Check the calendar: Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and Father’s Day isn’t far behind! Whether you’re on the receiving end or the giving end—or both!—you’ll appreciate having books about these special people to share with your students.
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Submit a comment to our blog by 11:59 pm EDT on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, to let us know which of this week’s fun freebies are your favorites. One lucky teacher will win these books that feature moms and dads: Baby Penguins Love Their Mama!, Mama Built a Little Nest, A Mom for Umande, and Following Papa’s Song. Submit a comment now for your chance to win! (Update: congratulations to Amy, who is our winner!)
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Here’s another reason to celebrate: It’s Stanley Lambchop’s—a.k.a. Flat Stanley’s—50th anniversary! Have a flat-out amazing time with free Common Core-aligned activities, geography-themed projects, an anniversary template, and more! It’s all at flatstanleybooks.com.
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Have your students entered the Golden Ticket Sweepstakes yet? It’s in celebration of 50 years of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Five lucky winners will relive the Wonka experience in New York City, plus each winner’s school will get a set of books worth $1,000. Enter at roalddahl.com.
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Whether your little learners are ready to read or just prefer to cozy up and listen, take a look at the prereaders from National Geographic. With titles like Go, Cub! and Swing Sloth!, they feature simple, short sentences; large, easy-to-read text; rhyming; and more in books about real animals kids adore. Click here! Then browse by “Series” and select “National Geographic Readers.”
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Want to motivate your students? Sign up for a free sampler of Common Core–aligned materials from Mentoring Minds at mentorigminds.com/learning. The sampler includes a free peek at Motivation Math, Motivation Reading, and the Common Core Standards and Strategies Flip Chart.
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Incorporate art across the curriculum! Crayola has free resources at Crayola.com/Educator. You’ll find Common Core–aligned lesson plans, grants, professional development workshops, and more! Plus, if you register for timely updates and lesson plans through Crayola’s free monthly eNewsletter, you’ll get a complimentary bookmark and heart pin. Click here!
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There’s one more golden celebration to think about: the folks at BMI Educational Services, Inc., are celebrating 50 years of service to schools. What do they offer? Paperbacks, BMI-bound books, teachers guides, Common Core collections, novel studies, test prep, and much more! Click here to see it all!
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Whew, that is a lot to celebrate! Remember to submit a comment for a chance to win this week’s prize!
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PS: Want more chances to win? Go to LearningMagazine.com. Prizes for teachers total over $4,800! Click here to enter.
I teach special education and am really interested in the National Geographic prereaders for some of my students, but when I clicked on the link I could not find out any information about them. It is not the same as NG for Little Kids is it?
The books that feature moms and dads look great.
Hi Freda,
We’ll post an updated link, but in the meantime try this: https://ngchildrensbooks.org/c/product.web?nocache@7+s@ped1Sl5_BM2oU+record@R1641.
The series you’re looking for is National Geographic Readers, for grades PreK-3.
Stay tuned!
Karen
My students love animals, so the National Geographic Readers are perfect!
The national geographic readers are always loved by my preschoolers.
The kids love any books about animals. Our younger readers would love the National Geographic set and the special books about Moms and Dads.
Forgot to say, we did Flat Stanley this year with our 2nd and 3rd graders. They had a blast and the website had so many good ideas. Our Flat Stanleys traveled all over the world, even bringing home a key from Jordan and having surgery performed to fix broken bones.
My preschoolers will always pick over the books and look for the National Geographic books in the book area. The mother and father books look nice too. They would be nice to use for Mother’s Day and Father’s day.
Thank you for all the great ideas.
LaShaina
SHCS Preschool
Absolutely love the National Geographic books. They are wonderful for little ones and they love them. Like the Mothers day books too.
I would love to win some free books to ad to my home daycare new library.
Love the Flat Stanley series! My fourth grade students are creating their own flat stanley right now to travel to the regions of the US! The website has so many great ideas! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Stephanie S
Fourth Grade Shenanigans
I have such fond memories of Roald Dahl’s books! Would love to be a student and relive it!
I have always loved the Flat Stanley books! He can go on so many fun adventures and the children always enjoy imaging they can get sent that way. My 6 year old recently talked about being sent to Nana’s for a visit. 😉
I like anything written by National Geographic. These are some of the kids favorite books.
Crayola.com has so many great resources for the teacher. what a time saver
Roald Dahl is one of my favorites! And I could really use a golden ticket these days!
I would love to add these books to my preschool classroom.
I love the National Geographic PreReaders! Even my kindergarten girls love to learn about animals & their habitats.
Thanks for including the baby penguins in your giveaway! 🙂
No problem, Melissa. Thank YOU for creating such adorable penguins and such a great book!