Math and Art : Proportions

Since one of my great friends is the art teacher at Orem Jr. I wanted to try to incorporate art in one of my lessons. I gave students a square-inch piece of paper and had them "enlarge" it to a 4-, 5- or 6-square inch paper. Here are the results:

A climbing gecko.

A skate-boarding alligator - or - is it a crocodile?

A tiger. It reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbs comic.

A monkey. I like this one. It's my third favorite!

A turtle. My second favorite!

The Jaguar Face Mask that the kids all learn about warm and cool colors with. The Jaguar is our school mascot.

The Jaguar mask. My favorite.

I love being creative at school! if you get bored try it at home! Just make sure you label the inch squares so you know how the final pieces fit together.

Quilt for a friend

So I got crafty and made a baby quilt for my friend who decided to have a baby. Since she helped me so much this year in my classes, I thought it would be much better than just getting her a cookie or something! 

I searched up and down like 50 pages of Google Images until I found one that I liked. I think the person who took the picture called it "Sprinkles" although I have no idea who that is! (If you find out let me know and I'll get them credit for the idea.) I changed it a bit to fit what I wanted and I loved the result. I loved it so much I almost didn't give it too her, but I figured I didn't want her new baby to get cold in Arizona... well, it seemed like good logic I think.

Here are some pictures I took along the way:

The front of the quilt, draped over my ironing board.

The back of the quilt, draped over my ironing board as well.

Quilting it at my friend's mom's house. Thanks Stephanie and her mom! 

After it is quilted and bound.

Up close of the quilting. I love the square/ rectangle design.

The back quilted. I LOVED the back!

All folded up ready to give to Allie. I had some extra binding material left so I sewed it up and tied it in a bow around. 

I am now addicted to quilting. I have two more ideas ready to go and, thanks to my MIL, I have most of the material.

Some things from a trip

A picture from the other side of the sound.

This is Krys in front of a church door in Portland

Yes, I can grow a mustache.

This one was taken from the poopiest deck. EVER!

In an old growth forest near Chehalis.

We've been having a good time. We are super tired from all the walking around. We also have some good stories to tell and other pictures to show and tell. You should ask us about it sometime.

Plants

I am trying to grow some plants in little containers behind my apartment.

Here are my green onions.  They kind of look like green hair right now, but one broke off and I tasted it - not too bad if I may say so myself.

 

 Here is my cilantro. If you look really close there are a few leaves that look like real cilantro. I took the picture on my phone so it may not be the best quality!

 I guess basil doesn't want to be grown. I am still rooting for those few little sprouts to pop up. They have been the same size for about 2 1/2 weeks now...

 

I am going to the store and buying tomatoes, cucumber and zuchini plants today. Hopefully those will turn out more like the top two pictures and not like my basil.

Anyone have any idea how to grow or anything I can do to help my little plants along please let me know!

Sleeping

Isn't he dreamy?

I got a new app for my phone and I'm just seeing if it works!

You would think I would take the time

Sorry for the lack of pictures as I stink at finding anything semi-recent. We all know that Krys is in charge of awesome pictures and making everything look good. I'm just in charge of being weird. I just finished coaching track. Seeing the progress of some of those youngsters has put a smile on my face. They put on quite a show for their last meet and I feel so good that I actually helped them. I could do this again next year.

I finished my first class at UVU. I aced the class. Just to let you know.

Since it is our 3rd anniversary I want to let Krys know how much I love her and how amazing she is. I love how she rolls her eyes when I'm a dork and then says, "You're a dork". I love how she puts away the dishes after I wash them. I love how she wants to grow a garden. I love how she gets excited for chocolates and desserts. I love how she fixes my hair after I cut it. I love how she helps me shop for clothes so that I actually look like a decent person. Krys, I love you.

What's black, red and has bubbles all over it?

My House! 

New shower curtain:

 Up close:

My new kitchen shelves: (Thanks Tee for installing them!)

I love this red polka-dot dish I got for my bridal shower! Plus I love the shelf brackets!

I'm taking the day off to work on some more projects with Mom and my sisters!

Helper Day Trip

 Since this week is spring break we made plans to go down to Helper on Saturday and then journey on to Moab for a quick vacation. Well, the lovely Utah weather decided it was going to snow and rain, which made our Moab idea not work so well.

We did go down to Helper to visit Sally, Grant and kids on Saturday. It was fun to hang out with all the kids and watch them play their songs on their new piano, help Sally cook amazing food, and relax! We also got to go to the Price History Museum. They had cool dinosaurs and Native American artifacts.

Here is Fil in front of the dinosaur bones...

The triceratops is one of my favorite dinosaurs!

Doesn't this guy look like he wants a hug?

Sometimes Fil gets really into looking at fossils. Or maybe he was stretching his legs?

 I don't know why he can't take a normal picture...

Lily came with us to the museum. Don't you love her black eye?

 Me, standing in front of a Woolly Mammoth, it was huge!

We had a great dinner of rabbit (I couldn't eat that) and peanut chicken (my favorite). Then we drove home in a blinding blizzard through the canyon. There were a few times when we could barely see 5 feet in front of our car. We made it home, even though we had to drive like turtle (if turtles could drive).

Snow... in APRIL? annoying.

It didn't work so well but this is what we could see driving home - just snow. It was hard to tell if the road was going to turn or not. Luckily we were able to drive behind a few cars so we could use their light to guide us as well.





For the rest of spring break we are hanging out in Orem, going to the zoo, going shopping, hanging out with friends, and best of all relaxing! It should be some good times.

Middle School Mayhem

Random Quotes and stories from my classes:

One of my students came in before school and asked "Mrs. Sanchez, is my fro messed up?" I replied no. He then said "Well, are my jeans too tight?" ~Random!

When asked to do 100 multiplication problems in 10 minutes one of my students said, "What do you expect us to be, like, math heros or something?"

When our math aid / part time english teacher told my class she was prego one of my students said "But your not fat!"

I did my hair curly one day (instead of straight) one of my students couldn't figure out how to word his thoughts. He said "Mrs. Sanchez, what happened to your hair? Its not normal. I mean its funny looking, I mean... umm..." Pretty sure I gave him a confused look!

Last year I had a student who never paid attention. The one time I noticed he was paying attention and nodding along I turned my back to put a question on the board and called on him to answer. When I turned around his entire finger was up his nose... I was so embarrassed for him!

When working on solving proportions I had a student ask "Do we multiply then times or times then multiply?"

We talked about doubling or tripling a number. One of my students didn't know the word for quadrupling so she said "Do we four-triple it?"

A random intercom announcement after school one day "Please jump down from your perch on the windowsill."

I'm sure there are a billion more stories that I have happened. As I remember them I will add them in.

New Pillows

Here are some pillows I sewed a few weeks ago:

What do you think?

Hale Freezes Over

On January 29, 2010 I participated in my first 5K.

My good friend Mary (who also teaches with me, who also was my supervising teacher during student teaching, who also is amazing) and I ran and walked all 3 miles including a mile long up-hill journey.

Us two before the race started.

My number, lucky 262.

My penguin, Santa, rubber ducky. If you finished the race you earned one of these!

Yes it was freezing! Hale did freeze over, but it was a great experience!

I can't wait to complete my goal of being able to run an entire 5K!

Snow Snow Snow

As promised, I have a few more pictures from Christmas in La Grande.

It snowed a lot while we were in La Grande, and the kiddos were getting restless, so we decided to have an exciting adventure in the snow. We got bundled up and made a snowman, threw snowballs, and just had a "grande" time. Get it... Grande time, like La Grande... .. aah hum... moving on.

Alma loved the Zebra gloves!

Everyone picked on Eliseo and tried to hit him with the snowballs. Too bad he was too fast for everyone.

Felipe and Andrew made a great two headed snowman. Super... awesome ?!?!

Violet did not like having a chunk of snow stuck to her boot. She lasted about five minutes outside.

Sometimes you just have to stick the old skateboard into the snowman to destroy it... don't ask - it seemed like a good idea at the time.

And the best little trooper Stanley. We all had lots of fun and enjoyed our own little snow day!