Big Idea:

- People create art to express who they are as individuals and community.

Curricular Competencies:

- Explore artistic expressions of themselves and community through creative processes

- Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content
- Reflect on creative processes and make connections to other experiences

Curricular Content

- visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, texture, colour; principles of design: pattern, repetition

Core Competency: Positive Personal and Cultural Identity

-I am aware of myself as different from others

When we started school in September, we talked about what makes you, You!  Part of what makes you, You, is how you look! We talked about what different facial features we had and used mirrors to look at ourselves and draw self portraits. We used pencil crayons for our faces, and water colour for our background. Our self portraits from September were hung up on the classroom wall, to show everybody in our class.  In January, we drew self-portraits again. This time, we used pens and watercolour for the faces, and acrylic for the background.