So I am in the midst of decorating my classroom and I am pleased so far. My co-teacher and I are doing a fatty bird theme- kinda like that fat twitter bird? Yeah, we are having a twitter exit ticket wall. Thank you Pinterest! So after cleaning my room from all the cockroaches and cockroach poo. Yea, nasty but just a part of life. Our main bulletin boards have a huge tree with branches reaching out over the edge of the board. And that looked cool. But then we decided to make it 3-D by scrunching our butcher paper up and gluing it on top of the tree! This was a great idea! Noris (my amazing co-teacher) scrunched two humongous trees and made our bulletin boards absolutely "Twitterific!" The birds that Ashely helped me make at the Pinterest Party are up and looking adorable. Check out our board so far!
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| Slight change - the apples got thrown out for bark border! Yay! |
Now for the bad news. Like many schools we have lots and lots of die cuts and it takes FOREVER to cut out a simple phrase. So last year our principal order a laser cutter that will cut out letters, numbers, and symbols. I used it all last year and had great success. Big time saver. So this year I padded in my fuzzy slippers (shhhhh don't tell!) to the media center with my paper in tow. Started that baby up and put the paper in flat and smooth. I type in my words and press GO. I hear it cutting and humming and happily turn around to tear some butcher paper for my boards. Then I hear it. Crunching and ripping. The tiny little laser knife thingy is ripping and tearing my paper up! I run over and frantically press stop twice. I remove the paper and think "it must not have been smooth enough and the laser thingy snagged it. So I reset and try it again. And again. And again and yes 5 more times. Failure. I was so aggravated. I did not want to die cut all those letters! I do not have time. I do not want to do it! So what is a girl to do? I want the cool fonts and not old nasty block letters!
Ok. My tantrum is over. So the question is should I use the block letters from the die cuts, hand write out my phrase and then cut, or print out the phrase and then cut?
Lemme know your thoughts on my problem!
First of all...boo to that laser cutter! ;( Now, to your current problem...I have in the past used my over head projector to project letters on to my white board and traced them that way...THEN cut them out. Looks pretty good...just WAAAY time consuming. ;( How about facebooking and seeing if anyone has a cutter they could let you use just this once?? Just a thought! Hope it works out! :)
ReplyDeleteOh...and that tree is just...IT! :) Love! :)
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