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🎨 2nd Grade · ArtVA:Cr2.1Unit 5: Artists & stories

Self-portraits

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🎯 Objective: Students draw a self-portrait using a mirror.

Lesson outline

  1. Face shapes demo.
  2. Draw.
  3. Add color.
  4. Exit: one feature you drew carefully.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr2.1

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Talk about artworks
  • Make art that tells a story

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Artists & stories”

  1. Looking at art
  2. Illustrating a story
  3. Self-portraits

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