8 years ago Canada men’s hockey team won gold at the olympics against the US. I was in my second year of university, living in Mac Hall at Guelph. I had band practice that night, and the buses didn’t run late on Sunday. While the girls in residence were watching the game, I was walking [...]
Archive for February, 2010
one of our latest art projects at school – well, 12 of them at least (I wonder where the others are?). we were talking about foreground, middle ground and background, and how to represent them on paper. these trees were soooo easy to make, but they look so rad. We started by doing a cool [...]
As mentioned in a previous post, I was in awe of another teacher’s anchor charts. I have decided to be more aware of my neatness as I make these with my students. Here is a sampling of anchor charts that we made together in the past couple of days/weeks. Some mini anchor charts – posing [...]
Making puppets and eating PB pretzels. My answer to avoiding writing report cards.
my grandpa does it again with shelves. i spent the afternoon decorating my new little nook. a real arc-en-ciel. (yes meghan, that is the chalkboard paint!)
yummy food with friends at the table. bliss. xo.
A little valentine’s day goodness. I made a selection of little valentine’s for my students inspired by katie. Taking the photos for these were quite hilarious – especially for the boys who thought I was nuts. I think they turned out great. I gave them each a homemade button and mini rubber chicken too. Just [...]
