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Woo Hoo!

MomDot is #11 on the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary Back-To-School Blog Tour and I am so excited you are here! There is nothing I am more passionate about than reading and learning.

Not so much about test taking, but hey, can’t win them all….

I ready every day.

EVERY day.

I think its important for children and adults! When I was growing up, I would read a book every 2 days. I could fly through a Stephen King novel at 8 years old sometimes in under 48 hours. And anytime I would ask my mom a question on what a word meant, she would say “Have you looked it up in the dictionary?”

Man, I am excited to be able to do the same thing. Its gonna be like passing the parental stick or something.

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As you already know, Charlotte is in school for the year as of this past Monday.  I sure hope this year is the year she stops being so stubborn and translates her phonics to actual reading. Even without that final step, she loves to make up words and skim through pictures and when this dictionary landed in my house, she immediately took interest.

I thought for sure it was something that would be thrown aside, after all its a very large book for her age group, but not only did she immediately take interest in it, she even went and took it to the neighbors and started “teaching” the 2 year old over there.

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These pictures are not set up and I did not ask her to get her dictionary.

After playing in the yard last week, she asked me if she could go get it and bring it out, which I said yes.

She had a very genuine interest.

( I did, however, ask her to smile once which she faked because I was interrupting her)

She then asked if she could get her mini desk out (which I said yes)…

I guess the teaching got serious.

She was schooling the neighborhood little girl about the snakes and the frogs on one of the pages.

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ABOUT 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.

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This year, with school uniforms, I thought we would be saving lots of cash. Oh-So-Wrong I was! Uniforms ended up costing me a small fortune…and so did supplies. I think over the weekend, which was tax free weekend here, I spent over $200 in that final preparation for classroom supplies, backpack, extra uniform shirts, pencils, folders. It all sure adds up big time!

We were running around trying to find these specific yellow and green folders she had to have and I walked into OfficeMax and thankfully, after stopping at 3 places, they had them. It was like a light opened up from the sky at that point.

One thing I didn’t do was save any money this year. I was totally unprepared for this thing they call ‘public education’. I would say MY tip for Back to School savings would be START PURCHASING EARLY. Because combined with our initial uniform purchases and this weekends supply purchases, the final cost was over $350.  And we just went to Target and Walmart.

Ouch

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WIN BIG!!!!!!

To celebrate BACK TO SCHOOL, MomDot wanted to reward one lucky parent with a $100 Visa Gift card AND one of these really awesome dictionaries!

You can win by answering the following question:

What is one tip to SAVE while you are BACK TO SCHOOL Shopping?

Additional Entries (unlimited after the first one is completed):

• * Stumble this post
• * Tweet this post (please do not tweet more than once an hour, we are not trying to spam)
• * Add more back to school saving tips

Make sure you enter a comment (for drawing purposes) after every entry point is completed so you get separate entries.

Contest open to US Only. Contest ends on Friday the 20th and winner will be added to this post and contacted via email. Thank you for your participation and support.

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And don’t forget, you can get your Scholastic Children’s Dictionary and get them Back to School ready for all their homework and research papers, by purchasing here  for only $13.99 on sale RIGHT NOW!

Be sure to check out My Sentiment Exactlee’s Back-To-School post on Monday August 16th

~trisha

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I am part of the Scholastic Blog Tour where 15 bloggers have come together to talk about Back  to School topics and spread awareness of the dictionary. This was a compensated program and I received a dictionary as part of this post. Feel free to visit all the other bloggers for extra chances to win!

• Jolly Mom Stop #1            July 23
• Momma Findings Stop #2            July 26
• The Mommy-Files Stop #3            July 28
• The Dirty Shirt Stop #4            July 30
• 1StopMom Stop #5            Aug 2
• MommyMandy Stop #6            Aug 4
• Guessing All The Way Stop #7            Aug 5
• Serendipity Mommy Stop #8            Aug 6
• The Divine Miss Mommy Stop #9            Aug 9
• From Dates to Diapers Stop #10          Aug 11
• MomDot Stop #11          Aug 12
• My Sentiment ExactLee Stop #12          Aug 16
• Mommy Niri Stop #13          Aug 18
• 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires Stop #14          Aug 19
• Mom Knows It All Stop #15          Aug 20