Gobble Up These Freebies—Plus Enter to WIN!

Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Forget about it! We have freebies for teachers every day at Learning magazine. Check out this assortment of fun prizes and great offers. Plus submit a comment to our blog by 11:59 PM EST on Monday, December 2, 2013, for a chance to win my copy of When It Snows from Feiwel & Friends. This magical book sets the mood for winter fun and learning. (Update: congratulations to Darlene, who was our winner!)
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Time is running out to enter the School Rocks Sweepstakes from Chuck E. Cheese’s. One lucky teacher will win a $250 Chuck E. Cheese’s gift card and an iPad Mini; two runners-up will each win a $25 Chuck E. Cheese’s gift card. Plus you’ll find out more about school fundraising through Chuck E. Cheese’s—15 percent of event sales generated by friends and family members go to your school. Your school gets a visit from Chuck E. Cheese on the day of the event, free promotional materials, and a free meal for each teacher attending. Schools have raised over $10 million! Click here to enter the contest and learn more. Hurry, this contest ends November 30, 2013!
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This is the perfect season to get students thinking about children around the world. Transport students to a few of the countries where Smile Train works—and teach them about the life-changing cleft surgeries that Smile Train delivers. When you set up a school fundraising campaign, you can request donation boxes, rubber wristbands, posters, and more—all for free. Click here to learn more!
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An entire early childhood curriculum for free? Yes! Check out ABC Mouse, which offers more than 3,000 free activities covering literacy, math, science, social studies, art, music, and more. The interactive games and puzzles are sure to be popular with little learners! To sign up, visit abcmouse.com/schools.
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Get ready to Teach Happy for the Holidays—with a little help from PURELL Advanced Hand Sanitizer. Enter to win a $200 Amazon gift card, $200 of PURELL Advanced Hand Sanitizer, and $100 of PURELL Advanced Hand Sanitizer for the charity of your choice. Plus there’s a free Germ Spotter quiz designed especially for classrooms, games and puzzles to reinforce good hand hygiene during the busy (and germy!) holiday season, a flu survival guide, and much more. It’s all at TheMailbox.com/teachhappy. Enter now!
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The 2014 Toshiba ExploraVision awards program is underway! The competition is all about helping students build problem-solving, critical-thinking, and collaboration skills. Students can win savings bonds, a trip to Washington, DC, and much more. Register your team and get all the details at exploravision.org.
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Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group has a new Common Core Central website and brochure created by educators. You’ll find themed book clusters; more than 75 books from award-winning authors and illustrators; teaching ideas to make Common Core connections; and Lexile measures. Get it all at mackids.com/commoncore. It’s free!
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Don’t forget, send your comment right now to be entered into our drawing!