Whoooo Hooooo! It's Friday!

Yipeeeeeeeeee! It's Friday!!!! AND a three day weekend!!!!!

Here's what my week looked like!

We {FINALLY} finished our state testing this week! SIX days of testingtestingtesting! SO glad this is OVER!!!

First sign from Ladybug's Teacher Files, second sign from my awesome colleague! 

All I can say, is thank goodness for brain breaks!!! Kristin shared a great website with some super fun brain breaks. You can check them out {HERE}! Our favorite is #5!!!

And we've also been able to fit in some measurement fun! Michelle at Teach123 has some great measurement packs that saved my life this week! :) The kids LOVED them!

As if my kids haven't been tested enough, I thought I'd kick 'em while they're down and just keep on testing! I'm determined to get our end of the year assessments done ahead of time!!! And they've been troopers! 

To end the week, I found this adorable pin and thought it would be fun (and HERS turned out so cute!)!!!

 Although they didn't turn out exactly how I had hoped (and there was paint. Everywhere...)

Some of us nailed it-

And some of us NAILED IT! ;-) 

Make sure to link up with Doodle Bugs for Five for Friday! :)

And have a great weekend!!!!

(From one of my 2nd graders on our class blog :) 

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Chinese New Year Lantern Project

We've been learning all about Chinese New Year in our class and did this really fun (and fairly simple!) project last week! 

We made lanterns!

Each kiddo just needs one piece of yellow construction paper and one sheet of red. And a ruler! 

We measured...

And cut...

And then I stopped taking pictures because I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to STAPLE these things together! If you do this project- use STAPLES!!!! Glue doesn't really work!!!!

But here's what we ended up with! 

They look so pretty hanging up in our classrooms! And I'm hoping all of the red will bring us good luck! ;-) 

You can find a step by step video here (and some great book recommendations!): 

                                                                                       Source: scholastic.com via Sandy on Pinterest

Hope you're having a great week!!!

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