Jennuine Teaching

I have had a busy week, to say the least. I figured the best way to recap is to participate in Randomness #1 Valentine's Day was on Thursday. It was a lot of fun. I loved that it was on an early release day and the following day (Friday) there was no school for the students. Teachers had an inservice day. I want to share some of our pictures from our mustache party.  I used A Cupcake For the Teacher's Valentine's Day file to write a conversation heart story. My students LOVED it and some of their stories were amazing. Here is my favorite.  While my students were passing out their cards, we played some fun games. I make it into a rotation so every 10 minutes the students rotated to a new station. One of the stations was passing out their cards. Another was this fun little pin the mustache on a man game.    I also made a few props for our version on a photo booth. I brought in my new Canon t4i. My students felt like celebrities. Then came the cupcakes. These cupcakes...

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! :-)

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.

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...