Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back To School Blog Tour – With $100 GC Giveaway
My son loves trains so it seems sort of fitting that I am the final stop on the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back To School Blog Tour. I’m the caboose! Choo choo!
Are you familiar with the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary?
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.
Here in New Jersey school starts back up in a couple of weeks. I’ll be moving my boys towards their school year schedules consisting of earlier bedtimes and earlier wake up times after this weekend. I like to make the adjustments slowly so they don’t suffer culture shock. The one thing that I’ve never understood about back to school is the actual back to school night. In our area back to school night for most (not all) schools is sometime from mid-September until early October – AFTER SCHOOL HAS ALREADY STARTED. That makes no sense!
Back to school night is an important night for parents. It provides an opportunity to meet the teachers and learn about what’s going to happen during the year and what expectations are. In recent years back to school night has also included the topic of school supplies. In our district teachers are able to specifiy what school supplies are required for the class. The list used to be sent home towards the end of summer. As my son got older it happened that teachers weren’t giving the list out until the first day of school. By then all of the stores were picked clean. What sense does that make! I like to find out what I need aheadof time so I’m not hunting supplies down.
So back to back to school night. You wouldn’t believe how many back to school nights that I’ve gone to for my older child where the room was half empty. Parents should be going to back to school night. It lets the teachers know you take your child’s education seriously. It also lets your child know te same. The most helpful thing that I’ve found is to find out what your child’s teacher’s expectations and policies are. It’s great to know ahead of time what the policy is for make up work or missed assignments. I like to introduce myself to the teacher and make sure they know how to reach me. I also discuss any potential problems and share any information I feel they may need. Lastly I like to ask what items they recommend that may not be required – a dictionary, for example. A dictionary was not a required item but one I felt would be helpful for my son to have based on my own experience. I wasn’t required to have a dictionary in school. But I always did, because my Mom (a teacher) thought it would be helpful. And helpful it was. A dictionary is one of those books that I think everyone should have. Yes, you can look stuff up online now but nothing replaces having to actually turn pages, look for, and find a word. To me that’s part of the learning process.
If you’d like to read more more posts about the pending school year from some terrific bloggers, feel free to visit any of the first fourteen stops on the tour. They shared stores and advice on back to school, saving money, nutrition, reading and much more.
- Jolly Mom
- Momma Findings
- The Mommy-Files
- The Dirty Shirt
- 1StopMom
- MommyMandy
- Guessing All The Way
- Serendipity Mommy
- The Divine Miss Mommy
- From Dates to Diapers
- MomDot
- My Sentiment ExactLee
- Mommy Niri
- 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires
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My daughter let me know the night before that she would be sick in the morning and wouln’t be able to go to school.
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A couple years ago a parent asked the teacher if she would only believe half of the things his daughter said about things that happened at home. The teacher then asked if he would only beleive half the things his daughter would tell him happen in school. I thought it was funny because kids do get their information mixed up sometimes.
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I’ve never been to a back to school night so I’m not sure what to say. I like your idea of asking about what items the teachers would recommend, I think that’s a great idea!
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I’d like to ask how much time the teacher actually expects my child to be doing homework.
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We went last night, and there were no strange questions! I did ask what the name of the website that the school uses that has the spelling words for each grade listed (the kids can go to that site at home and practice), but the teacher didn’t know it… guess I’ll have to ask the Computer Lab teacher!
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the funniest thing i have heard a parent ask at the school night is…will you let my child go to the bathroom when she needs to go……hmm let me think about that one- come on
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we do not have Back to School night here but i would love to ask why so many schools being close and the once left open are over crowned.
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I’m too shy to ask a question and just hope another parent asks any question I might have. :O
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If I could ask one question, it would be why are the teachers not required to attend Back to School night? In our school, it is optional for teachers to attend the back to school night. I do not see why the school even offers one, if the teachers are not there to greet the parents!
Is that question too snotty?? lol Sorry!
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Our Back to School night happens almost a month in to the year too! I plan to ask about volunteering in my son’s class. I love being involved in his education!
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