Ooh guess what?

Guess what? I just thought of something. The Great School Makeover totally failed. BUT I did make the chalkboard, to be fair, and it made me super famous (within our school) so YAY!

EDIT: Wait wut....






OH I JUST FOUND OUT THAT I NEVER PUBLISHED THE GREAT SCHOOL MAKEOVER POST WHICH I SPENT LIKE TEN MINUTES WRITING LIKE DURING WINTER BREAK............-.-'''

Aack!

Aack! It's been forever, hasn't it? I made a motto poster for today but I don't know where my USB is and I should be doing homework but whatever because I'm a bad person.

Anyhoo.

WOW AMAZING THINGS HAPPENED IM SO EXCITED.

by now your reaction is probably:

Ahem.

So yes. Guess what? If nobody submits any songs (YES!) I am going to find the best Taylor Swift songs ever and put them on there. Too bad. I know at least five (?) people will like it. Oh, that's only 1/12 of the whole grade?!?! Oh well.

ANYWAYS. I love this song. Yay.

The Moment I Knew~~~~

Okay. Luv ya lots! See ya on the morrow ;)

JUST KIDDING I probably won't be on tomorrow.

What did I just do to this post.

Whoops. Let's put in a nice little quote, shall we?

“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.” – Woody Allen

Uh. Not exactly a good one. Oh well. TEE HEE. (No I did not get that from that YouTube thing.)

I wanna do a Draw My Life some time! Should I? Am I too young? I possess the ability to make something sound really good/really bad. So yeah. Like, when someone bit like ALL OVER MY FACE so much that people thought I was contagious, that was physical bullying!!! And when my best friend told me not to talk to this boy, that was social bullying!!!! BTW all of this happened in preschool ^ ^.

Bye~~~~

Dana <33

Apologies

Happy Mother's Day everyone! I am so very sorry for not posting very often.

The Great School Makeover

A new school semester is about to begin, so I'm going to plan a huge School Makeover. No, I'm not making over the school. That's a ginormous project too big for me to undertake. Rather, I'm only going to make over my class, my cubby, and try to inspire happiness among the classroom.

I have a couple of plans in this project.

1. Organize cubby
1. Place all textbooks vertically to decrease used space.
1. Place a scrapbook-page-made 'placemat' under the vertical textbook 'fence' to make your bland mint-green cubby look more festive and inviting.
2. Shopping bag caddy 
1. makeover
1. Paint a shopping bag
2. Tape thin(ish, compared to the corrugated kind) cardboard along the walls
3.  Then tape thick cardboard to the bottom. Be careful! Pick only strong-ish cardboard, not flimsy, looks-thick-but-really-isn't cardboard.
4. Put in gardening/craft stuff!
2. Purpose
1. Part of this is to organize my cubby, but part of it is also to plant things around the school and cross my fingers to hope they grow.
3. "My Happiness" board
1. makeover
1. Take an old, expired stand-up-by-itself desk calendar and rip out all of the pages.
2. Paint one side (or both, if you like) with chalkboard paint. I bought a taupe colored Martha Stewart chalkboard paint and am ever so excited to do this project!
3. Let dry following manufacturer's instructions.
4. Optional step: Using a Sharpie or other permanent marker, write either "I am...." or "I am feeling" or "My mood" or "My feeling" or whatever.
5. Have fun and rock n' roll! You can draw faces to represent your happiness level, or a temperature degree thing with a lot of marks and labels, or just scribble down your mood in a word or two with chalk! Easy to clean, too: magnificent!
2. Purpose
1. Inspire kids all over the classroom to be happy and laugh whenever they see it.

Okay, but I still have to make a motto poster, because it's not good enough, right? Laugh out loud! That is so mean! Whatever, I really do want to make a motto poster, but I'm just not sure how because I'm using an old Macintosh computer. Well, I'll figure it out!

Amazing Kids!

I am ashamed to say that I have been putting off posting for a while, and part of the reason was because  of my vow to you that I would post beautiful motto posters every time! Well, I'm back into 'photo frenzy' mode, so I have lots of pictures to work with-- but maybe not so many cute sayings. But maybe that's alright!

Anyway, I come to you today to say that I've got some really good news. One of my submissions has been accepted to Amazing Kids! Magazine! You can access their online magazine publication's website through this link.

I have been informed that the submission will appear in the March issue of their magazine. So look for it there! I will post the link to the article when it has been uploaded to their website by the Amazing Kids! Magazine staff.

Looking forward to it!

~~Dana

Self Poems!!

Self Poems are a really fun activity, even though some students may fool around with it. Here is the format:

I am leading a _________ life
I am watching ___________________
I had a ___________but I lost it
I used to believe _______________
But now I know_________________________
And now, at ____years old, I have seen ____________
I have touched _________________
I believe _____________________
I don't know why______________________
I hate_______________________
I love_______________________
I hope____________________________
And my heart is_____________________.


An example might be:
I am leading a standstill life
I am watching the world go by
I had a beautiful ponytail holder but I lost it
I used to believe in happy endings
But now I know they only happen to some people.
And now, at ten years old, I have seen the inside of a surgery room
I have touched a cow’s udder (for real!)
I believe that dreams can come true
I don’t know why feelings is the hardest subject
I hate jump rope
I love the unpolluted world
I hope something I don’t dare to say
And my heart is waiting for someone to take the reins.

You could make a serious one, such as the one above, or a lighthearted one, but both are very cool and interesting activities for kids!

--Dana

The Daily Motto Poster

I started turning my photographs into Motto Posters and I will try to post them up here. Although it definitely won't be a daily event, every time I post there should be a Motto Poster at the top. Today's is:

"To be a rose......is to see the sunshine lurking everywhere."

Yes, I made that up. But so what? It's uplifting and cheerful and bright and pretty. Well, sorry about the Tahoma font for "To be a rose...." but yes, you can fix that with Microsoft Paint because that's the software I used to put on the words!