Drawings

We started the morning with some random drawings on Sophie's whiteboard. I took the opportunity to encourage her to talk about her drawings. After we have almost worn out the dry erase markers, Sophie took out her normal markers to work on paper. I sort of guided her verbally in her drawing, but she did it entirely on her own.

Sophie : (scribbled something pink) Monster!
Mama : Oh… and where are his eyes?
Sophie : (added 3 dots) Here!
Mama : Wow, scary monster!
Sophie : (scribbled something blue) Bird!
Mama : Okay, where is your bird? (handed her a brown marker) Is it in a tree?
Sophie : Yes… (scribbled a brown line)
Mama : (handed her a green marker) And what about leaves?
Sophie : (added some shorter green lines) ...
Mama: (offered a yellow marker) You want to draw a sun?
Sophie : (drew a circle) Sun!

Sophie : (scribbled some brown lines) Owl!
Mama : Oh, that’s an owl and it’s in a tree trunk… (pointing at the vertical brown line) Owls come out at night, would you like to draw a moon?
Sophie : (grabbed the grey marker from my hand and drew a huge moon) Moon!

Mama : So what are you drawing now?
Sophie : (continued scribbling) …

Sophie ignored me and stopped drawing. She insisted that her works must be displayed so we put it up.