Product Review: Alphabet Marks the Spot Game

Alphabet Marks the Spot GameLearning letters and the alphabet can be a journey for kids, parents and teachers. To help aid in learning the alphabet there are lots of different games, cards, activities, etc. Here at National School Supply we carry a lot of different options, one being our Alphabet Marks the Spot Game Mat.

Product Description: The Alphabet Marks the Spot interactive floor game is a high energy introduction to letters, sounds, alphabetical order and word building. This affordable ABCs game features 8 different games that students will love to play. Included with this alphabet game are a 4-1/2′ square vinyl alphabet mat, 5 inflatable illustrated cubes and game markers.

Manufacturer: Learning Resources

National School Supply Price: $31.25
(Retail: 36.99)

Pros: Ideal for students and kids in grades K+, the Alphabets Marks the Spot Game helps students and kids learn letters, letter sounds, beginning sounds and more! Your students will love to toss the cubes, identify the picture and figure out what letter it begins with and then search for it on the oversize mat.

Cons: If your students already know their letters and their alphabet, this game will be on the easier side. To emphasize sounds and more advanced learning you’ll want to look into alphabet and letter games for older students.

Best Uses: In a classroom or home environment where kids and students are beginning to lean their letters and sounds. It can be used in either a group setting with multiple players or just a single player.


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St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Hat Craft

Valentine’s Day has come and gone. It’s time to start thinking about the next holiday craft ideas – St. Patrick’s Day. It’s all about Leprechauns, rainbows and pots of gold in March. And they all make fun craft themes for St. Patrick’s Day.

One of our favorite crafts for St. Patrick’s Day is this Leprechaun Hat Craft.

What you’ll need:

  • Construction Paper – Black and Yellow
  • Glue
  • Paint, Glitter and Decorating Supplies
  • Small Paper Plate
  • Paper Cup

Directions:

  1. Paint the your small paper plate and the outside of the cup green and allow to dry.
  2. Glue the cup upside down in the center of the bottom of the paper plate.
  3. Cut a piece of black construction paper to approximately 1 inch thick and long enough to wrap around the cup where it is glued onto the paper plate.
  4. Glue it into place as the band of the hat.
  5. Cut a small yellow square out of yellow construction paper. This will be the buckle of the band. Glue it into place.
  6. Decorate with glitter as you’d like!

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Liquidation Sale Going on NOW at National School Supply

National School Supply Liquidation SaleAttention teachers! Right now at National School Supply we are holding a one time only Liquidation Sale. While supplies last you’ll find up to 90% off retail prices on your favorite school supplies and resources from your favorite brands.

To help you save BIG on your school supplies, we’ve put together just a brief list of some of the most popular products on liquidation right now.

Arts and Crafts
Crayola Classpack Markers from just $31.90
Crayola Washable Paint – 6 Pack from just $3.60
64 Oz. Crayola Paint from just $9.40
No Spill Paint Cups – 5 Pack from just $3.80
Model Magic from just $1.40
One Pound of Sequins from just $6.80
100 Colored Stems from just $1.10
Shop All Arts and Crafts

Early Childhood
Pretend and Play Sandwich Set from just $11.40
Little Pretenders from just $8.00
Early Learning Tiles Classroom Set from just $39.90
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Language Arts
Simple Sentences from just $7.90
Spanish Bingo from just $3.70
Word Families Reading Cards from just $5.10
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Math
Probability Kit from just $55.90
Math Fact Set from just $2.40
Plastic Coins from just $1.60
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Science
Primary Rocker Balancefrom just $7.50
Test Tube Rack from just $2.30
Clever Catch Elementary Science Ball from just $4.40
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Social Studies
US/World Overhead Transparency from just $7.90
Inflate-a-globe from just $8.70
Presidents Who Shaped a Nation from just $3.00
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Classroom Decorations
Motivational Bannersfrom just $1.30
Decorative Trimmer from just $1.20
100th Day Decorations from just $.80
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Teacher Aids
Notepads from just $1.20
A Year of Themes from just $4.80
School to Home Notes from $1.70
Shop All Teacher Aids

Hurry! These extremely low liquidation prices are all while supplies last and will only be available for a limited time. Happy shopping. And happy saving!


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New Crafts for Inspire Your Heart with Art Day!

This Tuesday, January 31st, is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day and in the spirit of fostering creativity, we’ve created several new seasonal crafts perfect for any early childhood or elementary classroom. We here at National School Supply know how important encouraging creativity in classrooms is for the development of young children, and these four crafts are perfect for celebrating International Creativity Month. Our new crafts will also help teach young students basic skills, such as using scissors, gluing and drawing.

Our first crafts are two decorative seasonal wreaths, both a winter themed wreath and Valentine’s Day themed wreath. These wreaths are fun to make and can be easily customized to any season or holiday of your choosing!

Young children will also love our fun Paper Roll Penguin craft. These little penguins are easily made from an empty paper towel or toilet paper roll.

Our fourth craft we’ve created is a Paint Stick Snowman. This craft, as well as the Paper Roll Penguins, allow children to use their imaginations when decorating them! These snowmen are a great craft for celebrating winter or for looking forward to spring.

Lastly, to further celebrate Inspire Your Heart with Art Day, we’re offering a sale on our entire selection of arts and crafts supplies! Save on a wide variety of supplies for your classroom or early childhood center.

Keep checking back for more custom crafts to come!


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Twitter Chats for Teachers

Are you a teacher or educator using Twitter? Did you know there are Twitter chats available for teachers and educators to connect with other teachers and educators? There are! In fact, there are lots of them!

Twitter chats are designed to allow you to get to know other teachers, bounce ideas off one another, ask questions and be there as another resource. Most Twitter chats occur weekly and can be followed by their hash tags.

Here’s a few of the most popular Twitter chats for teachers:

#educhat
One of the most popular Twitter chats, #educhat, takes place each Tuesday evening. #Edchat is designed for everyone to participate and takes on very general topics in education. One week could be a subject of English and the next week could be Art or Math.

#SciChat
If you’re a science teacher #SciChat is right for you. Meeting on Tuesday evenings, at 9pm EST, teachers discuss pressing issues in science and teaching science. Whether you are teaching science at the elementary level or college, there is something for everyone. They also created another hashtag, #scido that aims to get the conversation out of the virtual space and get people to doing.

#SpedChat
If you’re a teacher of Special Education this is the perfect Twitter chat for you. This chat is also great for general teachers with students with special needs. They meet on Tuesdays, 8:30pm EST.

#NTChat
Last, but not least is a Twitter chat for the new teachers out there. The goal of each New Teacher chat is to provide a support system to new teachers. #NTChat provides a support network for new teachers to chat with one another. They meet Wednesdays, 7pm EST.

What Twitter chats do you participate in?


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