March 19, 2012

• Chalk & Children  

  We’re still working on technique.  I think.  I hope.  I… don’t know.  As long as they’re using their imaginations and trying, I guess I’m happy.  I get too, um, perfectionist-y.  Myself.  I need to do that to my own work, and let them alone.  As long as they stay away from the black and try not to outline things in dark before ‘coloring’ them in (which Lydia didn’t).  Those are my only two qualms.  If I can break them all of those, I’ll be happy.   And then pick two new qualms.  ((wink!))

  
  Mice
  by Rose Fyleman, 1877-1957
  
  I think mice
  are rather nice.

  Their tails are long,
  their faces small;
  they haven’t any
  chins at all.

  Their ears are pink,
  their teeth are white;
  they run about
  the house at night.

  They nibble things
  they shouldn’t touch,
  and no one seems
  to like them much…

  But I think mice
  are nice.
   
  NoTe:  Ethan’s mouse is blue because it’s Tutter from “Bear in the Big Blue House”.  What the yellow monster beside it is, though, nobody has a clue, not even Ethan.  He just said she was visiting.  Brian’s and Isaac’s big grey mice with red eyes and pink tails made theirs look most terribly ratty, although I like Brian’s mouse-hole – REAL dimension in one of his pictures – and Isaac’s outdoor mouse, which nobody else did.  Lydia’s got an ele-mouse… look at the feet.  She’s a little sensitive about that, though… although every one laughed when Mama said, “STOMP… STOMP…  STOMP… CHeeeeeeeeSE!!”  ((Well, it is kind of funny.))  We tease in good humor around here quite a bit.  Brian says mine’s a kangaroo mouse, but the tail isn’t bushy enough.  It’s not mouse-y, either… tails are HARD, y’know that?!  And I think it needed bigger eyes, and its face is too short, and it’s ears are somehow not right… but there goes that perfection thing.  Anyhow, we had fun.  And got a little better!  Every time, we get a little better!

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