Christmas Traditions Quilt

A few years ago I got the idea to make a Christmas Quilt of our Christmas traditions. I don't remember where I got the idea now, so I can't give credit. However, ever since then I have loved this idea. So 5th grade made a quilt of our Christmas traditions and hung them together to make a quilt.

To make you need two pieces of construction paper. You need one for the background color and one to make the foldable to put the traditions on the flaps. Following are the pictures of our final products!

Honoring Sandy Hook!

As educators, we remember and honor our fallen colleagues and their students from Sandy Hook School. We honor them in our classrooms in which we continue their dream of teaching children.  Join with teachers everywhere in committing random acts of kindness to show our love for Sandy Hook.

3D Printing Fun!

I got my 3D printer set up and running today, thanks to my amazing son Jacob! He came into my classroom today and set it all up and figured out how it worked. I'm so excited for the possibilities of what we can make in the classroom for this amazing machine by Makerbot!

Here are is a comb that Jacob made today. I will share more later as more is created! Woohoo!

Tye Pillows for Students

Well, it's been awhile since I posted. Things have been crazy at school and I've been busy. I decided that I would make Tye Pillows this year for my students since I have such a small class. Although, I don't have a big class I was dreading putting the pillows together, however today I got super lucky! My wonderful friend Amy and her awesome daughter Abbie came over and helped me. In what would have probably taken me HOURS to complete on my own we completed it in just over 2 hours working together!!

So the Type Pillows were made with a quarter of a yard of fabric.

Once you have the fabric cut in the size you need than you need to cut a square out of each corner of the fabric. Once that is done you need to cut strips of about 1 inch around all sides of the fabric.