May I Take Your Order?

Concentric squares in Sheyla's painting demonstrating awareness of page boundaries and shape.

Something happened over the weekend. Was it the orderly formations of aircraft? Perhaps the gorgeous weather of late? Maybe good old-fashioned brain growth? Whatever it was, there is a noticable increase in visual order in the art and constructions of our students.



Saiff-Deen's self portrait. This orderly, well proportioned "man in the moon" face exhibits fine motor control and spatial awareness of proportion and facial features. This from our top commissioner of paper airplanes.



While the proportions of the blocks often affect an orderly arrangement, the even distribution of the animals marks an awareness of the concepts of classification and quantity.





Belle paints a vertical stripe of each new color, then adds columns of spots, counting audibly to the bottom of the page. Note that they each number four, all the way to the bottom.











TODAY'S STORY
Froggy Bakes A Cake, by Jonathan London and Frank Remcewicz. Kids love the "Froggy" books for many reasons. I love them because they repeat the same literary formula each time, making them predictable. Predictable books make kids feel smart, to put it plainly. The graphic style is direct, uncluttered and consistent. Whenever readers see big sweeping letters across the page in an arc, they know it's someone yelling,"Fro-o-o-o-gy!" For this installment I have three words for you: chocolate covered flies.