Category: Isabels Artwork

The title says it all…enjoy!

School News: Homework And Buttons

Today started out very foggy and didn’t clear up until later in the afternoon. I spent the day fighting a headache, which is something I haven’t had in awhile.

Isabel was very excited to get to school today and hand in her first ever homework assignment! She wanted to show the whole class her homework. She received the homework on Friday of last week but with a busy weekend, I decided to do the work on Monday after school. So I got everything together that I thought she would like to use for her homework; stickers, glitter glue, markers, pinto beans, black beans, rice, pom poms, and macaroni. She had a really fun time working on it and was actually able to do 2 projects for the homework but only chose one to take back to school. Enjoy!

Beginning her homework assignment.

Both leaves; which one did she chose?

Isabel and her “leaf” that she took to class. It will be displayed for the month of October in the classroom and then we will get it back.

After handing in her homework, she took off to hang up her coat and get to work on her name writing. She again told me today while I sat with her that she wanted to do it quick. So that she could finish reading her book before they moved on to other things. So she quickly finished, handed in her pencil, picked out a book, and sat at the quite time circle.

I arrived late, because as I noticed on Friday when I picked her up, I was better able to talk with the teachers. Otherwise, when all the other parents are there it’s chaos with kids, parents and noise. Today, when I arrived I was told that Isabel did an amazing job in Chapel today, and was given a special sticker for her behavior. Great job! I also was able to see the “leaf” tree that is taking great shape with all the leaves from the kids. So many colorful and unique leaves! Will have to take a photo before it’s taken down and all the leaves are up!

Today, the kids worked on the letter “B”.
“B” is for buttons, which were glued to large letter “B’s”.
Today they sang songs; the Growing song, the Memory Verse song, the Sticky Gumdrop song, and the Bible song (it’s not the B-I-B-L-E, she said) w/actions.

During free play time, Isabel sat down and made herself a Bracelet from the craft bin, with raffia and tissue paper. She was so proud of it and how she made it all by herself. “With no one to help, Momma!” she said.

Today, as I mentioned before, it was Chapel Wednesday. The story was about Elijah and a bird named Charlie. Charlie was a puppet and he was black. Elijah was a boy and he was sitting on a rock. Charlie would bring bread and fish (salmon) to Elijah. They sang songs and they even had games too in Chapel but she didn’t play the games.

On the playground she was able to get a bike! Usually, all the boys get the bikes and they don’t share. So today she got one. She liked to ride the bike but kept getting stuck but she figured it out, she said.

The special helper today was Rebecca. Rebecca brought chocolate cookies and juice for snack. Rebecca also brought “Jessie” from Toy Story 3! “Did you know there is a Toy Story 2, Momma?” she says with excitement. “Jessie is a doll and she has a pull string just like my elephant does and she talks! My elephant doesn’t talk though. Just Jessie does.” “Momma, when does Toy Story 4 come out, because I really want to see that.”

Away

It’s been about a month or two since I’ve updated the family blog. At the beginning of August my Grandmother passed away and Isabel and I traveled back for the funeral. The plan, originally, was for us to stay a week or two and then that all changed after we realized the cost of flights to return home. So we decided to stay and drive back with my parents to Utah and then take a flight out of Vegas. Well, that didn’t work out either, so we ended up staying until the end of the month when my parents went on vacation… to our house. We rode along with them back home and got to save ourselves a few hundred dollars on flights for us. So now that I’m home and things are again starting to fall into a normal routine, I can hopefully get the blog back up to the latest news, information, and happenings of our life’s. So keep coming back, I’ve got a lot of catching up to do! See ya…

Rock Color

For something different to do today after church, I got the paints out and let Isabel paint a few rocks. Enjoy!

The larger rock she put polka-dots.

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Polka-dots of orange, red, and black.

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Isabel and I painting our rocks.

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My rocks are the green and orange ones; nothing fancy.
The paint seemed to take forever to dry on the rock, even in the warm weather.

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Cleaning her brush.

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Daisy was enjoying the shade from the table.
What a life!

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After adding polka-dots, she started to cover the whole thing black…

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…but left enough room for her “signature” smile.

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The smaller rock, she decorated with lines of blue, yellow, red, white, and orange. I’m going to get some clear coat and keep them somewhere around the yard for her to remember and enjoy.

Watercolors

Tonight, while Daddy was grilling up some grub, we got out one of the gifts from Sarah that she had given to Isabel while she was here last week. Isabel had so much fun doing the watercolor painting, I think she would have continued right on through dinner if I would have let her! Enjoy!

Getting started.

First one done! This is fun!

All four paintings; starting at the top left is a car with a door. Top right is the letter “A” with decoration. The bottom left is a baby in a baby buggy. The bottom right is a birthday cake with candles.

Paper Plate Craft

The original craft was to make flowers but Isabel was to excited to wait for me to cut them out, so for today we just did a ring. Enjoy!

Adding some sparkle to her ring.

After adding some balls and her name (which she spelled backwards); she decided to add more sparkle!

Her finished paper plate ring.
All the wording she did today she spelled backwards…don’t have any idea why.

When Daddy got home, we were still working on these and he made her a flower which she decorated with a face.

I did a ring too with glitter glue and markers.
The finished projects we hung from the ceiling in Isabel’s room.

Early Word Building

For the past 9 days, we have been giving Isabel a “word” of the day. This “word” is given to her at breakfast and she has all day to figure it out, if she gets the word she gets rewarded, if not it’s no big deal we’ll try again tomorrow. Today we took a bit of a test to see how she’s moving forward with her learning the words of the day. Enjoy!

I took the 9 words that she’s learned and had her write them on her board.
She did an amazing job!

Pig.
Hat.
Bat.
You.
Tap.
Dog.
Sit.
Cat.
Stop.

Time To Paint

With the weather being so nice the past few days, Isabel has been so excited to get outdoors and do her 2 favorite things…paint and dig in the dirt! Today however was a day to paint. Hopefully the weather will continue to get warmer and we can get outside to do more. Enjoy!

She calls this one: flowers.
I absolutely love it and am thinking about getting it framed.

Stained Glass

Today, I got an idea for a craft project off another website and decided to give it a try with Isabel (and myself). Enjoy!

We started with a mound of tissue paper (mostly pastels and one a bit SPARKLY!) that I have been saving from Isabel’s baby shower (if you can believe that!). We each took a color and then ripped it down to about the size of a silver dollar or smaller in size.

Being goofy with tissue paper strips.

I then cut a fairly good piece of contact paper, which I folded in half for her to work with the bottom half, the top half, I kept the paper on until she was finished. I told her just to lay the tissue paper any which way on the sticky contact paper. There is no wrong way to do it. After she said she was finished, I took the other half of contact paper, peeled the paper and slowly flipped it back onto the stained glass artwork that she had completed.

Her finished stained glass (can’t make it out because the flash went off).

While she was working on her masterpiece, she wanted me to do one as well
(mine is on the right, if you can’t tell).

I was thinking about doing this project again but doing a more controlled project with shapes (like hearts, circles, stars, squares, etc.) and having her fill in the shape with tissue paper or newspaper (whatever!). So we’ll see, the possibilities are endless and she really had a lot of fun doing it.