Bead hoarder - moi?

I saw this and had to post it.  My boyfriend keeps telling me to stop buying beads and use up the one I already have, but he doesn't understand - it doesn't work like that.

I also had to post these:

 

 

Biology is Art

In October, my school is running a two day arts festival where we are all stop 'normal' lessons and get involved in arty stuff.  As you can imagine, this is right up my street, so, together with another biology teacher and an art teacher, we are planning to combine biology with art.

First off, the students are going to select microscope slides and make some drawing of cells.  They are then going to etch the cells onto metal plates.  This is something that I have been wanting to learn for ages and Lizzy (the art teacher) is brilliant at it.  Lastly, we are going to make pendants with metal clay and use the etchings to create a texture in the clay.

Sometime next week, we plan to have a go and see what they turn out like, so I will post some photos.  I love cross-curricular teaching and I love that my school allows us to be free to experiment.  It is nice for the kids to see us out of our boxes and for them to be out of their's too.