Seussical the Musical

Some of the ways I get to use my creativity is being a director.  The first show if this year was our Musical, myself and two other teachers at our school, work our tail off to put on an amazing production.  This year our production was Seussical! The Musical, it was a  fantastic production and everybody worked very hard. Below are some of my favorite pictures and scenes!!! 

Gertrude and Cat as Doctor Dake

Thing 1 & 2  with Vlad Vladikaff

Mayzie La Bird sitting on her nest, not real happy about her egg situation.

Horton & Gertrude and the clover 

Gertrude and her really long tail! 

JoJo and the Cat during "Having a Hunch" (The Hunches looked like big blobs with arms, and read really well on stage!! 

WHO'S: We choose to do Who's in all yellow and it looked great! 

The Butter Battle

Wickersham Brothers with our Ladder Tree 

Part of the opening Scene and our Jungle of Nool 

McGelligots pool!! We borrowed a lot of fabric for this and made a bath tub!! Loved this scene! 

Jojo's think: an ELEPHANT BIRD

Egg Nest and Tree!! (Loved this tree) 

Final Scenes with the new word and think!

If you want more information or where we got, how we made, any of the items you see, please email me! 

Welcome everyone,

If you haven't noticed there is a slight change to the title of my blog. After 6 months of pondering and searching I came to the conclusion that I have a very creative life.  I have decided to reformat this blog to showcase that creative side of my life.  This Blog is still attached to my creative writing class, so keep up to date on the musings of the high school students I teach!!!

This blog will now have posts, about current show's I am working on, classroom ideas,  books, Pinterest, fashion and all of the other creative area's of my life.   Please still follow this blog, as well as on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest!

Creatively Yours,

Sarah

The "but" factor

Sometimes I feel like my life is a big oxymoron, I like this but not that, I enjoy this, but not when it looks like that...
As someone who is attempting to find balance and looking all over for it, I am finding that more of my life has the "but" factor. I am a pretty positive person in the majority of area's in my life, but it takes a lot for me to every be truly comfortable in positivity, because I react in conversation and discussion in more of a pessimistic way.

Let's take my current job, I love it. I have no reason to not enjoy every single moment of it, but today I feel like a huge failure, I am seeing the future of education get sucked away to a place filled with worksheets and spoon-feeding. As teachers we are pushed to do so many things, try something new, use social media, etc etc, BUT then we are failing at creating students who can function with out it and/or alongside it.

Like most most schools we are facing budget cuts, thus promoting negativity and speculation all over the place. The students are creating rumors, teachers are hypothesizing and what it boils down to is that people are getting hurt and students are loosing out on great opportunities. We are cutting things that create what I believe is the most "well rounded" students possible. But at least I have a job.

The "but" factor isn't only in my job, it is seeped into my personal life as well. I love that I own my home, and I did it with out assistance, but I loathe that time of the month when something bad happens and I have to call my father or my guy friends. TRUE STORY: I woke up in the middle of the night because I thought some body was breaking into my house, called my guy friend...it turned out to be something had fallen off a shelf in my shower. I totally felt like an idiot.

I know that when it comes do dating people look at me and see a girl who has it all together, great job, great house, can manage on her own BUT sometimes that gets boring. I know I can manage on my own, except when some body attempts to break in, however, some days I don't want to. (Other days that is what I would prefer :)

I think I have just come to the conclusion that in dealing with the "but" factor, you realize that there is always two sides to a story, but it is which side you choose that will function for you in the long run. BUT...

A love for reading...

When I was little I loved reading! My Grandma was a Librarian in North Dakota and it was great to be able to spend a week with her and see how many books I could get done; that was at age 10. At age 18-23 for me reading was spent on College Lit, Master's Lit or on a rare occasion Chick lit on my vacation (The few times I was able to read for pleasure). Now at age 28 I have found that being able to read for pleasure is a must for me.

Over the past snow days I read 2 books in one day and I was jazzed about it. My parents surprised me with a Kindle and I was pretty happy about that. I now have 21 books downloaded on it, and it is easy to carry around in my purse. Currently I am reading Chelsea Handler's first book and Soul Identity.  But on top of that, I have a pile of books to be read.

After reading this....all I was thinking was "Cool Story Bro" I am not exactly where I intended to say with the post, but yay reading!

Sometimes I forget that I need to blog....

I wish I could say that there is a legitimate reason as to my lack of blogging, but there really isn't. To be honest, I have been preferring Twitter over this because I am only able to think in 140 characters. (kidding)

Time to rock a little "Bridget Jones' Diary" action:
Date: March 25
Relationship status: Complicated
Job status: Love, love love it; Teaching high school is wonderful.
Vices: Girl scout cookies, mint chip ice cream, movies, fried food, etc.
Life: I really can't say that it sucks, I have great friends, great students, the cutest dog in the world, and a wonderful family. I am not feeling that I am missing out anything. Of course, I would love to have a little more cash in my pocket, but who wouldn't?

Moving on...

As previously stated, I love my job, it is one of the top 5 things that bring me joy. However, with every moment of my job there is an equally frustrating moment, like budget cuts, reading comprehension, pushing students to try, and go out on a limb, standards and what not. It also doesn't help that there is some major backlash going in and against my profession. With that being said, a lot of my time has been spent thinking about and what I want it to look like. Do I want to get another degree? Should it be in Administration? Or should I further into a specific area, theater? communications? education? and teach at the college level? Who knows, I still have plenty of time to decide!

Glad I remembered to blog today. :)