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Do you love to sing? Do your students like to sing? Or are you planning a party and need a way for people to mix and feel at ease? If so, the Califone Portable Karaoke Machine can provide entertainment and learning for everyone, from your students to your friends and family that want to display their talents and express their personalities.

Califone’s Karaoke Machine is portable and easy to use. Durable and rugged, it was designed specifically to withstand classroom use, but is just as useful in a home or professional environment. The karaoke machine includes a wired microphone with a 6-foot cord, 10 watt variable speed CD player and cassette player. It can be hooked up to almost any TV and is CD graphics capable.

Features of the Califone Karaoke Machine:

• Choice of operation with vocal/stereo/music switch
• Variable speed cassette playback, ideal for sing-along activities
• Multiple inputs and outputs to easily add microphones and headphones
• Dynamic mic (optional video cable) included with two 1/4-inch mic inputs with volume control
• Built- in speakers and convenient carry handle
• Vocal changer to mute vocal playbacks
• For multimedia presentations, an NTSC monitor, video player, cassette player or radio can be connected
• Dimensions: 16″ H x 131/2″ W x 191/2″ D
• Variable speed tape pitch changes playback speed for differentiated learning
• Power output: 10 watts RMS per channel (2 channels)
• Outputs: Audio/Video DIN, 3.5mm headphone, Audio/Video RCA (red, white and yellow)
• Input: 1/4-inch microphone
• One year warranty

Rest assured, the Califone Karaoke Machine will be one of the best additions to your classroom.  And guests will have a fantastic time participating in the evening events with the Califone Karaoke Machine. Not everyone can sing, but anyone will have fun with this portable karaoke machine.

If you think this might be of benefit for your classroom sing-along and music activities, or for your family reunion, school dance, or a birthday or graduation party, please consider Califone’s portable Karaoke Machine.

The Seat Sack provides handy individual storage space for students. The Seat Sack can hold books, papers, notebooks and even laptop computers. The Seat Sack easily slips over the back of any size chair. Then you just insert items for convenient storage. The Seat Sack is made of flame retardant cotton / poly material laminated on vinyl and comes in several sizes to fit any chair. The standard Seat Sack is also available in economy nylon (blue, red, or yellow). Both materials are durable and easy to clean. Just wash and tumble dry.

The Seat Sack manufacturing company is looking for unique organizational ideas that might be used in a classroom. Even better, they are awarding the three best and most creative entries with cash and prize awards!

If you would like to share your ideas with others submit you ideas to Seat Sack no later than midnight on August 15. 2008 - and you could win:

• Grand Prize: $1000 Visa Cash Card and a classroom set of Seat Sacks.
• Second Prize: $500 Visa Cash Card and a classroom set of Seat Sacks.
• Third Prize: $250 Visa Cash Card and a classroom set of Seat Sacks.

To get complete instructions on entering the Seat Sack Organizational Contest, go to SeatSack.com.

Seat Sacks can be found also online at great prices at Tomorrows Classroom. Take a peek at these great classroom storage and organizers today, and I’m sure you’ll find a Seat Sack that will be just right for your classroom storage needs.

Midwest Folding TransFold Choral Risers are ready to go and use anytime your choir performs. The choral risers have built in wheels that make it easy to move the unit from the classroom to the auditorium, up or down stairways, or onto a bus. Even better, when you arrive at your destination, Midwest’s TransFold Choral Risers are quick and easy to set up.

Midwest’s gas spring assisted design allows for the choral risers to open with moderate foot pressure, allowing for an easy set up. This also allows for a safe controlled motion when folding the TransFold Choral Risers for transportation or storage.

Midwest TransFold Choral Risers comes in two sizes and with several optional safety accessories. You can place Midwest’s Reverse Choral Riser between two Standard Choral Risers to configure a straight riser set. An automatic safety lock will keep the choral risers securely in place. The heavy gauge steel frame rolls away on casters and supports plywood decks. You can add a back rail for safety or back steps to increase capacity.

With Midwest Folding TransFold Choral Risers, you’ll always be ready for upcoming events!

Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Imagination plays an important role not just in your children’s learning, but also their success in life.

Imagination helps children solve problems by helping them think through outcomes to various situations and role playing ways to solve or cope with difficult or new circumstances. Imagination allows children to practice real life skills, from shopping at a pretend grocery store, or having a tea party with dolls or puppets. Imagination also encourages a rich vocabulary.

Think back…

As a child, do you remember using pillows, blankets, boxes and chairs to set the stage for an afternoon of creative fun? Well, here are some new products that will encourage your children’s imagination.

Whether building a fort, managing a store, having a pet show or developing a circus, the Yoodo and Spaceframe Builders Kits can help encourage your child to explore the world on their own level. These products gives children a chance to pretend what they might want to be when they grow up. The Yoodo and Spaceframe Builders Kits also encourage cooperation among children, and helps them develop leadership skills as they gain confidence in their performance.

One great way to improve creativity is to have your children read, and then let the children set a stage and act out what they have read.

Pretend play helps children learn and better understand how these skills are used in todays world. There are many ways to encourage creativity in children, so making use of these methods will encourage educational learning, and help children become more creative and curious adults.

Imagination helps children grow up to be creative thinkers as adults. And adults who were imaginative children often become problem-solvers, innovators and those outside-the-box thinkers that lead industries.f

However, children grow up all to fast… Give them time to be, and remember being, children.

From music lessons and computer skills to baseball and soccer practice, there is no shortage of skills for children to learn. While all these things are good for children, they can stifle the kind of play that is essential for developing an amazing gift of childhood: imagination

The Yoodo and Space Frame Kits are two great products that will encourage the development of your children’s imagination. Plus, they are convenient and easily stored. For teachers, they are a great activity for indoor recess time.

Tomorrows Classroom encourages you to buy educational learning toys and games for babies, toddlers and school children.

Just Google “Reading Levels”!

If you take a few minutes and browse through the list of age-appropriate and guided-leveled books, I’m sure you will find just the right one to hold your child’s interest, as well as involve them in the joy of reading.

Because grade level divisions vary in so many different ways, it is important to consider what is appropriate for the reader. Children are exposed to many different experiences and you should focus on what is developmentally appropriate for your child, rather than what others think is above or below a child’s grade level.

Leveled reading removes the “one size fits all” approach to reading, and gives each child the opportunity to develop essential skills at his own pace.

Leveled reading book lists have been developed for two reasons.

• For parents, who have requested help in finding books in their child’s reading level.
• For teachers, who have requested a leveled book list or have asked for help in building a leveled reading library in their classrooms.

How wonderful that these list exist! There is a book on virtually every topic, so find out what interests your child, and then make your selection - maybe even together.

One way to find the reading level of a children’s paperback book is to turn it over. Many books include the reading level in various forms. However, publisher designations can be confusing, particularly when you pick up one copy of a book and it is designated as 0812 in a bookstore. Then, you pick up another version of the very same book and see it designated as 0712.

(Note: Reading levels are generally only printed on the paperback versions of books.)

The most fundamental aspect of teaching guided reading is that the children should have plenty of help.

• Encourage working in groups.
• Encourage reading out loud, as well as silent reading.
• Consistently test comprehension and retention. (At home, you might do this with your child by talking about the story later in the day, and asking each other questions.)
• Better yet, spend an afternoon with your child at the local library. Introducing new topics broadens your child’s small world. Plus, paying attention to your child’s interest level is a good way to get to know your child even better!

If you are looking for other innovative products to give your child an extra edge in school, visit Tomorrow’s Classroom. Here you will find the Royal Inspiration Station, as well as other Reading and Writing Centers.

Tomorrow’s Classroom also promotes the Carpets For Kids learning rugs, which can help your children learn. With these colorful classroom rugs, you can transform an ordinary bedroom, classroom or play area into an educational haven. What a unique place for them to enjoy reading!

You can count on Correll for a large selection of folding tables, folding chairs, activity tables and other innovative school furniture and home office products.

The CP Series by Correll is a lightweight and economical choice for the office or home. The CP Series Folding Tables have blow-molded tops and steel frames. Some fold in half for easy transportation and storage. Correll CP Series Chairs have blow-molded seats and backs with steel frames. Both the folding tables and chairs are available in a variety of colors. And because the color goes all the way through, it won’t scratch off. In addition, the blow-molded plastic is waterproof, as well as stain and chemical resistant.

The R Series by Correll is a heavy duty line of plastic folding tables. These folding tables are lightweight for easy handling and great for commercial use, especially in schools, where the top may be exposed to crayons, markers, paint, chemicals and other stains. Correll’s R Series Folding Tables have a strong steel ladder frame and are virtually indestructible.

Correll also makes a variety of other quality office and school furniture, such as conference tables, seminar tables and library tables, as well as cafe, bar and break room tables. And to make moving your office and school furniture easy, Correll offers table and chair trucks.

Browse Correll Furniture.