Thanks for the idea Freckles... I 've been cutting on one of those green mats made for cutting. I'm using card stockpaper, so not as thin as regualr paper, not as killer as matboard. I The letters are not all straight and even. Of course that would hvae been smart to use a staight font like arial or futura. Nooo.... I had to use Stylus because I thought it looked fun and funky.

Sigh. Almost there. Why couldn't I have used small words like Egypt? Nooo.. I decided on Mesopotamia.

I'll have to take lots of pictures of his classroom when we're done. his room is GORGEOUS- real slate boards, wood floors, brights sun-filled room.