Solar System Exhibit

In science, we just wrapped up a unit on the solar system. As a culminating project, I had my students each research a different planet (not including Earth) and create an alien to go with their planet. I used this awesome resource that I found on TPT. In addition to the alien, the students created a passport for the alien, which housed all of the research that they conducted on their planet. Fun right? 

The students could make their alien out of anything and it was so cool to see how creative and different each one looked. I was really impressed with them all. In addition, my students held a Solar System exhibit at school and presented their projects to the 3rd and 4th grade students. They did such an awesome job! 

Here are some pictures of some of the aliens and some posters that the kids created. 

Tuesday 1-28-14

Jeans: Old Navy

Cardigan: Old Navy

Chambray: From KMart. Yes, seriously. 

Boots: Franco Sarto

 Wednesday 1-29-14

Dress: Target

Boots: Calvin Klein

Watch: Fossil 

 Thursday 1-30-14

Sweater: Target

Leggings: HUE 'Ultra' Wide Waistband Leggings

Boots: Franco Sarto

Scarf: Gift show

Casual Friday 1-31-14

Jeans: Old Navy 

Boots: Old Navy

Shirt: KWU. Supporting my lil' bro's baseball team. Go Yotes! 

Catching Up

The last couple of weeks have been insane. Now that I'm on vacation (wahoo!) I finally have time to post.

Tunic: Target

Leggings: Hue 'Ultra' Wide Waistband via Nordstrom

Boots: b.o.c via Macys

Dress: Old Navy

Boots: b.o.c via Macys

Scarf: from my mom

Sweater: Old Navy

Pants: Old Navy

Boots: Calvin Klein

Skirt: Forever 21

Tank: Target

Cardigan: Target

Sweater: Kohls

Pants: Old Navy

Boots: Calvin Klein

Dress: Kohls

Leggings: Mossimo at Target

Boots: b.o.c via Macys

 Close-up of my necklace. My mom bought it at the International Gift Show in SF. I love the colors! 

Vest:Charter Club at Macys

Blouse: Forever 21

Pants: Old Navy

Boots: Calvin Klein

Superhero day at school! 

Cardigan: Old Navy

Dress: Forever 21

Leggings: Kohls

Boots: Calvin Klein

I think the belt is from a dress

We've been studying the solar system in science. I found some planet coloring pages here  and had the kids color with crayon and then put the planets in order on a piece of blue construction paper. I would have preferred black paper, but I didn't have any at the time. Also... I didn't cut the blue paper long enough for the kids to fit the planets, so they are a little squished. 

 We did two projects for Christmas. One was to make "elfies" and use them to make Christmas Cards for the parents. For the picture, I used the stickers that I get of their school portraits. For the elf body, I used this template. I had to resize the image until it was small enough to fit with the head. Here is how mine turned out: 

 We also made reindeer ornaments. I bought an assortment of colored ornaments from Michael's at 70% off! Score! Note: lighter colors work better for this. You have to do this one over two days. Day one: use your thumb and brown paint to make the reindeer heads. I let them do as many as they wanted. Let this dry. Day two: we used black Sharpie to draw the antlers and the eyes and nose and a red sharpie for Rudolph's nose. I would have preferred using puff paint for this step, but I just didn't have the time to get it together. Regardless, they turned out really cute. We wrapped them in tissue paper and tied that with red ribbon when they were complete. 

Here is one of the completed ornaments: 

Have a safe and Merry Christmas everyone. I am looking forward to two weeks of relaxation! :)