Five for Friday!

Good morning!  Today I am joining the lovely Kacey at Doodlebugs for my third Five for Friday linkup.

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As February draws closer, I have begun planning for Valentine's Day activities. My students LOVE my "Roll-a-Word vocabulary games", so I created this nifty Valentine's Day Roll a Word Game. I just need to laminate the sheets and then I will be filling it for later use. Tip: These are marked down by 50% for the next 48 hours.

Valentine's Day Roll a Word ELA Game

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I whipped up some delicious (but not terribly healthy by the time I was finished)  baked cinnamon sugar chick peas. I will do a post about this later on, but let's just say these were very yummy! These are great for those long teaching days because I can snack and not feel too guilty! 

Teacher Power :)

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This week felt super long to me, and I literally laughed out loud when I stumbled across this meme right before bed on Wednesday. Can anyone else relate? 

A Teacher's life

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My family went sledding and had an absolute blast! We came home, kids had hot chocolate and then each one of them coloured in this neat little page before we headed back outside to play in the yard. Yay for snow! 

Sledding in winter

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Finally, I grabbed some amazing resources at an awesome deal during the TpT "Start your year inspired" sale! I can't imagine going back to a time where I wasn't able to use other teachers' tried and true resources like I can now! It's such an energy saver!! Thanks to all the marvelous TpT teacher-authors and their fabulous resources!

TeachersPayTeachers.com

Well that just about sums up what I've been up to this week. What were you up to? Thanks for reading!

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Five For Friday!

Good morning!  Today I am joining the lovely Kacey at Doodlebugs for my second Five for Friday linkup.

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The first thing I want to write about is my new facebook page! It is a page that highlights great teaching resources, funny teaching moments and other teaching-related experiences. It is located at http://facebook.com/JenRece and is seriously brand spankin' new and in need of some love. I think I literally have 1 person "liking" it, so I invite you to come on over and click on that pretty little "like" button so I don't keep sharing ideas with myself ;) While you're there, I'd love for you to say 'hi' and leave me a link to your blog/store/fb page too so I can follow you back. It's all about building community, after all! {Also, feel free to send me a facebook friend request if you'd like to network: @jenreceontpt} :) 

Facebook.com/Jen-Rece

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The next little project that kept me busy this week was implementing one of my newest winter emergent readers with my students. It's entitled "Snowman, Snowman, What do You See?" As you've probably guessed, it is modeled after the same style as "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?" My readers are available in 3 different versions (great for differentiated learning) and was thoroughly enjoyed by my little readers! This sweet little reader helps students practice various skills like phonics, comprehension, word and story predictions, vocabulary and even coloring. It's available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Snowman, Snowman, What do You See?

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I had some spare time earlier in the week and decided to play Candy Crush while I was waiting for a meeting to begin. Clearly I should have known I would become a little obsessed with it again - I'm so determined to beat all the levels now! It's such a fun, simple game but boy do I sometimes wish I never started with it. Now I'm on a mission to beat the level I'm currently on but man it's a challenge! I'm on level 235. Do you play it? 

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I played in the snow with my kids earlier in the week. It was a ton of fun seeing as we haven't had much snowfall this season! We made a hill to slide down and lots of snow angels. After an hour or so we came in for hot chocolate and marshmallows :) 

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My husband and I binge watched "Making a Murderer". I don't wait to spoil it for those of you who haven't seen it yet, but WOW. What a crazy roller coaster!! I also just saw a hilarious video online of a couple who reenact their reactions to the documentary and I swear it was DEAD ON. So funny! Have you seen "Making a Murderer" yet? Were you on an emotional roller coaster too? 

Well that just about sums up what I've been up to this week. What were you up to? 

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Five for Friday

Good morning, friends!  Today I am joining the lovely Kacey at Doodlebugs for my very first Five for Friday linkup {yahoo!} 

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So the first thing I did this week that's worth mentioning is that I started up this blog! I felt that after a year and a half of selling my teaching resources (and giving away freebies) over at my TpT store (Jen Rece on TpT) it was about time I step up and start a blog to connect with the lovely ladies and gents I've recently met! I have to say, I'm super excited about this new venture :)

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As part of my New Years Resolutions, I decided to take up a new hobby to help decrease stress...colouring! I have to say, this is SO therapeutic! I can completely lose track of all my worries (like parenting issues and lesson planning) and relax before I go to bed. I highly recommend them to you if you need a bit of a helping breaking away from your thoughts too! 

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I spotted this super cute Sesame Street magnetic book when I was out shopping earlier in the week. As soon as I saw it I knew my almost 3 year old would love it! Not only is he obsessed with Cookie Monster, but he also has taken up a love for printing and colouring and what better way to strengthen those fine motor muscles than playing with small pieces? So here is a picture of him doing just that:

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I did some bulk cooking this week as well. It was in hopes that I would have been well prepared to throw dinner on the table at a decent time, thanks to heading back to work and school after the Christmas break.   Luckily for us it worked and I didn't have to scramble for ideas in the evenings. Definitely a huge time saver!

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Lastly, I spent time printing off copies of my Winter Emergent Reader Book and they are now all ready to be implemented. I love printables, and this comes in 3 versions so it's going to serve me well from year to year. If you have a chance, feel free to check it out and see if it's something you could use, too! :) 

Well that just about sums up what I've been up to this week. What were you up to? 

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