January 21, 2010
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Creativity
Joshua just over- flows with creativity. He is so passionate and I love how he is always creating, inventing, and always, always learning. Joshua probably draws about 10 to 25 pictures a day. He uses different techniques from paint, pastels, crayons, pencils, markers, pens etc. We have paper and sketch pads all over the house. Our walls in each room are covered in sketches, paintings, or diagrams. One of my favorite drawings is the redwood tree that he created by taping 8-1/2 x 11 sheets of paper together. It is 8-1/2" X 55".
Even when Joshua is making his "art" projects, at the same time he is often writing names, sentences or even short stories.
Caterpillar Digger
Joshua explained this drawing in pastel to me. It is a chicken embryo. The red dots are molecules that are coming together to form cells which will form the chick. The red lines are the veins in the yolk.
Joshua also explained that this pastel drawing is a fish embryo. Joshua told me to "look closely and I would see the bones and the red objects inside the fish are the developing organs. The other colors are the muscles and tissues".
Joshua made up this dinosaur, a Kinzelcrocakis.
One of my other favorites, a person smelling flowers in a vase.
Joshua created all of these pieces of art today except for the redwood picture. I love how he draws so quickly and often from memory.
Joshua has also been creating and exploring with music. The other day he wrote a song using the letters B and R. He wrote B then vertical lines after the B for how many times he makes the "bah" sound. If the lines are short it's a quick note, the note would be held longer for a long line. He did the same for the R and uses the "rrr" sound. He puts all of it together and has a song. He sang it for me using the sounds. Later that afternoon I heard him at the piano, playing the exact same song he sang and the keys he hit matched the pitch of his voice! This was fascinating to me and I loved it. As a girl I started piano lessons at the same age as Joshua. I learned to play and was not bad but was I feel I was not a musician. I feel I was more of a technician. I was never encouraged to just explore with the piano. Not until I became an adult did I really start to explore with my music. I love how Joshua is learning to make music by exploring and feeling free. His learning is occurring so naturally and at his pace. He will go back and forth between the trumpet, the piano, and the guitar. He has started to learn the scales and when he is ready, if he wants, I will teach him to read music.
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So cute. I love watching my kiddos process things, too, although we're not as much the free-spirit/creativity type like it sounds you guys are (so we get pictures of trains and family and plants and all that jazz).
@LannaM - Oh we get plenty of family, train, animal, rocket and tree pics too. I just get excited when he starts creating some very unusual things like embryos.....LOL. This morning he was up early drawing and he told he was drawing DNA. It's so cute. I think I'm going to have mad scientist artist on my hands. He's also inventing too. Usually traps of some sort.
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