Outstanding October Events

Here’s a quick rundown of events coming up next week. These are too important to miss!

The week of October 19–24, 2009, is Stand Up for Kids: National Safe Schools Week. You’ll find lots of child and school safety resources at InvestigationDiscovery.com/StandUpForKids.
Did you know that Tuesday, October 20, 2009, is the National Day on Writing? Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, this event celebrates the integral role writing plays in our daily lives. Submit a piece of your students’ writing—or your own writing—to the National Gallery of Writing or find out how other classrooms will mark the day. It’s all at www.ncte.org/dayonwriting.

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Mark your calendar for Homework Day on Wednesday, October 21, 2009. That’s the day that a live, interactive Web event will showcase a new Web-based tool called Wolfram|Alpha. The site is different than a search engine: it’s a computational knowledge engine. To find out more, visit http://homeworkday.wolframalpha.com/ and see the difference!

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Enter to win a classroom technology package, valued at over $5,000, from the Turning Foundation. The package includes products from Turning Technologies, Study Island, and Performance Matters. Teachers of grades 3–8 are eligible. The contest ends October 25, 2009. Enter at www.TurningTechnologies.com/K12Grant. Fifteen classrooms will win!

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Karen

PS: My office is overflowing with new children’s books! Post a comment on this blog and be entered for a chance to WIN a prize pack of five new hardcover books. Hurry; the contest ends Monday, October 19!


11 thoughts on “Outstanding October Events

  1. I am a new subscriber and I love this site. It has so many useful ideas and I like the current events listed and they will be useful in our classroom. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the useful resources.

    Thanks,
    Mrs. Lee-Flax

  2. I am a new subscriber and I love this site. It has so many useful ideas and I like the current events listed and they will be useful in our classroom. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the useful resources.

    Thanks,
    Mrs. Lee-Flax

  3. I am a new subscriber and I love this site. It has so many useful ideas and I like the current events listed and they will be useful in our classroom. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the useful resources.

    Thanks,
    Mrs. Lee-Flax

  4. I am a new subscriber and I love this site. It has so many useful ideas and I like the current events listed and they will be useful in our classroom. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the useful resources.

    Thanks,
    Mrs. Lee-Flax

  5. I am a new subscriber and I love this site. It has so many useful ideas and I like the current events listed and they will be useful in our classroom. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the useful resources.

    Thanks,
    Mrs. Lee-Flax

  6. I am always searching for bigger and better ideas for my classroom. When I stumbled across this blog I was really excited to have an additional resource. Thank you!

  7. I love your site. I do family childcare and my daughter is a teacher .I would love to win the books. Thank you for a great site.Susan

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  9. What a great discovery! I had never been to this site so I am enthusiastic about what is to come. Thanks for all of your effort.

  10. Great ideas. I’d love to win the free books, my daughter is doing her student teaching and is so excited. It’s fun to share my career and love of teaching and students with her. She’s trying to build up her own library, this would be a great addition.

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