The Drawing Center

I'm fascinated by the students who choose to visit the drawing center week after week. Even with paint, clay, construction, and other centers available. Each class has its own core of students that love to draw.

A first grader made a book about his family, "see? here's my whole family."

I've been watching this second grader draw since kindergarten. One of his classmates observed his drawing skills and said, very quietly (not wanting me to overhear), "Wow, I think you might be a even better drawer than Mrs. Dyer." And I'm inclined to agree!

Some of my favorite drawings, the kind I fish out of the recycle bin, are these types of things. Students just playing with lines, patterns, shapes. Not creating a finished product, but joyfully playing with the process. "I'm filling in each of the squares and then it's a pattern, but with different colors. Do you know what pattern this is called? It's AABB. 'Cause it goes circle, circle, square, square."