Landscape Escape

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This is my Donors Choose web page. Donors Choose is a wonderful resource to use if you are a teacher. I wanted real canvases for my second grade students to paint a landscape on, I wrote up my project and it was funded, almost immediately. My kids have had a blast with painting on the canvases. Who would have imagined it? It's a remarkable program!

My favorite kind of Saturday! Yard Sales, Estate Sales and Fresh Market shopping. Today was the annual Peaches to Beaches Yard Sale. Stretches from Middle Georgia to the Coast...one of these years I am going to do the sale all the way to the beaches. This morning because I had to go and get my hair botched up...she did a good job too, I have a big gap over my right ear,well anyway... I did not have time to do much of the sale. I am excited about two purchases...30 burlap and 30 heavy tarp like material bags. I plan to make the burlap bags into pillows. I'm going to stamp on them...initials, Fleur De Leises etc...they are about 16 x 12 in size. I am debating going back for more. At $2 a stack of 30 I can't go wrong. Can't decide about the yellow heavy tarp like ones...they are a bit on the ugly side. I also bought some carpenter tool boxes...love them for planting herbs in, and storing magazines. Also bought some wire design thingys, that I think are for canning, but I just liked the design. Probably not an exciting day for most, but for a junker it was a heavenly day...even with the rain and the gap in my hair.

YOUTH ART MONTH

This year's Youth Art Month Exhibit is now up and ready to be oohed and ahhed over. My students are really enjoying art this year, and it shows in their work. Each March to celebrate Youth Art Month or YAM the school system I teach in has a show of our students' art work at our local mall. Each year I am fearful I will not have enough student work to display and each year I have so many nice pieces I can hardly choose which ones to exhibit. The primary age I teach does not quite understand what it means to have your work on exhibit...until they actually go to the mall and see their work up on the easel. Some come back to school so excited, some come back embarrassed and others return not surprised at all and with the confidence that they knew theirs would be there all along. Over the years I have had to change the way I display the work. One year to my horror some of the pictures disappeared from my huge display easel! The next morning at school several students came to me very pleased with themselves. They thought they were supposed to take their work from the mall...after all it belonged to them. Once I got over the relief that they had taken them, and got over being a bit angry, I cracked up to think they had stolen their own work. Why their parents allowed this I am not sure. So now instead of hanging each piece individually, I glue each piece to a large sheet of bulletin board paper. This makes it easier to hang close to 50 pieces of art, and no little hands can slip their art away from the exhibit. Here is our display for this year and a movie of last year's show. This year's theme is Art Is... and last year our theme was eARTh...it has ART! Enjoy...