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As I was creating some stuff yesterday, I realized that I've learned a lot in the last year and a half since I started making games and printables for my classroom. As a first year ESE teacher (what we call sped), I didn't have a lot of resources. Another ESE teacher who was about to retire had given me a bunch of stuff, but a lot of it was old and it felt overwhelming. Usually I was wanting something very specific that was tailored to my students' needs. That's when I decided I would try to make my own stuff, and it took off from there! I wish I had a copy of the very first game I made, but I've since revamped it and saved over the original. I'm amazed at how different my creating is now compared to when I first started out. I thought I would share with you guys some of the awesome things I've learned that make it easier to create your own stuff. Some of the things I've learned through tutorials from other great bloggers and others have just been trial and error. I use Powerpoint to create things so this video will show you how to group several objects at once. This will let you move several objects at once as a group. I also show you how to use the nudge feature (amazing & simple) and how I measure distance to keep things evenly spaced. Please ignore my loud children in the background!!! One video that I've found from I Teach, What's Your Super Power? teaches you how to change the color on a background or picture. How awesome is that? I've been LOVING it!!! The only word of caution I have is to make sure that the vendor that you brought the background or clip art from allows you to do color changes. Click on her blog button to check out the video. Making It As A Middle School Teacher has an awesome tutorial on how to use the website Wordmark.It to easily see your fonts and choose the best one for a printable. Click on her blog button to check it out. If you're like me, you have a font OBSESSION! I love fonts, especially FREE ones! Hello First Grade! is an awesome blog by itself......but then she started adding free fonts. Oh man, you can't get better than that! Click on her blog button and it will take you to her page. As you scroll down the page, you will see she has a list of all her fonts on the right side.......then set aside half an hour to download them all! Do you have any great tips to share that make creating easier?

One of things we are asked about on a regular basis is sergers. For many people, even seasoned sewers, they are equal parts tantalizing and terrifying. They can do so many cool things at once: seam, trim, and finish – all at lightning speed. But to make it happen, there are a lot of threads working together and… knives! Luckily, the benefits should outweigh your apprehensions. Adding a serger to your sewing room arsenal is a great way to save time and give your seams a professional quality finish. We put together our top five reasons for making a serger your sewing machine’s newest companion. Our thanks to Janome America Education Coordinator, Nancy Fiedler for providing her helpful tips and samples. She worked on a Janome 1100D serger and used four different thread colors to make it easy to keep track of which thread was doing what. We just told you a serger does so many things. But in actuality, a serger does only one thing: it sews forward. To achieve the various stitches, settings and tensions are changed. The most important things to remember is to always, always test the stitch you want, using the exact thread and fabric as your project. Different fabrics and threads all behave differently. Testing is the only way to find the adjustments that will give you the results you want Your serger should come with tweezers; they make it easy to reach into the tight spaces when threading. The second super handy tool is a brush to help keep the lint at bay. Sergers create a lot of lint, dust, and scraps because of their cutting action. A can of compressed air is also a good cleaning aid. The tolerances on a serger are extremely exact. All those rapidly moving parts have to operate in perfect unison. Make sure to only use the recommended needle type. This is so important, it’s usually printed on the face of the machine. Reason 1: To secure and finish seams in one pass A serger allows you to sew a seam, trim the seam allowance, and overcast the edge all in one step. This stitch is called a 4-thread safety stitch and it can be created on all sergers. A perfectly balanced stitch has the upper looper thread (red in our sample) and lower looper thread (green in our sample) meeting right along the edge of the seam, while the needle threads (yellow and blue in our sample) lay perfectly flat on the upper looper side and are barely visible on the lower looper side. Use this stitch to quickly sew seams that will not ravel. It’s also a perfect choice for knit garments because the seam is secure yet still stretches with the fabric when worn. Reason 2: To overcast raw edges Sometimes you just want to overcast the raw edge of a single layer of fabric. Some common examples of this situation are facings, hems, or before sewing a traditional seam with your sewing machine on a ravel-prone fabric. The best stitch for this is a 3-thread overcast. On most sergers, this can be done with a wide stitch (upper and left edge on the sample below) or a narrow stitch (lower and right edge on the sample below). On some sergers the width is determined by which needle you remove. Other sergers allow you to change the width by moving the cutting blades. Refer to your owner’s manual for specifics about your machine. Or ask your dealer to demonstrate this adjustment. When overcasting an edge, you simply skim the raw edge of the fabric with the knives to create a smooth, finished edge. Reason 3: To make tiny, perfect rolled hems Nothing is easier than creating a rolled hem with your serger. Napkins, scarves, bridal veils, and more are a snap to finish. The stitch finger that the overcast stitches have been forming on is removed. The machine is then set up with one needle and thread in both loopers. The stitch length is shortened to .5mm-1mm, and the lower looper tension is tightened. Your manual will show you how to do all of this and will give you recommended settings; it’s not hard! The fabric is rolled around the serger’s pin and encased in thread. You have a beautiful hem in minutes. Use matching thread for an almost invisible edge or change to contrasting thread to create a decorative effect. Corners are just as simple. Sew off the end, turn the fabric, and stitch the next side. When the hemming is complete, place small drop of seam sealant on each corner, let it dry, and trim the thread tails flush with the corner. NOTE: Remember, we are using different thread colors in our needles to help show the process. For a “real” rolled hem you would use all the same color, which will give your edge a more solid and uniform finish. Reason 4: To create flatlock seams A flatlock seam lays flat with no seam allowance and is also reversible. You can use it for color blocking or just as a cool decorative seam. Contrasting color thread will add an extra design detail. One side will display the upper looper thread (green in our sample) and is called the “loop side.” On the reverse side is the “ladder,” which is the needle thread (yellow in our sample). Following the instructions in your manual, thread one needle and both loopers. To allow the seam to flatten, you loosen the needle tension (usually to about .5 - 1). Once set, simply sew the seam, guiding the edge of the fabric along the edge of the needleplate. When done, open the seam and give it a gentle tug to flatten. As you test (because you have taken our advice and are testing before you start with your actual thread and fabric), you may find you need to tighten the lower looper tension slightly to best hide the needle thread. Reason 5: Because differential feed is super cool and helps edges to ease and flatten A serger with differential feed has split feed dogs. There is one set of feed dogs toward the front and another set towards the back. The speed ratio of these feed dogs can be adjusted to compensate for fabrics that stretch or pucker. Turn the dial higher to ease fabric that is stretching. Turn the dial lower to stretch fabric that is puckering. Overcast the raw edge of a project with the differential feed at 1.5 - 2 to create what I like to call “automatic easing.” It can make the hem of an A-line skirt lay flat and add a perfect curve to a sleeve cap before inserting it into an armhole. You can also use differential feed to quickly gather lightweight fabric. Adjust the stitch length to its longest setting, tighten both needle tensions to the highest number, and set the differential dial to 2. Sew at a medium speed and gathers will magically appear behind the presser foot! Going forward These are our five fave reasons to have a serger, but of course there are many more features to think about if you decide to follow your urge to serge. If you use quite a bit of lightweight and sheer fabric, you may want to investigate 2-thread capabilities. A 2-thread overcast or rolled hem lays better because the lighter weight will not compromise the fabric. In the same way, if flatlocking is one of your favorite techniques, a 2-thread flatlock will be even flatter because, as with the rolled hem, a thread has been eliminated. A serger with five threads gives you the option of a cover stitch. If you don’t have room for more than one extra machine in your sewing space, this may be the machine for you. We have another article just about the clever cover hem. As with all machine shopping, your very best option is always to visit your local dealer and “test stitch” several models for yourself. Check out the full selection of Janome sergers online to compare and contrast the features, including the Janome 1100D featured in this article. Our thanks again to Janome America Education Coordinator, Nancy Fiedler for her help with this tutorial.

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I've been working on a few things for Behavior Management so I thought I'd join the party! Check out The Lesson Plan Diva to see others who have linked up! I've seen a lot of clip charts and stop lights in blog land and I have to say that I am not a fan. Don't get me wrong--I think they are pretty, easy to use, and a quick visual for the teacher at the end of the day when getting things ready to go home. BUT I strongly believe that kids should not be publicly embarrassed for their behavior. EVERYONE makes poor choices from time to time. Would you want the entire staff to know when you missed a deadline or made a mistake? I know this is not the intention, but it happens anyway. Instead I use a binder. I wish I had a photo to show but sadly it is locked up at school. In the binder is a chart with student numbers instead of names. When students make poor choices, they are asked to visit the behavior binder where they place a check mark next to their number. There is also a copy of our Quality Student they should quickly review. When sending students to the binder, I make sure to do it privately so the student is not embarrassed. Each Monday we discuss the previous week's data, celebrate if we made a goal, and make new goals for the coming week. The binder is also handy at conference time. As a class, we set goals for the number of checks we will try to stay under per week. Students also may have personal goals for how many checks they will have each week or grading period. Recently I found Homeworkopoly on Ladybug's Teacher Files and decided to teacher-lift it. She uses this for students who consistently complete their homework, but I decided to use it as a behavior incentive. ALOT of people have been posting about doing away with the prize/treasure box and this could work for that too. I included two "prize box" places on the board but you could easily replace them with something else. I am still working on the Chance cards and I also added a spot for "Student-written questions." My plan here is to have students write their own review questions for topics already covered. So my printer is running low on ink and the colors are a bit distorted but this is the basic idea. My plan is to post it on the chalk board and use pictures of the kids faces to make magnetic playing pieces. Students who made it the entire week without any checks in the behavior binder (or who met their personal behavior goal) will get to take a turn on the Behavioropoly Board. Check out Ladybug's Teacher Files to see how she runs the game. ***Update*** Due to a high volume of requests I am no longer sending out my template by email. You can go to my TPT store and download the files for free!

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Every class has students who play certain roles. You have your class clown, your queen bee - the one everyone wants to be friends with, a rebel without a cause, shy students, plus a few other roles. When I went through my training in undergrad, I was taught strategies to use with discipline problems, gifted students, English as a Second Language Learners, but I don't remember having a professor discuss ways to meet the needs of shy children. Shy students were always a welcome addition to my class. Probably because I had plenty of Chatty Cathy's in my class, so a few quiet ones help balance out the noise level. There are a few things I've found through the years that helped my shy students come out of their shell: *BEGINNING OF THE DAY: Greet them when they come in the room with a simple, "Good Morning!" Do not ask them questions, get in their personal space, or push them to talk to you. For very shy children, it will be baby steps. They may acknowledge your greeting by shaking their head, smiling at you, making eye contact, and eventually whispering hello. It is a slow process. Give them time to warm up to you. *COOPERATIVE LEARNING: During cooperative learning activities, pair shy students with students who are a little bit more outgoing. But do not pair them with a student who is over-the-top outgoing. These students will overwhelm your shy ones. *FOSTERING FRIENDSHIPS: Ask shy students to run errands for you at the beginning of the year and send them with a buddy. These quick trips give them a few minutes to get to know a buddy and hopefully make a new friend. *LUNCH & RECESS: With primary grades, the first few weeks of school, we draw names out of the bucket. I have a bucket of boy names and a bucket of girl names. I draw 2 names out at a time. These 2 students are buddies for 2 days. They sit by each other at lunch and play together at recess. They can play with other buddy pairs, but they have to stay together for 2 days. Every other day I would draw names again. By the end of two weeks, each student has been a buddy with 5 students. Hopefully, they will "click" with one of the five students that they have been paired with. **Please note: I draw two names, I do not draw one name and let a student choose a buddy. We've all had an experience once or twice in our life when we were the last one chosen. Why give your students that experience? *INSTRUCTION TIME: Call on shy students when they either raise their hand or when you know the subject is their strength. Overtime, they will build confidence by sharing when they have the correct answer and take more risks to share during other lessons. There is a great article about shy students that you should read. Click on the book to read it:

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There are six principles essential to implementing Daily 5... TRUST. This principle develops as mutual respect between student and teacher is formed. The start of my school year begins with district anchor lessons and goals of building positive behaviors in reading and writing. Through these lessons, my students will gradually sustain more control of their learning. With each lesson introduced, students will activate their schema and rely upon their previous learning experiences to have confidence in their newly acquired skill. I've worked to incorporate balance in my district anchor lessons and Daily 5... CHOICE. The only choice I've provided students would be literacy tubs adapted from reading Debbie Diller's Literacy Stations. Each tub has a variety of scaffold activities for student to choose from. This is called a controlled choice. Students are still assigned a station to attend and rotate throughout the week. I love the idea of choice as presented in Daily 5. I'm still working on putting all the pieces together but found a few wonderful ideas through pinterest and wanted to share... The idea pictured below can be used with the Captain Kid posters. I can start the year with controlled choice and slowly release control as routines are established and trust is mutual. Response to Intervention Website The next picture is linked to the how-to post. You can learn how the poster was created and how the poster is used. I love this concept because it incorporates meeting with the teacher. She has offered her icons as a free download. =D Fabulous Flamingos in Second Grade The next picture is my favorite. I love using the smartboard as an option for students making a choice about their learning. Once independence has been established and trust is mutual, I can see opening up this decision with 'big kid' technology. The only problem presented would be the use of the board as an option for word work. Tales from a K-1 Classroom Just as I was going to publish this post, I found a wonderful files free for you! Mrs. Meacham provides lots of freebies, pictures, and a smartboard file (pictured below) on her website. Yay! Choice begins with students understanding their plan for the day with five important questions. What are my goals in reading and writing? Whom will I work with? What will I accomplish? What was I working on yesterday that I want to continue? Purpose + Choice = Motivation COMMUNITY. The concept of building community is not foreign to me. I'm big on creating a sense of "family" and work to understand my students in and out of school. One of my favorite books to help build character and routines at the start of the year is Seven Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey. We learn through our reading that accountability and synergy is key for success! SENSE OF URGENCY. Humans are ingrained to ask why? I was speaking to my colleague who says her two year old ask why so many times that she runs out of answers. Getting results from students comes when we create a sense of urgency in learning by explaining why we do things. When students understand the reason behind the task then they become motivated and won't let anything get in the way of their success. STAMINA. I love the analogy that stamina needed for the Daily Five is much like the stamina needed for physical exercise. Understanding students fatigue in reading is similar to that of a person working out for the first time. I've worked on student accountability and stamina for the past few year. The kids maintain their own data notebooks. SO I'm eager to incorporate class stamina charts or personal stamina charts this year. Ms. Fiorini's Stadium: All Star Ideas Teaching with Style STAY OUT OF MY WAY. Oh.my.goodness. I never thought about my interruptions throughout their independent practice. While building stamina, I would circulate the classroom checking the progress, encouraging through praise, and giving reinforcement for on-task behaviors. I interfered with their personal growth as the children looked for my acknowledgement to sustain reading. It's no wonder I had a wonderful class but challenges with subs. This chapter was enlightening! I see many areas of focus for the 2012-2013 school year. I'm eager to reinforce these positive behaviors in Kindergarten and grow with the kids as we loop back to second together. So my question for you... How would you incorporate the questions highlighted in pink above with Kindergarteners? Don't forget to link up your Daily 5 Chapter 2 post. I'm eager to read your reflections! You are welcome to link if you responded to other parties about Daily 5 Chapter 2. Please take the time to link the post and not your blog.

A year ago, I won a a giveaway for a long-distance remodel from the amazing Kristin at Bien Living Designs. Remember that? (Post is here.) Man, that feels like a long time ago. I decided to use Kristin's service to redecorate our master bedroom. The way Kristin's service works is that I gave her pictures and info on the room, then gave her all the details about my taste, my color ideas, my budget, etc. and she gives me a presentation with her ideas for furniture, artwork, floor plan, colors, accessories, etc. with links to all the items and prices. Then it was up to me to buy what I want/like and implement her plan on my own time frame. It was perfect for me. So, let's get right into the BEFORE pictures. It almost makes me cringe to look at these photos and think that we lived with this horrible room for so long. This make-over was WAY overdue. As you walk into the bedroom, this is what you saw... Yeah, I know. It's bad. The room is white (and very bright), which can make sleeping in hard on weekends. The furniture is temporarily borrowed from Ryan's parents, just until we could find something else that we loved. The TV is old and giant and sitting on a printer stand from my office set, the rest of which is downstairs in the actual office. And the end tables are mix-matched cheap tables that came from who the hell knows. The bones of the bedroom are really great though. It’s a large room, with good natural light, big windows, white wooden plantation shades and hardwood floors. The previous owners had two of the most hideous gold wall-mounted bedside lights that I’ve ever seen next to the bed and they had to go first thing. The room also didn't have any overhead light – just a really ugly white ceiling fan. I hate ceiling fans, but my husband loves having a fan in the bedroom while he sleeps, so we decided to stick with a fan. However, I wanted a ceiling fan upgrade, if we could find something prettier (and with a light). Kristin's first question to me was, "What is your style and what do you want your space to feel like when entering?" I told her I’d like our bedroom to feel fresh, clean, romantic and classic. I’m pretty conservative when it comes to decorating - I like traditional pieces, dark wood, rich colors, clean lines. But I also wanted to mix things up a bit. I want to find a happy medium between too matchy-matchy and too random/hodge-podge. I want to walk into the bedroom and feel relaxed and cool and peaceful (dare I even say, sexy?). The bedroom may be clean every now and then (when we have company coming over), but usually it was a disaster with clothes everywhere and piles of junk and it just completely stressed me out. I want peace. Question #2 was about a color scheme. This one was hard for me. I was all over the place. My whole house is pretty "warm" with browns and greens and tans. I love those colors, but I wanted something different. I loved the idea of doing something with grey. That just sounded romantic and cool and calm. And with the grey, I wasn't sure about an accent color, but I loved the idea of doing metallics (silver, gold, pewter, etc.). Crazy? Maybe. Kristin also asked if there was anything in the room that we wanted to keep. The only thing I wanted to keep were our white bedding and linens. Our plain white/cream linens and sheets were wedding gifts, so I wanted to keep those. I just love white linens. They always feel so fresh and clean and crisp. We use a white quilt in the summer months and a big down comforter with a white duvet for the colder months. I also mentioned to Kristin that I'd finally (after years of searching) found the bedroom set that I wanted and it was ordered and being made in the Ethan Allen processing plant as we spoke. This was August and it wasn't going to be delivered until at least December, so we had time to work on getting everything else in place. I had purchased two dressers from Ethan Allen's American Artisan collection, both in chocolate with brushed nickel knobs. One was a long and short chest of drawers and the other was a tall combination dresser/media cabinet. I also ordered a large round silver mirror to go over the long dresser. Ryan’s job would be to find a new flatscreen TV for the media armoire. That boy loves his flatscreens. These are the dressers in another color. I also told Kristin that I wanted to mix some modern elements in with the traditional furniture I bought. I loved the dark wooden headboard and nightstands that went with the dressers, but I thought that might be overkill – too much dark and heavy wood. So I bought the bright round silver (almost retro looking) mirror (also from Ethan Allen). And I was was thinking about glass/silver/mirrored end tables, but I didn't really know. And finally, I wanted an upholstered headboard, if possible. Something big and dramatic and pretty. I found one at Restoration Hardware that I loved, but it was way out of my budget. So, with all that, Kristin was ready to go. I figured that she really had her work cut out for her with this one, but she turned the project around in no time. The very first thing we did was pick a wall color. Kristin suggested Benjamin Moore's Amherst Grey, which I instantly fell in love with. It's a gorgeous rich grey shade with a slight hint of brown that would match the furniture. She said that the dark walls would add in instant glamour to the space and it definitely did. I bought the paint that day and immediately called in my recruits to help with the painting. So we had a color. Perfect. Next step would be accessories and decor. This is what I needed the most help with. So here is the visual presentation of accessories that Kristin gave me. Awesome, no? I loved it. Kristin said she went back and forth on an accent color to go with the grey and finally settled on this deep turquoise/jewel tones. It looks great together! She said that she found a lot of inspiration and products at West Elm, which would add the perfect modern touch to my more traditional furniture. She gave me links to all the items presented and explained how to best incorporate them in to the room. Now it was just up to me to implement the design and make the space my own. I loved having a starting point for all of this and an idea board for inspiration. It helped so much! Of course, our tastes are a little different and I changed my mind about a couple things here and there, but the main concept of the room held. Sooooooooooooooo....are you ready for the AFTER pictures? Here's the finished product! Do you love it?!!! I do. Kristin suggested this Jill Rosenwald Rug (Fallon) for the room in turquoise. I loved the idea, but I just couldn't pull the trigger on buying a turquoise rug. I'm such a decorating wimp! I have such a hard time being daring! So, I went with the same run in gray. I just thought I might be able to use the rug again somewhere else, should I decide to redecorate in the future. Gray is neutral...turquoise was just too scary for this girl. I went to Lowe's to pick up the ceiling fan that Kristin suggested, but I couldn't find it. And then I saw this silver one and loved it, so I bought it instead. It's the only ceiling fan I've ever liked. Kristin gave me the link to these gorgeous sheer linen window panels from West Elm. I went with the plain ivory ones, long enough for them to slightly pool on the ground. This added great height to the room and fills the room with a romatic gauzy diffused light. The mirrored nightstands were perfection. Exactly what I was looking for. The pillows are from all over. Although I did get the Deconstructed Rose pillow from West Elm that she suggested. Love it! Kristin also picked these stacked ball glass lamps with white shades, which are gorgeous! The headboard.is one of my favorite parts of the room. It's DIY, y'all! Yes, I made it! And I'm pretty proud of it! I'm so happy with the result. Tutorial HERE! The chair in the corner is velvet with a beautiful sheen of pewter/gold. It looks brown in the pictures, but it's not really that brown. It was a find from Hayneedle. I need to get a white/grey pillow to put in the chair. The two smaller hanging mirrors were from Pottery Barn, but are no longer available. I thought they pulled the silver and gold elements of the room together nicely. The silver jewelry box was a gift from my parents. And the mercury vase (similar to this Anthropologie one) is something I found at on the clearance shelf for $5. And yes, that's a doily! My grandmother made it. Ryan also did his job and got us all set up in the audio/visual department. Wall mounted flat screen that pulls out and rotates. Not too shabby. And there you have it. It's not completely finished, but close enough. And since it's been a full year since I last blogged about this, I figured it was finally time to give you an update. I definitely think it has the fresh, clean, romantic, classic look I was going for. It no longer stresses me out. I'm at peace in this room. So, remember what it looked like before? No? Me either, I've been trying to forget. I love before and after shots, here they are. I can't even believe it's the same room. What do you think? Do you like it? Rug: Jill Rosenwald (Fallon in Gray) Ceiling Fan: Allen & Roth Headboard: DIY Pillows: Desconstructed Rose Pillow Lamps: similar here Nightstands: Hayworth from Pier One Furniture: Ethan Allen American Collection Large Round Mirror: Ethan Allen Small Mirrors: similar here Mercury Vase: similar here Curtains: Sheer Panels from West Elm Chair: The Foundary Paint Color: Benjamin Moore Amherst Gray

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