CREATIVITY OF A GRADE SIXER

Cursive Name Symmetry

I love going to my daughter's school. It's a rare occasion now that she is in grade six, but twice a year they give us parents ten minutes to talk to the teachers. Then I have a few minutes to wander the halls and see the art they have been doing.

This time was especially fun because she had come with me and could point out the nuances.

Here is, word for word, her explanation: "It's a stingray that turns into a swallow as it jumps out of the water and as the swallow keeps going up into the sky, it transforms into an alien."

The orange is coral in the ocean, the grey is the stingray, the black is the swallow, and the alien has wings like a dragonfly, blue eyes and multicoloured stripped ears.

It is lovely to have a private art tour by your imaginative kid. I wish I could do it more often, but I suspect that high school might have less art shows. I hope I'm wrong.