Does “run, run as fast as you can” sound like your mantra as the holidays approach? It takes a smart cookie—you!—to keep up with the eager, excited learners in your classroom zoo! Keep learning fun and focused with these freebies and chances to win.
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Post a comment to this blog no later than 11:59 pm EST on November 19, 2016, to tell me which of the items below would be perfect for your classroom. From the comments, I’ll randomly select one teacher to win The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo, a book that will have your kiddos solving riddles to help the Gingerbread Man get through the zoo. (Update: congratulations to Susie, who is the winner of our prize.)
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Keep the zoo theme going. The ABCmouse zoo is among the 7,000 online learning activities at ABCmouse.com. Kids interact with realistic zoo animals, learn animal facts, read books, and more. No monkeying around—this online curriculum for preschool through grade 1 is absolutely free for teachers! Check it out here.
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Help build positive relationships between your early childhood students and police officers through the Adopt a Police Officer program. The first 1,000 participants will get two free Frog Street plush puppets and 24 “We ❤ Police Officers” stickers. Get details and download the participation form here.
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Are you tech savvy? Two $5,000 grants—one for grades K–8 and one for grades 9–12—will be awarded to teachers who use technology in new and engaging ways to connect with students. Enter here by December 17, 2016.
Don’t forget to post a comment for your chance to win the book!
Suddenly craving some gingerbread,
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PS: There are freebies and resources for teachers to win at LearningMagazine.com. Select your favorites (as many as you like!) here.
LOve love police officers. I am so lucky to have 2 in my class as parents. But if I didnt I sure would adopt a police officer.
I love the Brown Bear contest on the learning magazine page and sure would love the gingerbread book
I do a HUGE gingerbread unit with the art teacher from my school. This would be a great, new book for the children to read! Thank you for having this contest.
I would love to have the Gingerbread Book and combine it with a sensory and science project for my class!
Oh my .. The Gingerbread Man Loose in the Zoo … ! This would be an awesome addition to our growing collection of Gingerbread Man books!! What a great contest! Thanks a bunch!
The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo. I love reading differenct gingerbread books in December and discuss the similarities and differences.
The Gingerbread an Loose at the Zoo would be amazing. My students love reading the different versions!!
The The Gingerbread Man On the Lose at the Zoo would be a fun addition to my fairy tale collection, but I am excited to apply for the grant from It’s Learning. It’s Learning is my best pick this month.
The Gingerbread book will be a wonderful addition to my collection and also a wonderful adventure for students.
The Gingerbread book sounds delightful!
Everyone loves Gingerbread! Mmmmm Gingerbread.
I do both a zoo and gingerbread unit so this book would be PERFECT to use with my students!
The Gingerbread Man books are fan favorites in my classroom and can be used all year long. Can’t wait to read this one!
The book would be my first choice. We love the story and collect versions of it to add to our studies.
I would love to add this to my Gingerbread man book collection for my classroom.
So would love this book to add to my gingerbread book collection, makes some fun December memories for my class <3
I have the Gingerbread Man Loose at School and love it. The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo would be a great addition to my classroom library.
I would live the gingerbread book for my little ones. They would get a kick out of this book!!
This book looks exciting!!!! I have never read this book and would love to share it with my firsties!
I love the gingerbread man! Every year I do a unit on the different gingerbread books. This would be a great addition to my unit.
The Gingerbread Man on the Loose at the Zoo would be perfect for my First Grade After School class! We don’t live near a zoo so I could use the book to introduce my students to a zoo in addition to the yummy Gingerbread connection! Thanks for the free opportunity!
ABC mouse would be great for my students !
Gingerbread story is a great hit in our NCPreK classroom! In fact the entire month of December we are involved in Gingerbread related activities in every play center. It would be so wonderful to go on a Zoo adventure with our beloved character!
Wow my preschoolers would just love to hear this story! What a unique connection between Christmas, food, the zoo and of course our imaginations!
The Gingerbread book looks very interesting. I would pick it to win.
I would love the gingerbread book for my gingerbread theme this year!
Love sharing books and love gingerbread
The the adopt a policeman idea. The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo would be a great addition to our library!
Love the adopt a policeman idea. The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo would be a great addition to our library!
This would be great in my class
Would love this gingerbread book.looks like so much fun for my unit,
love to read to children
Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo would be a wonderful addition to our classroom library. Every each we go on a gingerbread hunt around the school using clues to help the children figure out where the gingerbread boy went. Seems like it would be a great extension to that story!
My children love the Gingerbrwad loose books!!
What a fun book!
I would love a new gingerbread book!!!
We do a whole Gingerbread unit in Kindergarten. The book loose in the zoo would be perfect.
I would love to add this gingerbread book to my collection! Thanks for the chance! ?
I would love to win the Gingerbread Man book! My presschool students love the other books in this series!
I always love another fun read aloud! Would love the new Gingerbread Man book!
Gingerbread man at the zoo would be a great addition to my classroom. It will speak the interest of a few students that aren’t willing to engage in reading.
I do a gingerbread man unit at Christmas time with my preschool class, this would be a great addition to our classroom.
What!!!! With g-bread weeks away a simply must have
My students LOVE the gingerbread unit each year. We go on a scavenger hunt around the school. This book would be a great addition to the unit!
I would love to win he Gingerbread book.
I love The Gingerbread Man books! I am a school librarian at a lower income school and can’t keep these on my shelf! We don’t have this book yet.
I would LOVE the Gingerbread man book. I do a huge Gingerbread theme in December and that would fit in perfectly
I do a Gingerbread man unit every December. I buy literally every Gingerbread story I find! PPPPPPLLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE, please, The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo.
I have been collecting gingerbread theme products since I started teaching in the late 80’s! I would love to have The gingerbread loose in the zoo book!
I would love the Gingerbread Man to add to my collection. my students love the books and we do a whole literature unit on the books!
I would love to add the Gingerbread Man book to the variety of books I read with my class during our Gingerbread Man theme! Thanks for the opportunity.
This would make a great addition to my gingerbread unit!
I have never seen this Gingerbread man version! Would love to add it to my collection for our big gingerbread unit coming up in December!
The book “The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo” would be awesome for my ESL students. They love these books!
Adopt a police officer seems like a fun program. The book would be an awesome fit for our gingerbread unit too!
The Gingerbread man Loose at School is a book my 1st graders LOVE! I would love to have The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo!
Second graders love to read books like this that they can compare and contrast with other books we are reading! This would be a delightful addition to any classroom library!
The Gingerbread book!! The class loves to try and compare gingerbread books.
Definitely the gingerbread man! My classroom kiddos LOVE his stories!
Adopt a Police Officer is a wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing and the book would be an amazing addition to our classroom library!
Fun!! The kids would love to read this follow up book, especially since the first day of school we use the gingerbread to take a tour around the school searching for him!
We love the gingerbread man in Kindergarten! This book would be so perfect. I want to win!!! 🙂 The ABC Mouse site looks very interesting; I have heard about it but never tried it.
I would love the book. I teach primary students with multiple disabilites and do a gingerbread unit each December. We also go to the zoo each spring. I think my kiddos would love this new version.
The gingerbread book would be nice!
I do a huge Gingerbread unit at the beginning of school! Would love to add this book to my collection! ?
This is really hard choice between which prize I would want because both are amazing but I think the puppets would get more use with building a healthy relationship with law enforcement and the children. Gingerbread man loose in the school is one of my favorite books though (the cd is amazing) and always a hit with students!!
I would absolutely LOVE that gingerbread book! I’m a first-year, first grade teacher, so I am still working on my picture book collection 🙂 The possibilities with this book are endless! Thank you so much for doing this giveaway. 🙂
I have been collecting Gingerbread themed books for 27 years (as long as I have taught K & 1). We turn the classroom into a gingerbread wonderland: this year we could read The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo and could make Gingerbread zoo animals! Sounds like fun!
Fingers crossed!!!!
Would love the book!!!
I love ABC Mouse. We use it at my school. The students are always so excited when it is their turn in the computer room and they can do ABC Mouse. It is such a fun, easy way for kids to learn.
We love police officers would be wonderful for my group! Unfortunately, my group thinks that police officers only take their mommies and daddies to jail. It would be great to create a better, positive relationship with police for them! We would also love a new Gingerbread book for our library! 🙂
I’d LOVE to catch the GINGERBREAD MAN BOOK. Run, run as fast as you can so I can catch the Gingerbread Man Book!
Actually I’ll Run Run as fast as I can so I can catch the Gingerbread Man Book!
I want to win this book!
I always do a gingerbread unit in December. I would love to win this!!
Wow! I love the adopt a police officer idea! I teach kindergarten in an urban school and this would be a great way to foster positive relationships early on. Also, my kiddos LOVE the Gingerbread Man books & I’ve been dying to get this one! PLEASE!!!
I’d love to be able to read the Gingerbread book to my EC Preschool class!
I teach by thematic units. The Gingerbread unit is one of my favorites. I have just about every gingerbread book possible except the Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo. It would be great collection to my unit . My students do a compare and contrast with the books they select from the unit. My students would love to hear a new version of the gingerbread man. Thank you.
Our class would LOVE the Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo. We just read the Gingerbread Man Loose in the School and they LOVED it! Read it again!
I have the first book – The Gingerbread Man Loose In the School. I’ve got to get the new one!!!
Would love to share this book with my 1st graders during our read aloud center on fridays. It looks like a great book and to get our student excited about reading.
The Frog Street Program is awesome!
Can’t wait to read the Gingerbread book with my class. Looks like a great addition to my unit.
I would love to have my class adopt a police officer. It drives me crazy when my little kindergarten students call them “Cops”!!