Perspective

I think I've mentioned this before, but Liam absolutely loves to draw. He will sit at his table or stand at mine and draw page after page after page. We have books of animals, monsters, dinosaurs, soldiers, airplanes. Today, he drew a picture of a pirate with a ship in the ocean, treasure chest with treasure. He was a little annoyed when Cole came up and drew a horse, but got over it quickly. We then had a very interesting conversation.

He showed me all the parts of his picture and ended with the horse. He said, "That's a horse, but it's far away." I asked, "How do you know that?" to which he replied, "because it's little. When things are far away, they're little, and if they're big, then they're close." When I asked who taught him that, he said Mrs Wettergren. I had no idea that they teach perspective in kindergarten, but I was very impressed.

(The horse, by the way, is the little purple squiggle on the bottom, by the pirate's right foot.)