totally tangled - no im not talking about my HAIR!

http://www.amazon.com/Totally-Tangled-Sandy-Steen-Bartholomew/dp/1574216716/ref=pd_sim_b_7

love this book!

handmade paper & bound books

I am impressed these turned out so well!

.display case.

The hs. kiddos have been working on paper making and Japanese book binding in arts and crafts. The art 1 students have been painting color wheels and proving and disproving color theory. The design class made 3-d letter forms from paper. Very cool stuff!

All is colorful in happyville :0)

paper making

The HS is learning the process of hand made paper. We shredded recycled paper, blended it in a blender to make pulp, and then used a screen to form the fibers into a square paper. This was very messy and used tons of paper towels. It didn't stink like the other art teacher expected. ha! They had 8-10 papers each and made covers for their paper, did a Japanese binding process and have decorated the individual papers. They turned out way cool! Much better than what I was hoping for! :o) I'm glad I didn't not do the project because it was 'too messy' -per some people.

All is messy but fun in Happyville!

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Mrs. or Ms. ?

The elementary kids always confuse my name with Mrs. instead of Ms. I am immune to this after it happening all last year. A few days ago, a boy kept saying Mrs. over and over to get my attention. He is pretty loud and apparently annoyed another little girl to the point of her asking, "are you married?" When I said no, she told the boy to use the correct suffix Ms. (One smart fist grade girl!) The boy looked at me with a strange look on his face and said, "if you not married, do you live alone?" I kinda giggled and responded "yes." He thought for a moment and said, "well then, can I live with you?!" Ha! How silly of a thought process! He is inching his way up my 'cute list'! :o)

More time for this blog!

I have to keep a journal for an education class I am taking so I will be posting more on this blog as a way to journal. Finally I am making time to keep this up!