Portraiture for Kindergarteners

I don't know how I learned to draw people but I'm pretty sure it didn't go like this ...

1. Draw the head and face
2. Look at your body to see that the neck is attached to the head, draw accordingly
3. Continue to the shoulders and you see that they are attached to the neck, draw accordingly
4. Look to see that your arms are attached to your shoulders and draw
5. Look at your own body all the way down with an end result of what you see below.

Tara's comment: the earrings are stickers ... also I thought this was supposed to be ME! : )

She likes it?

Chubby brown boy sees Julia getting into the van after school and says to me, 

"She can read."

"I know" I said as he stopped walking and I stopped strapping Julia in to her booster. 

"She read a whole book" he said with equal parts awe and confusion. 

"She loves it, she does it all the time."

As he turned to walk away he said "She likes it."

I asked Julia who he was. She didn't know his name but knew he was in the 3rd grade 

My little genius is making a name for herself. 

215

7/18/13 today Julia knows 215 sight words

5/17/13 she knew 176 words

3/1/13 she knew 101 words

2/1/13 she knew 67 words
1/23/13 she knew 51 words

MNPS list has 220 most commonly used words in reading.
Goal is for students to know all 220 by end of 2nd grade.
Julia starts Kindergarten in 2 weeks!