Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-to-School Countdown *Giveaway*
I cannot believe that the new school year is just around the corner. Like many other parents around the country, I am starting to get my boys ready for the new school year. I remember getting ready for the new school year as a young girl (and teenager). It was always exciting to purchase the new backpack, Trapper Keepers (yep), clothes, shoes, and other school necessities. As a mom, I have to admit, it’s just as exciting to purchase these items for my boys.
One of the big items to purchase are their shoes. I want to make sure that their shoes look good, are affordable, and are durable (very important with little boys…you understand exactly what I’m saying if you have them). Here are some tips I have when it comes to shoe shopping for the upcoming school year:
1 – Come up with a budget for how much you are willing (or can afford) to spend on shoes for your child.
2 – Shop for sales. Check out your local stores and ads (both in the newspaper and online).
3 – Decide on how many pairs and what type of shoes are needed for the upcoming school year (i.e. p.e. shoes, casual shoes, dress shoes).
4 – Take your child with you on the shopping trip. This is helpful for fitting, style, and gets your child about the upcoming school year as well.
5 – Try to hold out on letting your child wear the new shoes until the first day of school. It will be hard but you can do it!
6 – Take advantage of FREE SHIPPING deals on different websites by ordering multiple pairs of shoes for your kids at the same time
7 – Keep your receipt. If you need to return the shoes for any reason at all, having the receipt will make the return much easier. Shoes can feel different at the store than when your child actually puts them on to wear throughout the day.
In addition to school supplies, clothes, and shoes for your child, the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary is a great tool to help him or her in the upcoming school year. The Children’s Dictionary is filled with words and pictures that will help your child master school assignments and projects.
With exciting features, accessible definitions and helpful illustrations and photographs throughout, the new Scholastic Children’s Dictionary is the essential resource that belongs in every home, classroom and library.
The 2010 edition of the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary features more than 1,000 full-color photographs, simple sentences, illustrations, and diagrams as well as newly commissioned maps of the world, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. There are hundreds of new and expanded entries written by a prominent lexicographer as well as thousands of additional sample sentences to illustrate word usage. The dictionary also includes guides on grammar, punctuation and idioms and simplified pronunciations created with real kids in mind! The new Scholastic Children’s Dictionary is an essential resource that belongs in every home, classroom, and library. The Scholastic Children’s Dictionary retails for $19.99.
I am thrilled to participate as STOP #3 in this fun Back-to-School Countdown Tour with Scholastic! Be sure to check out the other blogs participating in this fun tour!
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GIVEAWAY
In celebration of the upcoming school year, 1 lucky reader on The Mommy-Files will win a $100 gift card to Zappos.com and a copy of the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary!!!
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This is a compensated post. I also received a copy of the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary to facilitate this review. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine.
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Shop your local dollar stores first. The ones here have great pens, paper, tablets, binders, pencils and cute erasers, crayons, etc. all for much less than even the sale price at other stores.
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We start two weeks before the first day and get up 1 hour before school wake up time. The week before we get up at the school wake up time. Makes for a much smoother transition that first week of school since the kids have adjusted to the time (morning and bedtime already).
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Start the week before school starts with the earlier bedtimes and getting up and getting ready in the morning.
Start the week before school starts with the earlier bedtimes and getting up and getting ready in the morning.
Start the week before school starts with the earlier bedtimes and getting up and getting ready in the morning.
we restart all school routines at least a week before school starts
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Make lots of checklists! They will help you keep organized and not forget anything!
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My tip is to shop sales for school supplies year round so you don’t have to spend a lot of money at the last minute.
Buy whatever you can on sale and use coupons!
My tip is to shop early in the season and early in the morning to avoid the crazyness (as much as possible). Thank you for the lovely giveaway.
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Buy back to school clothes in the early summer for the best deals.
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I try to shop all in one day so I don’t have to keep running out here and there. I want it all DONE!
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I shop as much as I can on clearance racks the year before. That way I’m not scrambling or spending a ton of money at once!
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write little notes in their bookbags!!
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start shopping early and make sure you got everything you got on your shopping list
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Have fun by letting the kids decorate each of their notebooks specifically for their classes.
Start with your jeans or pants and color co-ordinate the kids clothes around that, even the shoes and socks tops shirts belts and what have you
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look for good sales,start shopping early better deals!
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We’ve been doing a weekly book club and some math fun to get them back into learning mode for school.
shop the sales. especially office depot.
make morning schedules!
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Introduce yourself to the teacher. As a teacher it is nice to be able to meet the parents and be able to answer any simple questions the parents may have. This helps to get the year off to a good start.
To help get ready, we do a few “test runs” before school starts. We practice getting up early, grabbing breakfast and picking out clothes. It helps make everyone a little less anxious.
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my back to school tip is to to shop early to beat the crazies that come out at the last minute!
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I like to practice having the kids get ready bed early and get up early as they will for school.
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My tip is to save some of the new crayons, pens, etc. until the middle of the year to replace things, otherwise you’ll have to buy when they’re not on sale
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My tip is to have plans for meals. Plan out and prepare as many meals as you can during the weekend so you don’t have to stress about it during the week.
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Have the kids straighten up their rooms before school starts, makes it easier for them to concentrate
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I do shopping a few months in advance because supplies run out quick and it gets harder to find the things I need.
Our school doesn’t start untill next week but we are already on a school bed schedule.
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Get back in routine early and lay everything out the night before.
Begin going to bed early atleast a week before school starts so that it is easier to do on the night before the first day of school. Thanks!!
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don’t wait until the last minute and make lists and stick to it!
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