WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?

What do you mean the year is almost over?!? We aren’t done learning! We aren’t done making art! If you haven’t noticed, teachers tend to buy a ticket to the crazy train as soon as people start talking about the end of the year because it’s hard to understand where the time went, what will we try to cram in last minute and what will we do differently the next year...we have to make note before we forget! This year has meant so much to me in so many ways. I love teaching art! And I love when students find their artwork and education meaningful. When given choices in the artmaking process, students gain ownership and the experience in turn becomes meaningful. When our experiences become meaningful on a personal level, we invest and actively engage, which is what we want the educational experience to be! Self-portraits are a guaranteed personal experience, but they can also be intimidating since drawing the human figure can be quite difficult. First and second graders took on their self-portraits with enthusiasm and then gave them extra character, which made the experience that much more meaningful, as they added either royal, pirate or super hero features.