Kindergarten Art

This was Eric's first homework assignment. On Howdy Night, he got a picture of a gingerbread man to color and turn in on the first day of school. Actually, this picture is another worksheet. The first one he got he barely colored at all. He got more colorful when he had to color another one at school. I like the way he got big and bold with writing his name.

They had a gingerbread man unit. During the first week of school, Eric said that they were going to make a gingerbread man in class. The next day, he said that they made one and he ran away out of the oven and they had to go looking for him. I was tickled when he emphatically told me (complete with hand gestures), "I kept finding footprints!" They apparently found the gingerbread man in the closet. Eric said matter-of-factly, "And then we ate him."

This week he showed me this gingerbread puppet and was making him talk. I couldn't get him to stop moving for the picture, but he was very excited about it. I can't even remember what his puppet was saying, but for once he wasn't talking about dinosaurs, his favorite subject to talk about.

His teacher is an experienced one, and seems to know how to really entertain the kids but have them learn at the same time. They must be learning about what letters are at the beginning of words, because he has been going around identifying that "dinosaur begins with d" and other such phrases.

Earlier this past week, he was asking how to spell "mama". With a little help from his big brothers, he was able to spell "mama" then he spelled "papa". Anthony, always the overachiever, then asked him to spell "disestablishmentarianism". I posted this on Facebook (for those of you not on Facebook). Poor Eric! Eric, surprisingly, seemed unfazed. He actually said "d" to start with and Anthony didn't make him say any more. On Facebook, Alejandro, Anthony's good friend and Eric's "other brother" replied that he would have asked Eric to spell "antidisestablishmentarianism". Later, he posted that he would have asked Eric to also spell "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis." What a goof.

Most of Eric's art has involved dinosaur teeth. Eric has made up a bunch of dinosaurs on his own. One such made-up dinosaur is called a "Bigasaurus". He said that this picture is of the teeth of a Bigasaurus and that a "huge ship is stuck" in the teeth. He also said that the ship is bigger than a "Megalodon". That boy is fascinated with dinosaurs. In fact, he is behind me on the other computer playing games on the "Dinosaur Train" website with his sister. His active imagination should serve him well--hopefully. In the meantime, I'm getting lots of artwork of dinosaur teeth.