Friday Favorites

Oh yes it does! I'm a coffee drinker so I TOTALLY relate to this! Each day I chug-a-lug my coffee so I can have enough energy to last the day. (Please see #1 in this post for further comment). It's Friday and I'm linking up again with Erika, Narci, and Andrea for Friday Favorites!! I'm already looking forward to seeing some fellow Friday Favorites during my prep today!

Coffee is a favorite this week. I mean, it's always a favorite but it's a MUST HAVE this week. This week was a four day week which is awesome! But it also means more time off that my students forget the skills we've been teaching them for the past 5 weeks. #regression. I've told my dear aide "I need an IV of coffee" this week so many times that I've lost count. I know she's feeling it too! She deals with student behaviors the same amount, if not more, as me. 

Tim Hortons <3 Oh how I love you this week! 

*Side note: I reward my students with perfect weeks (based off their daily point sheets) with a Tim Hortons' breakfast! So far I've had two students earn a Timmy Ho's breakfast two weeks in a row! Can they beat three weeks??

I posted about my Double Dose of Teaching Angels before but I feel like I need to repeat myself. They have been a god-send! Stephanie and Kelly are "teacher friends" of mine and I couldn't be luckier! A "sub-favorite" of mine this week is the group chat Stephanie started with Kelly and I...I've been laughing all week with them!

 Recently I started using their U.S Presidential Election Pocketbook and my students are loving it. And I'm loving it because I prepped everything ahead of time :) Nothing like having four weeks of Social Studies materials copied, assembled, and organized by day already!

My class spent an entire week on Donald Trump and I think they're finally getting it :) Although I love to hate on Trump, I love that the resource is unbiased. It allows my students to make their own assumptions and opinions...shh, be still my teacher heart!

My students think I'm a swing-voter and are already looking forward to finding out which candidate I vote for! I LOVE keeping students on their toes!

My friends. 

They were a favorite last week and they're back again for round 2! These are my college besties that I couldn't be more thankful for this week. From the words of encouragement after dealing with something that pulled on my heart strings, to laughing about a student's insults towards me, and reminiscing about this picture that we took one year ago. Believe it or not, this picture above is what started my "blogging career". After we took this photo I decided I wanted to chronicle my senior year living with my best friends....And now, here I am, as a first year teacher blogging about my experiences in the classroom! We text each other weekly (thank goodness!) and keep up with each other whenever we can. 

We may not see each other as often but when we do, we all know that nothing has changed. And those are the best kinds of friendships. Love my future bridesmaids!

Students hard at work.

I recently introduced Roll-a-Spelling-Word and my students were in love!! I purchased some reusable dry erase pouches and quickly edited a resource. It was an excellent review for our spelling test today! This was the quietest they've been all week! Despite the noises of the dice hitting the desks :) 

*Foam dice are already ordered and on their way!!!

**Please ignore my ugly classroom. The furniture is rough, to say the least!

Happy Friday, friends! 

Or as I've trained my class to say, "Fri-YAY!"