Amalia. Worried. When her bosses go over the barrier (she) is worried. She can sniff around. Amalia can sniff under the car. Amalia can run very fast. Amalia can sniff me. Amalia can lie down. Amalia can sleep.
The rocks and ferns are a teacher template but the fish and other sea creatures are Sophie's.
It shows head, body, legs, arms, toes, fingers, 3 eyes with a pupil, 3 noses with nostrils, mouth with teeth, and hair. It did originally only have two eyes and one nose, but when Alexander was looking at it, he mistook the nose for a third eye and thought it was an alien, so Sophie added extra eyes and noses to make it an alien.
I did write the name for her to copy, but while she was writing it, Finni was eating the paper I wrote it on, so this is pretty much from memory.
Sophie has signed the picture in the top with her name, spelt "SoHe".
This shows Jesus on the cross, and Judas in the centre of the picture, as well as other disciples.
Showing head with forehead, eyes, nose and mouth, and legs and arms.
Bottom is "Little little quick quick" (a violin rhythm), middle is "4 big giants" (another rhythm) and the top is an aeroplane.
I asked Sophie to draw a picture of herself, and this is what she drew. The black line(s) are "noon", the blue "Mummy" and green "me".
Sophie enjoyed the control she had over me painting this at the nursery school. She was using sponges to make round imprints, and I had to pass her each sponge. She loved being able to decide what colour (of 6) she wanted, and what size sponge (small or large), all by a nod/shake head routine. She also decided how many of each colour to do, just one of orange and green initially, and lots of yellow ones. She liked seeing what happened when the colours overlapped, but unfortunately I did have to discourage her with that. Often the planned art activities at the nursery school are quite prescriptive, so I was quite happy that she gave insistent head-shakes to the idea of drawing legs and sticking eyes on her blobs to turn them into spiders.
