Ginger Snaps : arts

Novel Study and Mother's Day Activity

Ginger Snaps — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:05:00 GMT

I know I am posting again, but I had to share the CUTEST mothers day activity I found on Stickers and Staples last night! How adorable right!? The kids draw pictures of things they would do for their mother on each app block and then write an explanation...(read more)

Back from the Dead

Ginger Snaps — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:25:00 GMT

I am so sorry for my prolonged absence but I hit a little summer fever back in, oh...April... I still haven't really started thinking much about school yet, but I am getting there with only 3 weeks of freedom left! I will begin my comeback soon! I promise...(read more)

This week has been crazy...

Ginger Snaps — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:52:00 GMT

I have been totally swamped this week and haven't really had the chance to sit down and write a decent post and I should probably be in bed right now...but, here I am blogging. So, this will be short and sweet. I know I have posted a ton of Social Studies...(read more)

Ginger Snaps — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:52:00 GMT

Now that school is in full swing, I am finding it hard to make time for blogging about the things I am doing in my classroom and the things I am learning along the way. I love my students to pieces, but good gracious they are sooo low this year. I have...(read more)

Teaching Relative Location

Ginger Snaps — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:13:00 GMT

Being at a Title I school is tough. Most of the kids have little knowledge about where they live, many don't get the support they need at home, and most of them have never even been outside their own little towns. It breaks my heart. I took a few students...(read more)

More with Tableau's in the Classroom

Ginger Snaps — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:24:00 GMT

If you read yesterday's post, you know that I have been attending an arts integration professional development all week this week. For three days, we get immersed in each of the five art forms (Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Art, and Creative Writing)....(read more)

SMART ARTS

Ginger Snaps — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:06:00 GMT

I signed up for the SMART Arts professional development in our district this summer and have been going to these classes all week. I am very excited because after you complete this week long program, you get to have an actual teaching artist come to your...(read more)

Freeze Tag Tableau and Kinesthetic Geometry

Ginger Snaps — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:22:00 GMT

Todays professional development was awesome! Several teachers at our school participate in a program called I.D.E.A. (Intensive Development in Education through the Arts) and they conducted a few short classes teaching the rest of us a few things they...(read more)

Sound Writing with Marcia Daft

Ginger Snaps — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:05:00 GMT

First off, I want to apologize for the long hiatus. I took a vacation with friends and got away for the weekend, plus two school days! It was much needed and I am very refreshed! I came back to school today to a half day training by Marcia Daft. I spoke...(read more)

Teaching with Tableau's

Ginger Snaps — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:50:00 GMT

For some reason, yesterdays post about Rounding numbers isn't showing up. I'll try to repost that later. Today, in Social Studies, we tried the tableau's for our Social Studies reading passages and it went awesome!! Just in case you don't remember my...(read more)

Lines, angles, and rays! Oh My!

Ginger Snaps — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:08:00 GMT

We have been studying geometry in Math this week. I have been up to my eyeballs in attributes of circles, lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel, perpendicular, you-name-it! I've really enjoyed teaching these ideas and my students have had fun learning,...(read more)

Lines, angles, and rays! Oh My!

Ginger Snaps — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:08:00 GMT

We have been studying geometry in Math this week. I have been up to my eyeballs in attributes of circles, lines, line segments, ray, angles, parallel, perpendicular, you-name-it! I've really enjoyed teaching these ideas and so have my students! Mainly...(read more)

Integrating Arts into the Classroom--This is a good one!

Ginger Snaps — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:33:00 GMT

I am sooooo flippin' excited to share with you what I learned today!! Many of you may already have your own idea of what Arts Integration looks like, but hopefully this will give you a whole new idea on what a variety of things it can mean. When we started...(read more)