Often in 2nd grade, the kids draw pictures at home and bring them to school to give to their teacher. I get them a couple of times a week. Usually I get them at the most inopportune times - collecting homework, while meeting with a group, or talking with another student. If that happens I take the picture, thank the child, and send them on his/her way. By the end of the day, it ends up being displayed on the bulletin board, along with the others, for a little while.
When I received a new picture today it was the same old story. I didn’t have time to look at it right away so sat it on my desk until the end of the day when I picked up the picture to pin it on the board. That’s when this one caught my eye…
It’s pretty cute anyhow. It gave me a good laugh, and kind of made my day.
I have a few questions. :-)
ReplyDeleteA] are you the only blonde in the room.
B} what did you win.
Amazing all the same what they notice. I'm curious,was the artist a boy or girl.
Oh, would they have seen you in the evening or weekend someplace.
Yes, I'm usually the only blonde or "yellow hair"ed, as they call it, in the room. Last year I had two blonde boys, but that is rare.
DeleteI'm going to back and see who drew it. I have a couple of girls who bring me pictures regularly, but a week or so ago one of my boys brought me one. I had assumed a girl drew it, but looking at the kids in the desk, it could be the boy. That's generally the amount of detail my boys put into their drawings this year.
What did I win?
What's the red thing hanging from your neck. It looks like a ribbon & medal.
DeleteOh ha! I didn't even notice it. I was thinking maybe a necklace but I wear the same one everyday and it's not big and red. It could be my security badge but that's blue or it could be our new microphones but those are black and white.
DeleteI'd say beyond hair and eyes the colour pallette is that brilliant kids decision to use the nearest that wasn't used before.
DeleteI love that the whiteboard is red-orange. Hockney is just discovering that degree of representation. :-)
Ya know, there's kind of a fine line with coloring. "They" say that everyone is an artist until they start school and then the teachers ruin it, so I do try very hard to let them be creative and not put too many requirements or demands on what they do for pictures that go along with their learning, but I'll tell you, it irritates the crap out of me when, out of laziness a kid just picks up say a green crayon and scribbles a whole person green. Every year I have a handful of kids (usually boys) who don't care enough about coloring to put forth any effort. More than once I've caught myself saying, "Are you green? Well then why is this picture of you ALL green?" While wanting them to have creative freedom the lack of effort drives me nuts.
DeleteThis one is fun though because although the colors aren't the norm, there is detail. To be honest, the scribbling bothers me, but I can't complain when it's a picture FOR me. :)
Could be something simple too. The kid might not actually see the top and left of the whiteboard. Could be in need of glasses. Or it might just be that it's the way they are forcing a perspective unconsciously by blurring the less important bits.
DeleteThe fact they didn't colour your face but allowed the paper do the job is something that took me longer to grasp than 7. That leaving out 'thing' shows an interesting mind. Some people don't ever get it.
You're very kind giving the benefit of the doubt...I'm so jaded {grumble, grumble}. :)
DeleteAt least she didn't make you frumpy and give you grey hair!
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Yes I much prefer Wonder Woman to frumpy. :)
DeleteGreat representation!
ReplyDeleteOnce in K I got a picture that I hurriedly thanked a child for, taped to the cabinet and got on with the day....later at lunch, my co-worker said, "wow, who made you that?" Turns out there were some lovely bras cutout and made into a collage....guess some mom's Victoria's Secret catalog got cut up!
Ha ha ha! That's funny.
DeleteWhen I showed Jason the picture, he reminded me of a "boob" drawing story that I had forgotten about. I'll post about it soon. Kids are always good for a laugh, no matter how unintentional. :)
What great comments on this post...very insightful. I think it is a very good picture representation of you. My pictures from Luka at 4 are just scribbles. But he likes to color. Sasha loves to get a hold of crayons and mark the wall. DD1 already has some 'drawings' from him. She never had that problem with Luka. Two very different boys.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting HOW different kids are, even from the same family. Little boys are notorious for not wanting to take the time to color, but every year I'll have a couple who enjoy it. I can't really put my finger what makes that the case. This year however they are my most proficient boys.
DeleteI suspect it's the white page with boys.
DeleteHow do you mean?
DeleteI'm not sure. I'll have a stab at it though. I think the bleached white overloads the sensors like shining a white light in at the doctors. And with boys we see contrasts and movement. Looking for it really. Think of a football seen for nanoseconds against the sun and the boy knows within a few inches where it will fall. Catching it is another skill entirely.
DeleteTo give an instance how I see your web page. The white is to the fore. Squint your eyes and you'll see what I mean. But to focus on the little box I writing in now is taking real effort that I doubt a kid would know how to discipline. Or to put it another way. Libraries at colleges these days are moving away from the big glass box. And another. The painters studio should have it's windows facing north to give the truth to the colour but also to reduce the reflectivity of the gesso or whatever treatment on the canvas.
Like being overwhelmed by a blank "canvas", I guess. There's probably some truth to that. Where some kids can see it, others can't so don't like to spend the time on it.
DeleteNo, that's different. This is like we see with the entire retina before we learn to exclude.
DeleteHmmmmm???
DeleteFor years I didn't read new books. It was always more effort. I took it to be a dislike of modern writing but it wasn't. No it was the way the relationship between print and paper reacted for me. The old paper was much more matt in texture and it had gone a yellowish grey. It made the print crisp and easy to read.
DeleteThis sort of stuff is in my head due to the photography. And certain things going back to when I was a kid are making a bit more sense. But I've not fully formed it yet.
But think back to when you were jumping. Did certain configurations of shapes and colours in jumps throw you off until you'd learnt them. Until your eye learnt them.
Oh ok, more like the brightness/whiteness of the paper. It's funny you mention that for the art, as I understand that problem with the reading. In fact I use these bookmarks with my kids that have a colored but transparent opening to help with the contrast on the page as well as tracking for reading instruction.
DeleteWe're limited to the paper provided and most is white, but maybe a newsprint or manila paper would be more helpful to some of those kids.
Yes, precisely.
DeleteLike with a camera, the eye cannot deal with overexposure. But with kids who haven't trained their eye to zero and hit the fovea. Rather, their brain hasn't learn't to exclude.