So for the Bing "Our School Needs..." Contest the final 15 contestants have been chosen! Now it's time to go vote for which one of those schools you think deserves the prize. The school with the most votes will win $100,000. Can't decide which one is your favorite? Thats ok, because you can vote up to 5 times a day. The only catch is you can only vote once for a school per day. So if you want you can cast your vote for up to 5 different schools every day.
Want another reason to vote? The first 30000 people to vote each day will get a $3 donation code for DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose.org is an online charity site where teachers can post classrooom projects in need of funding. This is a really great program the connects you to teachers all over the country. You can look through different project types or through differect economic levels, to choose a project that you wish to help with. Are you a teacher looking for ways to raise money for a class project, or for a special speaker, or for even possibly a class trip? Want more information? Click here for a link to find out more information.
So go vote! Quickly! Voting ends November 7th! Remember that if you are one of the first 30,000 to vote to go use your code to donate $3 to a school at DonorsChoose.org. Didn't get a code? Still go check them out. Maybe you know a teacher at your local school that could benifit from DonorsChoose.org and would like to sign up. Be sure to tell them about it.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
OfficeMax A Day Made Better & Adopt-A-Classroom
OfficeMax has a program to help teachers. It's called A Day Made Better. They work with Adopt-A-Classroom to help bring much needed supplies to teachers and classrooms across the country. One day a year they surprise over 1000 teachers with over $1000 in supplies. Adopt-A-Classroom helps donars adopt a classroom to help provide financial and moral support. The fund usage is up to the choice of the teacher of the classroom. The only thing teachers cannot use the funds for is field trips.
Considering that on average teachers spend approximatly $1000 out of their own pockets each year to help supply their own classrooms. These two groups working together provide a great relief and encouragement to over extended teachers through out the country. Office Max also has many well known public figures who are also advocates for their programs.
This years adopt a classroom already occured on October 5th. Click here to view some of their stories. You too can become involved in many different ways. Anywhere from becoming involved in Adopt-A-Classroom to something as simple as buying a gift card and surprising one of your local teachers with it to use to purchase supplies for their classroom.
To become involved in Adopt-A-Classroom is easy. Simply go to thier website. They have an easy to use school locator. Type in your schools name and press go. Not seeing your school? Or don't have a specific school in mind? Simply put in your zip code and it will bring up the schools in the area that are already involved in the program. Now you may need to do some research at this point if you are interested in adopting a classroom it does ask for a teachers name and email and phone number. However you can still click on the no preference box and it will take you to where you can choose how much you wish to donate. 100% of all donations go straight to the classroom. None is taken out for anything else.
If you are a teacher you can simply click the teachers tab on the right hand side and register your classroom.
Not a teacher? Click on the launch a local program tab. Teachers, administrators, parents. All can use this option to help bring Adopt-A-Classroom to their community. They give you access to informational materials and outreach tools. These tools help to give local schools and communitys information about the program, and they also help to track your progress. Both these programs do amazing things to help out our schools.
Considering that on average teachers spend approximatly $1000 out of their own pockets each year to help supply their own classrooms. These two groups working together provide a great relief and encouragement to over extended teachers through out the country. Office Max also has many well known public figures who are also advocates for their programs.
This years adopt a classroom already occured on October 5th. Click here to view some of their stories. You too can become involved in many different ways. Anywhere from becoming involved in Adopt-A-Classroom to something as simple as buying a gift card and surprising one of your local teachers with it to use to purchase supplies for their classroom.
To become involved in Adopt-A-Classroom is easy. Simply go to thier website. They have an easy to use school locator. Type in your schools name and press go. Not seeing your school? Or don't have a specific school in mind? Simply put in your zip code and it will bring up the schools in the area that are already involved in the program. Now you may need to do some research at this point if you are interested in adopting a classroom it does ask for a teachers name and email and phone number. However you can still click on the no preference box and it will take you to where you can choose how much you wish to donate. 100% of all donations go straight to the classroom. None is taken out for anything else.
If you are a teacher you can simply click the teachers tab on the right hand side and register your classroom.
Not a teacher? Click on the launch a local program tab. Teachers, administrators, parents. All can use this option to help bring Adopt-A-Classroom to their community. They give you access to informational materials and outreach tools. These tools help to give local schools and communitys information about the program, and they also help to track your progress. Both these programs do amazing things to help out our schools.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Power a Bright Future Contest
So Clorox is having a Power a Bright Future Contest. The winning school recieves a $50,000 grant. It is very similar in set up to Bing's "Our school needs..." contest . However they have already narrowed down the submissions from schools and now are onto the final voting. Just click here or on the link at the bottom of this post to go to the Clorox Power a Bright Future Contest. In the upper right hand corner is a Login Box. I suggest you put in your email and register first. Since you will have to register to vote and it doesn't take you back to the school you were voting on, so you will have to find it again. And there are LOTS of schools. They make registration easy, you can choose not to have them send you information on Clorox, Clorox products, affiliates, etc. And you don't need to confirm your email. So you can go straight on to voting. Now you can only vote for one school, but you can vote once a day so remember to go back tomorrow, and everyday until the first of November. Help your school get the program it needs. Your schools not entered? Then simply look through the schools and find one whose program you feel deserves the money. As an added bonus for those of you with printers, after you vote clorox gives you free coupons for clorox products that you can print out. Just for voting. They also have a daily game you can play for a chance to win a prize for yourself.
Remember voting for the schools ends until November 1st, and you can vote everyday! So hurry up and go vote!
So go vote! Go hurry! Why are you still on this page?
Clorox Power a Bright Future
Remember voting for the schools ends until November 1st, and you can vote everyday! So hurry up and go vote!
So go vote! Go hurry! Why are you still on this page?
Clorox Power a Bright Future
NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program
O.k. November 1st marks the beginning of NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month. The whole goal behind NaNoWriMo is for the people participating in it to write a 50,000 word novel by midnight of November 30th. They catch is they can't start writing it until November 1st. This is a program I only first heard about last year and only this year realized how it helps our schools. How? Easy.
NaNoWriMo has a program called NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program. This program is specifically set up and designed for children 17 and under to participate. Unlike its more adult oriented program kids can set their own word-count goals. Also it is able to be incorporated into a classroom curriculum. Best part, it's free to participate. Their website provides educators with a virtual classroom to help them better work NaNoWriMo into the classroom. They also have a NEO lending program for classes that are unable to access the internet for the duration of NaNoWriMo. The NEO they lend out is basically a kid friendly laptop/word proccessor that the kids in the class can use to type up their stories on. They also offer ways for kids to participate without using computers.
They also provide forums for teachers to communicate with one another about NaNoWriMo and workbooks for students to use to help them write their novels.
How does this relate to any of us??? Well it's free! It's a free curriculum for teachers who are strapted for cash and can't always afford some of the newer writing courses out there. It's also a great way to encourage kids to write and learn helpful organizational skills. No time in the classroom? Why not start it as an after school program? They also offer free novel proof copies to kids that reach their word count goals.
As for the rest of us who aren't teachers? Why not offer to help organize getting together pens and paper for the children to write on? Volunteering to help encourage the kids to keep writing, or coming in and helping add up word counts for the kids after they are done writing. Maybe if you have an old typewriter or word proccesor lending it out to the class so the teacher can help them type up their work? How 'bout even just bringing this to the attention of the teachers at your local schools?
There are so many ways this can be applied to benefit schools and kids it's unbelievable.
Now, unfortunetly, I know the deadline for signing up to participate is a little more than 7 days away. And the deadline for applying for the NEO's is well past. However, NaNoWriMo is a yearly event that takes place every November. Go sign up, check it out. See if it's something that you, the teacher, could see working in your classroom. Parents your kids can sign up independantly of a classroom. Why not both you and your child sign up for it this year and see how it goes. Give it a test run. Then next year already be ahead of the game and be ready in September to see about talking to the teachers at the school and seeing if it would be something they are interested in.
In today's economy where classrooms sometimes are working with books and tools that are in desperate need of updating, and when funds are not there to do it with, this provides a new and innovative way to help encourage young writers. And helps give kids a fresh new way to learn.
So I encourage all of you reading this to go check it out!
Again here are the links for NaNoWriMo's young Writers Program and NaNoWriMo itself.
NaNoWriMo has a program called NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program. This program is specifically set up and designed for children 17 and under to participate. Unlike its more adult oriented program kids can set their own word-count goals. Also it is able to be incorporated into a classroom curriculum. Best part, it's free to participate. Their website provides educators with a virtual classroom to help them better work NaNoWriMo into the classroom. They also have a NEO lending program for classes that are unable to access the internet for the duration of NaNoWriMo. The NEO they lend out is basically a kid friendly laptop/word proccessor that the kids in the class can use to type up their stories on. They also offer ways for kids to participate without using computers.
They also provide forums for teachers to communicate with one another about NaNoWriMo and workbooks for students to use to help them write their novels.
How does this relate to any of us??? Well it's free! It's a free curriculum for teachers who are strapted for cash and can't always afford some of the newer writing courses out there. It's also a great way to encourage kids to write and learn helpful organizational skills. No time in the classroom? Why not start it as an after school program? They also offer free novel proof copies to kids that reach their word count goals.
As for the rest of us who aren't teachers? Why not offer to help organize getting together pens and paper for the children to write on? Volunteering to help encourage the kids to keep writing, or coming in and helping add up word counts for the kids after they are done writing. Maybe if you have an old typewriter or word proccesor lending it out to the class so the teacher can help them type up their work? How 'bout even just bringing this to the attention of the teachers at your local schools?
There are so many ways this can be applied to benefit schools and kids it's unbelievable.
Now, unfortunetly, I know the deadline for signing up to participate is a little more than 7 days away. And the deadline for applying for the NEO's is well past. However, NaNoWriMo is a yearly event that takes place every November. Go sign up, check it out. See if it's something that you, the teacher, could see working in your classroom. Parents your kids can sign up independantly of a classroom. Why not both you and your child sign up for it this year and see how it goes. Give it a test run. Then next year already be ahead of the game and be ready in September to see about talking to the teachers at the school and seeing if it would be something they are interested in.
In today's economy where classrooms sometimes are working with books and tools that are in desperate need of updating, and when funds are not there to do it with, this provides a new and innovative way to help encourage young writers. And helps give kids a fresh new way to learn.
So I encourage all of you reading this to go check it out!
Again here are the links for NaNoWriMo's young Writers Program and NaNoWriMo itself.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
What does your school need?
So remember the "Our School Needs... " Contest I told you about in the What does your school need post on October 12th? The one from Bing? Well they've extended the submission date to tomorrow, AND they've extended the time you have to rate the entries to the 26th! Did your school enter? Make sure you go and vote for them! Not sure? Go check! Can't find your school, then find one you like and vote! I'm sure you can find a school that you think deserves to win!
Remember the finalists are announced on October 29th, and then the voting begins to choose a winner. The last day to vote is November 5th and the winners will be announced November 9th! Go vote now!
You will need to create an account with site to vote, it takes a second and you have to confirm your email. But really, it's not that much to do to help out a school in need. You don't have to give any money, and you don't even have to leave the house. In the time it took me to write this I confirmed my email and rated my pick. So what are you waiting for? Everyone always says the want to help!
GO,GO,GO!!!
Remember the finalists are announced on October 29th, and then the voting begins to choose a winner. The last day to vote is November 5th and the winners will be announced November 9th! Go vote now!
You will need to create an account with site to vote, it takes a second and you have to confirm your email. But really, it's not that much to do to help out a school in need. You don't have to give any money, and you don't even have to leave the house. In the time it took me to write this I confirmed my email and rated my pick. So what are you waiting for? Everyone always says the want to help!
GO,GO,GO!!!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Fund-raiser!
O.k. I've got another one for you! This one unfortunetly does not allow you to purchase online. So if you are interested in purchasing any of the candles and are in the Banning or Beaumont, California area please email me. That way I can put you in touch with one of the group who is selling these candles. This fundraiser is for the San Gorgonio Middle School Theater Group. They actually started it a week early because they need the funds to purchase costumes for their Dickens Festival in December. They will be preforming "A Christmas Carol"
There are 15 different scents and each one is $10. The only thing over $10 is the Jar Candle Topper and Base which is $18. It also says the burn time on the candles is 50hrs.
The scents are:
Holiday Home
Mandarin Mulberry
Baked Apple Pie
Warm Cinnamon Pumpkin
Cinnamon Sticks
Tango Mango
Hot Cinnamon Rolls
Vanilla Cream
Butter Cream Cookies
Cucumber Melon
Mint Chocolate
Christmas Holly
Crisp Cotton Breeze
Angel's Touch
Gardenia
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Coke Rewards
Here's one for those of you who collect the codes from coke products. You probably already know about it, but just in case you don't, and for those of you who don't collect them. My Coke Rewards lets you donate your My Coke Rewards points to various schools. It's quick and painless. Just click on the spend you points button and down on the left hand side is a link that says donate to your school. Then just find a school. You can do so by entering your zip code or the state you live in. Then up pops a list of the schools in the area you've requested. Then just scroll through until you find the school you want to donate to.
If you're school's not registered let them know about My Coke Rewards. There's even a link for you to send the information to someone at the school who could register.
You can donate as little as 1 reward point. No minimums are always a good thing. You can also look at your schools wish list or the full school rewards catalog. While the cheapest item starts out at 72 points and then jumps to 420 for the next item. This is no reason to not donate, even if all you have to donate is 1pt. Pts. like box tops do add up. Anyway the minimum you recieve for a code is 3pts anyway. So if all you are collecting the points for is to donate to a school you are already going to be donating more than just one.
Also until November 30th, for every 5pt donation that a school recieves they will also recieve a sweepstakes entry to win $25000 to spend on a new playground for the school. Even if you're not into turning in codes to get stuff online, how hard would it be to save the caps from two coke products and sign up for just the next two months? Sign on get 6 points and then donate those 6 points to a school. You don't even have to go to the school you are going to donate to. Don't know a school? Just enter your zip code, or your state and then pick one randomly. I'm sure they will appreciate it. Just follow the link to go to My Coke Rewards to find out more!
http://www.mycokerewards.com/home.do
If you're school's not registered let them know about My Coke Rewards. There's even a link for you to send the information to someone at the school who could register.
You can donate as little as 1 reward point. No minimums are always a good thing. You can also look at your schools wish list or the full school rewards catalog. While the cheapest item starts out at 72 points and then jumps to 420 for the next item. This is no reason to not donate, even if all you have to donate is 1pt. Pts. like box tops do add up. Anyway the minimum you recieve for a code is 3pts anyway. So if all you are collecting the points for is to donate to a school you are already going to be donating more than just one.
Also until November 30th, for every 5pt donation that a school recieves they will also recieve a sweepstakes entry to win $25000 to spend on a new playground for the school. Even if you're not into turning in codes to get stuff online, how hard would it be to save the caps from two coke products and sign up for just the next two months? Sign on get 6 points and then donate those 6 points to a school. You don't even have to go to the school you are going to donate to. Don't know a school? Just enter your zip code, or your state and then pick one randomly. I'm sure they will appreciate it. Just follow the link to go to My Coke Rewards to find out more!
http://www.mycokerewards.com/home.do
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