IT STARTS WITH ME

This lesson is one that I do with Kindergarten early in the year to learn about them.We start by reading the book First the Egg this book is about how things change and turn into other things, like an egg into a chicken, a tadpole into a frog, paint into a picture, a word into an egg, and it ends with a ckicken laying an egg. So it very philosophical for kindergarten about how the book would start agian. The cool thing about this book it that it has see throught holes that peek into the next page as a part of the current page (it really is cool), we mimic this illustration style in our project. Through the book we touch on science and art through the various subjects of the pages.

Now it is time to make our own book. We discuss what it means to be an author and an illustrator. I premake a double sided paper that lays out how the book should be. We fold it and on the front is says "It starts with me..." Below this line we draw a picure of oursleves today we run through the body parts and facial features and look at our clothes and create a picture of ourselves. But we leave the face blank because it gets cut out a a peep hole (like the book). On the inside page it says "And what I want to be" this is where we imagine what we would like to be we grow up. We discuss what that occupation would allow us to look like and what we could do in that profession. We also talk about how shcool and college can help us achieve our goals. So on the inside page we draw the pic of us grown up. Then we write what it is we are. Then we cut out the front face so it peeks into our future selves.

These turn out really cute I was proud of some of the things that they wanted to be. I heard everything from art teacher, to ninja, to archeologist, to super hero....I really enjoyed doing this with the students, especailly at such an early age.

http://www.box.net/shared/ubhl0j3nff -Project Print Out