Shaving George Washington
It was quite a day in Ms. Dugger’s class at Fairview Elementary in Moore. Walking down the hall with all her materials in hand, the George Washington Teaching Ambassador was welcomed by a sign made especially for her in the social studies hall. As the ambassador began relating stories about Washington it was evident that the students were enthusiastic learners; so we decided to attempt to recreate Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of the first President with. . . SHAVING CREAM! You must realize that Ms. Dugger and Jan McClaren must both be a little crazy to allow 75 fifth graders loose with cans of shaving cream (I prefer to think we were teaching responsibility and demonstrating trust—two traits of the General). In a very short amount of time (ten minutes) the students created a dazzling display of “heads full of suds” portraits. It was a lot of fun . . . So teachers, grab the shaving cream! Please send me any “shaving cream” depictions of our first President that your students create and I will try to put the frothy visual renderings on my Blog.
