What do a kitten, suffragists, and surviving pups have to do with your classroom? They’re “purr-fect” for offering a different perspective on current events and taking your students on reading adventures—and you can win the books!
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Post a comment to this blog no later than 11:59 pm EDT on August 28, 2016, to tell me which of the items below are your favorites. From the comments, I’ll randomly select one teacher to win Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles, a true story about suffragists Alice Burke and Nell Richardson. (Update: congratulations to Nicole, who is the winner of our prize.)
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Then get ready for another wild reading adventure. You could be one of 15 teachers to win 20 copies of Survivors: The Gathering Darkness—A Pack Divided. It’s book 1 in the new Erin Hunter series about the Survivors dogs. Kids ages 8–12 won’t want to miss this book! Enter here.
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Grades K–5 teachers, this freebie is perfect for you during the election season. Get a “How to Become President of the US” poster that maps the election process from start to finish along with a free lesson plan. Plus download a free video on becoming the president. Click here.
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Here’s one more tip: help your school earn funds through Flower Power—a fuss-free fundraiser that lets your school earn a 50% profit on every sale. Plus the products ship directly to your supporters—no packing or delivering on your part. Click here to request a free information kit.
Don’t forget to tell me which items are your favorites for a chance to win the suffragists book!
Fingers-crossed for you,
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PS: Two $50 cards are being given away at LearningMagazine.com—one for Lakeshore Learning and one for Oriental Trading. Be sure to enter! Click here.
My favorite would be: Around America To Win The Vote. Two great and brave women across trek spreading these beautiful words: Vote for women!!
I have to say Around America to Win the Vote sounds fabulous. I’d love to add it to my library. The free election poster is awesome, too!
“Around America to Win the Vote” would be awesome especially this year when teaching students about the election process for November. I also love the Election poster and lesson that comes with it. !
Survivors sounds very cool. The kids would love it. And I love the flower power fundraising
They all look super, but the Around America book sounds so intriguing!
With the election coming soon, I signed up to receive a poster of “How to become President of the US”. In Kindergarten we also learn about America so this will be useful later in the year as well.
I am looking forward to experiencing this election season with my classroom. I signed up for the “How to Become President of the US” poster as another teaching tool for this important lesson. Thanks!
Around America to Win the Vote is my favorite.
“Around America to Win the Vote” sounds great!
I love the Around America to Win the Vote! So fun!
I really like the election map. What a way to engage kids for this election season.
Around America to Vote!
Around America to Vote sounds really good.
I would love to win Around America to Vote! This would be a great book to share with my kids :). Thanks for the giveaway!
I like the Around America to Win the Vote book!
Around America to Win!!
My favorite would be the “Around the America to win the Votes”.
I’m teaching language arts this year as well as social studies. “Around America to Win the Vote” would be so helpful to help my team teacher friend and me teach students about the struggle for women, so I’m “Replying to the Blog to Win the Book-Two Teachers, A Cup of Coffee, and 10,000 Hours Planning for Kids”……
I would choose Around America to Win the Vote. The story is so cute and engaging for students!
What a neat book!
Oh, they all look wonderful. But since it’s an election year, anything extra to help the students understand why voting is so important would be much appreciated. So my vote would be for Around the World to Win the Vote.
Around America to Vote!
I like Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles . . . our kids need to read about strong characters with purpose and mission!
Definitely Around America to Vote!
Around America to Vote !
Around America to Win the Vote would be a great addition to our classroom library.
My favorite is the election map. I teach fifth grade social studies and this is a great addition to any unit on the electoral college.
My husband’s grandmother was alive when the 19th Amendment passed, and she still votes at every election. I would choose the “Around America” book; I’d like to read it and share it with Grandma and my students.
To show my 2nd graders that history is living and can be fun through wonderful storytelling is ALWAYS something I love to see and use in the classroom. Although animals are often top choices in their book bins, I would love to slip a copy of Across America to Win the Vote. Thanks!
I would love to have any of them but I have to agree, Around America to Win the Vote sounds like the most likely to be used this fall to explain the election process. I work with homebound special needs students and I am always looking for ways to explain concepts like this easily to them. My students are primarily on pre-k to K level and they can relate to more easily to ideas like this if they are explained in this fashion.
Wow! Both books look great! I think the Across America to Win the Vote would be very interesting and relevant to students right now. Thanks for the info! -Rachel
Survivors would be a great book for my students to read in small group.
A kitten, suffragists, and surviving pups are three favorite topics of mine and now they are all in one book!
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles, looks like a great book to teach about several subjects. I would love to own a copy.
I feel it is very important for children to realize how precious our civil rights, including voting rights are. We are so lucky in the United States to have a constitution that guarantees those rights, and thanks to the suffragists for risking so much to earn those rights for women! They endured so many hardships. The book would be a great addition to our school library for all students to check out. I also love the poster for the election process to be easily explained.
I would be excited to share the story Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten and 10,000 Miles. This book would be a great way to introduce ideas about voting and our freedoms to the younger children.
Around America to Win the Vote sounds like such a fun book to have in your classroom library! Survivor though sounds like a book the boys in my class might like!