A Winter 5 for Friday

 It has been awhile since I have done a 5 for Friday.  But I need a little reflection right now!  The winter break from school has gone so quickly that I need to look back at all that I have done.

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The holiday season was full of parties with family and friends.  It was full of dress up clothes.  Milk and cookies, carrots and glittery reindeer food.  It was full of squealing little girls.  Full of sugar, chocolate, and coffee.  (Oh and I can't forget two sick girls.)

2.
Once the parties ended, we headed out of town.  My first stop...Ohio Blogger Meet Up!!

Julie from First Grade Critter Cafe, me, Jennie from JD's Rockin' Readers, Lisa from Fourth and Ten, and Sarah from Primarily AU-some, Jenny from Luckeyfrog's Lilypad, Sarah from Permanently Primary, and Christina from Sugar and Spice

I have really enjoyed talking to all my fellow Ohio bloggers but it was even more exciting to meet everyone in person!

3.
After Columbus...I headed north with my Ben and girls to Cleveland to spend time with our "Cleveland family." Then we headed east through Ohio to visit my Ben's extended family.  Then we headed west through Ohio to visit some friends.  Whew!  We saw lots of Ohio.  I created a graphic for you to get the whole effect!

4.
I started a new set of word ladders before the holiday season started with the hopes of completing it.  NOPE.  That does not happen when you have shopping, wrapping, cooking, mothering, and teaching to all take care!  But that is okay...right?  Traveling includes car-time to finish up projects.  So here it is!  My new word ladders that focus on vowel consonant e patterns.

5.
Snow, snow snow.  It has been snowing here all day.  So we went out and bought a sled.  Headed out to the yard and had a great time.  So many squeals, laughs, and cold faces.  I wish I had a picture to share.  But we were having too much fun!

TPT Celebration GIVEAWAY!

It is official!  My TPT store is now open.  I am just trying to spruce up the things I used this year to make them TPT worthy.  Everyone out there makes such amazing products!
.Here are a few things that I have posted so far...
Word Ladders for specific patterns

 Here are the patterns (you can click on the pattern to go to the TPT page):
ay/ai pattern
oy/oi pattern
aw pattern
ow pattern
igh pattern
ew/ue pattern
I also posted a game "Sight Word Apples Up On Top."  There is a game for all the Dolch lists.

 

Also check out Molly's giveaway over at Lucky to Be in First and Sara's giveaway over at Miss B's Busy Bees and Cyndi over at Lacy's Letters.  They both have some great products and giftcards from many different TPT stores.

A Call for Help on Five for Friday

First week of summer=busy week! But (of course) I must make time to link up!

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A little bird (Maria!) got it in my head to maybe try out TPT.  Well...once I start thinking about something...I just can't seem to stop that train.  So here I am, first week of summer, dipping my feet into the TPT pool.  And I am excited, nervous, SCAREd!  So many questions...is my stuff good enough?  Will anyone really want to buy it?  What am I thinking?

So my #1 is a call for help this week.  Does anyone have any suggestions for me out there?  I have only posted my Word Ladders and What Looks Right activities to TPT.  But what suggestions are there for me so far...

click to go to my store

2. 

I changed up my Word Ladders a bit to make them more TPT worthy.  What do you think?

3.
Facebook.  I really wanted to work on our Facebook page to get it up and running!  Finally!

4. 

I love to garage sale!  Maria has a dream of using frames to hang student work in the hallways.  Check out what my 60 cents bought me today!

 

Maybe some pretty paint to spruce them up?

5. 

 Reds game!  They lost. Bummer.  But my girls had a good time.

Thank you Thank you Thank you to anyone that can help me out with TPT.