I just love October! Pumpkins, costumes, sparkly bat decor, and boots! Fall fashion is my absolute favorite time for trends! Boots, scarves, leggings, coats... What's not to love?! I've been digging through my closet, bringing all my fall favorites from the inner depths to limelight! It makes me so a happy :) But before we get to teacher outfits, I'm had a really awesome couple days of lessons with my 8th graders.
In Washington, 8th grade history covers Washington state history and world geography. We are currently looking at the Native people in Washington state, focusing on Coastal Native Americans for the last two weeks and Plateau Native Americans coming up next. To start off the unit I read the students a creation story that is prominent in many Coastal tribes, they LOVED it! I thought they would have interest but I was not expecting so much buy in from reading one story. After finding out how much they LOVED the creation story, I went with it and did a whole art integrated week of lessons and guess what, it was a huge success!
Like I said, I started off with the creation story (
here). I read it out loud as they followed along, using their reading strategies (ie. circling words they don't know, making connections to prior learning and writing questions in the margins, and underlining important details), partner turn and talk trying to infer what the story was about, who is was told to, why it was told, etc., and for homework they had to write a one paragraph extension of the story. The students where so creative with it, it was fabulous! We did an art analysis the next day, looking at art from several coastal tribes, both current works made by tribal members as well as much older and traditional art. They took some notes on what the cultural and spiritual characteristic of some animals, shapes, colors, etc., found in the art observed. THEN the fun part came. Now that they had all of this amazing background knowledge, that they were totally eating up I must say, they got to create their own art inspired by coastal tribal style, the colors used, animals we learned about, shapes or the creation story they had read. After they finished their piece, they created a story to go along with it. Some stories were informative, many taught lessons, and others were rather whimsical. Over all I was SUPER impressed by the amazing art and written pieces they turned in!
Here are two of the pieces:
This piece was done by quite the little artist. She titled it "Beaver".
This is was done by a young man, he titled it "Salmon".
I think I was most excited by how genuinely interested and intrigued my students were about a culture they had no real prior knowledge of. Many of the m expressed wanting to learn more about other cultures and many were inspire to learn more about their own culture! As a teacher I'd call that a success!
Now, enough about the learning, on to fall teacher fashion!
On Monday I was feeling quite cheery; so I decided to add some spice to the typical boots, cardigan, black trousers by throwing a pink flower in the hair and putting on my favorite pink lipstick :)
The one full length picture that I took off this outfit came out blurry -___- ugh! But at least you can see my flower and lipstick!
Yesterday I got to deal with a flat tire, boo... But I was feeling like a rock star before hand, so here this is my rock inspired outfit :) and big thanks too B for helping with my car situation!
Sweater (Wilfred-Aritzia) Pant (Mossimo-Target) Boots (Steve Madden-Nordstrom)
Let me just tell you about these pants! Last holiday season I was shopping for my lil sis Mak at Nordstrom and of course couldn't refrain from trying on a few things myself, and the lovely people at Nordstrom always bring you more things to try on. One of those items put in my fitting room by the sale associate was a pair of pants, black cigarette pants made from a fabric with black velvet flowers. I am not much of a velvet fan but I loved these pants as soon as I tried them on, just KNEW I had to have them! That was until I looked at the price tag.... a whopping $280... As much as I loved them, I am a teacher after all and that's not in my price range! A few hours later I stopped at Target on my way home for some holiday bows and wrapping paper, I happened to walk through the clothing department and found THESE amazing pants, for $24... And just like my mom, LOVE a good deal!
Here's a better picture of the fabric :)
And one more selfie... Aftert Monday's fun with makeup I decided to go more natural with the look on Tuesday.... And you can tell that my sweater is actual more of a wine color.
Earrings (Kate Spade-Nordstrom) Watch (Michael Kors-Nordstrom Anniversary Sale) Bracelets (Etsy-see previous post)
And finally, the end of this novel post, today's outfit... What can I say, I really do love all black!
Trench Coat ( t.babaton-Aritzia) Pants (Joes Jeans-Nordstrom) Blouse (Mossimo-Target) Shoes (Tory Burch-Nordstrom) Tourquoise Bracelet ( J Crew) Watch (Micheal Kors-Nordstrom)
This outfit just screams NYC to me, maybe it's because it's all black, or maybe the trench coat, I'm not sure but regardless, I really do LOVE this outfit! Well I apologize for the novel length post but the last few days have been a bit hectic, so I put it all into one, during Criminal Minds commercials of course! Now off to focus on the end of the episode :)
Until next time!
Karissa