Dear Parents,<\/p>\n
One month went by quickly, and the drawing ability of our students has also been increased quickly.\u00a0 During this period of the course, we drew and colored an African giraffe.\u00a0 Not only is the giraffe naturally pretty, but also is the African plateau beautiful.\u00a0 We also drew and colored night woods\u2019 owls.\u00a0 Not only are owls cute and friendly, but also are night woods quiet, peaceful and beautiful, too.\u00a0 We also drew and colored a cartoon turkey which is colorful and pretty, in correlation to cerebrating the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 Kids did wonderful artwork on these subjects.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, we had two demonstrations of an advanced level of pencil drawing of human portraits and human figures.\u00a0 I invited to the classroom two high school students who happen to be specialized in these two areas.\u00a0 They demonstrated in the class their artworks of the portraits and figures and their ways to make them.\u00a0 While their drawing ability and their artworks are the model for my students in the class to learn, they personally and physically are the role model for my students to be.\u00a0 All will encourage and stimulate my students to study the visual arts not only today, but also for many years coming. One demonstration is done by my TA, Zhang, Fan, a senior student from Wellesley high school.\u00a0 She is specialized in human portrait drawing. She brought her sketch book to my attention and I found that many drawings of ears, eyes, mouths and whole portraits are very impressive.\u00a0 Her time, effort and skill in drawing the portraits are clearly noticed. She has been my teaching assistant in past one and half year and has been learning and practicing drawing for a long time. After my introduction of portrait drawing,\u00a0 she did a wonderful demonstration with my help without any difficulty.\u00a0 My young students accepted it very well. The other demonstrator, Yu, Xianger, is a student of the 10th grade Chinese class and a 11th grader in Mansfield high school. Coincidentally and independently Yu, Xianger also brought her sketch book to my attention and I found that she spent a lot time and effort to draw human figures, many different dancer posts, beautiful and artistic.\u00a0 Many pages of the figure drawings are impressive, too.\u00a0 The previous portrait demonstration reminds me that human figure drawing demonstration will be worthwhile, too.\u00a0 As a result, it turned out good.\u00a0 The attendance for both demonstrations is unprecedented full, \u5750\u65e0\u865a\u5e2d\uff0ceven having a trying student and parent from other classes. We all watched,\u00a0 after my brief introduction, the demonstrator carefully to draw a dancer figure\u00a0 folding the up and low half body together, a nice post.\u00a0 Even though she still has a lot of room to improve her drawing skills, her function to the class is well performed.\u00a0 The demonstration is successful.\u00a0 All kids watched carefully, listened carefully and tried their best to practice, but resulted artworks were not satisfied, which is reasonable.\u00a0 I did not expect them to do well and only expected them to observe the drawing procedure and be exposed to advanced levels of drawing subjects and the visual art world.\u00a0 In the last half class, I demonstrated the drawing of Santa Claus and required the students to do it.\u00a0 Overwhelming information pushed kids back a little bit, but some kids made a wonderful colored Santa Claus.<\/p>\n
I also showed many my human figure drawings and colored by oil pastels in the class.\u00a0 I will instruct students how to draw and color them in the next year and next semester.<\/p>\n
Regarding to the homework, coloring and contouring of 12 pages in the homework folder should be done now.\u00a0 From now to the end of this semester, I will request free drawing something interesting kids find or copying from the 12 pages of home work sheets.<\/p>\n
As the Christmas and New Year holidays kick in, the Christmas holiday atmosphere will fill out our classroom, too.\u00a0 So that next Sunday, we will draw a Christmas tree, a wreath, and a bell.\u00a0 After this session, the school will have a holiday season break.\u00a0 We will resume the class in a new year.<\/p>\n
As the registration procedure is on the way, I do not have email addresses to email you any more.\u00a0 Hope that this letter will serve the communication well.\u00a0 If you have any questions, please feel free let me know.<\/p>\n
Happy holidays!<\/p>\n
Michelle Yu, Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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