A Crafty Kinda Night

I just recently started getting back into crafting. I have always loved to create things. I remember being little and insisting that my mom buy me craft kits so I could make new things. I used to do cross stitch and my aunt still has one I made her when she was pregnant with my cousin (who is now 16!). I was fortunate enough to get a Silhouette Cameo for Christmas from my amazing hubby, and have not stopped to breathe for a moment since I got it! I love to make tshirts, canvas creations, car decals, water bottles, wine glasses, you name it, and I am trying to decorate it :)

Tonight, I finished up a few orders I had and would like to share with you all!

Up first was a Disney Themed canvas for an Etsy client. These are so fun to customize, and of course the client can choose what couples they want on it. I love that this lovely lady chose to add Pongo & Perdita from "101 Dalmations" and "Milo & Kida" from Atlantis!

Next came some car decals for a fellow February mama! She is also a Disney fan, so we ran with that theme. Her and her husband have an adorable little girl and two handsome boys. Can't wait to see this on their car :)

Mother's day is just around the corner! I made two of these "Mommy's Sippy Cup" vino to go cups for a fellow November mama. I can't wait for her to try them out!

Tomorrow night, I will be finishing up some shirt orders and a couple of Mother's Day gifts of my own to send to some amazing mamas that I am so blessed to have in my life!

Off to bed I go...unless my crazy crafting high doesn't go away...

Kari

Driveby Post! My students are at gym...

Just wanted to do a super quick post while I have a minute. My students are at gym :)

We are currently studying VOLUME in math class. I have found it uber helpful to upload videos I make to my teacher webpage on our school's website. Students are able to click it and watch the video to see how I taught the concept to them. I think this is also really helpful for parents! They often do not know the new methods we teach the students, so this is helping tremendously.

How I do it:
I use a program called "Educreations" on our iPad mini to record the lesson.

I then upload the lesson to Educreations website. I think the only downfall of this app is that I can't upload directly to YouTube.

I downloaded another program called "Screencast-O-Matic" to do this! All I do is play the video from the Educreations website, and the Screencast-O-Matic records it for me. I am then able to upload it directly to YouTube.

That's it!

Want a review on volume of rectangular prisms? CLICK HERE

Lots of love,

Kari

Saturday's Antics

Today has been very productive and it's only 1:16pm! We were lucky to sleep in late, as Landyn was exhausted from our day at the zoo yesterday (with no nap -- yeah I don't recommend that for a 2 year old who is used to napping...). We played outside for a bit before nap today.

I also made the kids their Easter shirts to wear after church tomorrow.

Then it was inside and NAP time!! While they napped, I was able to get a new resource ready to use this week with my class. We have SBAC testing coming up, and we desperately need to review parts of speech. We will be watching Flocabulary videos throughout the week about parts of speech and filling in this graphic organizer. Also, on Monday, students will write a story about Bacon's Rebellion (we just finished covering this event in Social Studies). Throughout the week, as we review the different parts of speech, they will edit their writing for that particular part. So for example, on Monday we will watch an over arching review and they will write their piece. On Tuesday, we will watch a noun review, and they will go through and edit for nouns. Wednesday may be adjectives and verbs, and they will edit and revise for that. Thursday adverbs and pronouns, and Friday prepositions and interjections. Get what I mean?

So I made a graphic organizer flip chart for my kids to glue down to keep their definitions straight. I am a Star Wars geek admittedly and I ran with that theme. This resource will be FREE until Monday afternoon on my TPT Shop. Check it out!

Follow this link Flying Through Parts of Speech to my TPT store for this resource!

I hope you have enjoyed keeping up with me, my family, and our antics :)

~ Kari

Splash Into Order of Operations!

Created a new math product today to review Order of Operations with my 5th graders. I think it came out pretty darn cute!

In this product, students will be able to glue a foldable into their interactive math notebooks. We LOVE our interactive math notebooks, and our IRNs (interactive reading notebooks) in our classroom! The students are able to manipulate something to help them learn the skill or concept. In this case, they will use this foldable to take notes about PEMDAS.

Students will then complete a practice sheet where they have to circle the expression that will be evaluated first, and then solve the problem.

As a follow up activity, students will do a QR Task Card activity. My kids LOVE doing these, because it allows them to use our classroom iPad minis (thank you to the parents of my kids/friends and Donors Choose!) to scan the code and the answer pops up. They will compare their answer from their recording sheet with the answer on the screen. This is where I see a lot of my students then going back to their desks to figure out where they went wrong. If they got the answer correct, they grab a new task card and repeat the process. QR codes are super easy to create, and you can just google "QR Code Generator" to try it yourself.

So there you have it! This product is up on my TPT store and will be on sale until Thursday evening! Grab it while you can :)

Here's the link:
Splash into Order of Operations

Thanks for listening,

Kari

Number One!

So here we are, at post number one. I come to you from my couch, as I sit here on this lovely spring break with a baby on my lap..

One sitting next to us on the couch...

and snow on the ground. Yep snow. In April. On MY spring break. Not cool mother nature, not cool!

I am starting this blog to help my students, friends, and family keep up with what is going on in my crazy life! I also hope to help out teachers with some resources that I make and will do freebies before putting them  up on my TPT shop. I have also recently opened up at Etsy shop to sell some crafty goods that I made using my Silhouette Cameo. I truly do not know how I survived without that little machine.

A little about me:
My family is my life. I am married to the love of my life, Sean, and we have two amazingly beautiful children. Landyn in 2 and Savannah is almost 6 months. They drive me batty sometimes, but my world would not be the same without them.
I am a teacher of fifth grade, and have been for six years. I was lucky enough to student teach, sub and be hired all at the same school. I love my colleagues and they really make work fun, along with my rambunctious 10 year olds!
I love to craft and create and smile and laugh.

I hope you enjoy being here and reading my antics, I will try to keep them entertaining :)

~ Kari