Monday Made It & Eating, Drinking and Linking

First off... hats off to many of you! I'm amazed each week at the craftiness of teachers every where! As well as the spirit to create for the classroom year round! I sure do love Tara's linky party to see all of the awesomeness!

 

Surprisingly, it's been a very productive week in the Whitehair household and I'm ready to link up and join the party!

To start... I've been bitten by more than just mosquitoes this summer. I've been bitten by the chevron bug as well!

So when I saw some pallet projects and turning them into flags... I was thinking, alright I could do that!  Then I kept seeing chevron and I thought I could combine the two.Then, I went to my hubby's work to get a pallet, but the spaces between them were so big I decided to opt to just purchase one big board so I did. I impulsively embarked on my journey. 

It started off innocently enough

Then my OCDish tendencies got to me. I taped and retaped this sucker... and redid the tape on the right end.

The painting part was fun

Until I pulled up the tap. In my impulsive... I cannot believe I spent 2 hours taping this board, I'm going to slap paint on it ASAP...I messed up several of the ends. I had thought about keeping my board exposed and "rustic" looking, but the board was too light. 

Then more painting... but my project was complete {and I love how it turned out} just in time to display on the fourth!

My next project was for school. I will be an ELA teacher in the fall teaching half of the fourth grade reading and writing sections. I created a modified clip chart/magnet chart based on the 6 traits of writing. With each writing piece, students can move their clip/magnet to the goal they want to work on.

I cannot wait to print this out {I need stock in colored ink. For real!}

Onward to my summer recipe swap! If you have a favorite recipe, pinned recipe, or recipe recommendation, link up! The linky is open all week long, each week, all summer!

This is a "cheat meal". A meal that may not be as healthy as it could be... but it's quick and I love to fix it when I have meetings at school, but still want to have something semi-homemade to eat for supper.

Chicken & Rice

Korr Creamy Chicken flavored rice
2 chicken breasts, thawed
1 T. sour cream (optional)


To fix.

You can cook the rice on the stove top or microwave. I opt for microwave approx. 12 minutes (whatever the bag says is what I do).

While that is heating up, cook chicken through on the stove (I cut mine into smaller pieces as I heat it or you can cut it into bite-size pieces when it's cooked through.) Usually by the time the chicken is cooked, so is the rice.

I add a nice dollup of sour cream to the rice, stir it in (this is optional). Then I add the rice to the pan with the chicken, mixing up in the pan. Serve.

Quick and easy! 

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Have a wonderful week!