Kidwatching #1
On Tuesday, I had my very first session with the child I’m using for my Kidwatching project. He is three, and will be four on Feb. 14th! I did the assessment of name writing activity and was very impressed that he was able to represent all the letters in his name except for the “e”. He was very close though! I will talk about this more with my group tomorrow, but I what I found interesting is that he was very adamant about not drawing a picture of himself. Obviously, I wasn’t going to push the issue as I wanted him to cooperate with me! Instead of drawing himself, he said he wanted to draw something “yummy and delicious”. He proceeded to draw a circle with a green crayon, that he said was a cantelop. He then told me to color it in. Cantelope is one of his favorite things to eat but I was just curious as to why he didn’t want to draw himself? Don’t most kids want to draw pictures of themselves? I could be completely overanalyzing this, as he may have just not been in the mood for it. Any insight?
That is interesting?? Is this the case you’re presenting to us tomorrow?! I can’t wait to have you in the hot seat this week!
I don’t have any insight for you, but my little kindergarten girl did almost the same thing last week! A) She had NO interest in drawing herself (only a house and flowers- she wanted it to be “pretty”) and B) she didn’t even want to give me the picture at the end! HA! I wonder if this is some aspect of development or classroom instruction, since we both had similar experiences?