(all images taken by me from my personal blog)
Spring Break Memory Book
Did you have a nice Spring Break? If your break is over, there is still time to create one of these journals/mini books for a summer project. Jennifer's Field Notes Spring Break memory book would be fun for any special vacation.
"My family is getting ready for our spring break vacation and I thought now would be a perfect time to create my own book. This project will be especially fun for my daughter, who loves to write and create art of all kinds. The 5 x 7 journal was perfect!"
"I couldn't be happier with the extra pockets included. I created writing prompts for my daughter and tucked them into the front pocket. Of course I had to also make a matching bookmark!"
"And, finally, I gathered up a few supplies (including stickers and die cuts from the Field Notes collection) and tucked them into a vinyl envelope for her to use. I can't wait to get started capturing our vacation memories!"
"My family is getting ready for our spring break vacation and I thought now would be a perfect time to create my own book. This project will be especially fun for my daughter, who loves to write and create art of all kinds. The 5 x 7 journal was perfect!"
"I couldn't be happier with the extra pockets included. I created writing prompts for my daughter and tucked them into the front pocket. Of course I had to also make a matching bookmark!"
"And, finally, I gathered up a few supplies (including stickers and die cuts from the Field Notes collection) and tucked them into a vinyl envelope for her to use. I can't wait to get started capturing our vacation memories!"
Tax Break Sale - April 15th ONLY!!
Hey, do you love a sale?? It's especially nice to get a break at this time of year!
Today only I will have a 15% off sale in my TpT store!! So, if there's anything you've been wanting -- grab it today! Starts at midnight on the 15th and runs all day!!
New BrooklynThread Additions
Gold Braided Wrap Bracelet - can also be worn as a necklace
Bonfire Druzy Rings - now available in sparkling pastel colors
Seahorse & Mother of Pearl Bead Bracelet - perfect for the beach
Card Trio with Matching Case
Emily used the Vanilla Sunshine collection to make this fresh and fun card trio with case. Emily is always finding creative ways to alter and re-purpose items, like the case.
"The trio utilizes the Vanilla Sunshine Card 8.5"x11" paper pad with coordinating sentiment stickers. The sentiments that come with the paper pad are totally perfect and there's a wide variety to choose from. Paper comes in 8.5"x11" sheets, one sheet makes two standard size cards."
"Stretch your supplies by making your own embellishments! To make the flowers: punch circles from patterned paper and fabric swatches, adhere together with foam tape. Adhere leaves to bottom of flower."
"To make kites: Create a kite template on cardstock and trim. Trace the kite onto patterned paper and trim. Trim kites into halves or quarters and adhere pieces together to create a 'patchwork' kite."
"To make Baby Banner: Trim a dowel and cover with washi tape. Trim strips of patterned paper, notching ends and adhere to dowel."
"Old packaging can be up cycled for a new purpose. I used an old stamp container to create the card trio case."
"The trio utilizes the Vanilla Sunshine Card 8.5"x11" paper pad with coordinating sentiment stickers. The sentiments that come with the paper pad are totally perfect and there's a wide variety to choose from. Paper comes in 8.5"x11" sheets, one sheet makes two standard size cards."
"Stretch your supplies by making your own embellishments! To make the flowers: punch circles from patterned paper and fabric swatches, adhere together with foam tape. Adhere leaves to bottom of flower."
"To make kites: Create a kite template on cardstock and trim. Trace the kite onto patterned paper and trim. Trim kites into halves or quarters and adhere pieces together to create a 'patchwork' kite."
"To make Baby Banner: Trim a dowel and cover with washi tape. Trim strips of patterned paper, notching ends and adhere to dowel."
"Old packaging can be up cycled for a new purpose. I used an old stamp container to create the card trio case."
Paint Chip Cards for the Word Wall
Ok, so it's uber important to back your word wall words with color - especially those easily confused words. Placing my word wall words on colored backgrounds really helps my kids internalize those words. It helps give kids a mental image of each word.
My kinders are so good at this they can tell you what color a word wall word is without looking (and of course they are super proud of that ability). The reason they can tell you the color.....and the reason that is awesome is because they are seeing that word in their mind's eye. They not only remember that color, but the other features of that particular word. The color is a hook in their mind to hang that word --making kids less likely to forget it!
Now, on to the point of this post....... For years I've used construction paper and/or colored copy paper to back my words. The colors are good, but throughout the year, the colors begin to fade and just look yucky!! So, each year I am making new word wall word cards for my word wall. Well.... this just gets plain OLD!!!
I've seen tons of great ideas on Pinterest about how to use the paint chip cards for various things. This got me thinking..... Can I use paint chip cards to back my words????
So....I gave it a try..............AND ............IT works beautifully!!! Woo-hoo!! I love when something free works out the way I intend!!
I chose particularly bright cards (2-3 of each color). Any word that begins with the same letter must be a different color.... And, words that are easily confused must be backed with a different color ("am" and "me")......
I hope you like this tip! I am so proud of my new word wall word cards!! ...........now maybe I won't have to redo them again next year....:0)
IDA is here: Mollie Makes
The word "happy" is not enough to describe my emotion when yesterday I received the Mollie Makes pages where my granny cushion is featured.
I think that "speachless" is more appropriate, and "honored" of course.
Few months ago the lovely redaction team, asked me to collaborate with a simple crochet project, that you can find today on issue 13 of Mollie Makes.
Here you can see the cover and the first page of my project..well, if you want to see the rest you have to buy the magazine!
And here, few words about Mollie Makes:
Mollie Makes is published thirteen times a year. We curate the best craft from around the world into a tactile, collectable and totally irresistible magazine.
We love to make – handmade is more than just a hobby for us, it’s in everything we do. We can’t resist hunting down treasures in thrift stores, then customising, re-covering and embellishing our finds with our endless stash of ribbons, buttons, fabrics and felt. We’re forever on the lookout for new inspiration. Whatever we do, we’re living and loving handmade.’
La parola "felice" penso non sia sufficiente per descrivere la mia emozione quando ieri ho ricevuto i file delle pagine su Mollie Makes in cui è descritto il mio cuscino all'uncinetto.
Credo che "senza parole" sia più appropriato, e aggiungo anche "onorata" naturalmente.
Tutto è iniziato qualche mese fa, quando la redazione del giornale mi ha contattata chiedendomi di collaborare con un semplice progetto crochet, che è possibile trovare oggi sul numero 13 di Mollie Makes.
Qui potete vedere la copertina e la prima pagina del mio progetto..se volete vedere il resto dovete comprare la rivista!*
{*in Italia è un po' complicato trovarla, mi rendo conto, ma qui sotto ci sono i link per scaricare la versione sull'ipad!}
I think that "speachless" is more appropriate, and "honored" of course.
Few months ago the lovely redaction team, asked me to collaborate with a simple crochet project, that you can find today on issue 13 of Mollie Makes.
Here you can see the cover and the first page of my project..well, if you want to see the rest you have to buy the magazine!
And here, few words about Mollie Makes:
Mollie Makes is published thirteen times a year. We curate the best craft from around the world into a tactile, collectable and totally irresistible magazine.
We love to make – handmade is more than just a hobby for us, it’s in everything we do. We can’t resist hunting down treasures in thrift stores, then customising, re-covering and embellishing our finds with our endless stash of ribbons, buttons, fabrics and felt. We’re forever on the lookout for new inspiration. Whatever we do, we’re living and loving handmade.’
subscribe here
iPad version here
newsletter here
♡ Making ♡ Thrifting ♡ Collecting ♡ Crafting
La parola "felice" penso non sia sufficiente per descrivere la mia emozione quando ieri ho ricevuto i file delle pagine su Mollie Makes in cui è descritto il mio cuscino all'uncinetto.
Credo che "senza parole" sia più appropriato, e aggiungo anche "onorata" naturalmente.
Tutto è iniziato qualche mese fa, quando la redazione del giornale mi ha contattata chiedendomi di collaborare con un semplice progetto crochet, che è possibile trovare oggi sul numero 13 di Mollie Makes.
Qui potete vedere la copertina e la prima pagina del mio progetto..se volete vedere il resto dovete comprare la rivista!*
{*in Italia è un po' complicato trovarla, mi rendo conto, ma qui sotto ci sono i link per scaricare la versione sull'ipad!}
abbonamento qui
versione per iPad qui
newsletter qui
and here the pattern
e qui il modello
Ilaria Chiaratti 2012
Hello, from Teaching With Love and Laughter!
I am very excited to be a guest blogger here on Kindergarten Lifestyle. I love Jeannie's blog and I think the concept of guest blogging is fantastic, as it gives bloggers an opportunity to share their ideas and activities with a bigger audience. I enjoy talking, whether it is face-to-face or through blogging, and I love knowing that people are interested in what I have to say. I hope that you enjoy my post today. I will be sharing photos of my writing classroom and I will include explanations of what I do and how I utilize the many charts and displays in my classroom. I am a writing specialist for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, so it is imperative that I have a print rich classroom, full of meaningful learning displays. I also teach grammar, science, and social studies.
The first picture I will show is my 6 traits of good writing and writing process bulletin board.
The first picture I will show is my 6 traits of good writing and writing process bulletin board.
Every day, during writing workshop, my students are all in different places in the writing process. I like for my students to know that there is no beginning or ending to the writing process. That is why I hung the posters with arrows. The arrows show that they just keep going around and around. I try to focus on a different trait of good writing each week, so I hung my 6 traits posters in the middle of the board. Writing workshop in my classroom always begins with a mini-lesson from me or from one of my students who has done something wonderful the day before. My students love to be teachers and the children always listen nicely when they are in charge. Then, they do a turn and talk, where they discuss what they are going to be working on for the day. This really helps them get focused and ready. Next, is my favorite part of writing workshop, the quiet 10. This is where everyone, including myself, is writing. There is no talking, no moving around, no distractions. The lights go low and soft music plays in the background. It's very cozy and conducive to great writing. I have a writing topics display hanging for children to get ideas if they cannot think of anything to write about. If they need ideas, they must get the card(s) before the quiet 10 begins.
After the quiet 10, we spend the next 20 minutes writing and conferencing. The children sign up for conferences with me if they want to, but they cannot come to me until they have shared their story with a friend or two. This helps them to find and correct errors before they get to me. Finally, we spend about 10 minutes sharing. The children have to sign up to share and they cannot get another turn until everyone has had a turn.
To help my students become the best writers they can, I have several displays in my classroom that they can refer to whenever they want. This is my "Types of Leads" display, which they helped to create. The children worked in groups to write a specific lead and that is what they use to remind themselves how to write each of the leads I taught them.
I also have a display that shows some good transition words for them to use in their stories. Each color displays words to use for the beginning, middle, and end of their story. Even my kindergartners use this display.
The next chart is one of the most useful charts I have hanging because it encourages my writers to write more in-depth pieces. If they show me a piece that leaves out crucial information, I take them to this chart and ask them to answer Who, What, Why, etc. If they cannot, they know that they need to go back and add in some information so the reader is not left confused and wondering what is going on in the story.
I also have a chart that shows the children how to write a super sentence. I have them refer to this chart whenever they have a sentence that needs a little more information.
My word wall is an important part of my classroom and my students and I refer to it quite often. That is why it is big and bright and spans one and a half walls in my room. It is color coded, too. All kindergarten words are in red, first grade words are in yellow, second grade words are in green, and words frequently used in writing are in orange. My younger students love to boast that they can spell words from higher grades correctly and I sometimes point out to my second graders that they are misspelling words that they learned in kindergarten.
Here is a picture of what I call "The Menu". When my students are done with their station work, they can choose many different activities to do that all involve writing. Here, they can choose something from the menu to work on.
They can also choose to complete an activity from the pocket chart. Here, they will find word searches, word wall activity sheets, stationary for writing letters, secret code spelling, and much, much more.
Wow! This post is even longer than I thought it would be! I better stop talking! Before I go, though, as a gift to you for being such good listeners and reading this l-o-n-g post, I will share my transition words poster with you. Just click the picture below.
As you can see, I absolutely love to share my ideas and activities. I truly thank Jeannie for giving me the opportunity to expand my group of followers. If you do not already follow my blog, I would love it if you would click on over and join me.
Again, thank you so much for joining me today and I hope to see you as a regular at Teaching With Love and Laughter.
Fabulous Ideas for May by Club SEI
The previews for Club SEI's May kits are here! The paper-crafting kit features the desert springs collection. It includes an complete 8x8 scrapbook in a bag. Club members can create this entire album with the pre-cut pieces and instructions. There is also a creative gift caddy that would be perfect for friends or Father's Day.
The card-making kit includes a cheery mix of Vanilla Sunshine and Desert Springs papers. Look at all these great cards club members will get instructions for! If you would like to learn more about Club SEI or sign-up, check out clubsei.com.
The card-making kit includes a cheery mix of Vanilla Sunshine and Desert Springs papers. Look at all these great cards club members will get instructions for! If you would like to learn more about Club SEI or sign-up, check out clubsei.com.
A Curated List: Exterior Furniture
1. New Hampshire Armchair from OKA 2. Shady Lace Parasol from Conrad Shop 3. Square Copper Cube Coffee Table 4. Turquoise Bar Cart 5. Still Collection from Brown Jordan 6. Ikea KARLSKRONA Items can be purchased through CKID unless noted.
I believe outdoors rooms are as important as indoor ones. So you'll want to continue your home's design into backyard, patios, and balconys. Create different zones for eating, lounging and playing just as you would inside to fully enjoy exterior spaces all summer, if not all year long. Don't miss my selection of garden planters.
If you'd like help designing an original space that you absolutely love, contact me about design services.
Learn about April: Outdoor Living Month on A Curated Lifestyle.
Cosy ripple blanket
I made another blanket!
The idea come from this lovely picture from Yvonne {The Yvestown Blog} that I saw on Instagram. She's a truly inspiration for my crochet works, so I tried to make something similar. I like the result, is cosy and warm.
What do you think? Perfect for the new couch ;-)
Ilaria Chiaratti 2012
The idea come from this lovely picture from Yvonne {The Yvestown Blog} that I saw on Instagram. She's a truly inspiration for my crochet works, so I tried to make something similar. I like the result, is cosy and warm.
What do you think? Perfect for the new couch ;-)
♥
Ho fatto un'altra coperta!
L'idea viene direttamente da questa bellissima foto fatta da Yvonne {The Yvestown Blog} che ho trovato su Instagram. Lei è una vera miniera di ispirazioni per i miei lavori all'uncinetto, così ho provato a fare qualcosa di simile. Mi piace il risultato, è supermorbidosa e calda.
Che ne dite? Perfetta per il nuovo divano;-)
Ilaria Chiaratti 2012
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