OHH MY

Oh my gosh well I thought I had not posted in March but it looks like it hasnt gone by more than a month since the last time I blogged. Ok so it is a crazy week this week, due to me going on a Christian Conference with the High Schoolers this weekend and an art show on the same weekend. I am swamped but it is my own fault that I have not kept up to date with the blog it literally takes me 5 minutes to write something out. So I apologize.

So I have had a rough start to the last semester of my first year, just due to work load. I had a wonderful Spring Break in Aruba where my cousin was married. After Spring Break I headed back into finishing getting my VAM put together. Now I started an online virtual art museum for both my schools to view the artwork on the computer in case they have family or friends who want to view the work. Fun stuff ALOT of work.

So I will post pictures but due to my virtual art museum I do not keep a lot of pictures up and going on this computer like I used to.

Where has Karyn gone?

Oh man look at me.....I have not kept up with this blog whatsoever!!!! It is difficult having a real life job. Hah. Well I have been busy with school, Jump Start, art shows, working out, and my new virtual art museum! You will have to check out the VAM. I am just opening it to the teachers and parents at Memorial School and going to start it up after Spring Break at Parkview. I am very excited for it. You can log into Valpo School Corp. and then under the students tab and the Virtual Art Museum you will see all the grade levels. I am going to try to keep up with artwork but it is very difficult to put up pictures as quickly as they finish! I can't wait to tell the other art teachers in our collaboration group.

I have been bad at keeping up with the blog but nothing new and or exciting has really been happening. I had Arts a Budding which was a lot of time for the art show and beyond that our Spring Break is on Saturday which is very exciting!

I am hopefully visiting Bloomington soon. Go IU tomorrow!!!!
Well I will post more pictures soon!

Karyn

More pics.....

Wooohooo Wednesday that is like Friday

Today is somewhat like Friday. I have curriculum planning tomorrow at the Admin. Building and then we have Friday off! Kind of exciting but I hate sub plans. So this week has been fun yesterday was Valentine's day and that is like celebrating Christmas to these kids.

I have been trying to get lots of stuff done so that I can enjoy my break. Tomorrow we have our visiting artist coming in which is very exciting. I will come back for an hour to be with the fourth grade class.

We had collaboration this morning which was wonderful. New lesson ideas and brain flow on art. If you have not invested your time into Pinterest you MUST. IT is wonderful. I love going on there and then walking away with a million ideas. My first graders just finished Chicken Little and giraffe's catching snow. So cute. My fifth graders did Britto and my third graders also finished Kadinsky's which were unbelievable. Here are some pictures.

Oh so I had my third graders do cityscapes and before I hung them up I did not look through every single one. Little did I know there were some spelling errors that MIGHT just make your day today. I had a kid who has pugs at home and so he wanted to put a PUGS R'US which was a building that sold Pugs. Little did I know a kid copied his idea and made a SHIT ZU R'US. Lovely. Also I had a kid who is somewhat lower in reading and he wrote Pizza Hut but spelled it P-u-s-s Hut. Also there is a Hooters up and a Jail. Oh the minds of third graders.

Here are some pictures. We also were hit with some snow and some pictures of my niece and dad.

oops

Well I already blew it for my New Years Resolution. I promise once a week no promises on what day! Hah. Anyways lots of stuff is going on with my life. I am finishing up The LazyMan Triathlon, finishing the book Hunger Games, and trying to keep my life afloat. I signed up for JumpStart and hopefully it will continue to go smoothly, even though I have a feeling the students will become more and more difficult as the time goes on.

I am trying to do some more projects that are different and exciting. I have some more pictures that I need to upload like I promised last time. My fifth graders are going to start a project that I saw on a blog about Abstract Faces, my fourth graders are finishing up Romero Britto's and then moving on to Op Art. My third graders did a wonderful job with cityscapes and are going to also work on Op Art. My second graders are finishing cityscapes as well and will be working on O'Keefe next. My first graders finished up Chicken Little and will be working on O'keefe as well. My aunt gave me an overload of fabric to use so we will be incorporating it into the O'Keefe flowers!

ALthough I hate so say our winter is over but I am already thinking about spring!!!We have a mid-winter break which is nice and I will be traveling to Bloomington again! I am very excited.

THe kids last week were working on Valentines day projects and they all loved them and finished them in a week so that was nice. WOrking from one Holiday to the next. Which is nice but sometimes overwhelming.

Well best wishes with your week.

New Years Resolution

I am trying hard to keep up, even though I said I would try to update the blog on Wednesdays every week. Here it is Thursday and I have other things but when I get talking with people about my blog I feel the urge to write a post. So lots of things going on, as I said the other day in my blog, I am going to Bloomington Friday which is exciting but I wish it was for a more positive reason. Also I signed up for Jump Start which is prep for the ISTEP and Im scared about it. I have been preparing and preparing.

This week I have also worked hard at finishing more of my Lazy man triathlon. Which is kicking my butt. I am spinning and then swimming(which I am horrible at). I am not a fish I told my mom last night.

Well the second graders finished the cityscape and they loved it I will try and upload pictures soon, my phone seems to be acting up lately. Usually it uploads pictures on its own and lately it has been having a temper. My fifth graders are starting graffiti art which they were super excited for. My first graders finished Chicken Little and they are so amazing. Can't wait to show those pictures. Third graders finished Princess/Prince and the Pea. My fourth graders did an amazing job at T.R Mack ! I will post pictures soon.

WOW Happy New YEAR!

Wow! This month has flown by and it has been somewhat stressful!

-Entered into an art show for MLK
-decorated and took down for christmas
-took down all the old projects and put up new ones in the hallways of two schools
-grades are due
-ordering materials for the first time

Ahhhh anyways lots of things have happened. My cousin Christie is getting married in Aruba. I went to visit my grandparents in Florida for my winter break. Had a wonderful time with them, but it made me miss them even more. My parents are in Florida right now so I have taken the responsibility of the outside cats and I am not sure how my mom does it. Also Valpo Schools are in a 3.2 million dollar debt problem, which means I might be trying to job hunt by the end of the year. Might not be but I am trying to keep a good attitude about it. I am going to be in Bloomington a couple of weekends in a row this month. My family in Bloomington's grandfather passed away and so I will be at the celebration of life for him as well as visiting on the 28th of January. I am very excited.

As for now I need to do some grades!

Have a good week