Maps of Fantasy Lands

A week or two ago, Sam and Lucy spend their "Creative Time" part of the school day creating different drawings. Sam created an elaborate map that was inspired by Lord of the Rings and Narnia maps, and I'm really tickled by how Sam took the pains to write everything in a fancy script. He usually doesn't take so much time to carefully draw and write! They have been carrying Sam's map around, along with a long wooden staff and a magic spell book, as part of a pretend magic game.

After a few days Lucy decided to make her own map too. You can see that she tried to section of her land to look similar to Sam's map, but the creative names for her lands are very much her own ideas. You can tell she is trying to appeal to Sam by having a "Cello Land" in the upper right corner. I'm really glad that she was so excited to work on this map. It has been difficult to get to her to be motivated to practice her handwriting (we had a standoff about how to write the lower-case letter "g" last week), but she wanted to write her letter forms carefully when she worked on this map.

I am so grateful that these two get along so well and have fun pretending with each other, especially during this lockdown when they don't get to see their friends from school. Lucy thinks Sam is really funny. Today she was thoroughly amused when Sam kept pretending that Lucy said "plants are gross" when she actually said "plant grows." He knows how to make her laugh, puts up her demands, and overall they have a good time together.