My youngest daughter Emily has become very interested in drawing and writing in the past week. Every night after I read her a story she wants to draw on her white board that is in her room. Here is a picture she drew tonight. I am the big headed one and she is the little [...]
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Friday Showcase-Dot Art
April 16, 2009 – 10:57 pm
I love Dot Art. There are so many things you can do with them. Here are a few things we have been doing this week. I have so many more ideas to do with Dot Art just not enough time to get them all done. We made birthday cards! Make sure you use thicker paper [...]
Works For Me Wednesday- Morning Message
April 14, 2009 – 10:43 pm
Every morning when I taught first grade I would write a “Morning Message” to my students on a white board. It would always start “Today is …” and then the day and date. Then I would write about what we were talking about today and where we were going for specials (art, music, PE, computer) [...]
Handwriting Paper
March 26, 2009 – 9:47 pm
A friend of mine asked me if I knew of anywhere online to print beginnning handwriting paper so I started Googling. I found this great website that has all different grade level handwriting paper as well as printable prewriting papers. Enjoy! Bookmark It Hide Sites
Create Fun Fonts
March 24, 2009 – 4:31 pm
Have your kids practice writing letters and turn them into a font to use on your computer. Your Fonts is a free webservice that turns your hand-written fonts into a font file that you can use in any way you would use any other font. All you have to do is print out the form, [...]