Jennuine Teaching

Here is the last craftivity from my Owl You Need is Love file. If you would like the template for this craftivity as well as 3 more, you can click the picture below and it will take you to my file on TPT. This file also comes with four writing templates that you can use with these cute little owls.

There are so many cute Valentine holders that it was too hard to pick just one. I ended up making my own because this is a very quick and easy activity to do with your kids the morning of your Valentine's Day card exchange. All you need is a paper bag and some construction paper. If you would like this template as well as 3 others, you can get it in my file over at TPT, just click the picture! :-)

I hope everyone had a nice short week. I definitely had a very short week. Tuesday was the 100th day. As you guys already know I was at jury duty so I left a few things for my students to work on while I was gone. The most exciting thing was their 100 years old writing. We brainstormed on the Friday before. Then they completed the writing on Tuesday while I was gone. When I returned on Wednesday, they made the art project. I didn't make my students a template to follow since I didn't have too much time to prep for this activity. I basically just modeled it for them, gave them construction paper, and just let them go. This one was my favorite. She even drew glasses with a little chain. She came up with the idea all on her own. Who would have though!? I also got around to putting up our snow globe writing. I bought all of the materials for adding the fake snow and plastic plates, but due to time I left that part out. I still think they came out really cute. We finally wrapped up

This week was a very short week, but I had no time to blog... once again! I need to make a time schedule for myself to be able to fit everything in. :-) Like I promised though, here is another one of my craftivities that you can find in my Owl You Need is Love file. If you would like the template fort his craftivity and 3 more, you can find it in my file over at TPT just by clicking the picture. This file also includes letter templates and envelopes that are owl themed.

Groundhog's Day is coming up next week and I will be talking about it next week. I've found a few cute activities that I am planning on doing with my students, but none of them had any facts about groundhogs. I went ahead and made my own little groundhog informational booklet for my students. I am giving it away as a freebie. Click on the picture to get the file for free. If you end up using it your class, let me know how you and your students like it.    

Well, the 100th day is over and it turns out that 6 of my students were absent! I guess that's what happens when cold and flu season comes around. Good news for my sub!! Jury duty came and went. I was out by 11:00 because the trial was 3 weeks long and I definitely couldn't be out for that long. Luckily, the judge agreed. Yesterday I promised that I would be back with a how to video of one of the four craftivities that you can use in your own classroom.  Today's project is a Valentine's Day Mailbox. I wrapped a cereal box in butcher paper and then I completed the craftivity around it. You can find the template to this activity, as well as three others in my newest file on TPT. Click on the photo to go directly to the link. Also, this file will be 20% off until the end of today!

It feels like Sunday, even though it is Monday. I love 3 day weekends. Tomorrow is the 100th day of school and where will I be? I won't be at school if that's what you were thinking. I have jury duty!! Seriously?! Why do they call teachers in during the school year? I know that many people have excuses, but I really wouldn't mind going during summer break. Just getting out of the house is a relief in the summer. Oh well. I left some fun 100th day activities for my students to do while I'm gone. I figured I would recap last week before I get too far into this week. Last week started with duty. I had duty all week, morning and afternoon. It was the coldest week of the year. No I take that back, it was the coldest week in 30 years. It was in the mid 20's last week. This week it is in the high 40s in the morning. I wish this week was duty week. :-)  This is cheating a little. I didn't do this last week, I did it the week before. I didn't get pictures until la

Many people that walk into my classroom think that it is such a clean and organized room. Clean... yes. Organized... NO WAY!! Here is what everyone sees my classroom as... I love my room and I spent a lot of time rearranging it to make it fit my needs as well as my students' needs. It is a very functional classroom, aside from the organizational piece that is missing. Today I am going to share with you my "secrets". Are you ready for them? I must say that they aren't pretty. Be warned, you are about to see my BEFORE photos.   This area looks fairly organized, except for the fact that I don't use ANY of it. I ocassionally lift up the fabric to get the students' reading books and a binder here and there, but other than that, these shelves are taking up prime real estate.   One of my few cabinets that lock is filled with supplies that don't need to be locked up.  Math centers that have never been used because I still have no clue how I want to organize them.

As I mentioned yesterday, a lot happened this week that I wanted to post about. I figured I would just do a weekly recap of how our week went.  We started the week of like most teachers did, with penguins. We will be continuing with penguins next week before we move onto Arctic animals.   We had fun with some other birds as well, Angry Birds!! My students loved this writing project/craftivity. I had them describe what their Angry Bird looked like, why they were angry, and how to make their Angry Bird happy again. Some of their stories were really cute. You can find a link to the craftivity HERE .     My students started working with geoboards this week. Look how well they work together and help one another! I have the sweetest class ever (in my opinion ^_^ )  We also started reading Scholastic News, another Donors Choose project. The students are enjoying Scholastic News so much. I can't believe I have waited this long to get it for my students. We ended the week with yet again ano