Elementary students enjoy art class

Truman Elementary School students were busy learning about symmetry and image reflection during art class this week.

On Tuesday morning, second-grade students were learning how to look for symmetry.

They then worked on the first half of their reflection drawings.

Teacher Jaime Campos said most of the students were drawing their pictures about winter scenes, which is something they discussed because of the recent snow. She asked them to think about what items they can see their reflections in during the winter months.

This led to most students drawing and then coloring their drawings of ice or open water surrounded by snow and trees.

One student drew a picture of himself ice skating on a pond surrounded by evergreen trees.

"It's a good way for them to express themselves and be creative," she said. "It's neat to see their different takes on the project."

Campos knows this is often a class students look forward to because it's a break from the norm.

"There's not always one right answer," Campos said about her class.

That's something they can't get in most classes, such as math, where only one answer is correct.

Sometimes the will discover the answer by themselves.

"I think (art) develops a lot of skills they don't get in other classes," she said.

As for the symmetry, Campos encouraged the children to look around for symmetry, which is all around them even their faces have symmetry.

"It's kind of fun applying what they learn here in other places," Campos said.

For example: sometimes the students will come in and tell her where they saw a great symmetry example while they were on the playground.

When it was closer to the class being over, Campos reminded the students how much time was left so they could wrap up what they were doing.

When it was time to pick up, the second graders quickly put everything back in its place as quickly as they could before getting in a single-file line to head to their next class.