Celebrating Seon's 5th Birthday

12/13/2023

Learning more about Seon

Seon's birthday committee, Ford, Ava, and Fay began the process of creating her birthday gift by asking questions to get to know her a little more than they already did.

What do we know about Seon?
Ford: Seon’s nice. She helps people.
Ava: She likes to play with me and she’s nice.
Ford: I know she likes dragons.
Seon: Oh, I brought a dragon book to school. I remember the title: Dragon Girls: Twilight’s Dragon.
Ford: What do you like to eat?
Seon: I like to have rice.
Ford: What’s your favorite animal?
Seon: My favorite animal is a dragon dog.
Ford: Do you have favorite toys?
Seon: Toy cars, blocks and doll houses.
Ava: You can come over to my house. I have a doll house. I have blocks too. I also have cars but I can't find them.
Seon: I have magnet blocks.
Ford: You have magnatiles, that’s so cool!
Ava: What’s your favorite color?
Seon: Pink, red, and green.

Photography Portraits of Seon

I have an idea. I’m going to put my arms out so it looks like dragon wings. Seon

Seon, what are you excited about turning five?
Because when I turn five, I think I can jump higher. Seon

Drawing a Portrait of Seon

What’s the shape of Seon’s face?
Round and a little bit bumpy with her chin. Ava

Fay: I know how to do perfect teeth. I’ll show you on the paper. I’ll do the lips and then I’ll do little teeth inside the lips. Then to do the face I’ll do like this. I know how to do perfect eyes.

Ava: I know how to do lips, you do a cross and a cross. She has two pony tails. These circles are where they come from.

We should make it look nice. Fay

Painting Seon's Portrait

Ava: Her hair is black. This looks a lot like her hair.
Fay: Her ears are also the same color as her skin.
Ava: I can add two colors because I have two hands. We should add Seon's favorite colors.

Seon's finished birthday portrait.

Dragon's Are a Girl's Best Friend

Whit kindly allowed Seon's birthday committee to use his dragon lovey to support with drawing and painting her favorite thing: a dragon.

I drawed it all black. I drew the dragon with the dots, triangles and rectangles. Ava

Now we can just do it whatever color we like. I like this one the best. It’s not the same color as the picture. I’ll do more and more and more purple. That’s a very good shade. Ava

A Portrait of a Dragon for Seon.

Seon's Tucker Room Birthday Celebration

For her birthday snack, Seon chose one of her favorite Korean treats: Honey Twists.

꿀꽈배기
It says honey twist in Korean. Seon

Jinmyung read two books to Tucker Room. First she read How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett and then Creepy Pair of Underwear by Aaron Reynolds.

The Tucker Room sang Seon the Birthday Song, then counted with her as she walked five times around the birthday candle.

Finally, the Birthday Committee presented Seon their portrait of her and her favorite thing. Although Ford wasn't able to work on the birthday committee as much as he hoped due to illness, he was able to be their to share the gift.