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Hey there! I'm Mrs. Vaughan. I've had this blog for many years and I hope it brings you the joy that it has to past families. I hope to use this blog to share with you just some of the things we do here at Westside Elementary. Don't forget to become a member and sign up for email updates. All you need to do is look to the right, scroll down just a bit, look for "Follow by Email" and type your email in the section, then make sure to confirm with the email that is sent to your inbox. :)



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Friday, October 31, 2014

Halloween 2014

 Pre-party!

Here are my friends as they arrived at school. 

 

I dressed as a scarecrow and tried to get a picture of us together. 

Well Queenie and Grady didn't really get into the picture and Queenie suggested that she, Grady and I take a picture together. Which lead to some other kids wanting their picture made with just the teacher...

Trunk or Treat

We had some UWA sororities and fraternities came to visit our school and hosted an awesome truck or treat. They decorated their car trunk so awesome! 
Alpha Sigma Tau
Phi Mu
Delta Chi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Phi Omaga
Phi Beta Sigma


Party Time!! 

Look at this CAKE!!!!










Thursday, October 30, 2014

Puffy Paint

So I have been seeing this puffy paint on pinterest and decided that I HAD to try it out. I had to tinker with the amount of ingredients. I followed directions, but my paint always came out too runny/liquid. I changed the amount to:

1 cup flour
1 cup salt 
½  cup water
and what ever color tempera paint OR food coloring you want.

Mix all ingredients together. I chose to pour mixture into squeeze bottles. It worked well to amplify the puffiness, but it did make it a little hard to cover the picture. I allowed them to work it around with their fingers and then add a little more puffy paint on top to help out with making it look more 2D.

Oh, and I let them choose from Google clipart for the pumpkin they wanted. Once they saw this face, they all giggled and fell in love...............2nd runner up was a scary jack-o-lantern. Surprised?!?! I was!!!
I had only asked the students, because I liked so many of the clip-arts & couldn't decide. Apparently I was looking & liking the wrong ones, though. I was looking at plain jane pumpkins. :/ haha. But when I heard a kid say it had an oval mouth and crescent eyes, I knew it was perfect.