Homemade Play Dough Ornaments.
My teen daughter actually suggested we make these this year. Can you believe that. Homemade play dough is so easy to make and so adaptable for different projects.
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 w...
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