Showing posts with label sight words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sight words. Show all posts

Five for Friday


Oh my goodness y’all. This week was rough. Everyone in the Hamilton house has been sick, except for me (thanks to all of the germs I accumulated over my years of teaching).  I am shocked and proud that I never popped open a bottle of wine or got into some dark chocolate. I stayed on track with Whole 30 through it all AND we all survived. Double score!

I am going to start blogging more consistently. One of the ways that I am going to do this is by having “Winner Wednesday”. The first Wednesday of every month, I will blog an in-depth description about one of my products and how you can use it in the classroom. The best part of this post is that there will be a giveaway where one lucky person can win it for FREE. This will happen every. Single. Week. How cool is that? Follow me on BLOGLOVIN so you can get in on the action. Any suggestions for which product I do first
 I made some big milestones this week and I am so excited and honored. I reached 1,000 followers on Instagram, 300 followers on Teachers Pay Teachers, and 500 likes on Facebook. Y’all, this is amazing and I cannot thank each of you enough. I know I have mentioned it before, but the Instagram, TpT, and blogging community it something special. There are more positive vibes, encouragement, and collaboration than I ever experienced in the four years I taught kindergarten and first grade. I am so glad that I took a leap and got back into TpT and started Instagram and Facebook three months ago. It has been an awesome three months. I am thinking up something special to do once all the giveaways and blog hops for Teacher Appreciation Week are over.
 
 
I added a couple of new products to my store this week: Sight Word Play Doh Mats and Sight Word Practice Mats for all Dolch Words and the First 100 Fry Words. Click {here} for Dolch Words and {here} for Fry Words. I am slowly, but surely getting products updated, while also adding new ones. These two products are in my Popcorn Words bundle. I am going to sell some of the items individually in my store so that way you have a few options. If you purchase one of the single items and decide to buy the bundle, email me your order numbers and you can have anything in my store at lesser or equal value to the single item product. All updated and new products are 50% off for the first 48 hours. You can follow my store so you can be updated on when I post new items.
 
Are you a teacher blogger and/or TpTer that lives in or around the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex? I am cohosting a mini meet-up at Mia Dia from Scratch in Grapevine on May 30th starting at 6:30 PM with Elissa Jones from Mrs. Jones Creation Station. This will be a great way to network and meet some local people before the TpT conference in Vegas this summer. Please RSVP by May 22nd if you will be able to join us by clicking {here}. Hope to see you there!
 
Texas had some CRAZY weather this week. We were under a tornado watch three different times and one of those times we had a tornado warning. My husband was of course out of town (stuff like that always happens when your husband is not at home) and the girls were already asleep. I wasn’t sure if I should get the girls yet, but I did not want to risk it since I was going solo. Molly was so confused and upset that I woke her up and that we were hanging out in the bathroom, but as soon as I called the mattress a tent, it was all fun and games. There was no tornado and everyone was fine in our surrounding areas. We need rain badly so these storms have been a huge blessing.
 
That is my week in a nutshell. Don't forget to check out all of the other teachers that have linked up for Five for Friday at Doodle Bugs Teaching. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
 
 

Five for Friday


I first joined TPT about four years ago. I made several things at that time and did not touch any of it again until about a month ago. I decided that I want to pursue this seriously so here I am trying to get back into it. I have been busy trying to update all of the products in my Teachers Pay Teachers store the past month. My hope is to have everything updated within the month so I can put my focus on making new things for the next school year. As I update or put new products on my blog, they will be listed as 50% off for the first 48 hours. Yall have been amazing with the support each of you has shown me so far.  Please follow me on any of these social media outlets that you are a part of: TPT, Facebook, Instagram, Google +, Bloglovin, and Pinterest. Leave a comment with your details and I will be happy to follow you too! 

I am participating in the March Blogger Match-up. Each of the 64 participating bloggers was randomly paired with a 2015 NCAA tournament team. Two bloggers will compete head to head with each game played. Like the tournament, once you lose you are out. The blogger of the winning team will go to the next round. The blogger of the losing team will have to share a chosen product from his or her TPT store {minimum $5 value} with the blogger they just competed against. The BEST part is that the losing blogger also has to share this product with one lucky follower! Check out my post to see what I will be giving away!

I reached 500 followers on Instagram!!! You guys are amazing and I am thankful for each and every one of you. It has been a lot of fun to share this journey with such an fabulous group of teachers, parents, bloggers, educators, etc. This has been such a supportive  and encouraging community to be a part of and I look forward to meeting many more people along the way. To celebrate 500 followers, I am going to have a BIG giveaway. I was thinking of giving away ALL FOUR of my Dolch Popcorn Word products to one lucky winner. What do you think? Be watching for more information once I have my giveaway for the March Blogger Match-up. Here is a picture that shows what is included in each product. 

I got my flights and hotel booked for the Teachers Pay TeachersConference in Vegas this summer. I am so excited for this event. It will be such an amazing opportunity to learn how I can better my business and meet all kinds of talented bloggers, teachers, and/or creators.  My Vegas roomie, Elissa Jones (from Mrs. Jones Creation Station), and I will be hosting a Stay at Home Moms on TPT luncheon Wednesday, July 8 at Grand Luxe CafĂ© in the Venetian Hotel. If you are a stay at home or work at home mom and are on TPT you should join us. You can RSVP here for the event. 

We did a very fun science experiment this week with ‘magic eggs’. Here is a little peek into what happened. I will be sharing how to make your very own magic eggs on Monday. I will even have a FREEBIE observation page that can be added into your science notebook so students can document what happened before, during, and after.

Well those are my highlights from my week. I look forward to reading what you were up to this week over the next few days. I hope you have a great weekend and see you next Friday!




Five for Friday

This is my first Five for Friday and I am pretty excited about participating. It looks like a great way to connect with other amazing teachers and also a great way to find new blogs that I probably would not have stumbled across on my own.

My new blog design is finished and I am in LOVE! It is everything I dreamed that it would be and more. I am so excited to really get this blogging thing properly started now. No turning back! Kassie, at Designs by Kassie, is amazing! She made this entire process so easy and quick. If you are wanting a new blog design, you should definitely check her out. Because of my new website, I will be having a HUGE giveaway coming your way soon! Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Teachers Pay Teachers so you can stay up to date on when that will be. 

I was determined to get my Pre-Primer Dolch List Popcorn Words completed last night and downloaded for purchase and I did! Who cares if it was 11:00(ish) before it happened. It is now off of my checklist and ready for classrooms and little kids. Now I am onto updating the rest of my popcorn units. When I am done updating I will be making some similar units that will cover all of the Dolch and Fry words, but will be more generic and not popcorn words. Check out this short video that shows all of the different activities that are included in this unit. 

I had some BIG milestones for my business, A Dab of Glue, this week. I reached 200 followers on Teachers PayTeachers, 100 followers on Facebook, and I'm almost to 200 followers on Instagram. Y’all are seriously the best. Thanks for sharing this journey with me and please spread the word.

I have been working on the mother of all St Patrick's day posts. For the last week or two my daughter and I have been busy doing all kinds of fun activities to share with you. I should have the post available Sunday or Monday at the latest.

We got about three inches of snow for the third time in the last week on Wednesday night. We have not had much of a winter here in Texas and, holy cow, it decided to end with a vengeance. I am not complaining, because I LOVE cold weather about as much as I LOVE staying home in my PJs all day. {So it was a win win for me}  I was actually quite sad that I had to shower and put on actual clothes this morning. This weather has definitely encouraged some extreme laziness in this household.

Well, that is my five for Friday in a nutshell. I can't wait to see what y’all have been up to.