tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88417557630253765232023-11-16T01:29:40.129-06:00Lauren and Jeanine's Creative CornerLauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-65516982434424987132015-10-17T00:33:00.000-05:002015-10-17T00:35:21.307-05:00Number of the Day - Updated & An Update!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Hi Everyone,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">It really has been
forever since we have last blogged. Sometimes life gets in the way and
you just can't do everything that you would like to do, and something has to
give. Fortunately we are back and we are updating our older products and
in the process of creating new products (especially Canadian based)! This
has been so exciting for us coming up with fresh and new ideas that we hope you
will find useful for your classroom.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">For a quick personal
update - we both have made grade changes and now we are teaching kindergarten
and grade one! This has provided us with many opportunities to come up
with new and creative ideas to suit the new grade levels we teach. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Most recently our
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-of-the-Day-Number-Representation-293619" target="_blank">Number of the Day</a> product has been updated (so if you have purchased it already please re-download). Included are four different
versions of Number of the Day that you can use with younger learners.
These versions have been tried and tested in my kindergarten classroom with
success! These versions also allow for differentiation for many different
learners. My goal in updating this product was to allow you to find the best
Number of the Day that suits you and your learners' needs. We hope that
you love the additions and find them useful in your classroom.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">If feels so good to
be back blogging again!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><br /></span>Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-2723523513467165142013-08-13T18:39:00.001-05:002015-10-17T00:38:43.121-05:00Favourite Find This Summer!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Favourite
Find This Summer!</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One of my favourite things to do is to peruse
through the children’s books at the local bookstore. I am happy to find a comfy
spot (or not so comfy spot) as usually I end up sitting on the floor, while
reading through a stack of books. This absolutely is a favourite hobby of mine.
It’s even better when it includes coffee and Lauren’s company. </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This summer, I came across the most adorable and
perfect book, Ralph Tells A Story, by Abby Hanlon. I can’t wait to read this
book to my new batch of grade 2’s in September. I hope they will find it as
inspiring as I did and can’t wait to see what stories they will tell as they
become independent writers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Well
here it is everybody! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finally
completed my homemade marker water colour test with our spring art that we did
this past week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let's start from the
beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For my spring art this year I
had my students draw their spring flower with pencil on 90 weight water colour
paper (I cut it in half).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then
coloured their flower with oil pastels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When this was done students painted over their flowers with water
colours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before the paint dried we put
coarse salt all over the paper which gives the background quite a neat looking
texture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I
then decided to try the same art with my homemade water colour markers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to admit I didn't think it was really
going to look all that great, but I have to say that I am pretty impressed with
the results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It is a bit lighter then I would have preferred but I believe that if I soak more markers in one jar maybe the colour might get more vibrant. That will be an experiment for another day! FYI the coarse salt also seemed to work its magic on the marker water colour. </span>See the pictures below for the results:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Water Colour Paint Used Homemade Marker Water Colour Used<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Happy
spring!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Lauren
:) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-82657232988972352562013-04-27T10:45:00.004-05:002013-04-27T10:45:55.439-05:00Pinterest Tested - Water Colours!
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A sweet colleague
of mine was recently visiting my classroom and noticed my students throwing out
our dried out markers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me to
stop immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said that she read
on Pinterest that you could make water colours very easily out of dried out
markers and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well since I am so
frugal and love Pinterest I thought I NEED to try this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I immediately hit up the sight and found the
link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a bit skeptical at first but
my goodness gracious we made water colours!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we are now addicted to making marker water colours!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Here is the
original link I found: http://amanda0480.blogspot.ca/2011/05/recycling-old-and-crusty.html<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xor0oUrvfo8/Tc7oeLboJ1I/AAAAAAAAADU/W7i_CAVTQ2c/s1600/watercolor.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xor0oUrvfo8/Tc7oeLboJ1I/AAAAAAAAADU/W7i_CAVTQ2c/s320/watercolor.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">All I did was
use<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one marker and I stuck it in a small
amount of water in a baby food jar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
left it for about 4 days and when the kids and I tried it out they worked like
a charm!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The colours aren't as deep as
food colouring or actual water colours but for the frugal teacher this is a pin
win!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am heading to Michaels this
weekend to get some good quality water colour paper and will post pictures of
our marker water colours this week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lauren :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-85457077112798679422013-04-09T22:31:00.000-05:002013-04-09T22:31:44.390-05:00Day of Pink!
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Everyone!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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feels so good to be back!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously,
long time no blog :(.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On another note, tomorrow
our school is celebrating the Red Cross Day of Pink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have never heard of this day please
read the excerpt following this blog post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In response to the Day of Pink I wanted to create a bulletin board that
celebrated what makes us special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used
the book </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The
Best Part of Me</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> by Wendy Ewald as a springboard for a writing
activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students were asked to choose
their favourite part about themselves - it could be absolutely whatever they wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then had to write about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out their sweet work below.</span></div>
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tonight!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am off to paint my nails pink
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Pink is an initiative that provides students, staff and the larger community
with the opportunity to discuss the impact of bullying and to learn how they
can use their power to help create a safe and respectful school environment. On
April 10, 2013, students, staff and community members wear pink shirts in
solidarity to show that they are taking a stand against bullying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It started in 2007 when two high school students in Nova Scotia took a stand
against bullying in their school. The students asked all of their peers to wear
pink to school after they heard a male classmate had been bullied for wearing a
pink shirt. To continue the momentum, the Canadian Red Cross Day of Pink
campaign brings together schools and communities to wear the shirt and stand
together against bullying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-11128521136867555652012-12-05T20:42:00.004-06:002012-12-05T20:43:32.548-06:00Christmas Concert Hoopla, Elf on the Shelf and Winter Math!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I
don't know about you all but it is so crazy around our school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in full Christmas force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Christmas concert is next week and we
have been busy preparing decorations for the concert as well as practicing our
songs that we are singing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say
though I just love this time of the year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The building feels like a different place -
LOVING the Christmas spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">My
class created shaving cream/glue snowman for our concert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are performing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Melton the Warm-Hearted Snowman</i> and the little snowmen they created
couldn't be cuter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found this
fantastic idea at this <a href="http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/2010/12/book-advent-day-9-snowmen-at-christmas.html" target="_blank">blog!<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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who arrived from the north pole this week?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Buddy our Elf on the Shelf!! The kids are super excited to see where he
is going to be hiding each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
convinced that he sometimes moves his eyes and legs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the first year I have ever done Elf on
the Shelf with my kids and so far it has been so much fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To see the joy on their faces when we opened
our present from the north pole was priceless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As is the enthusiasm each morning to see who can find Buddy first!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also have created a Winter Math product that I think you will really love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It includes a lot of useful printables for
this time of the year with a wintery theme:</span></div>
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Greater Than/Less Than - 2 pages<br />
2) Odd and Even Numbers - 2 pages<br />
3) Snowman Measurement - 2 pages (one in inches, one in centimetres)<br />
4) Count and Graph - 1 page<br />
5) Ordering Numbers - 2 pages<br />
6) Skip-counting - 2 pages<br />
7) Winter Patterns - 2 pages (one page is the answer key)<br />
8) Winter Addition - 3 pages (3 different strategies)<br />
9) Winter Subtraction - 2 pages (2 different strategies)<br />
10) Equality and Inequality - 1 page<br />
11) Winter Symmetry - 1 page<br />
12) Ten Frames - 6 pages (3 different themes, one colored page, one black and
white page)<br />
13) My Winter Problem Solving Booklet - (13 winter word problems included. All
problems vary between change, compare, equalize and combine word problems).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Lauren
:) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I know that this post is a little late, but it
is just too sweet not to share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
Remembrance Day my classroom really focused on peace and what peace means to
each of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using Todd Parr's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Peace Book</i> and pages from our
Remembrance Day product these are some of the sweet creations that my little
ones came up with:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Love the peace blanket!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Peace is having a nap, keeping the roads clean, being kind, saying sorry)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lauren :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-32040146767264776302012-10-22T22:37:00.000-05:002012-10-22T22:37:02.820-05:00Thanksgiving 5 Senses Writing Freebie
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Well hello! Long time, no post! I can’t believe it’s already
the 3<sup>rd</sup> week in October and this is the first time I have posted
this fall. Back to school season has been in full swing for quite a while and
it seems as though nothing is slowing down. I have a grade 2/3 class again this
year and have been busy, busy, busy the past 2 months. We have been busy
working on Handwriting Without Tears and personal narrative writing lately. I
absolutely love the new Handwriting Without Tears iPad App and use it for instruction with our projector. Check it out here! h<a href="http://wetdrytry.com/" target="_blank">ttp://wetdrytry.com/</a> I
only wish it included the lowercase letters in addition to the uppercase
letters and numbers. My students love when I let the background music from the
App play while they work on their printing. I have posted a <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-5-Senses-Writing-Freebie" target="_blank">Thanksgiving 5 Senses Writing Freebie!</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I
need to start off this post by first saying that I love art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love teaching art, I love making art, I
love looking at art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love everything
about art!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I am always excited to
find new and exciting projects for my kids to do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I also love fall. I love the colours, the leaves falling, pumpkins, fall decor and pumpkin spice everything. With my class in the fall I </span>usually make sunflowers for our
fall art project with oil pastels, but this year I decided to change it up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of making sunflowers out of oil
pastels I switched the medium to chalk pastels and added a glue line!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the first day we drew our sunflowers on
black construction paper with pencil (we practiced first in our sketch
books).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After sketching we took basic
white glue and made a glue line over all of the pencil marks to outline our
sunflower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next day when we got
together we colored our sunflowers with chalk pastel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Did we get a little messy with chalk pastels - absolutely! But what fun is art if you can't get a little messy sometimes!!! </span>I think the kids did an amazing job!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They look absolutely beautiful on our
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I whipped up a quick <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Line-Me-Up-Ordering-Numbers" target="_blank">math freebie</a> for you today. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Line-Me-Up-Ordering-Numbers" target="_blank">You can download it at our Teachers Pay Teachers store</a>. It is called Line Me Up and just as the name sounds it is a one page sheet for students to cut out and order numbers from 0 to 100. I hope some of you can find it useful!</span><br />
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Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-31841314834929231702012-09-24T18:22:00.000-05:002012-09-24T18:22:57.812-05:00Welcome to my Classroom!<br />
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I think it goes to say that with the lack of posts on this little blog, the
start of the school year has been crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Crazy in many ways - both personally and professionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I'm still standing and am excited to
hopefully be posting on this blog more often that I have been in the past
little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- and it still rings true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a
loving bunch full of hugs and such positive words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are definitely big bucket fillers and
know how to absolutely make my day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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still getting used to the new grade one curriculum and trying to wrap my head
around how I am going to integrate both curriculums as much as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past two and half weeks we have gone
full swing into the Daily 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I
have to say it has been a bit of a rocky road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have experienced many challenges in building our stamina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we finally have reached a level of
stamina where I am able to take small readings groups which makes me very, very
happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the kids are LOVING their
reading time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have quite a wide range of learners this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know that every classroom has a wide range, but I find that with the
split the range is that much greater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have been working hard on our printing for the past little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My school requires us to implement the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Handwriting Without Tears Program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>So that is a focus in writing right now,
as well as personal writing in our journals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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math we have been focussing on the hundreds chart, counting, dot patterns for
numbers as well as ten frames!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a look at what my classroom looks like this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not the most ideal layout but it works
for what I am given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also is quite old
and excuse the mix matched tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
desks my first year at this school and had to scrounge to get tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore they are of all different sorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the process of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-81587439395481564202012-08-11T11:00:00.000-05:002012-08-11T11:13:04.496-05:00Back to School Sale & Number of the Day<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Well
I have to say that I am officially starting to look forward to going back to
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am really excited to meet my
new students and teach a new split (1/2)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During this past little bit of summer holidays I have been really
starting to think of classroom decor, organization and planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to get in a trip to the states and
picked up some great classroom stuff at Target and Wal-Mart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also popped into school this week to start
re-organizing my classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the
summer holidays we are required to put everything up on shelves and it looks
like a complete disaster!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pretty
much able to get everything back to its spot, do an inventory of school
supplies and send some stuff to the print shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is so eerie quiet in the building at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was missing the hustle and bustle that the
school usually has.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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honour of back to school Jeanine and I will be holding a back to school sale in
our TPT shop on August 12th and 13th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means that you will get 20% off of all our products!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well, enter the promo code BTS12 and you
get an additional 10%!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweet deal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't wait to get my back to school shop on
tomorrow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another note, I have created a new product for our TPT shop that I use
frequently in my classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is called
Number of the Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of you may have
heard of this already, or my do this already in your classrooms, but I
absolutely love Number of the Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
helps my students with all aspects of number representation (tallies, ten
frames, base ten, coins, skip-counting, odd/even, ten more, ten less, number sentences etc.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this package I have created four different Number of the Day worksheets
that you can use with your students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These sheets are fill-able and DO NOT have a specific number on them so
you can differentiate your instruction and put your own number in exactly at
the level that your specific students are at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I used Number of the Day last year in my grade two/three classroom and
we had students ranging from numbers 25 all the way into the hundreds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really is a great tool for assessment
purposes and can be used as a math warm-up, a center or a fast finisher
activity!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back to school shopping!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a great
weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Well, I have sort of
been procrastinating about creating materials for our blog and TPT store.
However, I decided I could do a quick post about some of my favourite
educational Apps for my iPad. Check out some of my favourites below!<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/word-wizard-talking-movable/id447312716?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Word Wizard</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/100s-board/id372574961?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">100 Chart</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/happi-spells-hd-crossword/id470637851?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Happi Spells</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/love-to-count-by-pirate-trio/id456939423?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Love to Count: Pirate Trio</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/book-creator-for-ipad/id442378070?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Book Creator</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/base-ten-number-blocks/id474636096?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Base 10 Blocks</a></div>
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/sight-words-1-100-kids-learn/id437183575?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Sight Words 1-100</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/everyday-mathematics-monster/id414294235?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Monster Squeeze: Guess My Number</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/little-speller-three-letter/id434789689?mt=8&ls=1" target="_blank">Little Speller</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Those are just a
handful of my favourites. I will post more at a later date!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">~Jeanine<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-29622710223500268592012-07-24T15:31:00.000-05:002012-07-24T15:31:34.474-05:00Newbie Bloggers Blog Hop<br />
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experience ranging from grades 1 to 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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link to a comment etc. you just have to type in this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><em>Yay!!! What a great blog hop. We can't wait to check out the other newbie blogs!</em></o:p></span></div>Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-23965999469492332162012-07-23T18:31:00.000-05:002012-07-26T10:20:10.445-05:00Tell me more, tell me more! A Linky Party!!<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Hey
All!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">I am
linking up with Amy Lemons from Step into Second Grade with Mrs. Lemons (FYI - love her blog) for
her Tell me more, tell me more! linky party!
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Here are a few things that you probably didn't know about me:</span></div>
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My favourite color in the entire world is purple. In my life purple is EVERYWHERE. My house is covered - outside architecture around
door, cove ceiling, walls, drapes, bedding, shower curtain.... you name it,
it's probably purple. I love to wear
purple - clothing, shoes and nail polish.
People are surprised that my car isn't purple. A little overboard... YES! But I can't help it, I have loved it since I
was a little girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<img height="200" id="il_fi" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Color_icon_purple_v2.svg/300px-Color_icon_purple_v2.svg.png" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="200" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">2) I
LOVE old homes. Plaster walls, cove
ceilings, archways, creaky hardwood floors, crystal doorknobs. LOVE IT ALL.
Hence why I live in a 66 year old home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">3) I
am addicted to anything Kardashian.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Khloe and Lamar, Kourtney and Kim Take
New York, Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami - these are my favourite shows to watch
for some mindless entertainment! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<img height="132" id="il_fi" src="http://cdn.realscreen.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Keeping-Up-With-The-Kardashians.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="200" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">4) If
I wasn't a teacher I would love to be a professional dancer! I was an avid Ukrainian dancer when growing
up. I don't do Ukrainian dancing anymore
but instead have switched over to hip hop!
Love it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<img height="172" id="il_fi" src="http://www.bydewey.com/ukrainiandance.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="200" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">5) I
am addicted to reading. I always need to
have a book at hand. I am currently into
the second book of The Hunger Games and can't wait to get through and on to the
third.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">I
hope you enjoyed getting to know me a little more! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Lauren
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Here are a few things you probably didn’t know about me:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1. My favourite colour is probably blue. Upon reading
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but as I look around my house, many rooms are painted in various shades from a
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2. I LOVE photography. I love to take pictures of babies and
children. I mostly take pictures of my girls, nieces and nephews and my
friends’ children. I have WAY too many pictures on my laptop! <o:p></o:p></div>
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3. I am addicted to coffee and children’s books! I need my
morning coffee with hazelnut creamer and I am addicted to buying children’s
books!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love finding stories that I
know my own girls and my students will enjoy! Amazon has been my best friend
this past school year!<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 12 years.
Together we have two amazing and beautiful little girls. Our oldest is going
into second grade (I keep telling her we can swap ideas this year for school) and
our youngest will be off to kinder this year! Life is good!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are my two girls with their new backpacks for 2<sup>nd</sup>
grade and kindergarten. Yes, I like to plan ahead and get things organized
early! <o:p></o:p></div>
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5. I love my CRICUT. My girls and I call it our “craft on
demand”! They love to cut out various shapes to colour and decorate! They will
do this for hours and all their little school friends ask if they can “do the
Cricut” shortly after coming over for a play-date. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> I also love it for
cutting out my bulletin board letters! <o:p></o:p></div>
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6. I wish my mom lived closer. She lives in British Columbia
and I’d love for her to be closer to my family. I miss the things we sometimes
take for granted….meals together, impromptu visits, quality time with
grandchildren, etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> ~Jeanine :)</o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment--></span></div>Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-57813841081947878892012-07-17T01:00:00.002-05:002012-07-28T12:45:40.511-05:00Can You SPOT The DOT? ...or believe it's already July 17th?<br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Well, I can't
believe it's already mid July!!! I haven't posted on our blog in quite some
time. The last few weeks of school were CrAzY busy and then to make life just a
tad CraZiEr we decided to host our youngest daughter's family birthday the
morning after school ended! (Seemed like a good idea at the time as we were
accommodating family that was in town and family going out of town) Note to
self: won't do this again next year! Needless to say, running around getting
goody bag stuff, party supplies, presents, ordering balloons, making cupcakes
all whilst whisking our girls off to soccer four nights a week, followed by
evenings of finalizing, signing and stuffing report card envelopes, was<s> a
little</s> chaotic! Anyway, summer holidays are here now and I am loving
spending the days with my favourite two kids! I decided to post an activity
that I have done in the past in my classroom and plan to use for a
Back-to-School activity in September. It's a book art activity to do in
response to <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Dot-Peter-H-Reynolds/dp/0763619612/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342556153&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Peter H. Reynolds' book, <b>the dot</b></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">My students LOVED
this activity and were super creative with their pictures. Can you SPOT the DOT
in the pictures below?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Have a great week! I
am looking forward to more sunshine filled days this week! Enjoy the freebie!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">~Jeanine<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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days left! 3 days left! 3 days left!!!! I am sooo happy to report that I have 3
days left of school until summer holidays officially start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though this year has not yet come to an
end, I am starting to think about next year and how to refresh my room and help
my kiddos the best that I can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In math
this year, some of my students were having difficulties counting past 109.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would reach 109 and then jump right to
200.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After taking a fantastic math
course through my division this year, it was suggested that instead of using 100
charts I use 150 charts to show that the pattern on the hundreds chart continues
over and over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well in the spirit
of refreshing up my room I have created a bunch of 150 charts using 14
different fonts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have included
two types of 150 charts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is just
your regular chart, the other has all even numbers on the chart highlighted in
red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really hope you find these
valuable for your classroom and helps some of your students see the patterns in
the hundreds chart.</span><br />
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for the lack of posts lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These past
few weeks have been CRAZY for both Jeanine and I!! On the to do list (amongst
other things) was report card writing, Father's Day and a field trip outside of
the city to an old pioneer village!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Needless to say the end of the year is so, so, so, so busy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we have two weeks left and we most definitely
will be back more regularly once summer holidays begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am especially excited for holidays so I can
start creating things for my new class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
received some really exciting news about my upcoming class composition for next
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am doing a grade change!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be teaching a grade 1/2 class next
year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am oh so excited to learn a new
curriculum and get to know a whole new age range of students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This also allows me to create many different
things for my new group of students!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
bonus is that Jeanine remains my half time teaching partner!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Day seemed to come really fast this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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fathers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just love reading and hearing
about all of the cute little things they love about their dads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also made a tree hand print piece of
art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An idea I must credit back to Pinterest:(<a href="http://cleanandscentsible.blogspot.ca/2011/06/fathers-day-gifts.html?m=1">http://cleanandscentsible.blogspot.ca/2011/06/fathers-day-gifts.html?m=1</a>).</span></div>
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the past few weeks we have been working with a specialist in my division
analyzing, discussing and writing Nate the Great inspired mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have had a lot of fun reading as many Nate
the Great books as we could get our hands on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Routman writing process for writing these stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you the stories turned out
fantastic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even my most reluctant
writers achieved great success!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below is
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I had myself
convinced that I had four weeks left of school this weekend....but when I
checked my calendar this afternoon I was sadly mistaken. Five weeks it is! With
the "four week" excitement that I woke up with I decided to create a
How-To Survive ___________ Grade writing template for my students to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have customized this template for grades
one to four so hopefully many of you can find a use for it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are two different templates included:
one template offers space for just writing, the other template offers space for
writing and a small picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
product is great for end of school year bulletin boards, or can be shared with
students entering the grade your students are leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Objects unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are interested in
what we did for our 2D Shapes unit, you can find the unit I used by clicking
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Writer's Workshop we have been busy with our story writing for the past few
weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomorrow we will be doing a
spring rebus story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure the kids
will have so much fun with it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This past
Friday afternoon the kids and I made spring plasticine art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We created beautiful spring flower
portraits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a very step by step
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started with a 5x6 piece of
cardboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first instruction was to
warm up the plasticine in their fingers and then spread it onto the
cardboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After we finished the sky and
soil we got to creating our flower. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
told the kids that the stem was like a little worm and the leaves were like
eyes/teardrops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the flowers it was a
very similar explanation as to the leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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make and the colors they were going to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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to ensure that there was no waste and that their portraits did not start to
overflow with plasticine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the
flowers turned out beautifully and it was a great way to end the day before a
long weekend!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have to say I am very jealous of those of you who are off of school already or
are off in the next week or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeanine
and I still have five weeks left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
that being said though I am most definitely positive that they are going to fly
by with the many field trips and special activities planned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lauren already mentioned, last week was a bit of a whirlwind! I am thankful
that things have slowed down this week and we are back to our usual classroom
routines. For Mother's Day, my class also created the mini My Mom is Excellent
books that I posted on TPT. We also painted frames that held photos I had taken
of my students on the playground. The frames looked super cute and sparkly when
completed. During our Monday morning meeting, my students were excited to tell
all about their mom's responses and reactions to their presents! I have
included a couple of pictures of some finished books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Last week we also
did one of my favourite Spring activities for our bulletin board. I THINK I got
the idea, years ago, from a Mailbox Magazine. My class LOVED this activity and
had tons of fun creating their little masterpieces. We made birdhouses out of a
variety of construction and coloured paper. (I supplied a variety of tracers
for the kids to chose from.) My students got very creative and added lots of
little details and features. Next, we looked at apartment/house ads on the
internet to see how ads are written. Then my students had to get busy creating
their own ads for their birdhouses. Next, we typed up the ads during our next
scheduled computer time. Check out some of our adorable birdhouses and ads.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Teacher Appreciation Week! I just thought I would post this Father's Day
writing activity early as many of you fellow teachers will be starting your
summer breaks sooner than us. Please click on the picture below to
check it out.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">~Jeanine<o:p></o:p></span></div>Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-38864323358109052872012-05-12T22:25:00.001-05:002012-05-27T13:49:09.309-05:00Mother's Day in Lauren's Room and What a Week!<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Hey
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I can say is WHAT a week!!! Sooo busy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My kiddos and I were busy preparing for our spring musical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Go Fish </i>which was showcased this past
Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were lots of practices,
decorations to be put up, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dress
rehearsals, and last minute things that needed to be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids and I were so wiped Thursday morning
after all was said and done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then
quickly had to switch gears and get to work on our Mother's Day presents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No time to waste!</span></div>
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year my class wrote cute little mini-books about why their Mom is
excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used the Mother's Day
Mini-Book that Jeanine created and which can be found at our Teachers Pay
Teachers store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you - these
books turned out beautifully!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
know that the moms will love them!</span></div>
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also found a cute idea on Pinterest that I thought the kids would love to make
for their moms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea can be found
here: <a href="http://funhandprintart.blogspot.ca/2011/05/handprint-fingerprint-flowerpot-with.html">http://funhandprintart.blogspot.ca/2011/05/handprint-fingerprint-flowerpot-with.html</a>
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mother's day gifts wouldn't be complete without a card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were lucky enough to have an origami specialist
come into our classroom about a week ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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sure was a busy week in our classroom!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am looking forward to getting back into routine and our regular schedule this
week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Happy
Mother's Day to all of the moms out there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Happy
Sunday Everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I
was sooo excited to get up this morning because I cannot wait to get my
Teachers Pay Teachers shop on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In honour
of teacher appreciation week many amazing teachers are holding sales
in their personal Teachers Pay Teachers stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This includes Jeanine and I as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are so excited to be hosting our first
sale, and in honour of such an important week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We absolutely love what we do and we have the utmost respect for all
teachers out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So click the link
below to find some super sales in our store - 20% off of each item!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, don't forget to add the promo code TAD12
for an extra 10% off at checkout!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Happy
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Lauren<o:p></o:p></span></div>Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8841755763025376523.post-87440651196689008712012-04-29T17:24:00.001-05:002012-05-27T13:49:49.970-05:00Mother's Day Mini Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Happy Sunday
everyone! I hope you have all had a restful and enjoyable weekend. It was
beautiful here yesterday and it was so nice to be outside enjoying the sunny
weather. Well, Mother's Day is just around the corner so I thought I would post
something I have done in the past. I will be starting this with my class
tomorrow as well. It's a super cute mini book for students to create for their
moms for Mother's Day. Please click on the above preview to check it out! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">-Jeanine<o:p></o:p></span>Lauren and Jeaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629341442144567479noreply@blogger.com0