Although the last first grade blog had a Thanksgiving theme, and we are now quickly approaching Valentine's Day, first graders have been very busy with their art lessons! Students spent the weeks in between Thanksgiving and December vacation working with clay. First graders did a beautiful job making their clay snowmen, and you can read all about it here, on the "all grades" page. Since returning back to school at the beginning of the month, first grade students have been working very hard on making a snow person collage. I began the lesson by reading the story "Snow Happy to be Here," by Cheryl Hawkinson. The story is about the Snowblatt family, and describes how humans make snow people from snowflakes, and reveals the magical thing that they do to make the snow people come to life. The story also focuses on the fact that just like snowflakes, no two snow people, and no two humans, are exactly alike. We are all unique, and that's what makes us special. So the students' task was to tear up little bits of paper to make snowflakes, and then collage them to make their own unique snow person. They began by using a white crayon to draw the outline of a snow person on a blue piece of paper. Once that was done, they started making and gluing their snowflakes. We talked about the importance of overlapping the snowflakes as they glued. Once the bodies of the snow people had been created, the real fun began! Students used fancy papers (donated by Checkerboard Paper in West Boylston) to personalize them. I was so impressed with the creativity and imagination that went into these! Everyone really took their time and thought about how they would make their snow person completely unique. This project was a great success, and with a blizzard raging outside at this very moment, I have a feeling that a lot of little humans will be making real snow people in the next few days! I wonder if any of them will look like these: Super job, first grade! Keep up the fantastic work!!
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