Youth Art Month-2011

Here are the 6 entries we had for YAM-2011. I am so proud of them all!

South Beach Diet day-31

Still turdging along. I had Ayden this weekend so a accidently ate a few of his snack foods. I mean I really did not mean to, I just had a hand full of them and started to eat them before I realized what I was doing. Other than that I am getting really good at this! 2nd weigh in has been moved to Friday the 4th. Not because I needed more time but because I procrastinated on making the DR. apt.

Spring Branch ISD School Board appreciation night

One of my art student's work was selected to be given to a Spring Branch ISD board member at last Monday night's meeting. She was soooooo cute! The work is titled "7 Bumble Bees" and will hang, I am sure, proudly in Theresa Kosmoski's office.

South Beach Diet day-25

Yesterday I avoided my favorite lunch menu item -the star cornbread, which by the way tastes just like a cake donut. Today I was faced with real donuts in the teacher's lounge....never become a teacher if you plan on dieting anytime in your career! There is always something to eat like Ms. Liska's world famous brownies. I am happy to report I passes on everything. It was not easy but I am proud of myself! Weigh-in is on the 31st. I am still looking forward to the scale telling me I only weigh 162 lbs so I can move on to phase 2!

South Beach Diet day-23

The coke-a-cola finally won. I have not had one since Dec 31. but today for some reason it was calling to me. I can see how hard it would be for a drug addict to get off drugs. If sugar and caffeine are this hard to kick it must really be torture to kick drugs. Lesson for the kids: if you don't ever start you never have to kick the habit.

South Beach Diet day-22

I spent the day trying to fight off the craving for Coke-a-Cola!

South Beach Diet day- weigh in day.

I only lost 6 lbs ( I blame the 4 mcflurries). So now back to day One! I am going to do this. No Mc Flurries this time.

Bookbinding

This is what I did over the weekend. I made a leather bound book with a coptic bind. I took a class at the Texas Art Asylum. If you have not been you must check it out, it is really awesome!

texasartasylum.com

South Beach Diet day-night before weigh in!

I went to sewing class, had a mc flurry-know idea why, I mean I was not stresses out I just got one before I had time to stop myself. Other than that I was South Beach all the way. For those of you keeping score thats 4 mc Flurrys in 19 day! Weigh in is tomorrow so maybe I was stresses. Great, I had weigh in stress so I ....eat ice cream.

South Beach Diet day 18

Did I mention I drank a whole jar of pickle juice...whats with that? There was no mention of pickle juice cravings in the book.

Sketchbook Project 2011- Sketchbook has been mailed off...

I made my deadline. My sketchbook Project is on its way to New York...the Brooklyn Art library. How exciting. It was so hard to let it go and then the mail lady just grabbed the package out of my clinched hands and it was gone! Here are the last pages. I doubt I will be art journaling for a few days. Journaling on a deadline is not as much fun as journaling just to do it but it was a great experience. I am not use to letting my art go. I am trying to get over that.

Sketchbook Project Day -Last night before deadline

Lessons learned in 2010 from my Brooklyn Sketchbook Project...
The inside back cover
I forgot who I was for a while.
Vote...use your voice to make a change and vote.
Set your own course
To be with you
The Front and back cover of the Sketchbook Project journal
The goal in life is to be good to your fellow man and leave the world a better place than when you arrived

South Beach Diet day 17

Great day, stayed in all day and worked on the last few pages of the Sketchbook Project and followed South Beach to a T! Weigh in day is Thursday.

South Beach Diet day 15 and 16

I missed the 15th because the power went out in out building! Of course this stressed me out because I thought I have more time with my Sketchbook Project. And what do I do when I am stressed....McDonald's Mc Flurry-Oreo Other than that I ate well and I did not even get rice in my Taco Cabana bowl (without the bowl of course). I must address this stress eating thing.

The Brooklyn Sketchbook Project -New Deadline

Once There Was A Way
Bear Cat
Houston

The Brooklyn Art Library extended the deadline for the Sketchbook Project until Jan 18th yeah me!

South Beach Diet day 14

Is it almost over?

South Beach Diet day 13

It is getting easier and easier to turn down bad foods. However I am looking forward to moving on to Phase 2! The food can get a little boring after a couple weeks in Phase 1.

Thornwood Rodeo Show 2011

Congratulations to all my Rodeo art students. What a fantastic show!

Run Like the Wind-4th grade

Way out West -4th grade

Rosie the Rooster-Kinder
Texas Tall -2nd grade
Cowgirl-Kinder
Texas at Night-2nd grade
Cow Bird-1st grade

Jump-Kinder

Way out West -4th grade

Which Way Did They Go?-5th grade

Stockyard-5th grade
Cowbird-1st grade

Free Ride 3rd grade

Sketchbook Project -3 days till deadline

"Active participant in my own Salvation"...

Keep Going...

South Beach Diet day 12

I am doing so much better, I was able to pass up the mash potatoes and gravy today at lunch. I was proud of myself. I think it will be a different story when they roll out the mac and cheese. But on a positive note, I handled disappointing news without going to Mc Donalds and stress eating! I did bite into a flour cheese thing thinking it was a meatball. I could not spit it out because I was a an art reception but I did throw the other 1/2 away. Progress! Another teacher noticed I was loosing weight today so that was cool.

South Beach Diet day 11

Eat well today....meaning not bread! went to kickboxing. Love Kickboxing and then on the way home started stressing about the Sketchbook Project deadline on the 15th and some how the next thing I knew I had a mc Flurry (snack size) in my hand. Why do they even make those things? Now I feel guilty and my weigh in is on the 20th. If I dont make it I will know its because of that darn mc Flurry I had today.

South Beach Diet day 10

The day was much easier...finally! In sugar cravings or stress eating. This morning I felt better, my skin was clear and I even think my joints worked better. It makes it more enjoyable when you can see the results.

Sketchbook Project Day -running out of days!

Here are my latest Sketchbook project pages. I have to have the book postmarked by the 15th. I think I can make it if I do not do anything else......and yes one of the pages is painted upside down, which is ironic because it is about how there is not enough time in the day to do everything I want to do. So in rushing to finish my journal I painted the page upside down.

South Beach Diet day 9

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Inner voice dialog when you are on South Beach Diet......(the McFlurry won this time)

South Beach Diet day 8

Wow...weekends are just as bad as the week! I want a snack. However I did very well not eating a snack and instead ate a very well balanced South Beach diet. I even managed to do it while eating out and my favorite breakfast place. Only 12 more days to go till my annual exam where my weight goal is 162.

South Beach Diet day 7

I accidently ate a taco shell. I know what your thinking -yea right! but really I did. I just was not thinking about what I was doing and reverted to my old ways like a programed computer. Anyway I really feel bad for eating flour even though I think it was a corn shell. will I ever stop wanting toxic foods?

South Beach Diet day 6

Still trudging along! They had low fat pizza at school today so I scrapped off the cheese topping into my salad...yes everyone stared at me. I am so light headed from cola withdrawals that I painted a page in my Sketchbook Project upside down. I think I will leave it that way as a testament to my state of mind at the time.

South Beach Diet day 5

The sugar cravings got the best of me tonight. I had my sewing class and I am use to getting a strawberry thing from Mc Donalds I fought it as long as I could. Some how my car mysteriously ended up in the drive-thru lane and some how I mysteriously had a smoothy in my hand when I arrived at sewing class! Other than that slip I did good all day, but I just can't believe how strong sugar cravings are. Warning to the kids "if you don't every start you won't have to kick the habit".

It's torturious.

Henri Rousseau-Jungle Parrot 2nd Grade Lesson Plan

This lesson is based on a lesson from an amazing book I got my first year of teaching back in 2005. But on our projects we differ in that we create the parrot on a different sheet of water color paper and then cut it our and use 3Do's to attach the bird. Kids love 3Do's!

You can buy this book on Amazon. It is just as popular today as it was in 2005 when it came out.
I highly suggest this book, especially to new teachers.

Draw a jungle branch and full the page with leaves and flowers. Next out line it with Sharpie and watercolor paint it. I use 12x18 90lb paper.

Create a parrot on watercolor paper, outline it with a Sharpie then paint it with watercolors.

When the bird is dry cut it out and use 3Do's to attach the bird to the jungle paper.