Educators and Parents, I hope you plan to celebrate the 2nd Annual Digital Learning Day on February 6, 2013! I plan to allow my students time to explore some of the great 2.0 tools online that can be used for creating, analyzing, and synthesizing information. Check some of these great resources out!

Waste Management is giving away a free tote bag for teachers when you sign up here. This is a great website to get lesson plan and ideas for Earth Day, as well as any lesson plan you are planning on teaching on recycling etc.

Click here to order a free teacher's kit or coloring books about peanuts!

Enter here until July 31 to get a free back to school kit from Cookie magazine. This is a great freebie for teachers and parents!

Teachers, check out this new program from Staples here, and see how you can get a $25 gift card for you, and one for your school just for signing up!
This program allows you to put all the items for your grades' supply list in a kit so that parents can just come in and buy the kit, without having to search for each individual item.

I posted about this quite a while ago here, but wanted to remind teachers that Ann Taylor Loft gives teacher 15% off any purchase in store, regular as well as sale prices! I love my discount card! You must sign up on their website and print out your card that you can use over and over! They also do special promotions and have done grants as well.
Go here: http://www.loftlovesteachers.com/

Casey with DreamBox Math Classroom just contacted to let me know about an offer for Pre-K-2nd grade teachers going on right now:

For teachers/schools:
DreamBox Learning K-2 Math is now offering Pre-K to 2nd grade teachers free classroom subscriptions for in-class use of DreamBox K-2 Math from now until the end of the school year (June 30, 2009). Teachers can go to www.dreambox.com/teachers to sign up for a teacher account on DreamBox, preview our lessons and our curriculum, and apply for a free classroom subscription for in-class use through the end of the school year.
DreamBox Learning is an effective, award-winning online math learning product that dynamically adapts to each student. Based on national standards, DreamBox provides more than 350 math lessons covering number sense, computation and problem solving in an engaging game experience that kids love! And teachers have the ability to track individual student academic progress through the in-depth math curriculum.

AudibleKids.com offers downloadable audio stories for children. This website encourages a love of learning and reading in children of all ages. Go to www.AudibleKids.com/FoxandFriends THIS WEEKEND ONLY to download some titles for FREE.
They offer this for Fox and Friends viewers as a gift this weekend only! You child will love it!

Click here to learn about Microsoft's free download for teachers. Their Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office allows teachers to use Office to create worksheets, tests, presentations etc.
You must have a regiestered copy of Microsoft 2003 or Office 2002.

Go to http://www.biceveryday.com/ to find special offers and promotions for teachers, as well as websites specifically for students, and parents. There are many resources here that you might want to check out!

Here is a website that is similar to YouTube, but it is for kids! Try it out: Totlol.com

Paper Retriever is a great program to help your school raise money. Paper Retriever provides a huge recycling bin for your school or non-profit to collect all their paper recycling. When it is full, they pick it up and pay your organization for the recycled paper.

Go here to find out more.

Thanks to www.SisterlySavings.net for the idea!

This site has lots of ideas and lesson plans

Click here to find a Bubble Test Generator.

Click here for a website full of lesson plans, resources, and materials.

http://www.gigglepotz.com/curriculum.htm ----This website gives teachers tons of lesson plans and curriculum ideas!

Teachers sign up here for a free DVD on the importance of ocean tides. Comes with teaching materials.
From the Harvard Education Program.

Click here to browse Dollar Tree Direct's Teacher's Corner where you can buy items in bulk, if that is what you need!

Visit CurrClick.com where home-school teachers are offered many resources, including free e-books and curriculum.