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Get Ready for School Connecting Cards: Letters

Get Ready for School Connecting Cards

Students create endless combinations of words, sentences, and equations with these cards. The double-sided cards have notches at the ends to connect them. Number and letter card sets are available.

PreK–K, $12.95 each. Workman, (800) 722-7202, www.workman.com.


Dromedary and Camelot

Use this book to start a discussion with your students about treating each other with kindness. The story is about a camel who is lost and afraid of the dark. Dromedary meets an owl who stays with him through the night and helps him learn to be brave.

Ages 3–9, $17.95. Poetic Moves Publishing, www.poeticmoves.net.

Dromedary and Camelot

The Penguin Lady

The Penguin Lady

Penelope Parker lives with penguins. In fact, she has penguins from all over the world. Readers count, compare, and contrast the penguin species as they learn geography with this book.

Ages 4–9, $9.95. Sylvan Dell Publishing, (877) 243-3457, www.SylvanDellPublishing.com.


Elmers

Creative Classrooms, Creative Curriculum Sweepstakes

Enter this sweepstakes for a chance to win $500 cash and $500 of Elmer's products! Complete the online entry form and submit it by September 30, 2012. Three teachers will win, plus ten runners-up will each receive $100 cash and $100 of Elmer's products. Enter now at www.themailbox.com/elmers. Plus check out the free cross-curricular activities too!


Global Education Resource Kit

Inspire your students to build a better world while teaching them about world neighbors, hunger, poverty, and sustainable development with free standards-based curriculum materials. For preschool through grade 6, the kit includes posters, maps, videos, and action ideas enrich your lesson plans. Go to www.heifer.org/learning to download the components or to order a kit.

Heifer International

Guinness World Record Puzzle Book Series

Funky foods? Super sports? Outrageous oddities? Students will be amazed at the facts found in these puzzle books. Each features true stories that will astonish readers, and there's and a different puzzle—including crosswords, math logic, word searches, patterning, and more—on almost every page.

Ages 8 and up, $9.99 each. Carson-Dellosa Publishing, (800) 321-0943, carsondellosa.com.

Guinness World Record Puzzle Book Series

Growing Minds

Growing Minds: Integrated Lessons for Stimulated Thinking

Help your students read, write, draw, imagine, and create their way to better critical-thinking skills! The activities in this book have several levels of student involvement, making them useful for multiple skill levels.

Grades 4–8, $12.95. Lorenz Educational Press, (800) 444-1144, www.lorenzeducationalpress.com.


Ready-to-Decorate Game Boards Kit

Put children in charge of their learning! This kit includes six customizable classroom gameboards, game chips, dice, reproducible game cards, a task card, and an answer key that kids can use to develop their own review games based on lesson content.

Grades 1–3, $20.20. Really Good Stuff, Inc.; (800) 366-1920; www.reallygoodstuff.com.

Ready-to-Decorate Game Boards Kit

International Fund for Animal Welfare

Join the Animal Ambassadors!

Teach your students Common Core skills with free worksheets and activities from the International Fund for Animal Welfare! Sign up at www.themailbox.com/ifaw to get your free materials, PLUS be entered to win a $1,000 Visa gift card or one of ten $100 Amazon gift cards. You'll get free activities each month, highlighting big cats, elephants, dolphins and whales, sharks, bears, and many other animals. Sign up now!


Be Smart About Recycling!

Did you know that fabric can be recycled, much like cans, glass, and paper? It's true! Teach your students "Donate. Recycle. Don't Throw Away" with free skill-based worksheets and activities from Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (SMART). Visit www.themailbox.com/smart. When you download the activities, you can also enter to win a $500 classroom grant! Plus you'll find information about a poster contest in which students create a design based on the "Donate. Recycle. Don't Throw Away" slogan; the winner's work will be printed on posters and T-shirts made from recycled materials. Take a look!

Be Smart About Recycling

Free Activity Collections

Free Activity Collections

Covering everything from daily mental math to skill builders and brain teasers to cyberbullying, these activity collections are full of ideas from Didax's new and bestselling resources. The collections are organized by grade levels—grades 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, and 7–8; get them by signing up at www.didax.com/freeactivities/.