Tuesday, February 19, 2008

"look at my Island of Sodor, Mummy" ...


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How's that for a take on the Island of Sodor? Big Z's drawing of his beloved train characters on their island.

There's Thomas - the number 1 engine, Henry - number 3, Gordon - the longer and bigger number 4 engine, Edward, James, Percy, Diesel 10, Oliver, some trucks and another red engine I can't seem to identify. Oh, there's also Cranky the Crane in the top left hand corner of the picture. Framing the picture is Big Z's version of railway tracks (in blue).

Just to 'pretty up' the picture a bit, he included a rainbow (you can just about see it above Thomas) and some fruit trees (says they're apples, oranges and some flower trees). And that big black scribbly patch - well, says Big Z "that's the stormy weather coming, Mummy". And with that last bit of explanation, he decided to call it a night. That was his last bit of detail in the drawing.

2 comments:

zie_naz said...

Wow! Impressive! For a 4 1/2 yr old..this is really good! I have not succeed yet in asking Umar to do drawings! Let alone The whole Island Of Sodor!:-)Well done Zarif! Mummy should be proud of you!:-)Umar is more into playing scooter, trike, soccer, in the house! Or tele, computer games! Very rare to get him interested in what we want him to do nowadays! Mummy's too tired too!:-P

mrika said...

Kak Zie: Thx :-) He does like drawing and writing - his name, Thomas and all the other main trains' names (!!) and enjoys simple Maths problems. But i'm STILL waiting to see him able to read independently. Good thing is he loves books - so it's encourgaing, yes?

I still am so impressed by Umar's reading as seen on the Youtube video. :-)