line wrap-up or how unprepared i was on monday.

ok here's the truth. sometimes it's hard to force myself to plan on the weekend. i knew i needed to do something that would wrap up our work with line for monday but i was at a loss. i thought about how it had ended last week. they had gotten the idea of varying the line but they still weren't observing as closely as i would have liked so...i thought sharpies could be the answer to that. no erasing. no hesitating. fit it all on the paper or start again. see the whole thing. but what would we draw? another irrelevant still life? what has lots of lines and details? 1 hour till class. 1/2 hour till class. 10 minutes till class.

i had them all take their shoes off. they loved this...which shocked me.

i laid two pieces of newsprint on the fool in an x and we placed our shoes side by side. a little perspective preview for next week.

and to my surprise it was silent as they slowly and intentionally observed and moved along the line of shoes with their sharpies. they wore out at just the right time with 5 minutes to go.

i can never get enough of kids sharpie line drawings. what is it about them? they always hate how they turn out and no matter how many ways i try to explain how honest the drawings are and how much evidence i can see as to how closely they were observing they just never believe.