Cameo Cards

Hello everyone!

What a past two weeks it has been!

I began my Master's program in Teacher Education in Reading Language Arts 

at San Diego State University and subbed at Berry Elementary.

I subbed for the best class all year, which was 3rd grade pretty much all last week! 

I think I found my favorite grade! :)

However today I subbed for the worst class I have ever subbed for...a 4th grade class that had the worst behavior issues! Some kids are not good listeners.

On a creative note, I made these amazing cameo cards by the 

wonderful Mona Pendleton from Cupcake Creations 

at my favorite store PaperTales in Point Loma.

I had such a great time and Mona showed me some great tips!

 

Until next time!

Tanya

End of the School Year

Hello friends!

Since my last post, I have been finishing my position as an Impact Teacher at Berry Elementary. 

It is very bittersweet as I am glad to be done and getting a break, but sad it really is over as I did have a great time as I learned so much from my principal, academic coach, co-workers, and students . The teachers at Berry were so supportive and amazing! I couldn't have been apart of any better team! I hope to be asked to come back for the next school year...They are going towards a year round schedule, so school will be starting July 30th, which means if I am asked back I should know soon. 

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed!

Here is a picture of my sad empty classroom.

Two pictures of me by one of my fifth grade students. 

(Who I think will be famous one day as an artist)

This first grade student drew my classroom and wrote:
"I like Mrs. Silva because she give me some cookies."
Isn't it amazing the things they remember you for! ;)

Since getting my house ready as I have moved in--which sure is taking a while-- I made this graduation card to a dear friend of mine who graduated with her Masters! 

Until next time,

Tanya

Leprechaun Surprise

Hello!

Friday I celebrated St. Patrick's Day with my kinders.

A leprechaun came into the classroom left his little hat and left a trail of coins to a pot of gold!

The kinders were oh so excited!

After eating the chocolate gold coins and wearing the bracelets, we read the story, 

There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Clover.

I read it using the pocket chart, we read it together, and then the kids put what the old lady ate in her mouth! They loved it!

Then I posted different St. Patrick's day words around the room and they had to find the corresponding picture on the paper I gave them and they wrote down the word that was associated with the picture.

What a fun and successful St. Patrick's Day!

Sweet Challenge

Hello friends!

I am so excited, because I decided to join my first ever card challenge! 

This challenge comes from the amazing stamps from the Sweet Stamp Shop.

http://sweetstampshop.blogspot.com/2012/03/sweet-challenge.html

The challenge was to use any of the new stamp sets and create a project.

I ordered the Sweet Spring stamp set that was filled with great Easter/Spring images.

Below is my fun Easter card with an eaten chocolate bunny stamps. 

Hope you enjoyed it! 

Jose

Today was the unveiling of the Jose Montanya playground at Berry Elementary and it was so special! 

Jose was so surprised as his family and him came to school in a big limo and were escorted by 4 policemen on motorcycles! He was directed to a stage where he was presented with awards from city council men, the mayor, and our school. This was such a great day and birthday for Jose!

Here is a link for you to see it live on Fox 5 news!

Below are posters that I made to decorate my door as the school was filled with lots of loving posters!

Take care!

Jose

Hello Friends!

Tomorrow is a very special day for my school, Godfrey G. Berry Elementary School.

A 5th grade boy, by the name of Jose, was unfortunately diagnosed with brain cancer last year. 

He was given a wish by the Make a Wish foundation and out of any wish he could make, his wish was for our school to have a big playground for his friends and his little brother to play on. What an incredible selfless, amazing, and inspiriting boy Jose is to make a wish like this!! 

Tomorrow, March 1st, is not only Jose's birthday but the day the playground is going to be unveiled!

This is a huge deal as we were all told to decorate our windows and doors, radio station Channel 933 will be there providing music, and NBC will be recording the event! Each class was given the task to make cards for Jose, so I thought the Impact Teachers (there are 6 of us) should do the same! 

My card is below and the cover of the card book is also pictured below.

I can not wait until his sees the book and cards we have made him.

I am so excited for tomorrow! 

And to make this even more special he has no clue about this as this is a big surprise!! 

His family and him will be picked up in a limo and driven to school!! 

I am so excited for Jose as he is such a special child!!

Take care!!

My Bridal Shower

Hello Friends!

Sorry I haven't posted in a few weeks...I have been very busy with wedding planning, bridal shower, lesson planning, furniture buying, and my puppy!

I recently had my bridal shower and it was amazing! I had a candy buffet and I made a banner and the labels for the candies. Below is a picture of it:

I also had my bride advice book and it was filled with tags towards the end of the shower with lots of great advice. However there was one piece of advice on a lot of cards: don't go to be angry. I will try not to do that! ;)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Take care!

Many Thanks

Hello!

I recently made a quick thank you card to one of the amazing kindergarten teachers who I work with.

I distressed all of the edges of the cardstocks using Tim Holtz's walnut stain, rounded the edges using Martha Stewart's edge punch, Joann's paper pack of Latte Matstack, PaperTrey Ink's tag-its #6 stamp set, and lace ribbon from the store Paper Tales. 

Hope you liked it!

Until next time,

Tanya

Happy, Happy Birthday!

Hello friends!

January has been filled with lots of birthdays, so I have been busy making birthday cards!

Below are pictures of a simple birthday card that I made for one of my 1st grade teacher friends who's birthday was today.

For this card I used kraft card stock, Tim Holtz distress Ink in walnut stain, Papertrey Ink dies (I love this company!), and the 4.5 x 6.5 Latte matstack from Joanns. 

I absolutely love this matstack! 

The stamps were from Scrappy Moms Simple Sentiments stamp set and the beautiful blue lace ribbin was from my favorite store Paper Tales. 

Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!

Until next time,

Tanya

Finished Bridal Shower Advice Book

Hello my friends!

So I finally finished my bridal shower advice book!

Below are the pictures of the pages that I finished. 

If you wanted to see the previous pictures, here is a link to my previous post:

http://oneyearinaflash.blogspot.com/2011/12/hello-everyone-since-i-am-getting.html

Enjoy!

Until next time,

Tanya

Christmas Classroom Decorations

I can't believe it is already January 6th!

I have been on vacation for the past 3 weeks and it has been so nice to sleep in, relax, and play with my 5 month year old puggle puppy Mater.

But don't let this adorable face fool you...he is the most energetic dog I have ever seen!

He is like the energizer bunny that keeps going and going and going....

I call him my little monster :)

The reason I had a 3 week break is because I work for the South Bay School District in San Diego as an Impact Teacher at Berry elementary. I work with small groups of K-5th grade everyday. I wanted to share with you the small amount of Christmasy things I did in my 5th grade classroom (I wish I did more, but I have two classrooms so it can get a bit time consuming!).

Here is a picture of our class tree with some gifts that the students brought for their secret santa gift exchange. I took this picture too early as more gifts filled up the table.

The door to my storage room.

My (still) unfinished root words, suffix, and prefix tree with some red and green ornaments. 

I have not yet put leaves as we no longer have green butcher paper. :/

This is not Christmasy, but I still wanted to share.

This is our synonym grave site that some of my students created for Halloween that I have kept up.

I cut the "our synonym graveyard" using the Cutting' Up Cricut cartridge.

The white paper on the second window fell, thats why there is no white.

Have a great day!