Paint Strips in ELA

I've been borrowing Pinterest ideas for two years now. However, I don't always have access to the supplies needed to copy the pin. Yet, I pin away and hope I'll remember when I stumbled upon it.

This summer I created a reminder on my phone. I was in the States for 6 weeks so I needed to accomplish the task of getting supplies for this certain pin: paint strip writing. My sister, a kindergarten teacher, and I walked confidently into HomeDepot and gathered about 300 paint strip samples. I kept asking my sister, Christie, if it were illegal and she assured me it wasn't. When we walked out, paint strips in hand, without so much as purchasing a paintbrush, alarms did not sound. I guess HomeDepot doesn't know that paint strip are high demand for teachers, or maybe it's their silent contribution to the education system.

Nevertheless, I smuggled paint strips to Japan. Why? Well, mine (if even an option) would be in kanji. And the ones in America have such creative names.

I chose a variety of strips to, umm, take. I'm only highlighting one activity using one type of paint strip. Believe me, there's many more.

This is the activity I used for setting. All these colors sounded like someplace, meaning it could be a prompt for creating a setting.

Here's my example that I modeled for students: silent fog





My hope is that students can introduce a setting, using descriptive details. They must use the paint strip title.

Yes, I know I have a spelling error. I'll post my kids progress soon!!!

AG

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New to Blogger

I am new to blogger, but not new to blogging.  I have used blogs via weebly in my classroom and I blog my adventures on a weebly as well.  I've always been sad (ok that's too dramatic) that no one seems to use my weebly blog, so I'm hoping that blogger is better received.  When I created this site for UMUC, I went ahead and created a personal one, too.  I'm already noticing that there are a lot of apps that go with blogger, so I can post from anywhere.  I love that.  I'm excited, however I am already frustrated.  One: I can't figure out the pages.  I have created a few pages, but everything posts to the home page.  I also am struggling with adding the RSS feed.  I think our instructions are outdated.  I'm not following my groupmates and they have no way to follow me.  I found weebly to be much, much easier.  (However, I'm still excited that blogger is connected to Pinterest).  Anyhow, I sent a shout out to my group, so hopefully we'll be in business soon.  Another frustration is that the YouTube videos seem to be outdated leading me to believe that there have been recent changes with blogger.  So again, frustration.