Carey on February 10th, 2010

Today Isabel and I did a construction paper craft making flowers. I found this project online from another site. The next time we do it, I might try using tissue paper (or newspaper) to make the project a bit easier. Construction paper was a bit thick but we still had fun. Enjoy!

We made a total [...]

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Carey on February 5th, 2010

The day after her birthday, Isabel said she had to wear her Lula shirt…of course! She loves it!

Since wearing it, she has told Gino and I several times that she plans on wearing it to school…I need to get the second one made!
Also today, we working on cutting and pasting and finished up our Kumo [...]

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Carey on January 4th, 2010

More learning of shapes and sizes with Pooh and friends. Enjoy!

Oval.

Crescent and star…again both pages have minimal coloring in the areas that need to be colored.

This was a matching and pasting project.
I cut out all the shape for her because they were so small.

Shape recognition.

Smallest to largest.
Her number writing skills need a bit of work [...]

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Carey on January 4th, 2010

Last year for Isabel’s “almost 3″ party in January, my parents got her some early learning workbooks with Pooh bear and friends. I’ve pulled them out over the past year and worked with her on colors (which she already knew but was good review), shapes and sizes, letters of the alphabet, and numbers and counting. [...]

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Carey on December 2nd, 2009

Today while Gino and I were getting lunch ready. Isabel calls me into the front room and says, “That’s my name…”

With no help from Gino or I, she wrote her name out all by herself! I was totally impressed, because she usually get’s the letter’s switched around!

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Carey on November 19th, 2009

I haven’t added any of Isabel’s cutting projects since April but we have done them! We worked with the scissors yesterday and she seems to do o.k., she just needs more practice, practice, practice! She worked on a spiral cut, a zig-zag cut, and other “turning of the paper” projects. A few times she had [...]

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