Welcome to The MAILBOX Blog!
Posted by Debra Liverman on 30 Jul 2008 | Posted in: The Mailbox
I am very excited to reserve this bit of cyberspace for communicating with fellow teachers like you! I hope you share in my excitement and will take the opportunity to talk with us by leaving comments on this Blog. As we venture through the school year I’ll use this Blog to discuss happenings at The Mailbox and the world of teaching.
Please leave a comment to let me know you found our new blog. Hope to see you here again soon!
Me with the dynamic duo that helped me get this blog online—Sarah and Xiaoyun.
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Thanks for all the great years of the Mailbox.
I’ve been a teacher for 30 years and have gotten the Mailbox ever since the early 1980’s.
I think I still have every issue. I subscribe to The Teacher’s Helper. Love that magazine. I came back to the Bookbag. I thank you for being a part of my classroom for many years. You seem to know just what I need to enrich my lesson plans.
I love the companion and all that it entails.
Keep up the good work and looking forward to a wonderful year.
The new look is great! I always look forward to the new issue of The Mailbox and the changes have made my excitement even greater. I tried something new this summer to help me find all of the ideas I want to use and I thought I would share it here. I went through each of my magazines found and the pages and ideas that I want to use. I then went to my teacher’s manuals and placed sticky notes listing the magazine issue and page number of each activity. When I am writing lesson plans the page and issue are much easier to find.
I love getting each issue of The Mailbox. I have had mixed feelings about the magazine combining K-1. I quit for a while but missed it so much I went back to having a subscription. I am thrilled you are returning to seperate K and First issues. Can’t wait for the website to be seperate to and will continue to make it an important part of each day.
WOW! The Mailbox Companion never ceases to amaze me. The new look is awesome and allows one to search for the topics with ease. I believe what I appreciate most about the Mailbox and Teacher’s Helper Magazine is that teacher’s can immediately use the teacher-shared ideas. Lastly, I have found the Substitue forms a BIG PLUS! The mailbox companion ROCKS!
I have a private preschool program which runs for 11 months a year, so August is the month I am away from the classroom, enjoying the sunshine and my garden. So, I don’t want to hear too much about “back to school” just yet. However, I do keep a pile of “to do” things on my counter, and I never sit down to watch TV or a movie without working on some sort of cutting, stapling, or book prep for “back to school” time. I also find it works well when I’m traveling or visiting relatives to bring along a bag of projects that need to be cut or prepared for my classes. It keeps my hands busy while I’m catching up with family and I find that my mom, daughter and sisters, in particular, like cutting shapes or binding kid’s books to help me out. Your magazine has been a huge help over the years in putting together fun, engaging, “hands-on,” age appropriate lessons that make learning fun. Each month, I literally take my magazine apart and file all the different activities in my seasonal folders. Your monthly calendars and cute, programmable lists and charts are all utilized in my school too. I look forward to following everyone’s comments as the school year goes along.
I just can’t thank you enough for all of the great ideas that you share. I use ideas from your magazine as well as from Mailbox Companion all of the time. Everything is easy to use, looks great, and saves me a lot of time that I can definitely use elsewhere! Thanks!!!!
I have been teaching for 27 years and have been using you books, magazines and ideas in my classroom for at least twenty of those years. I have been a witness to all the changes and love the refreshing ideas that I find in the magazine. I also use The Teacher’s Helper magazine in my class.
I appreciate the new look of your website — it made searching for the topics I’ll be working on this fall very easy! I have been in education for 20+ years, and your products are the consistent staple in my collection of teacher “stuff.” I just attended my 20th college reunion, and have fond memories of developing teaching units in the basement of the “old” campus library using your magazines even then!! Keep up the good work!