"A" is for Art

We've been slowly cruising through our "A" week last week, on Thursday we attempted some finger painting. The painting on the far left was her first experiment at getting her fingers dirty (she's a little Type A too, imagine that) and by the third painting she'd mixed all the colors together and really gotten into it! She painted for about 20 minutes and then decided she was done.

From the library, we've read Angels Angels Everywhere and The Art Lesson a lot this week, I think Tomie dePaola is one of our new favorite authors. We've had his book Pancakes for Breakfast for a long time, I only recently realized it was the same author (who does his own art, too). What I love about Pancakes for Breakfast is that it's all illustrations, no words, and so each time we read it we have a different story to tell. It's a good "lesson" for her in reading the pictures when she tells me the story.

We've also read A is for Altar, B is for Bible and An Alphabet of Catholic Saints. These are nice books I've purchased so they sit on her high shelf and we only read those at special times! (Most of her books are piled in a basket and are quite abused!) We have a few more books waiting on hold for us at the library, we'll probably make another trip tomorrow to see what we can find!

On the agenda for this week: lowercase "A," more library books, applesauce pie and maybe some molding clay!