beginnerswork

"If you were a kind of weather, what kind would you be?"

Examples: Rainy, sunny, cloudy, snowy...

Now visualize:

• What does your day feel like? (warm, damp, cold, windy)

• What are the colors of your day? (bright blue, yellow, gray...)

• What things will be in your painting? (clouds-a lot, a few or one, dry leaves, sun, snow flakes, wind)

At first, children will often choose "a sunny day" but with further consideration they may eventually choose snow or a more nuanced version of sunny...

Descriptive words, recorded by the teacher, can become a free verse poem to be edited and displayed with the painting. This project is a charming example of self reflection, as well as an exercise in visualization combined gracefully with writing.