8x8 Scrapbooking

So, as you know, I LOVE SCRAPBOOKING! But goodness, I HATE 8x8 SCRAPBOOKING! I've made a few and hated every moment of it. Pictures don't fit, things look smooshed and all together, its just not enough scrapbook.

But being that one of my best friends live in Belgium, I cannot make her a 12x12 scrapbook and ship it to her a reasonable price. Which leaves me with the horrid option of 8x8 (which, FYI, fits in a US Postal Service 'Medium Flat Rate' ship box and ships to Belgium for about $45).

Although my hate for 8x8's is very high, I have a few pages that I really loved and I wanted to share them!

Luxembourg Cover Page

(Color meets Old World)

Flander's Field Page, with John McCrae Poem

(Example of 8x8 pages just being so cramped!)

Ten Duinen Play page

(I love how the pink and purple played off our colorful clothes!)

Christmas is almost here!

I can't believe that Christmas is right around the corner! This year has gone by way too fast! I'm loving my latest Pinterest craft, and I want to share it with you...

I made the chalkboard and it has become the center of my house. My friends look forward to coming over and seeing the newest quote. As the year goes on, I change the bow to match the season or holiday. I have seen people put these over their beds, which would be very fun too!

Happy Holidays... Hopefully I will have more crafts to share in the near future!

Election Unit - Day 4 Recap

Today I presented the Presidential Candidates to my second graders. I was really worried that the information would be over their head. I was also worried that they were too little to care. While I presented my lesson, as seen below, the kids were SUPER engaged. They were all over learning about the issues. I did not prepare an activity for them just because of my worries of them understanding. But I was wrong! THEY LOVED IT! The other 2nd grade class came and joined us too. When I was done teaching I paired them up and had them discuss their thoughts. And goodness, their thoughts and opinions where AMAZING. They were having full on adult discussions! It was amazing. I hope that you can inspire you kids to be educated voters like I did.

Best of luck!

GO VOTE! :)

Election Unit - The Candidates

Need a way to teach your kiddos about the candidates? Here it is! You can find the full presentation on my TpT page!

I am so excited to teach my kids about who is running! I hope that this lesson will inspire my kids to be independent thinkers when it comes to voting. :)

Please enjoy and share with your colleagues! 

Happy Voting!

Presidential Portraits - Final Product

As you have seen below, Ive created a unit about the Election. Yesterday we created our own Presidential Portraits. I talked with the kiddos about how they have show their personality in their picture as well as in their background. Some of the kids put the ocean in the background and others put their house. This was one of the best ones! I hope your kids will create ones just as cute!

...Underneath the name, the student put, "Will give 2 million to our school." :) 

Election Lesson # 2 - The Presidential Portrait

Here is the second lesson in my Election Unit, all about Presidential Portraits! I think its great for the kids to look at art and the presidency in a different way. My kids will be creating a self portrait for themselves after the small lesson! Find this on my TpT site!

....As I am finding out, my TpT items are not uploading! If you want any of my election materials, please leave your email below and I will send it to you ASAP!

And here is a frame that you can use with your kiddos!

Election Lesson # 1 - The President and Voting

Here is the slide show for the first lesson! I hope you can find a use for it! My kids ate it up, they asked when we would get to learn more about the election... such a rewarding moment! Please use my voter registration from below to help you with this lesson too!