Saturday, January 19, 2019

Air Force protects us from Aliens

The last few years have been wonderful. My son has given me so many wonderful moments and instances to cherish for the rest of my life.
These kids have this amazing ability to surprise us every now and then with their intelligence, creativity and logical reasoning. One such incident happened just last week.

My 6 years old son was given a theme for a class drawing session. The theme was 'I'm proud to be an Indian' and the kids were supposed to come up with a drawing and write a few words about it.
And as it so often happens, I remembered about it just the previous night of the schedule. So all I could do was discuss with my son as what he wants to draw the next day in class.
I asked whether he is okay to draw an airplane representing the Indian Air Force. He was happy with the idea as he loves drawing cars and stuff, and immediately asked what should he write with it. I told him to write, 'I'm proud of Indian Air Force as they fight the enemy'. I continued to mention, 'Aliens' as the kids relate to aliens more than the enemies. With that idea we closed the topic.

The next day I had to pick him up from school who usually commutes in school bus. I very well thought of meeting his new class teacher to have a word with, so I went all the way to his class. While we were at it, my kiddo was excited to show his drawing which was put up on the board along with few others. I was happy seeing he had drawn a nice airplane as per the plan. I took a snap and came back.

Only after coming back home I noticed all the other details from the snap and I was astonished of the fact that he has created a whole scene on that paper. Kiddo had filled in so many other details in the drawing that I was amazed at his thought process. I've numbered few key aspects which I want to emphasize on:




1. Here, he has drawn an alien ship. I am pretty sure, he has got that idea of alien ship from the cartoon Pocoyo. 😜

2. He has drawn a guy taking a leap from the airplane with a parachute. And please note, he has aligned the frames to depict a fall.

3. And here he has made sure to open the back door. I can see that was a closed compartment before, which he erased to open it.

4. I can also see he is showing few bullets being shot at the alien ship.

5. Icing on the cake, he gives the title 'Air Force protects us from the Aliens' 😃

We have always seen him enjoying his drawings and coloring activities at home. I was happy when his previous class teacher had talked about his ability to bring details in his drawings in a recently concluded Parents-Teachers meet.

This was so overwhelming that I decided to share it here.