You Have to Play to Win!
Posted by Debra Liverman on 06 Jul 2009 | Posted in: Grade 1, Grades 2-3, Intermediate, Kindergarten, Preschool, Teachers and Teaching, The Mailbox, The Mailbox Books
Have you heard? We’re sponsoring a sweepstakes this back-to-school to celebrate 10 Years of The Mailbox Companion! Join us in celebrating this milestone by entering our sweepstakes for your chance to win lots of great stuff.
Here’s what you can win…
Grand Prize: $2,000 Cash and $250 Gift Certificate for THE MAILBOX Books
First Prize: $500 Cash and $100 Gift Certificate for THE MAILBOX Books
Second Prize: $250 Cash and $50 Gift Certificate for THE MAILBOX Books
Weekly First Prize: $100 Cash
Weekly Second Prize: $25 Gift Certificate for THE MAILBOX Books
PLUS, each time you enter you will receive valuable coupons for THE MAILBOX Books!
Click here to enter. You can enter once each day!
Entries will be accepted through September 30, 2009.
Good luck!
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I like all of the ideas that are offered in the mailbox books. I can always find something that I like.
This is the best resource for teachers. I love using your magazines and the online companion!
I love this magazine! Not a day goes by that I don’t use it! I often get many compliments on my activities because of you guys! Keep up the great work! I’d be lost without you!
I use my online subscription everyday. I love my online newsletter:)
I LOVE Mailbox! I use the ideas all of the time and share with my colleagues. I don’t know what I would do without it! Thank you!
I have been teaching for many, many years. I have always used the Mailbox books from the ages of 2 and half to 6. I love them and keep them coming.
Thank You!
Thank you for this great resource! After borrowing from other staff members- I for a subscription of my own for my birthday!
The mailbox has so many ideas that have helped me in the classroom. I have reccomended it to a new teacher I know.
I love Mailbox Magazine. Since I have started using the ideas I read in each issue my planning time has been cut and my lessons have been better.
I also really enjoy submitting ideas. It is really exciting to get an envelope from Mailbox.
I am busy with my latest copy of the Mailbox Companion. I am using so many of the ideas in my lesson plans. Keep up the great work.
I can hardly wait until the children see the car name tags. Connie H.
I finally got the school to buy the Mailbox for each grade level. I buy the Teacher’s Helper myself. They are great tools for new ideas each year. Hard to believe we are already getting ready for the next school year.
Hi Connie,
On the Mailbox Companion, you’ll find newsletters and many other forms (such as class lists, weekly planning sheets, and assignment forms) you can fill out and print. These pages are available to Mailbox subscribers and the art on the pages changes with each new issue.
Thanks for reading the blog!
Hope
I didn’t know I could type my newsletters on the website and print them off. How do I do that?
I get a lot of great ideas from Mailbox. I like to get the yearbooks at the end of the year. It saves me space as I don’t have to keep a lot of smaller magazines. I’ve got all the ideas for the year all together. But can I get the online tips and ideas to go with the yearbook?
I LOVE THESE BOOKS!!!! I will be going into my 3rd year teaching and they have saved me. I learn so many great ideas its amazing!!!!
Love the magazine,…the themes on the spines of each mag. make looking for themes/skills quick and easy! Love the posters, too!!!
I love the Mailbox. I would like to see a calendar of the themes for the year for planning my program.
I have been teaching for the past 32 years. From the begining Mailbox has added so much to my days. I enjoy all of the ideas shared and now the availability via the web. It is wonderful to have a place to go to help stretch beyond the curriculum bare bones.
I also love that even after all this time, I learn something new every issue.
Thank you!!!!
Lynda
I always get so excited when I receive a new Mailbox
magazine or Teacher’s Helper in the mail. I can’t wait to see all the new ideas and activities.
Thank you so much for all the ideas and time you put into the Mailbox book. It is extremely helpful in planning. I love the ideas!!
I order the Mailbox Magazines for our school. Our teachers love each issue and I often see the ideas used around the school.
I wish there was a way to make the magazine more durable. My first magazines are getting tattered and torn from all the use that it gets.
I can not get enough of the Mailbox books! Last year was my first year teaching and the magazine/books were a lifesaver. My students always enjoyed the activities. Thanks for being such a great resource for the, in my opinion, the best profession.
I love the Mailbox and Teacher Helper. I have been a member of the Mailbox for a long time and I still use some of the ideas from the first issue I ever recieved. I also use the Teacher Helper over and over each year. I like the new ideas that it gives me each year.
As a last-minute, first year teacher- I was so thankful for the Mailbox resources!
A great resource for carrying themes out throughout the classroom. Activities are also easy to accommodate different skill levels. I have been a subscriber since I started teaching nine years ago.
I started recieving Mailbox and Teacher Helper last year. As a teacher who moved to kinder from the upper elementary grades I really counted on Mailbox and Teacher Helper to get me through the year with all the great ideas. It helped make the year easier.
The MAilbox is a constant resource for me…..I can count on quality and grade appropriate resources…Thanks for the support…
I am new to the Mailbox. Although I’ve been teaching for about 10 years now, I was never really introduced to this magazine. It wasn’t until recently that I was at a teacher store that I stopped to browse one of the Mailbox issues and realized how good this magazine was. Well now I can honestly say that it will be one of my favorite resources for teaching my little ones!
The Mailbox magazine is great with lots of new ideas. The Mailbox Companion is wonderful, and I use it often to include the ideas for; songs, fingerplays, and activities with different age children. The children always look forward to the different things I bring.
As a first year teacher, The Mailbox gave me the boost I needed to have a smooth year. I appreciate the help and look forward to using it for years to come!
I started subscribing when I was in college. I got the primary for a few years and the intermediate for a few years. I have a nice collection. I used them as a private tutor for 14 years. I started subscribing again to the kindergarten teacher’s helper when I got a position teaching primary life skills children about 6 years ago. I just started another subscription this year as I now teach first grade. Thank you for all the great ideas and super worksheets that are fun and meaningful
I have fallen in love with mailbox. I was given some old issue 1996. They still had some great ideas. I just started to subscribe I just love all the extra online things you get as well. Thanks for a great teacher helper.
After teaching adults and High School students for 4 years, this year I have been moved to Kindergarden. Without The Mailbox I would have no idea where to start. Thanks so much for all of the ideas that are shared.
I’ve been getting MailBox magazine since starting my home daycare business 13 years ago and absolutely love it I dont know what I would do without it!
The Mailbox magazine has always been my favorite resource for teaching. It is easy to read, organized according to themes, and just plain fun!
The magazine is wonderful, but the other resource books that you offer also have been a huge help in planning activities for the classroom.
Congrats on 10 years!
I love using the Mailbox activities! They have helped me differentiate my instruction! Congratulations on 10 years!
As a first year teacher Mailbox Magazine and website were invaluable resources. I looked towards your publication for management ideas, which focused on positive reinforcement. As well as reproducibles which always visually engaged my students. As a bonus they additionally would integrate logic activities. Something which I found our curriculum was lacking.
I have been using the Mailbox and the Mailbox Teacher’s Helper since about 2–2-2003. I use it nearly daily. Use any and all of the ideas.
I used to use pre=packaged curriclum until I found you. I find the best thing about the Mailbox are simple follow directions. The easy to find items that I have on hand or am able to ask the parents and students to easily dontate from home. I am not running to specialty expensive stores trying to find “unusual” items. Couldn’t be any easier.
The other curriculums I used in the past were often too hard for the age reccommended or required hard to find items and often I didn’t use a quarter of the ideas because it was just too difficult all the way around. They sit on shelves collecting dust now.
Karen in IB
I have subscribed to the Mailbox for about 6 years and absolutely love it. I use at least one idea weekly in my classroom!
I teach preschool classes and LOVE your magazine. I also think it is good for birthday party ideas. Thanks for the great Mag!!!
I LOVE the mailbox! I have been a subscriber for a little over a year since starting my own home day care and I love the fresh new ideas each month and my kids (ages 2 years -4 years old) really LOVE all the fun activities we do from the mailbox. My parents are sooo impressed as well as to how quickly thier children are learning! I am a VERY happy customer and will continue to be a subscriber. This magazine is such an important part of my buisness! Thank you and keep those fresh new ideas coming
Wow! I can’t believe it’s really been 10 years. I love the Mailbox Companion. I am a preschool teacher and use many of the ideas, songs, fingerplays and recipes with my kids. The kids really love making the recipes but even more eating what they’ve made.
I’ve been a subscriber for 20 years! Can’t tell you how helpful the Companion has been!
Well, Congradulations and thank you. I have been a teacher for 9 years, in a all day preschool classroom. I have been subcribing to your magazine for most of that time. The ideas the I get in your magazine are always new and interesting for my students. I have all my magazines and books in a shelf at our school so other teachers can access them too. Thanks for putting out a quality magazine.
I don’t know what I do without the Mailbox! The activities and ideas definitely reforce many skills that the students have to learn. Thanks for everything!
I have been enjoying the online offerings. There’s more than the magazine available!
I love the art activities and the songs in the preschool mailbox.
Thanks for the e-mail about the contest. Congrats on 10 years!
Congrats on 10 years. I am a DIrector at a daycare center with children ages 6 wks to 12 years. We have been in business 11 years, so we know the excitement to reach that milestone. We have used mailbox magazine for all of our classrooms for many many years. We love the activities and ideas for classroom management. We have recommended your magazine to many of our parents and even to stay at home moms. You are doing a wonderful job and keep the ideas sharing! Thanks.
I am a new Pre-K teacher and Mailbox is a wonderful resource for me when making lesson plans. Thanks for all of the great ideas
I am crossing my fingers as I write this. I also never win at contests, but it is fun trying.
I relied on The Mailbox as a key resource during the seven years I taught fourth grade. Then I moved to kindergarten and loved using the Organize Now! series (in addition to the K edition of The Mailbox Magazine, of course). Now I’m switching grade levels once again. From past experience I know I can count on The Mailbox as a source for fresh ideas in my second grade classroom.
Mailbox Magazines and Resources are the best! Thank you for wonderful ideas that I can take straight to my classroom.
I have always thought that mailbox was an essential tool for preschool teachers.
The Mailbox for Pre-K is the Best! There are so many new ideas from recipes to learning centers to bulletin boards and more. Also, the online printables make my job so much easier.
This is my second year of teaching Kindergarten and I love the magazine! I can always find an idea to supplement a unit or reinforce a concept. I love having the online option for typing the alphabet on flashcards to typing my weekly newsletter and printing them right off the website.
I am returning to the classroom after nine years. My last position was Lead Teacher/Instructional Facilitator in a PreK - fifth grade elementary school. I needed to get back to my first love and that is a classroom teacher. I am so excited. I can’t wait until the first day of school. The first thing I did was subscribe to Mailbox when I learned the grade level that I would be teaching. I received my first issue today and have found many things that I will be using. WOW! Love the ready to use learning center games. Thanks Sharon for this wonderful instructional magazine. I know it will assist me through my new journey.
all their ideas are fantastic and great for teachers and the kids of course!
I am so glad I found this site!
It is the best magazine that is user friendly and allows imput from teachers and others in education. Covers all areas of learning and love the printable copies! KEEP UP THE GREAT JOB!!!
Love planning my week using my Mailbox magazine:)
A Giveaway from Mailbox Books, that’s AWESOME!!! Mailbox is an indispensible resource. THANK YOU!!!
Well I never win but it doesn’t hurt to try! I need new curriculum books for Fall - looking at the catalog now!
I saw this website from my school’s subscription of Bookbag magazine. I love this magazine and have shared it with my fellow classmates. I am getting great ideas for my summer tutoring session that is currently taking place. I will be doing my student teaching starting in August. I can’t wait to share these great ideas with my mentor teacher!
Thanks!
The ideas and activities I have introduced to my students from Mailbox have brought lots of fun and creativity into my classroom.
Mailbox made my transition from teaching third grade to teaching kindergarten much easier!
I love the Mailbox Magazine and books. This will be my second year teaching, I love the bulletin board books and the monthly idea books. Oh and the monthly printables are great, especially because you can fill them out online and then just print!
I love Mailbox magazine and books! I want to learn more about differentiating instruction. I would love to see a section about this in the magazine or on the website!
Always look forward to looking at the next edition. Ideas are fantastic!
I too love Mailbox. It always has great ideas!
I love all the hands-on activities and resources! It’s great to have a magazine just for teachers
Yay! What a good idea!
I just love the magazine and have been saving them for years. This summer I decided to organize them by months in 3-in binders so it will be easier to find seasonal ideas. It was worth all the work of removing the binding and punching holes in them. I am set for the new school year thanks to The Mailbox magazines.
I am so addicted to Mailbox. I was introduced to it in my internship. Now, I will have my first classroom and be able to use it over and over. So excited! Thanks Mailbox!
Mailbox is a lifesaver.
I’ve been using Mailbox forever! I love going through them and finding new ideas for bulletin boards, lessons and art. One of my favorite places to check is the back for ideas from readers. The online companion is a great added resource. Thank you so much!
Mailbox is the best! The teaching ideas are practical and easy to implement. I use the superbook and the magazine all the time and always find new and exciting ideas. I love it and my First and Second graders do too!
I love using your books and magazines in my classroom. I have used them ever since I began teaching and have developed quite a collection. The art projects are great and I love that many of them are process oriented to give my students a chance to make their artwork their own.
I love Mailbox Magazine! The ideas are easy and enjoyed by all of the children!!
I LOVE Mailbox, I use it to plan lessons and games all year long. When a new teacher comes into my school I introduce her to mailbox. They love it.
I love the mailbox! YOu get gread ideas that help you “think outside the box.”
Mailbox is a great resource for early learning. I enoy reading all the magazines and books. Thanks
I really love having Mailbox online. It is so nice to be able to find ideas for each month without having to drag out several books. I can just look online and copy what I want. Thanks
I love the Mailbox! I have used it in my classroom, in my homeschooling, and in my library storytimes. Thank you so much for so many creative and wonderful ideas! I recommend it to many families every week through my work at a public library. It has benefited many, many children! I love the idea that someone has donated their older copies to a nonprofit. I would also suggest donating them to your local library so that parents, tutors, and teachers check them out and use them with many more children! Thanks, Mailbox!
I love the Mailbox. I was introduced to it by a teacher who retired. She loved using some of the worksheets in them. The mailbox magazine has a wonderful array of subjects to work with.
I also love this free give-away!
I have used Mailbox since the 80’s! Recently I gave away all my old copies to a non-profit prek program that works with low income children. The program is grant funded and they don’t charge tuition-it’s an outreach program for a local church. The director and the teacher were ecstatic to receive them, and I was happy knowing that they were going to good hands who can definitely use them. Keep up the great work!
The Mailbox has been such a great teaching resource for me throughout the years. I hope all new teachers find this magazine before they step foot into a classroom because it sure will make life much easier and enjoyable!
I love it when my Mailbox subscription arrives and read it almost immediately. I have used many ideas and bulletin boards from the magazine. I am tutoring this summer and have used Writing ideas from the book. IT IS MY FAVORITE. Thank you for your ideas and hard work putting each issue together.
Mailbox has been a life saver to fill in the gaps of my lessons and for the great art and craft idaes
The Mailbox has proved to be a wonderful resource!
I love the mailbox and your opportunities to win prizes.
This is so great! Thanks for providing great ideas for teachers!
I love the mailbox magazines and books. Over the last 11 years or so I have been apart of the many publication members of the different items that are offered. I am a mentor teacher and I pass along the insert cards to all my new teachers. Thank you for a wonderful company that offers so much to teachers.
I really appreciate the games and ready to use pages in the Mailbox. However, I wish that you would leave the other side of a game or pull-out sheet blank. I do remember to make a copy of the back-side but it often gets lost. Perhaps you have some suggestions about that. Thanks
I love Mailbox! I have been using it since I started teaching in the mid-1980’s. I am now passing the issues on to my daughter, who will be a first year teacher when school starts this fall. Thanks for the contest!
I love The Mailbox! Thanks for providing such fun resources!
Love the ideas I get here — thanks!
I love the mailbox. I have been getting it since 1983 when a friend gave me the reply card and I was just starting out.
I know give the reply card to all the Student Teachers that I mentor and help. Sometimes giving them a subscription for when they graduate.
I love mailbox books and really hope that this year I get picked. I have a huge wishlist of titles that I need.
I love all the wonderful ideas that Mailbox has given me over the years. I recommend it to all new teachers!
This is encouraging-prizes just for us! We live on praises but prizes are great since we use a large percentage of our own money buying idea books and materials to keep us on our toes, excited about teaching and ready to spread that inspiration to our students………….we want to be incredible lights in our students lives and you are helping us be all that!!
Thank you so much Mailbox staff for offering us giveaways when financially teachers are spending more and more of their hard earned cash in their own classrooms to better the education of their students. Without your magazine and publications, we’d be in more of a ‘pinch’ then we already are to find great resources that don’t cost an arm and a leg! Thank you again!
Ilook forward each month for the new mailbox. Iam now a media specialist and many teachers look forward to it as well.There are always catchy ideas to introduce skills.
Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas. I have been using mailbox since my first child care job in 91′ I continue to enjoy the magazine and companion site with my home child care today. Once again a big thank you for making teaching fun.
I have already been entering to win! I love the Mailbox and I especially love the on-line extensions. It is a wonderful resource to be able to make a few clicks and get great activities. How convenient!
Thanks for all these contests! It’s wonderful that The Mailbox provides such wonderful resources and gives back by providing these awesome opportunities to win!
I LOVE the Mailbox!!! So many incredible resources in one place! Thanks for the giveaway and all of your support for teachers!
Your teaching ideas and tips are so helpful to me. Thanks for the contests.
it is a little unfair that those of us who do not live in the u.s.a are not eligible to enter the contests. living in europe, and supporting the mailbox should also give us opportunities….too bad.
look forward to reading the blog and the contests are a great incentitive.thanks for all the great tips everyone!mv
So excited for this contest - thank you, Mailbox! I love all of the quick and easy ideas I can implement in my classroom — you guys help make this job a bit easier!
I love my mailbox. It is the best resource available for Early Childhood Educators. I especially appreciate the online resources. Keep up the good work!
The Mailbox always gets me excited about teaching!! Thanks!!
There are so many good ideas in Mailox … thank you. Also, thanks for this contest. W/ resources everywhere being cut, every bit of help elsewhere counts.
Pick me!
I’m always fascinated with the content of the magazine.
I have used ideas from your magazines since I started teaching in 1980 and you have never failed to give me some marvelous ideas. The Companion was a wonderful addition to your myriad of ideas and so convenient too. Thank you so much.
Thanks you so much! Every little bit helps to stretch the budget! Not to mention the awesome quality of what you do. Thanks Mailbox!
I love looking at The Mailbox. It has great ideas for every day. I like checking all my old ones, too, because sometimes you find just the right thing for a different month. It’s a gret classroom tool.
The Mailbox is an excellent source for bulletin board ideas. I always search the Mailbox for my Fall bulletin board.
Thanks for the giveaway! Mailbox never fails me when I need that ONE special idea to reach that ONE special students :}