Learning about the Renaissance? This Renaissance worksheet lends extra help remembering important people, places, and things of this important time in history.
Brought to you by memories of grade school! This fortune teller is a combination of an art zine/print and this particular edition is in honor of borage flowers blooming in the summer time. For fresh perspectives, endings and beginnings. This fortune teller comes folded and ready to read your life! Also makes a great party favor, or a nice, slightly odd, card for a special friend.
K-12 dance educator, Heather Vaughan Southard shares two very different ways she incorporates math and problem-solving into her dance education classes: dancing fractions and budgeting for a production.
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Over the winter when I was in Winnipeg visiting my mom I went with my niece to a traveling exhibition of Norman Rockwell's paintings. Now like so many people I have written Rockwell off as a greeting card, calendar artist. I had no idea what a wonderful painter he was, or how amazing those covers looked like when you saw them close in large paintings. I had no idea of was how well he understood the lives of women. To follow-up on earlier discussions on girls and self-image, that I have been thinking about (Miss Scarlett's first dress was a success!), I was reminded of these two paintings I saw then, and what different routes of being a young girl they represent. To me this first picture is who we all are at some stage when we first encounter the size shape and look that is expected. To me this is the first time we take our measurements, this is a young girl or even part of that girl that stays with us - say even in sewing classes where I hear every woman apologize for her hip measurement as it is taken: But then there is this girl, and a picture I have on my fridge. To me this is the girl we should let stay this way, before she is or isn't asked to the prom (although I am happy to say girls now go anyway), when she sews for fun. To me this is an older woman, who even if she puts this girl away for a while, comes back to inhabit her in middle age. Of you are that age and getting that girl back, no explanation is necessary. Enjoy your day.
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When I was pregnant with my first, I craved baking. Like, I couldn’t get enough. I wanted to bake ALL the dang time. Mostly cookies…MONSTER cookies to be exact. It’s no surprise that this Paula Deen recipe drew me right in and I’ve been happily baking these bad boys ever since. My oldest…and youngest, too!…LOVES these cookies!!! He excitedly calls them “Cookie Monsters!!!!!” whenever he sees a batch. Cookie Monsters, Monster Cookies. Tuh-MAY-toe, Tuh-MAH-toe. You get the picture ;) MONSTER COOKIES {aka:Cookie Monsters} 3 eggs 1 1/4 cups packed light brown sugar 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract 1 12 oz. jar creamy peanut butter 1 stick butter, softened 1/2 cup M&M’s 1/2 cup chocolate chips 2 tsp. baking soda 4 1/2 cups quick cooking oats (not instant) 1/2 cup raisins, optional {I didn’t use these!!} Here’s the lineup. I have two sticks of butter here because I made two batches. Let me just tell you that this recipe makes A TON of cookies!!!! In a large mixing bowl, mix eggs & sugars until well combined. Add salt, vanilla, peanut butter, and butter & mix well. Stir in the chocolate chips, M&M’s {& raisins if you’re using them}, baking soda, & oats. I like to stir this part by hand because the batter is so dang thick. Line your baking sheet with parchment paper and drop the cookie mix by tablespoons 2 inches apart. Bake for about 8-10 minutes at 350 and DON’T overcook!! When you remove the cookies from the oven, let them cool for about 3 minutes before transferring them to wire racks to cool completely. This is a terrible, horrible, no good picture, but I guess it’s the only one I got! SO flippin’ good!!! I could eat these by the fistfuls, and normally, I do. Like I said, this recipe makes A TON of cookies. I baked a couple of batches at the end of the school year and gifted them to my sweet room moms. Of course, I included a recipe card and packaged ‘em up real cute like this… I put them inside that cute tissue paper from Hobby Lobby and then wrapped that in some extra leopard print fabric I happen to have in my craft stash. Then I tied it all together with some jute and I thought it looked pretty dang cute. Heck, it would’ve been cute enough on it’s own, but I went ahead and painted pots for my mommas, too and stuffed the cookie packages inside of that. And I sorta love ‘em. Yummy cookies make the best gifts!!!!!
Really? That has become our new catch phrase in my class this year. I suppose it is inevitable since I use that word often all of the time. I just have to shake my head and laugh about it when I hear a student say it. At this point in the year, I honestly do not even have a chance to get the word in my brain before one of my students have already uttered it in some sarcastic tone. I am so glad that they "get" me and my humor - that was a concern when I moved from 7th grade to 6th grade this year (actually not by me, but by a fellow 6th grade teacher). I did not let it bother me very much, she is a newer teacher and I HAVE taught 2nd and 5th grades prior to middle school. Anyway, I am going to share one funny from my class right before spring break before I post some more interactive notebook pictures. I hope you are ready for it...it IS epic and was a proud moment for the sarcastic teacher that I am. Let me set the stage...I had a female student who was leaving about 1/2 hour early. We were dismissing at noon that day (and it was my birthday). Names have been changed to protect the innocent. John (boy student): Sally, please take me with you. Sally (girl student): Sorry John, I didn't bring my leash today. Me: Laughing out Loud in the back of the room (with the rest of the class) and issuing a proud fist pump or two. Ok, so now on to more interactive notebooks. Have I mentioned how much I love these things? They really have helped keep me focused and centered this year. I really wish someone would write a book about them to be used in a language arts classroom. This is a foldable we created on Knots in My Yo-yo String by Jerry Spinelli. It is from a Dinah Zike book called Notebooking Central Notebook Foldables Strategies for Comprehending and Interacting with Informational Text. This is just a practice paragraph where each student wrote their own, but the neat thing is the sticky note at the bottom. I figured out how to print on a couple different sizes of sticky notes. Each student was given a sticky note to use to check their paragraphs. Love these!! This is a window foldable that was created using another Dinah Zike book, Notebook Foldables for Spirals, Binders, & Composition Books. This was on changing singular nouns to plurals. This is just a summarization page from out notebooks. We worked on different summarization strategies for students to use. Another summarization strategy glued into our notebooks taken from our SIOP training. And here is another foldable from Dinah Zike for students to use for summarizing. In addition, I found a story pyramid summary that students can use in their summarization efforts. Hope this post has not completely bored you to death. Stay tuned for more pictures...and details on an AWESOME find that I well...found...to help make students notebooks just a little more organized. Did I mention how much I LOVE being organized???
Anchor chart for common pronouns. Also black and white printables for students to do along with you.Added an assessment page to use with the chart.***updated***new graphics and fill in the blank chart with word bank...
Hey everyone! Hope you are enjoying your Saturday. Mine has been spent cleaning, doing laundry, and of course, catching up on more school...
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Padlet is a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall. The uses for this site in the classroom are virtually endless!There’s a good chance
"Morgan Weistling began his artistic training on his father's lap at 19 months of age, where he learned how to draw and more importantly, use his imagination. Capitalizing on his father s talent for telling a story in comic strip form, Morgan began to develop a sense of narrative in his drawing. "It was here that art became a language for me." At the age of 12, Morgan applied his interest in art to studying his father s art books and began his art school studies at the Brandes Art Institute at 15. Working in a Los Angeles art supply store while attending art school, Morgan chanced to show his artwork to a prominent illustrator. As a result of their encounter, at the age of 19, Weistling found himself employed at a top movie poster agency in Hollywood. For the next 14 years, Morgan illustrated for every movie studio in Hollywood. His clients included Universal/Amblin Entertainment, Disney, MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures and TriStar. In addition to movie posters, Weistling created all the cover artwork for the video series, McGee and Me for Focus on the Family and his art can be seen on numerous magazine, book, CD and video covers as well as Sega pinball machines. Since he has made fine art the focus of his art career, the collector demand for his originals has been overwhelming. With his masterful use of oils, Morgan Weistling brings a scene to life with spectacular lighting, creating a sense of wonder and engaging the viewer s imagination and emotion. His dreamlike images touch the viewer s heart, using more than sentimentality to engage the viewer. His canvases are filled with brushwork that tells a story beyond the subject matter. Like a skilled movie director, he manipulates the focus of interest with suggestions and impressions of forms that are barely realized and allow the viewer s imagination to fill in the details. "There is a story underneath the story of my paintings," Morgan adds, "I don t hide the process of how I painted it. You can see the layers and count the strokes it took to get there. With some styles of painting, the closer you get to the canvas, the more you will see. With mine, the more you step back, the more detail you will see. That s not easy, which is why it fascinates me." Morgan Weistling follows in the footsteps of the masters he admires, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn and Nicolai Fechin as well as many others. In all of his vibrant work, from western art to feminine forms, Weistling crafts a narrative, driven by clarity, focus and purpose, drawing on images inspired by his beliefs and scenes from daily life. "My hope is that people will enjoy viewing my artwork as much I enjoyed painting it. For me, art is my language used to communicate to others how I see God s creation. When I experience another artist s work, I love to see through their eyes and find out as much about the artist as the subject they painted. That is what makes art so interesting." Weistling, a highly sought-after teacher, conducts private workshops with juried students and teaches at the prestigious Scottsdale Artist School. Recent honors and awards include the Patron s Choice Award and the Trustees Purchase Award at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, CA, the Prix de West Purchase Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK, and the Patron's Choice Award at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Weistling's book, The Image of Christ, was a finalist for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book Award. Weistling and his artist wife JoAnn, whom he met in art school, have been married for 14 years. Their 9 year-old daughter is often a model in Weistling s paintings. They make their home in California. "
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We TRIED making this great Frank Zappa quote into a loud pink sign...and found it CLASHED crazy on the homepage. Just look!!!...our fatso learn-by-doing lesson in design...Related posts: what a messy desk really meansstefan sagemeister on ‘serious failure’ and training the mindgoing from “can’t” to “can”
Shimelle hosts a blog link with our top tens, bottom tens, whatever 10 things strikes us. I haven't joined in since I was posting my 10 things I was looking forward to in the summer. So now, 10 things that I am looking forward to in this new season. 1. Candle Light, Lamp Light. I honestly cannot decide whether I like the clocks going back or forward most, I truly love both and I am so fortunate that I live in such a seasonal country, indeed, how could I love the Spring so much without the depths of Winter to come from? I don't need to choose, I have both. So as I go about like Wee Willie Winkie, lamp-lighting all over the house (indulging the electricity bill), I feel my cosy inner-light going on as well. I want stew, thick socks and warm drinks. This is the illustration I remember from my childhood, so lovely to see it. 2. Autumn Clothes. It doesn't really matter what is in fashion; boots, skirts, cardigans are pretty much ok any year I think. The fact that I am a little on the large side *snort* also means that I welcome layers and covers wholeheartedly. No more sartorial school run dramas.....cardigan, hat, boots, mascara (maybe). Simple. 3. Cybercrop on UKS. I am indebted to the UKS Monopoly CC as it was the one that got me out from lurking, joining in and then trying to find a team and finding not only some scrapping inspiration but some very best friends in that team, The Bijoux Belles :) I am a Detective and looking forward to it. 4. Halloween. Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble and all that....The pumpkin came home yesterday and my young man was taken with it, he even wanted his photo taken with it....and he never, ever, ever, ever, ever wants me to take his photo. 5. Being part-time. I know I have banged/harped/bored on about this, but the difference it has made to me is immense and I am so looking forward to trying to make it work for us all. I have been focusing the extra time on the kids to start with, but I am also determined to take the time for me as well, running, swimming, crafting, blogging, setting up a crop etc etc. 6. Swimming. I am looking forward to it, pity the poor unfortunates that happen to go at the same time as me. Not only am I not swimsuit ready, I have bought prescription goggles. Really. Now I have a question, do I carry the goggles nonchalantly as I attempt to get from the dressing room to the pool without being able to see or should I put them on and just walk out with them on. Please do leave me your answer... 7. Theatre visits. Ali and I are off to the Welsh Ballet's interpretation of Roald Dahl's Red Riding Hood. Alex and I still screech with laughter at that one and as a dance, I think we will love it. You can see a bit more about it here. Louis and I are off to a performance of Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy. We haven't read it yet, so must do that, or should we? You can see a bit more about it here. I found out just yesterday, as my mum is researching the family tree, that Michael Morpurgo's father-in-law was Sir Allen Lane the founder of Penguin Books, who we also found out is my first cousin three times (I think three times) removed. I am very excited by that news :) 8. New Class & JYC from Shimelle. I have just enjoyed doing LSNED and I love classes, especially Shimelle's so this is looking good to me on the horizon. I am really looking forward to being part-time to really soak up the season this year and not be in such a mad rush the whole time...and exhausted by Christmas Eve. 9. Handmade Holiday & Economising. Again with the part-time! But I would like to make a lot of the gifts and cards this year and also have already enjoyed paring down the material things that I buy, with little thought, to things I really need. It has already made me a lot less wasteful. Erm, I might have stocked up on the paper lines that I want before the salary dropped. Priorities ladies, priorities. 10. Lighting The Lights. My favourite event of the year in our town, we are a large coastal town, but small enough that you know so many faces and it feels as though the whole town turfs out to watch all the children from all the schools parade through the high street with their lanterns and then the lights turned on with fireworks. A lovely start to the Christmas season. Now I won't mention Christmas again until November.
I started my grade 9's with a cut poetry assignment - choosing random words and phrases and arranging into them into 'poetry'. They had no idea what it would eventually be paired up with. Then they produced self-portrait lino prints with one print from the edition paired up with their cut poetry. There's an interesting and amusing relationship that happens between the words and the image which I'm not sure would have happened had they known the poetry component to this project was going to be a companion to their own image.
