I’ve finished my October blocks of the month…which means I’m finished with all the blocks for my very first quilt! I’m so proud! This month we learned how to do paper piecing. Once I’d done one section and got the hang of it, it turned out to be so easy! I loved it! Paper piecing […]
September blocks of the month
Another month, another set of quilt blocks. This month in my Craftsy Block of the Month class we learned how to do curved piecing using the Drunkard’s Path templates. When I first started trying to pin and sew these pieces together, I got super frustrated. In fact, after I botched the first one, I had […]
DIY customized lesson planner tutorial
Oh boy I am so so excited! This is the post I’ve had rolling around in my head for several weeks, but I knew it was going to be long and I just haven’t had time to sit down and get to it. I finally got it done and I can’t wait to share it […]
ideas for communicating with parents and students
I’m not sure if this is a classroom organization tip, per say, but I think that you have to be organized in order to have good communication and communicating helps aid in having an organized classroom…so now that I’ve sufficiently justified myself (and written an insanely long run-on sentence), let’s talk about how to communicate with parents and […]
dealing with make-up work when kids are absent {Works for Me Wednesday}
I am so excited about today’s classroom organization tip! It is one of the best things I’ve done in my classroom and I can’t wait to share it with you. Something that drove me bananas when I was teaching was trying to keep up with who was absent when, what they needed to turn in […]