Writing Self Portraits
Our self-stories, or portraits, will tell each student’s story as an accumulation of life experiences as they wish to express it, even if they are only children. Portraits in various forms of writing, through the lens of young six and seven year olds sounds like a delightful endeavor and yet empowering with an important strength of character. They will also have opportunities to be creative in sharing their past and dreaming of their future. They can explore ideas of how they apply their peace builder traits in the world. Drawings will be used in all their activities as this not only is a form of writing, but it also greatly supports their oral and written language development and practice. Even though research has shown that there are stereotypical products when young boys and girls express themselves in drawings, it is also a good assessment of prior knowledge. Young children’s drawings are their expressions and manner of making sense how they choose, whether fictional or mysterious and magical.
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