Certificate of Achievement

Paulina has excelled in many ways as she has grown over the past couple of years. She has received certificates for some of her achievements. Here are a few.  The first one is a certificate of successfully completing one year of dance with The Canadian Dance Company, 2011/2012.

The next one is a certificate for successfully completing Kindergarten, 2013.

This one is a certificate acknowledging an award Paulina received named the 'Caring Award from The Credit Valley School,' 2013.

French Reading

Paulina has enjoyed reading English very much. She has been developing her skills in French to the point she can read in French too!

Here are a couple of books which she has read by herself with only a little help over this past weekend!

Favourite Sketch

This is Paulina's favourite sketch!

This sketch shows active people windsurfing in the summer with a palm tree off to one side! She got this idea from the sketch kit.

Sketching strokes

Paulina is developing a variety of sketching strokes while she is learning to sketch.

Here are some examples.

Some of these sketching strokes are used for shading purposes, which she is doing here.

More Sketching Skills

Paulina learned from her Artist Kit which she received for Christmas and she immediately began practicing these skills.

She learned perspective by showing the lines in the front of the page are wider than the lines as they recede back into the picture, along the railroad track.

Paulina continued to sketch and colour the following pictures of a tulip and a skyline.

Developing Sketching skills

Paulina spent some quality time learning key skills in sketching.

Paulina worked to develop her scale of sketching from small to large. Here she began sketching small things in a small way. You can see she drew a mouse, an ant, and a turtle which are small things.

She began drawing bigger on the page, seen here.

 

Then Paulina was able to stretch her sketching skills to draw a larger picture

 on the page, seen below. She covered the entire page with a house, garage, car going into the garage, chimney, front door with a wreath, steps in front of the house, and someone skating on a backyard rink, while there was snow coming down.

While she was developing her sketching skills Paulina practiced using light strokes, medium strokes and heavy strokes, seen below.

Supporting the Olympians!

Paulina went to Wise-Adventures and made Wise luck charms for the Canadian Olympians who are going to Sochi this Spring. She and her friend, Carrisa  created some bracelets and they had so much fun together!

French Reading

Paulina has been learning to read French in school and she practices at home. Here are some of the books which she began to learn the words by hearing me pronounce them followed by repeating each of the words after me. She moved on to repeating phrases and whole sentences.

Writing

Paulina is developing her writing skills as seen here by answering a question to the book she read.

Paulina likes to read and write! She likes to look at the pictures and to think of what is happening in the pictures. She enjoys books!

Improved Reading Results

Paulina's reading level has improved! She read many books over the holidays and has returned to school at a higher reading level - Horray!

Here are some of the books from the Alpha Kids reading program which she is reading fluently.