The girls have been real troopers. They fought through drawing cubes and finally had decent ones by the end of class. First, we made presents to celebrate school. I asked the girls for homework to draw a page full of presents. To imagine how many presents they wanted Santa to bring them. Then I asked each girl how many presents did they want for Christmas. They all shouted, "ONE!" So either they are really good kids and/or really smart kids!
I'm finding that having preplanned drawing ideas is only sometimes needed. These kids come up with great ideas during class that we turn into the day's drawing. While talking about presents one mentioned that she accidentally found her Christmas present in the laundry room where her Uncle had been. She was looking for him and then accidentally saw her present. After she told that story one of the girl's exclaimed, "Your Uncle was in the laundry machine?!" That gave me the idea of showing them how to draw laundry machines using the cube they just learned to draw. They had a blast coming up with ideas of what to show in the washer window. One drew her sister!
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