Preschool Years at Home

Today’s Curriculum Clean-Out giveaway is for two volumes from Evan-Moor’s Take It To Your Seat Learning Center collection, a $40 retail value:

The first volume, Take It to Your Seat Early Learning Centers, Grades PreK-K, is in like new condition. It includes 14 ready-to-assemble math and reading readiness activities. The second, Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers, Grades K-1, has been used, and the two sight word activities that were removed from the book have long since disappeared. Ten of the twelve self-contained centers are still in the book.

Please note that that the activities in these books do require some preparation. They are printed on standard paper and must be cut, laminated, and assembled. The activities are bright, colorful, engaging, and age-appropriate. These books have great reviews, and I had high hopes for putting them to good use when I bought them on August 15, 2003. … But I really don’t enjoy cutting and laminating page after page of little pieces. What’s more, after nine years of housing these books, moving them, planning to use them “someday,” but consistently passing over them, I’ve finally realized that I’m never going to roll out of bed thinking, “Hey, today’s a great day to do some cutting and laminating!” It’s time for them to find a new home.

To enter this drawing, just comment on this post and tell me how you encourage math and/or reading readiness in your own children.  You may earn extra entries by liking Preschool Years at Home on Facebook, subscribing to our FeedBurner feed, sharing this giveaway on your own blog, or tweeting about it. The contest ends at midnight August 10. Free media mail shipping is to U.S. addresses only.
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Today’s Curriculum Clean-Out giveaway, also linked up at Hip Homeschool Moms Giveaway Day, is for three of my favorite early childhood resource books, Scholastic’s Toss & Learn Game series:

Add a photocopier and photo blocks (trim cards to size and insert in blocks), jumbo foam dice (cut cards out and tape to dice), or even cardboard and packing tape (mount cards on cardboard, cut, and use packing tape to assemble pieces into sturdy die), and you’ve got 30 fun, active learning games for preschoolers or kindergartners. I used these games at least a couple of times a month while teaching preschool and kindergarten, and they were always a hit — so much so, in fact, that I ended up buying digital copies of these books so that when I needed a quick activity, these were just a few keystrokes and a bit of cutting away.

I’ve held on to the print copies of these, despite having digital copies, through two moves. It’s time now, however, to let them find a new home. The copies I’m offering here have my name on the front cover, but are otherwise in excellent used condition with only the lightest of shelf wear.

To enter this drawing, simply comment on this post, telling me about your favorite early childhood resource. It could be a book, a toy, a game — whatever your children have loved and learned from. You may earn extra entries by liking Preschool Years at Home on Facebook, subscribing to our FeedBurner feed, sharing this giveaway on your own blog, or tweeting about it. The contest ends at midnight August 9. Free media mail shipping is to U.S. addresses only.

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Be sure to check back tomorrow for another giveaway, a pair of Take It To Your Seat Learning Center books!