This was our last meeting before the Christmas break……..

We planned a session of observation building on our previous meeting, I wake up to a crisp foggy morning and it could not be more appropriate to prepare for how we will work today.

Its hard to see, and I have to work hard to get a clear picture. The whiteboard in the P2 classroom is broken today and P2 huddle around the small computer screen to see what is going on. These aspects require us to look closely today, we are drawn closer to get a better picture.

I describe what I find outside my window, we follow the description down different paths, a few more questions clarify and Monica knows its a donkey!

We create devices to help us look closely and focus our vision through view finders. P2 move beyond the classroom windows into the school yard to find and record material outside. They record the objects with words and descriptions.

When P2 return they find me at a new location, finally we are virtually in my studio!! Spotted immediately this is an exciting moment.

The children take their time to describe their findings, we listen and draw, as we imagine…….

………a small, golden object, found high up, only the teachers can touch the string attached to it…………outside beside the garden there was a short line, with small, round, yellow and blue attachments…………a cylinder with 20 long, narrow, curved shapes coming out of it. The shapes are pointed at the top. Out of the cylinder another line emerges, its a skinny line, long and curved, at the end there are short, narrow curved shapes, pointed at the top.

“each person draws a line differently and each person understands words differently”…….I am excited by every different mark made and the individual interpretation of each description.

A full circle.