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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Very interesting story and a lot of planning went in it!
ReplyDeleteHow about some in German?! I asked my brother who works for Home Depot Corporate headquarters and he said its okay to take as many as you would like. They just hope that you are going to use them. Here is a link to free paint chips!! http://homerenovations.about.com/od/painting/a/Free-Paint-Samples.htm
ReplyDeleteThanks Patrice!!!!! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea what paint strips were until I just googled it. lol. great story. How was it teaching in Japan? I am curious to know. Where are you from?
ReplyDeleteHi Denee, I am from Florida, and was hired by the Department of Defense as a teacher in 2010. I teach American children on a military base so I teach the same curriculum as I did in FL, except with resources, a decent paycheck, and respect from the community and students. It's really a dream job. I'm totally never leaving. I love living in Japan... It's amazing!!!!! Kind people, amazing food... hard to explain the environment, but I love it here and I love teaching for DoDs.
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