Self-Portrait Portfolio Pages

I'm always looking for artifacts for my students portfolios. I try to find items that will be keepsakes for my students and their parents but also show their development throughout the year.

I make a self-portrait page for the fall and one for the spring and place them next to each other in the child's portfolio. This also allows me to collect data (number of body parts drawn) for report cards.

You can download the template FOR FREE here. The background is white but can be printed on colored paper or cut out and pasted on colored paper.

Tiger Stripes - Patterns

In our classroom, we work on patterns everyday during calendar time. This activity was a great way to measure individual progress and have a great artifact for each child's portfolio.

Missouri Early Learning Standards:

- Recognizes patterns

- Duplicates and extends patterns

Supplies:

- pre-cut black and orange strips

- glue stick

- white paper

-pre-made example

Directions:

- Show the child your paper and explain how you followed the pattern black, orange, black, orange, black, orange. Just like a tiger.

- Give the child their supplies to make this activity.

- Because I used this activity to measure the child's ability and to keep for their portfolio, I used minimal teacher guidance. Below are a few of the results from my classroom.

left: child age 3

right: child age 5

Candy Heart Count

This is a great way to use all those candy hearts from Valentine's day. This activity is a great one to save and put in the child's portfolio.

Supplies:

- candy heart count paper

- 15 candy hearts per child

- pen

- highlighter

First, I had the child place a candy heart on every one of the hearts on the paper. Then I asked the child to count all of the pink candies. Then we counted together to check and see if the child was right. The child wrote the number under the pink column. I wrote the number in highlighter for the children who are still learning to write their numbers.