Jennuine Teaching

To say that my class has spring fever is an understatement. We had district benchmarks this week and we still have another long week of conferences to go until spring break. We are holding on though!! To make this week a little fun since it's been so stressful, I made sure to add in a lot of craftivities, my , I mean my students' favorite!! 1. Contractions In order to get ready for our district benchmark we did a lot of review. One of the things that we reviewed was contractions. We used these little contraction crocodiles from Cara Carrol's Crazy for Contractions file. We also played a cute little contraction memory game that I found over at Learning in Wonderland and you can it for free here from Caitlyn Taylor. 2. Dental Health I'm cheating a little. I actually did these last week, but I wasn't able to share this cute little dental health craftivity. I also found this over at Learning in Wonderland and the best part is that it is FREE ! My students need to be ...

I made it a personal goal to start using some of my Pinterest pins. There are so many great ideas just sitting on my Pinterest boards and that is all that they are doing... sitting. When I saw that Mrs. Sheehan over at Learning in Wonderland started a weekly link up of activities that you want to accomplish that you have pinned, I knew this was for me. I have been using pins since the beginning of the year, but I want to make more of an effort to get things accomplished. This week I plan on using two pins in particular. Pin #1 Source St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner and unfortunately we are on Spring Break on the actual day. Come to think of it, I have never taught on St. Patrick's Day in my whole teaching career. Since we are not at school on the day, we are celebrating early.   Pin #2   Source We have been working on measurement to the nearest inch and half inch. When I saw this on Pinterest, I knew my kids would have fun with it. The students get one sheet of ...