Start Your School Year With Friendship, Acceptance, Plus TWO Chances to Win $500 in CASH!

Go ahead. Make your classroom wishlist. Why? You have two chances to win $500 in cash! Plus I have other exciting opportunities for you, plenty of free resources, and a chance to win three brand-new books on friendship and acceptance to help you set a positive tone in your classroom.

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Submit a comment to the blog by 11:59 pm EDT Sunday, August 30, 2015, to tell me which of the contests and freebies below are your favorites. If your name is randomly chosen from the comments, these books will be yours!

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New from Mo Willems, The Story of Diva and Flea features two unlikely friends—a small yet brave dog and a curious streetwise cat—as they explore their very different worlds. Then who will enjoy the sweet taste of victory as best friends race for the last drop of syrup in Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast? Encourage your students to celebrate the one-of-a-kind skin they’re in with Happy in Our Skin.  (Update: congratulations to Lisa, who is the winner of our prize.)

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Check this out. We transformed a humble egg shell into a sparkly, crystal-encrusted geode. You can do this with your students too—it’s one of the free “eggceptionally” fun science experiments at TheMailbox.com/goodegg. You’ll find dozens of free resources—preschool units, grades K–9 Common Core–aligned ideas and worksheets, and more—for your idea file! Plus be sure to enter the sweepstakes. You could be the grand-prize winner of $500 cash and an egg-themed prize pack! Get it all here.

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Did you know there’s a huge library of free videos and interviewsmore than 1,000 of them—available to introduce your students to famous people? They include US presidents, scientists, activists, Holocaust survivors, and many more. Tap into the videos and then enter to win $500 or one of 25 class sets of 30 Studies Weekly subscriptions. These units let you combine social studies and science with your state’s language arts standards. With all the lesson plans, extension activities, and quizzes provided, there’s almost no prep time! Log on to TheMailbox.com/studiesweekly.

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These monsters are big and hairy but not very scary—and they’re part of ABC Monsters, a new DVD series that engages and teaches preschoolers. The monsters—there’s one for each letter of the alphabet—are curious and happy and tend to wander off. If one is missing at the end of the day, all the letters are wiped clean from every book in Capital Town. The series is premiering with a DVD starring A, B, C, and D. Click here to learn more.

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How do you get your preschool through grade 2 students excited about reading? For starters, it helps if you have an engaging story featuring favorite characters. Get recommendations for fresh new tales, nonfiction, and more—featuring favorites like the Peanuts gang, Daniel Tiger, the Doozers, and more—along with leveling from Rising Star to Megastar. Click here to see them all.

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Relevant national standards and 21st-century best practices—that’s what you can expect from American Public University’s graduate degree and certificate programs. All classes are online, and onsite requirements can be met at your home school. That means you can get your degree while balancing your commitments at home and work—and if your schedule is anything like mine, it’s great to have support for this balancing act! Click here to see your options.

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Don’t forget; submit a comment to tell me your favorites for a chance to win the books!

Karen

11 thoughts on “Start Your School Year With Friendship, Acceptance, Plus TWO Chances to Win $500 in CASH!

  1. Absolutely love the resources in this blog. I am thrilled with the good egg and the ready to read and loved looking at them and entering. Love the books chosen for the prize. Yay a great way to start the year off.

  2. I always love to see the links in this blog. I have been introduced to so many wonderful resources that I may not have known about. Thank you for offering such great prizes as well!

  3. I love the story Happy in Our Skin. This is a message we keep telling children, now it is nice to have a mentor text to go with the message.

  4. I entered the to win $500 or one of 25 class sets of 30 Studies Weekly subscriptions. The videos and interviews are a great resource that I need to keep in a file. I also love the resources for reading stars.

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