The Learning Umbrella

Part of our day is devoted to seatwork.  This means that the kids have to sit at the table, with a minimum of wiggle and noise, and do some school work or art.  Seat time happens during naptime, and it’s part of a series of activities I do with the preschoolers to keep them quiet enough that the younger ones can get a good nap. 

On this day, he wanted to use a marker instead of a pencil.  His work was a bit sloppy, but he was so enthusiastic about it and had so much fun, that it was a good break from the usual drudgery that his pencil work is. 

This work is from a fun Klutz book that shows how to make different hand shapes into creatures.  I traced Carbon’s hand for him, then he did the rest.  He’s never copied a picture like this before.  He was taking careful note of how they had colored the example and he tried to match it.