Elissa's Footprint

The theme of my footprint is mainly green, because green is my favorite color. Each letter represents a part of who I am.

E- The camouflage represents my fondness of hunting.  My husband and I enjoy to go hunting together.  The barn and the cow represents that we live on a ranch and raise Black Angus cattle.

L- Volleyball has been a part of my life since I was a little girl.  I played for a year in college, and then went to Northwestern to coach. 

I – I really enjoy listening to music and singing.  Country and classic rock are my favorite genres.

S- This represents clouds, weather and the environment.  I love being outside.

S- The rings and the numbers “10-22-11” represent when my husband and I got married.  The ‘A’ is for Adam, my husband.  4-18-11 is when our son Carson was born.

A- Painting is a main hobby of mine.  It is my stress reliever.  I also really like to take pictures.



This footprint is a way to introduce yourselves to your class and get to know your students.  Your students will trace one foot or both feet.  They will then use a variety of mediums to describe who they are.  Their footprint must have their name on it and at least three different mediums.

To do the footprint activity in another content area, you can just tweak the requirements a little.  For science, you could have the students pick an animal and have them cut out their footprint and enlarge it.  They would then use symbols and pictures to describe that animal; where they live, what they eat, etc. Once finished, they would present their footprint to the class.



Another way you could introduce yourselves to your class and get to know your students is a partner activity.  The students get in groups of two students each.  You give them a list of questions to answer.  The questions can be anything from what town they were born in, to their favorite food or sport or classes.  The twist to this activity is that they have to answer the questions using symbols and pictures.  The only thing they can use letters for is their name.  Because they are in a group, one student will draw pictures of the other students’ answers.  They will come up and introduce their partner to the class.