Remember when Josie and Johann worked playdough along the edges and corner of the table last week?
This Tuesday, Johann came in from the playground, where he had dragged a log slice along the ground, making lines, paths, roads – we’re not sure of his intent, as he didn’t narrate his play. Once inside, he began drawing. He made one long line across the paper, then, as if to widen it or to make it disappear, he drew up and down along the line, working hard to get from one end to the other. He noticed the way the crayon wore down when he pressed firmly, commenting that when he drew on bricks at home, the crayon wore away, too. I (Mark) asked if he had used chalk, and he said yes.
After a bit, Josie came over and began drawing too. She said she was drawing the edge, though in fact she was drawing a bit of color in each of the corners. Johann noticed this and immediately drew on the corners of his paper, too, only with black, while Josie used different colors for each of her corners. When Josie was done, she gave her drawing to me.
Johann wasn’t done with his yet. He rolled it up carefully, then said that if he put it up to his eye it would get wet – then he put it up to his mouth briefly, and it did indeed get a little wet. Then he twisted the paper tightly. Finally, he placed it into a hole in the flex cabinet and left it there.
