Adventures with Biking!

Paulina, my husband and I have been biking together for a year. 

This year my daughter began biking without her training wheels. Horray!

Learning to Ski!

Paulina learned to ski by example and by holding onto our poles. Take a look!

Visit to the ROM

My daughter and I went to the Royal Ontario Museum during March Break and we had a fantastic time looking at the dinosaur bones (T-Rex, Stegasaurus, Barosaurus among many others) and the newly featured fossil of the dinosaur eggs and fetus. This is something that Paulina made during our visit at the craft table. It's a Quetzal which is a rare bird from Maya. Paulina's favourite part of the visit was definitely the Bat Cave! It was absolutely terrific!

Mixing more colours

Here, Paulina learned that when she mixed red and white it created pink. She also wanted to use purple so when she mixed red and blue she got a very dark shade of purple that you will see on the far right which she wasn't happy with so she used the premade purple, dioxazine purple in the rainbow. From her prior learning experience she likes to make orange and green too.

This painting is entitled Rainbow with Sailboats. The image is a rainbow which is the arching lines with a sun in the top right corner and triangle shaped sails in white at the bottom left. The colours she used are Cadminum Yellow Middle, Phthalo Blue, Naphthol Crimson, Dioxazine Purple, and Titanium White. This is an acrylic painting on canvas.

Creative Art

Here is some art that my 4 year old daughter painted with acrylic paints on canvas. On the first painting she used primary colours plus green and the next one she mixed colours to make orange and the third painting she added purple.

 This painting is entitled Lollipop Land because there are so many lollipops in it. This is the first painting that she has ever painted using acrylics on canvas. She used only primary colours plus green to create this. The light green was created when she mixed the blue with the yellow.

 This is a painting of a Traffic Light - you can see the red light at the top with the yellow light below and the green underneath the yellow light. She mixed the red and yellow colours to come up with orange in this painting.

This is a painting of a rainbow in the city and a butterfly. The butterfly was created on the left with the two yellow wings with dots to decorate it and the rainbow is on the right.

Engine, Engine Number 9

As a toddler Paulina took a liking to Engine, Engine Number 9 by Stephanie Calmenson and it quickly became Paulina's favourite book. It really captured her interest and it sparked a whole new learning process where she just loves to read. She liked the rhyming words and the whole story about the travels of a friendly train. She really likes read alouds!