I have had this post in the draft mode for quite a few weeks now and finally everything came together today and am very excited to share it with you.Do you ever wonder that when you give a recipe to five different chefs, all the final dishes taste different? Or if you give each of them same ingredients to come up with an original dish,each of them is sure to come up with a different creation with a different name to boot.And that is why my dishes never taste as delicious as my mother's even though I follow her recipes.Try giving ten words to five different people and ask them to write a sentence.Chances are you will get five different sentences.That is how unique we are and that is what makes the world interesting.Last month while visiting my fifth grader's classroom I came across this wall exhibit in his classroom called "Tall Ships"which was a quilt of pictures made by the kids.
This was a directed drawing activity where all the kids followed the same directions to draw ships resembling those in 1800s in preparation to their visit to Star of India.They had been listening to their teacher read to them True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and had a pretty good idea how these ships would look like. The remarkable fact about these drawings is that they were drawn straight with a Sharpie. No tracing, just the first and only attempt with a permanent marker.Imagine the kids' trepidation on getting the news that they were to draw with a Sharpie.No erasers, no do overs.But their wonderful teacher assured them that there are no mistakes in art and their pieces will be a reflection of their own individual artistic vision.The intent was to give them a confidence in themselves as you know when drawing with a permanent marker they could not go back and erase their mistakes as they would have been able to, had they drawn with a pencil. Kudos to the children for trying it.I know I would be intimidated.
This was a directed drawing activity where all the kids followed the same directions to draw ships resembling those in 1800s in preparation to their visit to Star of India.They had been listening to their teacher read to them True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and had a pretty good idea how these ships would look like. The remarkable fact about these drawings is that they were drawn straight with a Sharpie. No tracing, just the first and only attempt with a permanent marker.Imagine the kids' trepidation on getting the news that they were to draw with a Sharpie.No erasers, no do overs.But their wonderful teacher assured them that there are no mistakes in art and their pieces will be a reflection of their own individual artistic vision.The intent was to give them a confidence in themselves as you know when drawing with a permanent marker they could not go back and erase their mistakes as they would have been able to, had they drawn with a pencil. Kudos to the children for trying it.I know I would be intimidated.
