A life full of faith, hope, love, and laughter.
The title says it all…enjoy!
This morning Isabel asked Gabbi if she would like to draw with her just after breakfast. So the two got down to some serious artwork. Enjoy!
Isabel worked on a sunshine car with a sun while it was snowing green snowflakes.
Gabbi made some green eyes!
Isabel working on blueberries and Gabbi making a cat.
Gabbi’s completed cat.
Great job, Gabbi!
I’m always on the lookout for any new cutting projects that Isabel and I can do either together or by herself. I found this cool book a Wal-Mart with different coloring, gluing, and cutting projects in it. Today, she did four cutting projects. Enjoy!
After cutting out the pieces, she gets down to gluing them on.
Getting just enough glue.
The coloring, I did today, she wasn’t in the mood to color, I guess.
Working on making a mosaic rainbow.
Getting the rainbow finished.
I worked on the sun, just gluing the pieces on the page for her.
Her finished art projects for the day. She did all the cutting; she’s getting rather well with it!
Afterward, it was time to play dress up.
I just love my little ladybug!
Tonight Isabel got the blocks out and started building and as she was building she started to tell a story of what she was building. Enjoy!
“This is a fruit store (not to be confessed with a fruit stand). People buy fruit here. The building on the right is the store and it has a chimney on the roof. It has banana’s out front (the yellow box) and steps because it’s raised up off the ground and people need to get into the store. The man on the green block is a worker, he helps the people when they come to the fruit store. The man inside the building (on the left), that is his house, he has a chimney on his house too, and he makes fruit cookies from the fruit at the store and gives them to people.” Isabel says.
“This is a bakery, people get pies here and only pies. It has steps because it’s raised up off the ground and people need to get pies. When people come to the bakery, the workers come and give you slices of pie. The green slides on the right are for the workers who work at the bakery for when they get bored. They can slide on the slide.” Isabel says.
After dinner tonight, we went to drawing “class” with Isabel. We each took a turn at the easel drawing a picture of something. Enjoy!
This is Isabel “giraffe”.
Watching Daddy draw in “class”.
Daddy’s finished robot.
I got to draw too but no one took a picture of it! Which is fine by me because I’m not an artist, all I drew was a refrigerator and it wasn’t all that good.
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 of 5 flowers; 2 blue, 1 pink, and 2 red.
They were super easy to make and gave Isabel more practice with scissors!
She gave each of us one of her flowers.
Gino got a red one, Gabbi a blue one, and I got the pink one.
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 book that we started about a year ago. She was excited to receive her certificate of completion! She’s gotten very well at handling scissors and pasting is a breeze! Great job!
Her last few projects in the book were cutting curved lines and zig-zags.
Open mouths.
Closed mouths!
The last few projects were cutting apart a page and then re-assembling it to make a whole picture, like a puzzle. She really liked these projects. The bird and the hippo were leftover projects from the last time we worked in the book.
Cherry tree and rocket.
So proud of her work! Hurray for Isabel for learning how to cut and paste like a big girl! You’ve come so far in the year since we have started. Keep up the good work!
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 since her 2’s look like 1’s and her 3 on the honey pot is backwards. But she did it!
Follow that pattern.
This was so fun to watch her do; the large gift on the top in colored because “it has paper on it so no one can see what’s inside”, she says. The short gift on the bottom is a bit big but it has a smiley face in it! She really enjoyed this one and I enjoyed watching and listening to her do it!
Last one…follow the pattern.
She drew each correct shape/color but then had to color each one in.
(Each shape is completely colored in compared to when we first started the book…)
Great job Isabel and congratulations for completing your shapes and sizes!
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. Along with those skills, she had to follow directions, and do some cutting and pasting. These past few days marks the end of 2 of the books; shapes & sizes and colors. Enjoy!
Circle.
To get her started, I did the blue one.
Square.
Which if you notice…I actually did for her because at the time, she didn’t understand what to do…I should have waited.
Triangle.
Notice her coloring at the time we started; she never would fill in the area to be colored. In her mind, I think, she just needed to color the number 1 yellow, the number 2 blue, and the number 3 red – nothing more.
Rectangle.
Again, I did the dot to dot and I should have waited.
These last 2 pages are shape recognition review.