Accolades

Paulina has been lucky to have had so many opportunities to be in a position to win rewards for her efforts. For example, she won a trophy for soccer last summer, a trophy for T-ball this summer, and a medal for the Family Run at the Bread and Honey Festival. This doesn't minimize the value of joy she gets from a sticker as a reward, though. She still loves to get stickers for her efforts and skills learned or manners used. She still likes receiving stickers at home for chores around the house which she does to work toward earning something. She earned a fish tank by completing a number of chores around the house over the course of last winter and by Spring we evaluated the list we kept with all the stickers beside each chore. After a few full sheets of stickers we realized that she had earned the responsibility of having a fish tank/ aquarium.

People in another medium

Here, Paulina, drew people with oil pastels. Oil pastels were her favourite medium which she used in Kindergarten so she continues to enjoy creating images with them. She really likes to draw people! Any kind of people....yellow hair, orange hair, blue hair, green hair...all inclusive! :-)

People Painting

Paulina decided to begin this painting with a red border to give it a sense of a framed look. She is beginning to paint people with more defined features such as the blush on the cheeks of the person in the middle. Paulina really likes people and her interaction with them is very positive. She likes to use her manners and expects others to get along as well. She has many friends with whom she has play dates. There are a number of friends she has on the same street as us with whom she enjoys playing after school. She said that she didn't want to paint anything in the empty space so I assume this is the completed work. She is using the elements of colour, line and space to some extent.