I'm so excited! I thought that my Influenster box had been lost in the mail. But today my husband said that I got something from Maybelline. I knew exactly what it was! I will have to try it tomorrow since my "face" is already on, but I will share what I think.

If you're not familiar with Influenster, it's a survey type of site. You take a quiz and they send you products to try and review. The last time I was sent products, it was a his and hers trial of the Dove spray deodorants. Needless to say, my husband needs a new one because he loves it so much. It instantly dries and smells so good! It's a free service and you get some pretty amazing products. 

I will be trying this first thing tomorrow, and will let you know how I like it. The foundation is a matte+pore less formula good for normal to oily skin types. Which is good because I'm somewhere in between that spectrum.

Until then!

Where has the year gone?! It seems like just yesterday that I was posting my classroom, and now the year is almost over. Note to self: post more often.

We begin our last unit in science tomorrow. It's bittersweet, really. Science is one of my favorite subjects! We begin with insects-their parts, complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis. I have been waiting for this all year!

In the last, I've used a song to help my kids learn the three basic parts of an insect, the head, thorax, and abdomen. I would teach the song and add motions to it. It's worked like a charm! But my one fault was not having it displayed. This helps the kiddos see the vocabulary and helps expose them to the spelling of it. My awesome students tend to use the academic vocabulary in conversation, but when it comes to writing it, they get quite inventive. So I decided that I would make an anchor chart with the song already on it.

Now, anchor charts, for me, are a work of art waiting to happen. I like for them to be unique, eye catching and colorful. You either go big, or you go home! So this one would have to meet that criteria. I looked on Pinterest for inspiration, and I did find some. I even found the song with different lyrics. I took ideas from a few, and combined them with the way I have taught the song in the past. You only learn things once, and I had already learned the song MY way. If I went with another version, I would likely confuse myself, thus confusing my kids. So, I stuck to how I know it. Here is what I came up with:

I love the way it turned out! Coloring this was very calming. I rolled my crayon along the paper to get the light blue color (the original clue is what outlines the words). The colors are soft and the illustrations are so fun! My partner teacher came in my room while I was sprawled out on the floor coloring. She suggested that I laminate it to use it for years to come. I can't pass  up a genius idea! 

I will post the introductory anchor chart tomorrow, after the kids have added their part. Until then, keep on keeping on!