Monday's work

Coloring this morning, Julia is using a few colors to color a fox. It was a small animal on an alphabet sheet. She colored it green and yellow -- yellow hands, green arms, yellow tummy with green around the outside of it. Very nice blending of color. She also outlined the fox in red and another color looking very much like an aura around the fox. She said these were "dashing lines."

However, even though Julia can do very neat work, she can also be messy to show she is displeased and angry with me for making her work so much. LOL. We are still using the sticker system and when she is too messy the number of stickers she gets are reduced, and new LPS toys take longer to earn. Thing is that the importance of earning two stickers instead of one is only really important when Julia almost has enough stickers for a new pet.

Yesterday, we were working on the letter R, and I asked Julia to draw a picture of something that began with an R. She loves to do this part of our work because she gets to draw what ever she wants as long as there is something that has the letter of the day in it. I let her draw awhile and looked at what she had done. She drew a girl holding a piece of paper with the letter R on it. I had to laugh at her. Today, she was working on her white board just after dinner and she drew a dragon climbing a wall and trying to open a jar of pickles -- she told me that.

We had a lovely day today. It was too cool to swim but we worked in the garden -- I am finally getting to the back yard beds. I planted some ferns and hostas and Julia played in her new sandbox making cakes and drums.