Making Numbers

Creating dots and making numbers seem to be the images Paulina wants to create. Take a look!

Okay...so she still needs to work on painting the numbers the correct way...:-) This is interesting because she knows how to write most of them which she did not paint correctly. As you can see 'it's all a work in progress' so to speak. She is learning!

Qwirkle!

Have you ever played Qwirkle? It's the most facinating game for early learners. It is based on shapes and colours and I think it is the precursor to Scrabble where you begin with a series of shapes/colours of tiles and the next person must build upon them. It is a great start to the game of Scrabble when the children don't know how to spell very many words yet. Paulina is in Senior Kindergarten and is still learning words so this is a good introduction to what she might get great joy out of one day, Scrabble. But let's live in the moment. We play Qwirkle as a family and we enjoy good family time while playing board games such as this!

We value family time and think that the family unit is the basis from which the child learns his/her identity, shapes his/her own values, morals, sense of humour, and basic outlook on life. It's great fun! :-)

New Dimension to Drawing

Paulina has moved on to drawing houses and stick people with 5 fingers (count them... there are 5!:-) )

Here is an example of one of the pieces of art she has recently created. As you can see there is a sun, sky, grass and a rainbow....but also people, flowers, and the checkered (which shows the windows) orange school with a flag pole on the left.The additional piece of paper which is glued to the original picture has a sun (in orange marker) with a smiley face and people (also in orange marker making it hard to see) as well as a white snowman toward the bottom. There is a white piece of paper which has two ends that are glued to the back of the orange part which provides as the handle to hold onto. It's functional too! :-)  This makes it easier to carry.