Lasciato a fare quello che vuole, Zacky ha sempre fatto disegni molto dettagliati che sono però completamente privi di senso (almeno per me!). Se lo chiedi, lui quasi sempre dice che sono giocattoli o giochi. Ha un grande controllo motorio e i disegni possono essere veramente affascinanti, ma non hanno una forma identificabile. Adesso frequenta il 4° anno della scuola elementare e, su richiesta, a scuola produce disegni che rappresentano cose reali. Alcune settimane fa la classe stava studiando l’era paleolitica e Zacky ha portato a casa il disegno di un mammut che assomigliava a un enorme gonfiabile marrone con quelle che sembravano delle enormi zanne curve da una parte e un mucchio di gambe a forme di salsiccia posizionate tutte dall’altra. Non c’è da meravigliarsi che il povero animale si sia estinto; deve essersi stancato parecchio in quella posizione a mensola, intanto che si parava dalle frecce lanciate con allegria da un uomo primitivo sorridente. Infatti, il Mr. Homo Sapiens non sembrava affatto preoccupato dalla mancanza di un corpo, e del fatto che le sue lunghe gambe penzolanti si attaccavano da qualche parte sotto il mento!! Abbiamo riso a crepa pelle per almeno dieci minuti facendo contento Zacky che è sempre molto contento quando riesce a farci ridere.
Qualche giorno fa la maestra della 4A ha chiesto ai ragazzi di dire qual’era il loro animale preferito (animali domestici esclusi). Zacky non è affatto affezionato agli animali, neanche Guendy il coniglio di Melissa che vive nel giardino dietro casa, ma comunque mi sarei aspettata seguisse gli altri dicendo qualcosa del tipo ‘il cavallo’ o ‘l’orso’, ma no, ha invece dichiarato un’affinità per (hai indovinato!)… il mammut!! A me sembrava una scelta piuttosto furba; un’animale estinto!! Nessun pericolo di doverlo mai incontrare!
Riguardando i quaderni di Zacky oggi ho trovato il seguente tema scritto di suo pugno:
Martedì 27 aprile 2010
“Il mio animale preferito”
Il mio animale preferito è il mammut. È della preistoria, è grande.
Mi piace perché è gigante, è tutto marrone con le corna/zanne, ha 4 zampe.
LO VORREI TENERE IN GIARDINO.
Ma mi prendi in giro? Non ci crede nessuno!
My Favourite Animal
When left to his own devices, Zacky has always done very detailed drawings that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you ask him he will almost always say they are toys or games. He has great fine motor control and the drawings can be quite fascinating, but they really don’t look like anything recognizable at all. He is now in 4th grade elementary school and when prompted will produce drawings at school that represent something real. A few weeks ago they were studying the Paleolithic age at school and he brought home a drawing of a mammoth which basically looked like a huge brown balloon with something like huge curved tusks at the one end and a cluster of very improbably placed sausage-like legs at the other end. No wonder it went extinct; it must have gotten awfully tired of standing in that cantilever position while fending off all those arrows flung merrily by a smiley-faced primitive man. Mr. Homo Sapiens did not seem at all concerned at the lack of a body, and the fact that his long dangling legs were attached somewhere under the chin!! We howled laughing for about 10 minutes which Zacky thought was just great; he’s always pretty pleased when he gets a laugh!
A few days ago the kids in 4A were asked to name their favourite animal (house pets excluded). Well, Zacky is not really keen on animals at all, not even Melissa’s pet rabbit, Guendy, who lives in our backyard, but still I would have expected that he would have followed the pack and said something like ‘horse’ or ‘bear’, but no, he declared an affection for (you guessed it) … the mammoth!! I thought that was pretty smart; an extinct animal!! No danger of ever meeting up with that one!
Looking through his notebooks today I found he had written the following:
(translation)
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Title: “My Favourite Animal “
My favourite animal is the mammoth. It is from prehistory. It is big. I like it because it is gigantic. It is all brown with tusks, it has 4 legs. I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT IN THE GARDEN.
Yeah, right! Who are you trying to kid?!
Qualche giorno fa la maestra della 4A ha chiesto ai ragazzi di dire qual’era il loro animale preferito (animali domestici esclusi). Zacky non è affatto affezionato agli animali, neanche Guendy il coniglio di Melissa che vive nel giardino dietro casa, ma comunque mi sarei aspettata seguisse gli altri dicendo qualcosa del tipo ‘il cavallo’ o ‘l’orso’, ma no, ha invece dichiarato un’affinità per (hai indovinato!)… il mammut!! A me sembrava una scelta piuttosto furba; un’animale estinto!! Nessun pericolo di doverlo mai incontrare!
Riguardando i quaderni di Zacky oggi ho trovato il seguente tema scritto di suo pugno:
Martedì 27 aprile 2010
“Il mio animale preferito”
Il mio animale preferito è il mammut. È della preistoria, è grande.
Mi piace perché è gigante, è tutto marrone con le corna/zanne, ha 4 zampe.
LO VORREI TENERE IN GIARDINO.
Ma mi prendi in giro? Non ci crede nessuno!
My Favourite Animal
When left to his own devices, Zacky has always done very detailed drawings that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you ask him he will almost always say they are toys or games. He has great fine motor control and the drawings can be quite fascinating, but they really don’t look like anything recognizable at all. He is now in 4th grade elementary school and when prompted will produce drawings at school that represent something real. A few weeks ago they were studying the Paleolithic age at school and he brought home a drawing of a mammoth which basically looked like a huge brown balloon with something like huge curved tusks at the one end and a cluster of very improbably placed sausage-like legs at the other end. No wonder it went extinct; it must have gotten awfully tired of standing in that cantilever position while fending off all those arrows flung merrily by a smiley-faced primitive man. Mr. Homo Sapiens did not seem at all concerned at the lack of a body, and the fact that his long dangling legs were attached somewhere under the chin!! We howled laughing for about 10 minutes which Zacky thought was just great; he’s always pretty pleased when he gets a laugh!
A few days ago the kids in 4A were asked to name their favourite animal (house pets excluded). Well, Zacky is not really keen on animals at all, not even Melissa’s pet rabbit, Guendy, who lives in our backyard, but still I would have expected that he would have followed the pack and said something like ‘horse’ or ‘bear’, but no, he declared an affection for (you guessed it) … the mammoth!! I thought that was pretty smart; an extinct animal!! No danger of ever meeting up with that one!
Looking through his notebooks today I found he had written the following:
(translation)
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Title: “My Favourite Animal “
My favourite animal is the mammoth. It is from prehistory. It is big. I like it because it is gigantic. It is all brown with tusks, it has 4 legs. I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT IN THE GARDEN.
Yeah, right! Who are you trying to kid?!
I'm laughing my butt off at this ... I've been waiting for quite a long time to see this famous mammoth!
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