Miho Negoro, Teacher

Miho observes children spending time every day drawing with great concentration and precision. She encourages them to use paper, pencils, crayons and markers as tools to represent what they see and what they know about real life. Oral language, drawing and writing are rooted in children's growing ability to represent their thoughts symbolically. Children draw and then "read" their drawings as forms of communication. Like reading, childrens' notions of print and pictures overlap.