A Celebration and a Giveaway!
Posted by Diane Badden on 15 Dec 2010 | Posted in: Drawings and Giveaways, Holiday and Seasonal
Drumroll, please! Ba-da-ba-da-boom! Today I have two spectacular announcements!
First, this is the 300th post on The Mailbox blog. Ta-da, yahoo, and a great big thanks to you for being a valued member of our online community. You’ve made The Mailbox blog the place for teachers across the country (and from other parts of the world!) to come for teaching ideas, suggestions, and inspiration. Your input is very much appreciated. Thank you!
In addition to celebrating our 300th post, today also marks our final giveaway of the holiday season. For this double celebration, I am cleaning out my prize closet. 
Every time we get ten new commenters on this post, we’ll give away one prize. This means you have a one-in-ten chance of winning! What types of prizes are cluttering up my closet? Let’s see! I have a $20 gift certificate for The Mailbox, a book from The Mailbox Books, a minisubscription (three issues) to The Mailbox magazine, stickers and notepads, lotions and such for overworked teachers, and copy paper. Ready to win?
Here’s today’s topic! What teaching themes, topics, or skills are you planning for the month of January? Please include your grade level in your comment. And, just for fun, include your state or country too!
Ready, set, share!
Diane
PS: The giveaway concludes at the end of Sunday, December 19.
Congratulations to all six of our winners! That’s Jessica R., Linda E., Nancy H., Kay K., Ronda T., and Dana. Check your inboxes for prize information, and thanks for commenting!
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I teach Kindergarten and our major themes we are going to talk about are winter, Martin Luther King, Jr., and 100th day. My students are looking forward to creating take home booklets.
I teach grade 4 in MA. We will read biographies and continue to study ecosystems and habitats. The kids love doing the animal project they will present in mid-January. Thanks for all the great ideas!
Hello!
I am a teacher at a small, private school in Greenville, SC that uses the curriculum Core Knowledge. I teach a combined 3rd/4th grade class, which of course presents a whole new set of challenges.
In our curriculum, I will be teaching the 4th graders about China’s Dynasties and the 3rd graders about the 13 Colonies. I have freedom within my language arts especially, and I teach the grades as a whole group during this time. We will be diving into figurative language next month, which will in turn lead us to poetry to put the figurative language in practice. This is always such a fun unit because after teaching it, for the remainder of the year we track how many examples of figurative language we can find throughout our reading.
We will be studying the founding of our nation’s government including the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution and all the compromises that went into it. Students will also study biographies and folk tales.
This will be my first year teaching in Australia after having taught for 6 years in the US. The school year starts in February so I won’t have kids in January, but in Feb, I’ll look forward to teaching ‘Back to School’! It will be strange for February for me, but I’m looking forward to it
I’ll look forward to teaching winter themes in June/July!
Happy Holidays!!
I am working on snow, cold, and penguins, like so many others. We are also going to do gingerbread men. The different stories, the cookies, (including, but not limited to graphing what part of the cookie do you bite into first? And, we will make a large cookie that will mysteriously run from our oven, and we will have to go in and out of different classrooms to see where it runs to.)
I teach preschool in Missouri. Our first theme will be snowman and winter. Then we will go back to our alphabet weekly themes. Which we will start back with letter h.
I teach kindergarten in Missouri. January will be a fun-filled month of learning as we sing songs, read stories and participate in lots of activities centered around the following themes: winter, mittens, penguins, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the 100th day of school.
In kindergarten we will be working on the season of winter. We include the mitten in several versions to compare and contrast on a large mitten. We will also study the emperor penguin and try to pass eggs from one set of feet to another. We will compare our size to the adult penguin.
We will make pattern block snowflakes and make snow to play with in our sand table.
The kids love to learn about penguins and snow. We have a snowball fight at least twice in January. (We use cotton balls)
I teach preschool and we will be discussing Snow and winter and using Jan Brett’s book the Mitten to help us also discuss small/big and in/out.
In January the themes will include New Year & what it means, Arctic Animals, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and beginning book reports. I also have the joy of assessing students individually for the end of the 2nd 9 weeks. I teach first grade in North Carolina.
We’ll start with New Years, a science unit on Matter, learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, a unit on winter weather, a begin looking at rhyming words and word families!