In the first part of this series, I shared my personal journey with heart palpitations that began forty years ago. I also shared what I believe to be the primary causes of them. If you missed that …

A quick little recap of our week... On Monday, we had an author come visit to read and autograph books. I'll post about that book (along with a freebie) on Monday for my Must-Read Monday linky, but I'll give you a little clue... This week was kind of a blur...it went by super quickly, but hey, I'm not complaining....SIX more weeks! We still have a LOT to squeeze in though, so it's no surprise that we are hitting multiple standards with each activity we do. In this activity, we hit identifying properties of solids, using adjectives to describe, partitioning rectangles into rows and columns, and writing similes. Whew! They rocked it, though! Speaking of similes, we're preparing for our poetry picnic celebration and created our Simile Sandwiches. These are always one of my favorite displays...and they're similes for each layer of the sandwich were AMAZING! Be.still.my.heart. These are a part of our best-selling Poetry Pizzazz unit. We also wrote "sandwich poems" as one of our displays for this unit. I love that students have the choice of using syllabication or rhyming to write these poems. And, we had some very creative ants! Since we just finished our Economics unit, we're holding our "Madden's Marketplace" on Monday. As usual, I combine a lot of skills with this unit celebration, and I'm working on a new product for it....I have students become producers as they create a good from paper to sell at our market. They have to write persuasive commercials to convince consumers to buy their products. Then, they become consumers! Well, there's a lot more to it, but you get the idea! Today students started bringing in their products and they were AMAZING! So, so creative... More on our Marketplace next week!

I spent a month in Spain that summer, living in Salamanca and El Puerto de Santa Maria, and exploring more of Spain's lesser-known destinations.

I am so so so happy to finally get this sweater pattern out in the world! It's the Cross My Heart Sweater that is the cutest little thing, featuring a unique eyelet and i-cord display along the front neckline. My favorite part about this sweater?? The body is worked in ONE PIECE! Gasp!

Here I am halfway through Week 3 and I need your help, dear readers! Part of my homework this week is to draw some poses that convey "excit...

This step-by-step block printing lesson teaches how to do linocut and foam printing with your students complete with block printing supplies and videos.

Parts of the Heart Felt Educational Pattern This is a great teaching tool for young children to learn about their bodies and what's inside. This file contains patterns for the basic heart shape as well as the different parts within the heart. Also included is instructions on making the labels. The heart is about 12 inches tall and 10 inches wide. When printing your patterns you want to make sure that you print at full size. NOTE: I use freezer paper to print my patterns. Freezer paper is available as a roll in grocery stores and can be cut into 8 1/2" x 11 sheets to print on or you can purchase precut sheets. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PDF HAND DRAWN PATTERN ONLY - NOT A COMPLETED ITEM. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED WITH A CUTTING MACHINE SUCH AS SILHOUETTE OR CRICUT. THERE ARE NO REFUNDS ON PATTERNS Please do not share the patterns with others or sell completed items made from my patterns. Feel free to share my Etsy Shop. Thank you!

I love using interactive lapbooks in the classroom. They are fun to create, engaging and can be used throughout the year to review skills taught. I finally completely my Lapbook Bundle and I am happy to share the lapbooks included with you. Whether you think your learners will enjoy creating all of the lapbooks, if you

We have planted a new garden on our property, and I am excited to watch things grow. Come follow along as we work on our new garden!

This heart map is a great back to school activity to get to know your students. Students draw different things that are important to them in each part of their heart. You can choose to display this on a bulletin board or students can store them in their writing folders and use them to help students generate writing ideas! If you like this product check out my other Back to School Activities: Would You Rather: Back to School Activity (FREE) Classroom Character Traits Word Search (FREE) Get to Know our Class BINGO Get to Know your Teacher All About Me Flag #Selfie Get to Know you Activity Guess Who Back to School Activity Classroom Scavenger Hunt Two Truths and a Fib Class Puzzle Back to School Activity Classroom Materials Word Search Friend-opoly Fonts: KG Summer Sunshine KG Part of Me

Help your kids learn the basic anatomy of the human heart with this easy to use, colorful, and fun printable activity. A perfect addition to your homeschool curriculum, use as a homework helper, or as a busy binder activity for Kindergarten ages kids and older.  Choose from: Build & Study  Includes the colorful activity to cut out and assemble, plus a Human Heart Anatomy vocabulary and definition page. Place the arteries, veins, ventricles, etc. in pace and use the description on the back (or print on a separate page) to discuss each part's function. 3 page PDF file. Coloring Pages Includes black and white coloring pages in the same style as the Build and Study page. Includes a labeled and blank version. 2 page PDF file. ::: I N S T A N T ♥ D O W N L O A D ::: **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt  with a link to download your purchase.  You will receive a PDF file for printing on regular 8.5”x11” paper. I recommend printing on heavy cardstock and laminating for durability. ::: S H O W ♥ O F F ::: I’d love to see you and your little ones enjoying your new learning activity! Be sure to tag me @arrowsandapplesauce and use #applesaucemama. ::: T H E ♥ L E G A L ♥ S T U F F ::: This printable is intended for personal use only. Not for resale. You may not copy, alter, or share these digital files. Thank you! See my shop policies for more info.  Book in photos: Human Body Theater, Maris Wicks

I'm so excited to share with you my newest TPT product! I'll be teaching a human body class this upcoming semester at our local co-op. I needed a human body project for kids in my class that will allow them to organize and store the information we learn. I came up with this file folder

Here it is - the release of my Joy In My Heart Blanket Crochet Pattern. This pattern was simply inspired by love and family. Perfect for a new baby, an older child or even adults! It is designed to wrap people in a world of love and bring warmth to them. The finished blanket measures approximately 30 inches by 38 inches but you can, of course make this any size you wish by simply making fewer or more squares. I made the blanket in the photos using Stylecraft Special DK but it works equally as well in any weight yarn providing the same is used throughout. I would suggest that this pattern is for crocheters with intermediate skills. Both US and UK terminology patterns are included. Please ensure you check which one you are working from. The pattern includes photos for any tricky parts but it is not a step by step photo tutorial, it is a written pattern and not a chart. This pattern uses back post stitches and no tutorial is given within the pattern for these. You can, of course, substitute these for a standard stitch should you wish to do so. Gauge is not vital for this providing you work evenly throughout.

Since this series is super long and quite detailed, I split up my report into 4 parts. In my last post, I took you through our…

Hi, kidz! Welcome to the second installment of postings from my school-wide collaborative series (btw, I've decided "school-wide collaborative" is just too much work for my mouth. Hence forth, it will go by it's abbreviated and funner name: scollab. Pronounced skoal-lab, not school-lab. Cuz art class in a school lab is just bound to end in 'splosions and flames. Which actually sounds super funner-er.) In this here post, Ima share with you one of the happiest scollabs we did this year: Our School has Heart Mural! If this looks vaguely familiar to you, that's because I blerged about the first phase of this project here. This lovely scollab masterpiece hangs happily in the front office of my school. Previously, the front office was referred to as the DMV for it's warm and welcoming wall color (what is that, Sherwin William's "Institution White"? "Padded Room Gray"? "The Last Color I See Before My Date with the Principal Blue"?). It was mentioned that some art might cheer the place up and that's all it took for my ears to prick up. ART?! Did somebody say...art?! We started this project way back at the start of February so love was in the air. Which explains the smell. I decided that each kiddo was gonna contribute and each grade level would do a little something different. I'll give you the quickie version here but you can visit this post for the full story. The kindergarteners were given a paper heart template to trace in black oil pastel. Then they doodled in warm or cool colors and then proceeded to water color the daylights outta that thing in either warm or cool. The first graders were given 3" square pieces of felt in whatever color they liked. Then they traced that same hear template in chalk and painted with tempera. Painting on felt is really rad cuz it gives the piece this almost oil painted appearance. If the kids painted the hear with warm colors, they were to reverse that color scheme for the background. Puffy paint was added because why not?! Puffy paint is the jam. Second grade town created these pipe cleaner hearts that they yarn bombed and bead attacked. I had the pleasure of hot gluing them to the felt of their choosing. Third grade thought that Christmas came early when I showed them how to embroider. Every last one of them enjoyed this so much and was able to complete their stitching (and button sewing!) in one hour long class. Needle felting was introduced to my fourth grade students. We really enjoyed this and only had one bleeder (those needle felting tools are both sharp and serrated, y'all. They ain't for sissies). As the students completed their work, I started to lay them out on two pieces of foam core. I happened to have two 3' X 6' pieces of foam core to my name because, well, why not? I originally thought of doing a value gradation but rainbow order ended up looking the best. Hot gluing over 400 hearts wasn't exactly my idea of a good time. The upside is I no longer have finger prints and the cops will never find me! Take that, coppers! Once all the gluing was complete, I took the two boards to the office and my super awesome bookkeeper buddy and my radical rockstar custodian friend hung them up for all to see. Don't miss! I'll be presenting on school-wide collaboratives at the AOE conference this summer! And now, let's talk GIVEAWAY! Last week's winner is Lil! When asked what her fave collaborative project was, she wrote: This year my third grader class created large, beautiful, textured and patterned frogs. Then each table created their own scene on huge mural paper. There was an outdoor birthday party, with an airplane toting a birthday wish sign. One group made a water theme park setting with a lazy river - one frog was definitely relaxin' on his tube!! Another group made a nail salon - now who doesn't like a good froggie pedi??! Oh my gosh, the kids absolutely loved working together on such a huge creation. Do you think it was because they got to spread out on the floor to paint and cut and create??!!!! Congrats, Lil! I hope you enjoy the artsy t-shirts! Now, I know most of y'all are enjoying your summer days. How 'bout you spend some time creating with a good book? To enter this giveaway, just do the following: * Tell me what dream scollab you would create with your students. A permanent mural? A tile project? I'd love to hear! Maybe if we start dreaming big now, we'll have the energy to make it happen come this fall! * Leave your email address in your comments so I can contact you.

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“Ocean’s Heart Shawl by Julita Janicka” The shawl fulfilled with love, warmth and caring. It hides secrets, whispers of sea mussels, wraps you with waves, decorates with flowers. Just get started and the first rows will steal your heart! To make it you will need - a yarn of approx. 1600 - 2000 meters. I used: 1740 meters of yarn ombre Kokonki merino 50% + acrylic 50%, hook number 3 and received the shawl (after blocking) in size: 170 x 65 centimeters. The pattern is repetitive. You can adjust the size of the shawl to your needs. The pattern for the Ocean’s Heart Shawl includes: chart / scheme / diagram, abbreviations (US terms), photo tutorials (showing steps of the pattern) and helpful tips as well as a quantitative description of the stitches in a given row (to control, if properly made). No written instructions! Please visit my Facebook profile where you will find more designs and inspirations: https://www.facebook.com/julitkowe.sprawki/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/julitkowesprawki Questions? Contact me on FB! #OceansHeart #JulitkoweSprawki #SerceOceanu In accordance with Article 38 of the Act on Consumer Rights, it is not possible to return the purchase, after the file has been sent. The pattern created by Julita Janicka. All rights reserved. Description, scheme and pictures are protected by copyrights and are property of Julita Janicka. You are not allowed to share, publish, record videos, take photos, translate into different languages, sell or redistribute this pattern in any form, neither in whole nor in part. You are allowed: Sell ready made shawls out of purchased pattern, in a quantity up to 10 pcs. a year (as a private person), providing the name and author of the shawl “Ocean’s Heart by Julita Janicka”. Non commercial use only. Publish photos of ready made shawls, also tagged “Ocean’s Heart by Julita Janicka”. “Ocean’s Heart Tuch von Julita Janicka” Das Tuch, das gefüllt ist mit Liebe, Wärme und Warmherzigkeit. Es verbirgt Geheimnisse, das Flüstern von Muscheln. Es umgibt Dich mit Wellen, dekoriert mit Blumen. Fang einfach an und schon die ersten Reihen werden Dein Herz rauben. Um das Tuch zu häkeln, wirst du brauchen: Garn mit einer Lauflänge von 1600-2000m. Ich habe 1740m eines Farbverlaufbobbels von Kokonki (50% Merino/50% Acryl) genutzt. Häkelnadel passend zu Deinem gewählten Garn. Ich habe einen 3mm Haken genutzt und erhielt eine Tuchgröße von 170x65 cm (nach dem Spannen). Die Teile der Anleitung wiederholen sich, so dass Du die Tuchgröße an Deine Bedürfnisse anpassen kannst. Die Anleitung für das Tuch Ocean’s Heart beinhaltet Häkelschriften für alle Teile und alle Reihen; eine Legende für die benutzten Maschenarten (US Terms) inklusive deutscher Übersetzung; Fototutorials, die die Schritte der Anleitung zeigen; so wie hilfreiche Anmerkungen, die reihenweise vermerkt sind. Bitte besuche auch mein Facebook Profil, wo Du weitere Designs und Inspirationen findest: https://www.facebook.com/julitkowe.sprawki/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/julitkowesprawki Sie können mich über FB kontaktieren! #OceansHeart #JulitkoweSprawki #SerceOceanu Gemäß Art. 38 des Verbraucherschutzgesetzes, Dein Widerrufsrecht nach Übersendung der Datei vorzeitig erlischt. Eine Rücksendung der bezahlten Anleitung ist dementsprechend nicht möglich. Anleitung kreiert von Julita Janicka. Beschreibung, Häkelschriften und Fotos stehen unter Kopierschutz und sind urhebenrechtlich geschützt. Es ist Dir nicht erlaubt (in welcher Form auch immer): die Anleitung im Ganzen oder auch teilweise zu veröffentlichen, mit Anderen zu teilen, davon Filme zu machen, Fotos machen, es als Deine eigene zu verkaufen oder in andere Sprachen zu übersetzen. Du darfst: Fertige Tücher, bis zu 10 pro Jahr, verkaufen; Jedoch unter Angabe der Anleitung und der Designerin “Ocean’s Heart von Julita Janicka”. Keine Massenfertigung durch Firmen/Manufakturen. Fotos fertiger Tücher veröffentlichen, jedoch unter Angabe der Anleitung und der Designerin “Ocean’s Heart von Julita Janicka”. “Serce Oceanu Chusta - Julita Janicka” Przepełniona miłością, ciepłem, troskliwością. Skrywa w sobie szepty morskich małż, otula falami, zdobi kwiatami. Już pierwsze rzędy skradną twoje serce! Na jej wykonanie potrzebujesz ok. 1600-2000 metrów włóczki. Ja zużyłam 1740 m włóczki ombre Kokonki merino 50% + akryl 50% i uzyskałam wielkość chusty po blokowaniu 170 x 65 centymetrów, szydełko numer 3. Wzór jest powtarzalny, więc dostosujesz wielkość chusty do swoich potrzeb. Stopień trudności: początkujący (znający podstawowe ściegi, potrafiący czytać schematy graficzne) do zaawansowanego. Wzór zawiera graficzny schemat, legendę użytych symboli, zdjęcia sposobu wykonania niektórych ściegów oraz wszelkie uwagi i wskazówki pomocne do wzoru, a także opis ilościowy oczek w danym rzędzie dla kontroli poprawności wykonania. Dostępna wersja polska, angielska i niemiecka. Zapraszam na mój profil na Facebooku, gdzie zobaczycie więcej wzorów i inspiracji: https://www.facebook.com/julitkowe.sprawki/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/julitkowesprawki Masz pytania - napisz do mnie na Facebooku. #SerceOceanu #JulitkoweSprawki #OceansHeart Po wysłaniu zakupionego wzoru, zgodnie z art 38 ustawy o prawach konsumenta, nie ma możliwości zwrotu zakupionego pliku. Wzór opracowany przez Julitę Janicką. Jego opis, schemat i zdjęcia są objęte prawami autorskimi i stanowią całość. Nie zezwalam na jego rozpowszechnianie. Publikowanie schematu lub jego części, nagrywanie filmów, robienie zdjęć, tłumaczenia na inne języki, sprzedawanie jako własnego są niedozwolone. Możesz: Sprzedawać gotową chustę w ilości do 10 szt. rocznie z podaniem nazwy i autora wzoru „Serce Oceanu - Julita Janicka”. Użytek niekomercyjny tylko. Publikować zdjęcia wykonanych chust z podaniem nazwy i autora wzoru „Serce Oceanu - Julita Janicka”.

I love children's artwork. There is such an authenticity and fearlessness in it that touches my heart. Over the years my kids have made some amazing things. I have such a hard time parting with anything they have made but it can really pile up and eventually there has t

The Marguerite Motif is a free crochet pattern based on a geometric design.

A number of people have asked me about the tessellating cat pattern. The inspiration for this quilt was my white cat, Pearl. (Actually she w...

A number of people have asked me about the tessellating cat pattern. The inspiration for this quilt was my white cat, Pearl. (Actually she w...