Natasha Smith

LTC 4240: Art

Orange Block
Elementary Classroom Reflection
I am in a first-second grade multiage classroom at New Haven Elementary. On the
students tables there is a little caddy that hold pencils, colored pencils, crayons,
markers, scissors, and glue. Whenever they finish a project and they have extra time,
the students color whatever worksheet or paper they were working on. This is an
everyday occurrence. When the students are working on their writing and they
finish they are supposed to draw a picture to represent what they wrote about.
When the student is finished they go and show the teacher. She always asks them if
they drew all of their pictures and colored them neatly. Some of the students will
assure her that they did and others will turn around and go back to their seats to try
again. If the teacher notices that the coloring is all scribbles she will tell them that
that is not firs/second grade coloring and they need to try again. This was the most
prevalent when the students were working on a pre-assessment writing test and
were required to draw pictures at the top of each page. It was very obvious that
some students did not care at all about their illustrations while other students spent
the majority of the time drawing their pictures. I feel like the teacher needed to have
a discussion with students about how important illustrations can be to a story.