Giggle your way through the holiday season with the spirited (and very amusing!) new book Deck the Walls: A Wacky Christmas Carol, by Erin Dealey. Check it out at Sleeping Bear Press—or WIN my copy when you submit a comment to this week’s blog post. Submit your comment by 11:59 PM EST on Monday, December 9, 2013, for your chance to win. Good luck (or should I say, fa-la-la-la-la?)! (Update: congratulations to Jennifer H., who is our winner!)
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Do you have your entries ready for the 2014 Animal Action contest from the International Fund for Animal Welfare? Students ages 4−18 are eligible to enter by writing on the theme “Imagine a world without animals” or submitting artwork depicting animals protected by the IFAW. Entries are due January 31, 2014. Get details and an entry form at ifaw.org/animal-action-contest.
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Happy birthday to Flat Stanley! Everyone’s favorite human pancake is celebrating his 50th birthday, and you and your students can join in the fun. Visit flatstanleybooks.com to get free Common Core–aligned activities, geography-themed projects, the 50th anniversary template, and more! ****************************************************************
Teach kids how to be safe while online. Using animated videos, eBooks, games, and more, this free website from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children teaches kids about key online safety issues, such as cyberbullying and online predators. The free 
Online Safety Education Kit has versions for grades K–5 and 6–8 and features lesson plans, pledges, a video presentation, a poster, and more. It’s all at NetSmartz.org/kit.
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Registration opens this month for the International Reading Association 59th Annual Conference. The theme is “Reading…The Teacha
ble Moment.” You’ll have a chance to hear authors Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series) and Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants series) along with dozens of other authors, researchers, educators, and experts. Find out more at iraconference.org.
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Dive into learning about the amazing diversity of animals with free resources available from SeaWorld.com/teachers. You’ll find dozens of teacher guides and classroom activities plus amazing episodes of ShamuTV. If that’s not enough, there are dozens more free materials coming in the new year. Check it out!
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Good luck in this week’s giveaway!
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I’m sure my students would love the book. i already take advantage of the information from the IFAW organization and Sea world and it is great! Our school corporation has adopted the Online Safety Information Kit to use with students at all levels.
This sounds like a fabulous cross-curricular book. I’m sure my Music teacher as well as classroom reading teachers would love to collaborate with this book. I know the students would love to read this in the library as well. Can’t wait to add this to the Holiday Section of our school library!
Thanks for sharing the great resources. I have sent for the internet safety kit and bookmarked the Flat Stanley site.
This would be a perfect read for my one little guy ready to move beyond the reading series. Thanks for the chance to win it!
A wacky Christmas Carol? I’ve been looking for a version of the Christmas Carol that isn’t so scary for kids. The ghost of Christmas Past gave me nightmares as a kid.
I love Flat Stanley and will be using this resource. Love the book and cant wait to read it.
Deck the Walls looks like a light and entertaining book my kids would love!
Deck the Walls sounds fun. We had Jeff Brown’s son visit our first grade class last year. One of the students’ family knows him. He came and talked about how his dad started the Flat Stanley stories. One of those memories that will stay with them forever.
I just love new Christmas books and can’t wait to read “Deck the Walls.” I know my students will love it.
We are always looking for new holiday books in my house. We never seem to have enough.
Deck the Walls sounds like a perfect book to share with a group of Head start Kids.
My daughter would absolutely LOVE this book!!! Looks adorable to read!!
Love the book. My son will too!
The book sounds amazing!
I hope that this is where I am suppose to leave a comment in order for a chance to win the book “Deck the Walls”. This book looks like a fun and exciting teaching tool. I would love to have it to share with my class.
I would love to win this for my grandkids.
My kids would love this!!
This book looks so fun! can’t wait until my kids get to read it…They’re going to love it!
My daycare kids would love to hear this book! It looks like a great read.
Looks like a lot of fun!
Would LOVE to win a copy of “Deck the Walls”…sure my class would love to hear this story too!
Love this book!! I would love to share it with my classroom students and new born babe!
I would love to read it, I just downloaded fluency readers from Teacher pay teacher of Holiday songs, this would be a great way to introduce them.
I would love to win this book to read to my son Jameson!
I read books to my daycare kids everyday, but when it is Christmas season sometimes we read books ALL day long!!! We would love to add this amazing book to our collection !!!
Thank you,
In The Beginning Child Care
I would LOVE this book!
I would love to win a copy of this book to read to my preschoolers. I loved the blog. Gave me a few nice resources. I’m a new teacher so those really help me. Thanks.
Would love to add “Deck the Walls” to my teaching collection. Know my grandchildren would love to pull it out and climb up for a good read.
I know my kids would love to read this!!!! I would love to read this!!!!!
I would love to win Deck the Walls for my classroom and my two beautiful grand daughters!!
Looks like a funtastic book that would appeal to many young readers!
Looks like a fun book to read to get through the last week before break.
As a new teacher that just finished student teaching, I would love to win a copy of this book. I need to build up my library!
I can’t wait, so I am just going to buy my own copy for my classroom and my grandbabies!
Would love to win a copy of Deck the Walls and read it to my class.
Looks cute! We love holiday books!
It would be great to win a copy of Deck the Walls to share the holidays with my students and have them write and publish their own wacky holiday tales!
I would love the chance to win this book. My students would really enjoy it.
I love books and Christmas books are my favorite by far.
I would love to win the Deck the Walls. What a great addition to my collection that would be!
Would love this book for my kids and my classroom too!!
I would love to win a copy of this book for my classroom!!!
Can’t wait to read it!
Looks very fun. Would love to share this with the class and my children!
Would love to win this for my girls! Looks so cute!!
Absolutely love new books to read to my preschool children. With the right voice, body movement(s) and enthusiasm, the book comes alive for them!
Hi,
I’m the Assistant at the Amarillo Wesley Community Center and I am always looking for good books for our kiddos. We are on a limited budget and sometimes we can’t afford to purchase new books for our Resource Library. Sometimes the teachers themselves purchase new books that come out for their classrooms. We would greatly welcome a new book for our classrooms, especially a Christmas story.
The word “wacky” will attract kids to the book when seeing it on the shelf! No matter how old the kids are they always enjoy holiday stories both old and new.
My son would love this book!!
My k-5 students would love this wacky book!
What a cute book to have for Christmas!
Pick me!!
I would love this book for my classroom!
This would be a great book for my son 🙂
My kids would love this book!
I know my third graders would enjoy this “wacky” book.
Reading this book to the preschoolers certainly would generate a lively discussion at story time. 🙂
Another book to add to the list of must reads during the Holiday season!
My NCPK class would truly benefit from books. This is a great story and would love for them to win it!
Love it.
The children at my learning center ages 2 1/2 to 5 year olds wily love this book!
Deck the Walls, A Wacky Christmas Carol looks Luke a great spin on the Dicken’s classic. Always like to have a variety of Holiday books. Merry Xmas:)
Would love to win for my daughter!
My Pre-K kids would love Deck the Walls. The book sounds like a great way to share the Christmas spirit! Also we love to laugh!!
My kiddos would love this book!!
We would love to win a copy of this book. My daycare kiddos and I are already trying to imagine what wording could be used in this book and making up our own lyrics. Thanks for the inspiration. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
This book was really get my students into the Christmas mood:) I would love a copy!
Today for spirit week we are having wacky, tacky Tuesday. My students would love to hear this wacky tale!
My 8th graders would get a kick out of this book. I love to show them how authors can take a classic and make it their own!
My students and grandchildren would love this book!
Looks so funny! Would love it for school!
Would love to have this for my class. Looks great.
Would love to read this book to my class.
Would love to share book with my students!
I love this book. My students do, too. Any book that uses humor to get its message across is terrific!
Deck the walls of our school hallways falalalala lala la la! See the way our students all play! falalalala lala la la! I would love to win this book today falala lalala la la la Here’s my chance let’s see what they say falalalala la la la la!!!! 😀
This book looks very cute! Would love to have it!
Love funny family Christmas stories!
Would love to read this book to my class. I am always on the lookout for new books.
Nice change from the usual holiday books. Well done!
I would love to share this book with my students at St. Michael the Archangel School in Baltimore, Maryland!
Looks like a great book. I would love to share with my class.
I would love to own this book. I teach Preschool, and I try to teach the children to love books as much as I do. I also have 7 (yes 7) grandsons under the age of 8. And they love books too. So, I hope I’m picked so I can Read this book to all my children! Thanks, Sandra
Would lovvvvvvvvvvvvvve this for my 1st graders!
We need so many sillies this time of year.
Love when books are published with a fun take on an old tune!
Would love this to read to all my ESL kids! K-5
I love books like this! So fun to sing them to my class! Hope I win!
I would love to read this story to my class at school!
Looks like a great new Christmas book!
would love to have this for my preschool! It sounds adorable!
This would be a great addition to my holiday library!
Thanks for the interesting information! Would love the book!
Looks like it would be fun to read this to my class! Cover looks great! 🙂
Thank you for the online safety resoucre!
I love Flat Stanley! And I know I would love the free book!!!!!!!!
I just lov reading to my class! They would love this!!
I work with special needs children and they love when we read to them all they want to hear now id Christmas stories would love a new one to read to them.
My class would love this book! We have so much fun in group reading time.
I would love this for my Kindergarten class. We love to compare stories so this would definitely get our creative juices flowing!
I would LOVE to share this book with my students as we prepare for Christmas. They enjoy being read to!
I love books…free are the best deal ever! Thanks for sharing the love of books..books…books!
Looks cute…could use it in my classroom!
Oh, we go from Deck the Halls to Deck the Walls!!!!
I want this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book looks awesome!
Love books especially free ones. I have been reading between 6-8 books every day to my class and they keep asking for more.
Sounds lie the perfect book for the holidays!!!
So want a copy of this book for free!
Who doesn’t love a little humor at the holidays?
Looks like a great book!!! I would love to win it!
Looks like a great story to read this year,
This would be a great book for my third grade classroom! -Victoria
I love reading humorous books to my students!
Looks like a wonderful book! Perfect for the holidays!
As an English (special education) teacher, I love books!!
This looks like a hilarious book! I would love to read it to my class.
This looks like such a cute book!
It looks like a great book!
This looks like a great book for the holidays!
Would love to have this fun book for my classroom!
looks so cute!
My kinder kiddos would love this book!
I love this time of year and what a great way to get kids into the fun of season while reading.
I could use a copy! 🙂
Would love to win!
I love your blog post and would love to win a copy of Deck the Wall for my class! Happy Holidays!
This would be so perfect for my classroom! Because sometimes you just have to be a little wacky to learn! Looks like a great book to share with the class before the holidays and after Benchmark testing. Still using all the great Mailbox magazines for lessons and bulletin boards.
It looks like a wonderful book for the holiday season and one that will be full of chuckles!
Would love to have this fun book for my classroom!!!
this would be a welcome addition to my classroom
I would love to win the book for my school library. I am always looking for new fun holiday books.
Looks adorable!
this looks so fun for my second graders to enjoy over and over again.
This looks like a great book to get the kids into the holiday spirit! My fourth graders would love it!
Looks like a super fun book, thanks for the chance!
Oh, this book needs to be in my collection!! 🙂
I would love to win this book and read it to my students.
Cute book! Need it for the elementary library! Deck the shelves with Christmas books. Fa-la-la-la-la!
I would love this book for my classroom. My students love read alouds.
I will be ordering a copy of this book for my classroom library, for sure. It looks terrific! I teach second grade in Newtown, CT and know my students will thoroughly enjoy this book’s humor!! I will pass the title along to my colleagues as well 🙂 Thank you!
This looks like a fun book to add to my collection!
We would love this for our classroom!
Would love to read this to my students and my own children!
I am sure my 1st graders would love this book!
This looks like a great book.
Looks like a fun book! Would love to read this to my class!
I would love to have this book for my head start 3 and 4 year old students!
My K3 children would love this book!
Love new books for my class!!!
I can’t wait to read it! It looks like a Christmas book that learning activities could bloom from.
I would love to read this book to my kids. I love reading books to my students.
This sounds like a great and funny book to
read to my preschool class.
I would love a copy especially since at our school, every teacher and staff member just got finished decking our walls last evening to get in the holiday spirit. This would be a perfect read aloud!!
Ware Elementary – 1st grade
Fort Riley, KS
Tis the season to read read read
Santa says we’ve been very nice so please send us a book to share.
Can’t wait to read this adorable book! I also can’t wait to WIN it!!!
Would be nice to win for my head start classroom, we don’t have very many books and always love adding new books that the children wouldn’t normally get to enjoy.
This would be the perfect book for my kiddos.
My class would love this book!
My class would love this book,
I would love this! I visit a second grade classroom everyday, 2 third grade classes on alternating days and a fourth grade class once a week!
My SPED students would love this book – they love to laugh!
The kids will love this one!
This looks like a fun book for my kinders. I would love to have it. Thanks for sharing!!
My students love it when I read to them.
This looks like a great book to have in my classroom. I love picture books!
Looks like a great book. I’d love to win it!
My class would love this book!
i would also love a new christmas book — it looks like a cute story!
Would love to win this to use with my kindergarteners!
Looks like a very fun book to read with children!
This would be awesome for my kids with autism!! Hope I win!
If I win I will sing,”fa-la-la-la-la–la-la-la-la!” to my class!
This looks like a really fun book and I would love to read it to the children.
Love holiday books and this looks to be a great addition! I’m sure my first graders would love it!
Would love to win! Thanks!
Thank you for the opportunity to win and also for listing great teacher resources!
Awesome book for the kids to enjoy!
if it is a Christmas book it has to be good
We are having a winter wonderland at our school and I am reading to the students .They would love this strory.
I teach and have 4 children of my own, everyone would love this story!!!!
I am a preschool teacher, my students would be so excited to win this book!
As a librarian, I am always looking for new titles. Plus, I love sleeping bear press. They are awesome publishers.
This looks like a very fun book for my 3/4s,4/5s, and TK class 🙂
Mary
My 2nd grade students would love this book!!!
This looks like a fabulous title that I would love to share in Kindergarten. I am just beginning my teaching journey and always love a new story to add to my little collection. 🙂
Love this! Perfect book for a wacky (but lovable) class!
Sounds like a winner!!
My Childcare children would love a new Christmas book.
My 1st & 2nd grader will enjoy this awesome book. They will have much fun.
Thanks for offering this giveaway. 🙂
I purchase at least 20 books each year to add to the classroom library/themed units. I would be so grateful if I could win a copy of Deck the Walls to add to my holiday books.
Love Christmas books!! esp since I read so many in first grade!
I have never gotten a chance to read this book yet. I would love to share this with my class! Thank you for the chance to win! Happy Holidays!
I think my students would love listening to this book. I would really like to add this to my classroom collection.
I too like to add new books each year to my classroom library. I especially like to add humorous tales
Even 6th graders enjoy having books read aloud – especially humorous ones! I would enjoy having this book to add to my classroom library.
Fa, la,la,la and hapy holidays for all. The new book is cute.We all need to laugh in this one of the most stressful times of the year.