many students they are learning to draw a heart for the first time. I started first by doing a whole class demonstration of the how to draw a heart. I place a dot in the middle and the bottom of the paper before class. I showed how to make a curved shape starting with your pencil on the middle dot and try to touch the side. You then repeat on the other side. This is where I talk about the word symmetry. Then you finish the heart by starting at the end of that curved line and leaning to the bottom dot. I walked around the class between steps helping students if needed. At the end of the demo I gave students about five minutes of practice time with erasers. After that I called small groups for students who needed extra assistance for their heart. While I was working with small groups I had other students work independently and draw all the shapes they could think of in the middle of their heart and color them with crayon. I really liked the small group work this week because I had a few students that were just so frustrated but by the end of small group they had drawn a much better heart and they were proud.

Hearts and symmetry.

First grade artists are practicing drawing basic geometric shapes and for many students they are learning to draw a heart for the first time. I started first by doing a whole class demonstration of the how to draw a heart. I place a dot in the middle and the bottom of the paper before class. I showed how to make a curved shape starting with your pencil on the middle dot and try to touch the side. You then repeat on the other side. This is where I talk about the word symmetry. Then you finish the heart by starting at the end of that curved line and leaning to the bottom dot. I walked around the class between steps helping students if needed. At the end of the demo I gave students about five minutes of practice time with erasers. After that I called small groups for students who needed extra assistance for their heart. While I was working with small groups I had other students work independently and draw all the shapes they could think of in the middle of their heart and color them with crayon. I really liked the small group work this week because I had a few students that were just so frustrated but by the end of small group they had drawn a much better heart and they were proud.