First Grade "Special Me - Slippers with Symmetry!"

Are you …

Sweet like a kitten? 

Friendly like a puppy? 

Fast as a cheetah? 

Tough as a shark? 

Wild as a monkey?

In this lesson, first grade artists each identified a quality they have that makes them special.  They thought of animals that share that same quality.  They made slippers with the faces of the animals.  As inspiration, we read the book Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood.  This lesson affirmed that each of us is a special person with different qualities and strengths.  We learned about each other through the art project and our class discussions. 

Students were challenged to make each slipper have symmetry.  Symmetry and balance are concepts that they will revisit in their future math lessons and art lessons.