Friday Recap on Sunday

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 deserved 3 pictures. They were the prettiest cupcakes I have EVER seen in my life and they tasted amazing. I saved some of the velum pieces for scrapbooking.

Randomness #2

I got a shout out of A Cupcake For the Teacher's blog. She used my little owl bags. I was so excited when I saw her blog post!!

Randomness #3

I bought a new car! Here's my quick little car story. Ever since I was in high school I always wanted a Black Toyota Corolla S. I had a For Thunderbird at the time so a Corolla was definitely an upgrade. During college my husband and I looked around the first dealership we went to and I spotted a Corolla. Now this was a Subaru dealership so it was the only Corolla on the lot. Of course I needed it. I was a 2006 Corolla LE. It was two years old and I loved it. We had that car for about 3-4 years until 10 months ago when we thought it was time for a bigger car because we needed more storage space. We got the Mazda 5. We loved it, but we wanted to get a car that was good on gas mileage. We were originally going to get a Prius, but when I saw the new 2013 Corolla S, I knew I had to have it. So now I do. We are lacking storage again, but I've never been so happy about purchasing a car. Now we will wait 5 years to get a second car, which will have storage. This Corolla will be mine FOREVER!!

Randomness #4

I went shopping for some crafty stuff and a few things for my classroom. I bought an extra blue trash can for one of my tables, Mr. Popper's Penguins DVD, and some clear pebbles for reading that I saw either on Pinterest or one of the teaching blogs.

With all of my crafty shopping I have to start crafting. So here is a layout that I worked on in my Smashbook the other day. If you want to visit my crafting blog, you can click HERE.

So that's about it for my week and weekend. I am so glad that tomorrow is President's Day and I have another day off. This weekend went by so fast. Only a few more weeks until Spring Break though, how exciting!! 

Amazing Week!

If you couldn't already tell by the title of this post, I had an amazing week! I had one of those, "I love teaching and nothing is going to get me down kind of weeks." I've been needing a week like this for a while now. We were extremely busy all week and I didn't get time to take pictures of anything. We didn't really do anything post worthy, other than our Presidents Day activity. It's drying right now and once I hang it up on the wall, I will post pictures. Another exciting part is that one of our friends came back! I've had a student that has been afraid to come to class since November for personal reasons. He missed a lot of school and the days that he came to school, he spent them in the office or with the school counselor. I am happy to report that he is back and adjusting back to normal. Our class feels whole again. :-)

Now onto my week in pictures...

We have thouroughly been enjoying our carpet. I can't believe how much joy it has brought to our class. We just love it! As someone that was in my class said, "I love how your carpet is different from all the same 'ol carpets. It makes it stand out." I completely agree! This week we used it to sort our plural words in abc order and make it easier to match up.

This week we worked on plurals and my students did so well with it. We are continuing next week. I also found this cute freebie that I will be using in class next week.

Please pardon the creepy eyes. I am not on my computer with my photoshop so no cute sunglasses this week, just creepy alien eyes. :-) We have week long specials so my students had art this week. They made dragons for Chinese New Year. All of them came out so great!!

On a more personal note, I went shopping for craft supplies. I love crafting. If you didn't know I have another blog dedicated to crafting. You can click the picture below for a link to it! :-)

Here's just a cute little comic that I felt like sharing. I have a Dachshund and if you know the type of dog they are, you know this fits them to a T!!!

Then if I thought this week couldn't get any better, I get this email from my principal at the end of the day. I'm a firm believer that if you put out good thoughts, actions, and feelings, good things will come in return. I tried to focus of the positive this week and I didn't let anything get me down and it ended up being the best week I've had in a long time!
And of course, as always...

Weekly Recap {Jan 22- Jan 25}

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 our study on penguins. My students were extremely sad to see this unit end. It is a favorite of my students every year. 

We even used Deanna Jump's idea of trying to walk like a penguin with an egg on the top of your feet. The kids had a lot of fun with that one. Especially when the egg fell and they had to get it back on top of their feet without using their hands.

Some more happy mail came for our classroom from Donors Choose. We got some new books for read alouds. My students are looking forward to some future author studies.

Last, but not least, I would like to share with your our amazing new carpet. Again, from Donors Choose. I have been wanting a classroom carpet ever since I started teaching 5 years ago. Now I finally have one and I love it. Eventually I would like my whole classroom to follow this color scheme. One step at a time.

I am linking up over at...

Weekly Recap

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 another Donors Choose project. As you can see on the right we got 9 puzzles as well as some picture books. I wanted a quick and easy way to do Fun Friday because I am not a huge fan of Fun Friday. I love giving my students time to have fun and I like the little down time I'm able to get to clean my room before the weekend. Puzzles were the perfect thing. I already had one box bent, so I'm going to have to find an even easier storage option for these puzzles.

I'm linking up over at a few places this week...

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