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Free Personalized Cards from Tiny Prints for Teachers

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I taught for twenty-one years. One of the reasons I think I went into teaching was because I had wonderful teachers. I remember most of them fondly. Each was amazing in their own way. The teacher that stands out most is my mom. I was never in her class per se. I was able to watch how she taught her students and cared for each of them as individuals when I visited her classroom. There was always a wonderful project they were doing that was based on books they were reading or places they were studying.

One thing she always did was start out the year by contacting the parents and children. Tiny Prints is offering free personalized cards for teachers to welcome students, thank parents, or award students for great work. If you are a classroom teacher as I was, you know the expenses of the school year are just starting. This is a great resource to have and it’s free.

Tiny Prints personalized greeting cards for teachers for FREE offer starts Monday, August 2nd and runs October 31, 2010. Teachers can access the cards at Teacher Greeting Cards and apply the code: Apple2010 at checkout.

Oh! There is going to be a Tiny Prints Teacher Greeting Card Twitter Party with the tag #makeitpersonal this Wednesday from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. ET/1:00 to 2:00 p.m. PT.

Disclaimer: Tiny Prints is randomly awarding five bloggers a $50 Visa card for letting you know about this opportunity. I would have mentioned it anyway.

 

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12 Ways to Learn Using Plastic Easter Eggs

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Learning Activities with Eggs
1. You can place a toy in a stack of eggs and search for the one with the prize.

2. You can put a capital letter on one end of an egg and its lower case letter on the other. Break them open, mix them up, and have your child search for the match. I did eggs with matching capital letters for JDaniel.

3. You can put together a set of toys or pictures and have your child put them in the egg that has the beginning letter on it.

4. You can put a number on one end of the egg and a set of corresponding dots on the other end. They can then match the tops and bottoms or place the correct number of objects in the egg.

5. You can mix up the colors of the tops and bottoms then have your child match the colors correctly.

6. You can make maracas with whole grain circular cereal. Just watch that is doesn’t come apart and become a bowl for a snack.

Plastic Egg Activity
7. You can put objects in the eggs and have the children match the sounds like Activity Mom did this week.

8. You can put them in a plastic spoon and try to carry them around the house.

9. You can sort them by colors.

10. You can use them like cupcake liners for Muffin Tin Monday.

11. You can make a nest with blocks; fill it with eggs, place in a toy bird, and talk about signs of spring.

 

Plastic Egg Activity - Sorting Eggs by Color
12. You can read the list of 50 Uses for Plastic Easter Eggs found of Geeky Housewife’s blog.

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Car Seat Safety Resources on the Internet

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I was contacted by Mom’s Influence and asked to share some wonderful resources available for free to help make safe choices about car seats and to help use car seats properly for maximum safety.

Here are the resources:

Twitter:
An actual safety expert mans the @ChildSeatSafety account on Twitter, and they will continue to answer any questions that parents have about child passenger safety. This is such a unique resource from a government agency!

Facebook:
NHTSA has a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/childpassengersafetywhere parents can learn about everything from LATCH to locating inspection offices.

Disclaimer: I may get a goody box for posting this information. I would have posted regardless of a goody box. The resources are great for parents.

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