Scholastic Books Warehouse Sale

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Register now and receive a valuable coupon for an extra $10* or $25* off! Dollar Days are here! BIG savings on hardcovers, paperbacks, and school supplies. Registration Now Open! Join us for our special book sale exclusively for school and district employees, homeschool directors and teachers, Book Fair chairpeople, and school volunteers. You'll find deep discounts on selected hardcovers, paperbacks, and school supplies. •   Maximize Title I funding and purchase order dollars. •   Huge Savings! Sale items priced $5 and under -- hundreds of items $2.00 or less. •   Great way to refresh school, home, and classroom libraries! •   Every item preselected for our Dollar Days Sale is priced 50%-80% off! Find a Sale Near You & Get Additional Savings! Dollar Days Sale applies ONLY to preselected items marked down for clearance. * $10 off your $50 purchase or $25 off your $100 purchase. **Preferred payment methods: credit cards, checks, purchase orders, and Scholastic Dollars. Note: Items purchased with Scholastic Dollars do not qualify for further discount pricing and will sell at the full cover price.

Shakespeare Uncovered on Nashville's Public TV

Nashville Public Television promo (1:50) for 6-part documentary series, SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, from Thirteen/ WNET, New York. Series premieres January 26, 2013 on NPT.

Belmont Home School Science Discoveries Spring Session 1

Session 1   Thursday, January 24, 2013         11:00 am -12:00 pm, Hitch 101/102

Dr. Steve Robinson

“Gravity”

Students will investigate the properties of gravity with hands-on experiments in this laboratory-based experience.

Grades 1-6

Enrollment Limit: 18 students

For more information contact:

C. Steven Murphree, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

Belmont University

1900 Belmont Blvd.

Nashville, TN  37212-3757

steve.murphree@belmont.edu

615-460-6221

615-460-5458

Adventure Science Center's Collector's Day

COLLECTORS' DAY

March 9, 2013 

Do you have a great Pez collection? Collect antique dolls or doorknobs or spatulas? Do you have a passion for rocks or all things Elvis? Adventure Science Center is pleased to announce a call for entries for its annual Collectors' Day, March 9, 2013. ASC is seeking individuals (youth included) with interesting, personal collections of objects appropriate for its family friendly audience to view and enjoy.

Please fill out the event application and return it to ASC by email (collectors@adventuresci.com), fax (615-862-5178), or mail no later than February 1, 2013. If possible, please include a photo(s) of your collection. Space is limited so sign up now!

Download the application.

Registration deadline is February 1, 2013

Selected collectors will be notified by ASC by February 15, 2013.

WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge...Homeschool Month 2012

Free Printables esp for teachers...

(Cheri's note:  Kevin Savetz is "The Printables Guy" and he offers a complete selection of websites brimming over with templates and forms and other goodies that are available to download and print --FREE!  The following is taken from his newsletter.)

Teacher's Printables

With a new semester in full swing, I wanted to highlight some of the nearly 30 new classroom printables I've added to TeachersPrintables.net.

There are new checklists on which to mark off learning goals, a daily weather chart, a printable postcard, absence reports, a show and tell notice, a classroom birthday chart, music practice schedule (great for parents and band teachers), a detailed school transcript, and even a college budget planner. For math class, there are blank addition and multiplication charts, counting by 10s, a place value worksheet, and activities for the 100th day of school.

I've also added a new seating chart, this one with a circular arrangement. Have you heard of Flat Stanley ? It's a fun project where students watch a paper friend travel the globe as a writing and geography exercise. He's now on TeachersPrintables.net!

There are also various printable rulers, which are great to send with homework so students don't have to hunt for a ruler.

TeachersPrintables.net now has 355 printables in PDF and DOC (Microsoft Word) format, from classroom management and parent communication forms to blank lesson plans and graphic organizers.

I enjoy making these printables available to teachers, especially knowing what a tight budget they have. Everything on the site is available to download and print for free individually. I also offer a single-classroom license of the entire collection for $27; a whole-school license is $67. The collection includes everything on the site, plus a selection of bonus printables such as lined, graph, penmanship, and note-taking paper - more than 400 documents in all.

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New Printable Paper

Wow! With the latest round of additions, PrintablePaper.net has reached a milestone, exceeding 1,000 papers available to instantly download and print. In the years since I launched the site in 2008, I've covered all the basics, such as lined and graph paper. Plus, there are lots of specialty papers: music staff, columnar pad, dot, penmanship, notes, calligraphy, storyboards, and calendars. PrintablePaper.net also has printable games, score sheets and tons more templates for home, school, and business.

I've had so much positive feedback on my papers for crafting (such as knitting and quilting) that I've now added 51 new papers for beading. The beadwork layout paper includes patterns for lots of popular designs such as herringbone, peyote, brick and their many variations. These patterns are appropriate for seed bead, cylinder bead, and other projects.

All of the papers are free to download and print as PDFs, and often in DOC (Microsoft Word) format as well. Some categories (such as budgeting forms and score sheets) have the option of a free PDF or a $4 premium DOC version that can be edited and customized.

Adventure Science Center Summer Camps

Early Registration Now Open for Members

If you’re not currently an Adventure Science Center member, sign up now to take advantage of early registration—as well as exclusive discounts—for ScienceQuest summer camp programs. Spots fill up quickly, so don’t miss this unique opportunity! Membership info>> For non-members, general registration for ScienceQuest camp opens on Jan. 28. Choose from any of our exciting camp programs May 28 – Aug. 9, or click here for more info:

BIOKIDS For campers who want to be a doctor or veterinarian. Learn about life and health, study bones, use microscopes and do a dissection.

BUILD IT! Triumph over a variety of engineering challenges. Design and create a boat, bridge or marble coaster.

SHERLOCK SCIENCE Learn forensic science by using logic and technology to solve mysteries. Extract DNA and analyze samples from a “crime scene.”

ROBOTICS 101 What makes a robot tick? Design and build fun models of machines and animals, experimenting with everything from mechanics to motors and sensors.

IT'S WILD! Explore volcanoes, magnets, critters, crystals, and loads of amazing things about our home planet, plus go on a field excursion.

MUSIC CITY SCIENCE (Grades 7-9 only) Plan a route, choose the day's team leader, then head out on MTA buses to explore the sights and sounds of Music City USA from a science perspective.

ScienceQuest Camp at Adventure Science Center provides a wide range of enrichment programs for science lovers in grades K-9. Programs combine science, technology, engineering and math in ways that encourage kids to actively discover and examine concepts for themselves.

Camps run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with early drop-off and late pick-up available.
For more information, visit adventuresci.org/camps, email camps@adventuresci.com or
call (615) 862-5177.