February 26th, 2020

Today Maren, Lane and Grace  worked on trying to draw hopscotch again.
First they reflected on the first drawing a small group had made:

​Grace: Some people drew circles, they need to be squares.
Maren: They have to be a square, not a circle, a circle looks like this. So these ones are circles,  all these ones are circles and all of these have squares.
​Grace: And they have to be in one square (pointing to the numbers all together in one box)

Next they reviewed the large format drawings that kids had completed in Blake Hall and compared those to the hopscotch that was constructed in the classroom.

Brooke: Here’s your second drawing. How do you think it looks compared to the first time you were trying to draw hopscotch?
Evelyn: Better than this.
Jen: Why?
Evelyn: Because they are connected. (the squares of the hopscotch are touching)

Then they tried to draw new versions of hopscotch that would address some of their concerns about the one on the studio floor.

One big take away from today's work was the one we constructed on the studio floor needs revisions. Maren noted that the 4 and 5 squares, as well as the 14, 15, 16, and 17 squares don't follow the pattern because they are single squares one after the other.  We need to ensure we can correctly depict the hopscotch board before beginning to create the final gift for Hyde Addison children.

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More friends had turns with tracing today. Emilia opted to trace an elephant while Palmer and Fletcher traced trucks. Evelyn had another turn with tracing today as well. She noted, "Tracing is better than drawing unicorns."

At the easel, Wolf B and Cannon decided to have a go at painting gorillas. They used the image Cannon had traced yesterday for inspiration.