Scholastic Teacher Express $1 Sale-through 9/20

Scholastic occasionally does e-book sales where you can do digital downloads for $1 each. These are great for homeschooling, or just for extra fun activities to do.  For my fellow Kindermusik teachers, especially those who teach ABC, these can be great extras to send home, too.

Turn to learn-make interactive books and activities to reinforce many key learning skills.
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/turn-to-learn

Pocket charts are a great way to play with literacy-especially if you got the $1 ones from Target last month!
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/the-pocket-chart-book

More Creatures in my Backyard, anyone?
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/early-themes-creepy-crawlies-butterflies-bees-ladybugs-and-more

Tunes that Teach American history-more for older kids than little ones, but these are a lot of fun. I actually bought this book at $14.95 for my 6 yr old.
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/tunes-that-teach-american-history

Tunes that teach Spelling-again, not necessarily for the littlest ones, but a great price for the early school-age child
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/tunes-that-teach-spelling

Great for sending notes to students, or for "I've got a Letter this morning".
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/great-shapes-stationery

Wonderful resource-for home or for school
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/the-great-big-book-of-classroom-songs-rhymes-cheers


Songs for throughout the year!
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/sing-along-and-learn-around-the-year-with-audio-cd




Sing and learn-Following directions
We can always use help there, right?

http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/sing-along-and-learn-following-directions

Rhymers are readers!
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/101-thematic-poems-for-emergent-readers

Caring, sharing and getting along-poems for social skills
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/caring-sharing-getting-along

ABC-123 Coloring pages
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/abc-123-coloring-book

Art Activities for early learners
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/art-activities-for-little-learners

Move and Learn early concepts
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/move-learn-early-concepts

Fun and easy brain based activities for early learners

http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/50-fun-easy-brain-based-activities-for-young-learners

50 Learning songs sung to your favorite tunes
http://teacherexpress.scholastic.com/50-learning-songs-sung-to-your-favorite-tunes

Great sale on early learning products

I've posted before about ETA-Cuisinaire's Teacher and Family Appreciation sale. It's well worth checking out. I want to highlight a few items that I think my Kindermusik parents-and other music teachers, for that matter, should consider adding to their collections. Some of these would be wonderful holiday or birthday gifts, too.

All quantities are limited, and they're shipping very, very slowly-but are not charging for shipping.

For kids at home

Reading Rods jumbo set-These are just plain a fun way to build words-or buildings. Math and literacy manipulatives in my house tend to get used for play in ways I'd never expect.

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=60260&dept=READINGOUTLET

Here's a cup, and here's a cup, and here's a cup of tea....We're not doing Milk and Cookies this semester, but this looks like a wonderful playset for studio for food-themed units like Milk and Cookies or Jazz Kitchen, and a good price for parents to use at home.

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=60640&dept=READINGOUTLET 

Some play food to go in the kitchen
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=63706&dept=READINGOUTLET



I LOVE these big magnetic letters. Since they're larger than the usual ones, they're safer for younger children, and are bright and visible. They're also helpful for teaching form and analysis if you have a magnetic surface in your classroom. I've used magnetic letters for this purpose even with college students :)

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=6175B&dept=READINGOUTLET
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=6176B&dept=READINGOUTLET


Let's go to the doctor!
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=63707&dept=READINGOUTLET

Rhymers are readers! We do a lot with rhyming and phonemic awareness in Kindermusik classes, and these domino sets are a way to practice those skills at home, or during gathering time in your studio.

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=63894&dept=READINGOUTLET


Want some more Spanish animals for "My Farm"?
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=64154&dept=READINGOUTLET


For preschoolers and up-buttons to practice lacing, counting, sorting, and patterning.

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=5702&dept=MATHOUTLET

For teachers, or the refrigerator. I like the magnetic attribute blocks (and pattern blocks) for when my older children start working on form in music. Since I have a whiteboard, the children can manipulate the blocks on the board, and we can save the children's creations to show parents later. They are also fun just for making pictures. Again, these aren't going to be appropriate for under 3s due to size.

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=4310&dept=MATHOUTLET

Counters-duck, people, dinosaurs! Great for preschoolers to sort, pattern, and play with!
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=4526-1000&dept=MATHOUTLET

Learning place game cards-opposites, numbers, pairs, shapes.
http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=55295&dept=MATHOUTLET

Early puzzles


http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?prodId=7604&dept=MATHOUTLET


The whole leveled readers section has a lot of little books which may be of interest as well. Many are in a set of 6 for $1.00.

Have fun exploring and learning with children!

Lots of nice early learning items on sale

http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/clearance

While most of these are designed for math/science, I've found them helpful in teaching music. We will often use visual pattern blocks to help us figure out musical patterns, or play color patterns with rhythm of the words with counters. I'm especially excited about the dinosaur counters, because I can think of several students who will enjoy this. And two color counters are great for melodic notation and dictation activities, especially magnetic ones on the whiteboard or a cookie sheet. Lots of great items here, so don't miss them!