I was contacted recently by MyBinding.Com to review a product of my choice. I thought long and hard over what to review, but finally settled on trying out one of their binding machines. We have one at our school, but it a super big hassle to find it and then carry it down to my room because it weighs a ton!
Well, I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box, because what I found was not heavy at all! Even though it didn't weigh a ton, it is still very durable. I used it immediately and didn't even have to read the directions! I know, bad teacher, bad teacher!! But it has a handy dandy little reference guide on the machine, so it is very easy to use. Since I am in Kindergarten for only this year, I used the machine to bind materials that aren't things I will use past this year...but for now they will be easily kept together, without having to buy something to keep them together.
I plan to use the machine to bind my students' portfolios at the end of the year. It will also be great to bind our Mother's Day Writing activities into a keepsake for our moms =)
MyBinding.com was sweet enough to offer my readers a chance to win their own Binding Machine!
Giveaway ends Tuesday 9/25/12!
I would bind my students' monthly theme books!!
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I have my students all about me books that I need to get bound!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win
pocketofkinders@gmail.com
Pocket Full of Kinders
Shuna P
Hi Jennifer! What a great giveaway.... BUT you wrote "Giveaway ends next Monday on Wednesday 9/26/12!" :)
ReplyDeleteStephanie
MaMa Goose’s Kindergarten
Student's writing portfolios, class books, and so much more.
ReplyDeleteLife with Mrs. L
lifewithmrsl@gmail.com
This is an awesome giveaway because I use the binding machine at school all the time!!! I use it to bind our class books together and each week a student receives a book of compliments for being the star of the week and I always bind them.
ReplyDeleteI would bind math journals and other goodies!! :)
ReplyDeleteLive Laugh and Love to Learn
I would bind classroom books we make with each unit which would lead to many more bindings!
ReplyDeleteI would bind class books made by students.
ReplyDeleteClass Books and student journals would be the 1st things I would use it for.
ReplyDeletejkmatuch@aol.com
I would bind class books!! I've never had access to a binding machine before!
ReplyDelete❤Teri
A Cupcake for the Teacher
We make a class book each week for the student star of the week. I would use the binding machine to bind those books!
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I would bind our class memory book and writing pieces!
ReplyDeleteMeg
Third Grade in the First State
I am not a Facebook girl, so I am PRAYING I have a shot at this giveaway with only my 2 little chances:) I would bind our class books and help with our Writing Contest books ---2 binders would make that 4hour binding "party" go sooo much quicker!!
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ReplyDeleteI would bind classroom books! My second graders LOVE making them!
ReplyDeleteSarah
The Fabulous First Grade
Class made books, journals, and fun projects!
ReplyDeleteLori
littlelori0411@yahoo.com
Well that would depend in which grade level I am working with. I bind sight word books, math flash cards, journals ect. I would love to have one of my own!
ReplyDeleteI would bind student created books and journals...
ReplyDeleteI just bound Me on the Map books but it would be a great incentive for my first grade authors!
ReplyDeleteI just tried to unjam our binding machine. It is sooooo old. Lindseyjpaulson@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI would bind student books and standards.
ReplyDeletePixy Stix and Teacher Tricks
I use our school binding machine all the time and would love to have my own! I would use it for class books, projects, writing workshop celebrations.... I could go on forever :)
ReplyDelete❤ Karen
flamingofab@gmail.com
Flamingo Fabulous in Second Grade
I would use it for about me books, and many more more projects!!!
ReplyDeleteJenna
Just Diving In
I would bind all the books we make! We have an old heavy one in our school but it never works well. This is great!!!
ReplyDeleteRebecca
rstilz@ccs.edu
I would bind class books and my students' calendars that they make for their parents for Christmas. :)
ReplyDeleteLisa
Learning Is Something to Treasure
I would bind classroom author books! My students love to see their pieces in the classroom library!
ReplyDeleteAimee
aimee@vanmiddlesworth.org
Pencils, Books, and Dirty Looks
I would have my student's bind some of their fantastic stories! Also on mother's day we create recipes and a binding machine would work wonders at keeping them together!
ReplyDeleteHolly
hollyw_20@hotmail.com
I would bind a story or two ;)
ReplyDeleteKimberly
The Learning Tree
I would LOVE to have my very own binding machine for all of those classroom books! :)
ReplyDeleteashlee.nichols@me.com
I would bind EVERYTHING!!!
ReplyDeleteToni
Hedrich’s Hive
I would bind class books!
ReplyDeleteAshley
arclark2012@gmail.com
Oh there is SO much I would bind! :) I definitely would love this for our Word Study Notebooks as well as any other special units we have!
ReplyDeleteI'm also hosting a giveaway through MyBinding...a free, personal laminator! Come check it out! :)
Heather
Sensational Seconds
I would use it to bind the books my students make and take home to share with their families. This would be great to have!
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kellybrown28021@gmail.com
GFC: Kelly Brown
Would love this machine
ReplyDeletestudent books of course!!! i love making all kinds of books with my class. This is perfect fro my MOther's day book that we give as a gift.!
ReplyDeleteWow! Awesome give away:)
ReplyDeleteI would bind all their Sight Words worksheets, & their Word Families worksheets. I have been dieing to get one of these machines. :-)
ReplyDeleteI would use this for there Math Journals, writing journals, class made books, and memory book at the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteI want one!!
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ReplyDeleteI would bind my students' published books the way that real authors do. They would love it!
ReplyDeleteLiz
Teaching in the Valley
I would bind class books! I used to make so many when I first started teaching! I miss them!!!!
ReplyDeletemeganwheeler44@yahoo.com
I would LOVE a binder! I would bind class books or just student made stories to add to the classroom library. Also to make personal journals, literacy books, math books.. the list could go on and on!
ReplyDeleteI would use it to bind my monthly writing journals, math journals and class books!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win this!!
Stacey White
swhite@cfc.k12.wi.us
I would bind class books, student work, I would make a sub book to leave when subs visit the room...so many possibilities!
ReplyDeleteI will bind the letters to the students of the week along with our class books.
ReplyDeleteI would use the binder to bind my students science and math journals. Then, I wouldn't have to buy tons of spirals each year.
ReplyDeleteVera
abltadventure@gmail.com
A BLT adventure
I would love to have this!!!! I have lugged the one home from school countless times to bind dictionaries, journals, writing folders, Young Author books, etc. It would soooo nice to have one of my own!
ReplyDeletePatti
pattib203@yahoo.com
How wonderful, I would love to be able to bind my student memory books :)
ReplyDeleteLibby
dualkinderteacher@gmail.com
I have totally gotten into making class books, and I would bind those so that they would be more durable.
ReplyDeleteAngela
The Daily Alphabet
I would bind homemade writing journals. I have been drooling over a machine like this for quite some time. :)
ReplyDeleteOh I would love to have one in my room and not have to lug our BIG HEAVY one down to my room every time i need to use it! THis would be awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteKatie
kryan428@gmail.com
I would use it to bind the students' memory books!
ReplyDeleteClass Books! I have to admit I am TERRIBLE at using our school's binding machine. I usually bribe the teacher next door to me to bind for me! I think my last bribe involved me giving her my already completed sub plans! (You know creating first sub plans of the year takes FOREVER)
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Sunshine, Sand and Scissors
Oh all the class books I would make!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is such a wonderful giveaway!
Kelly
Beg, Borrow, Steal
kellymchaffie@hotmail.com
All the books we make, thesaurus, writing tools...
ReplyDeletetania
My Second Sense
I would bind class books, student books, etc...
ReplyDeletekrishankins09@gmail.com
I bind my self- designed lesson plans. Also, I like to bind challenge problems and word problem practice for Math.
ReplyDeleteDiane
Teaching with Moxie
I would bind calendars, journals, interactive books, and books that I make for my reading groups! -Lauren B.
ReplyDeletelmbuerkle82@hotmail.com
We make several class books each year. I'd love to bind these. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteMichelle
mcoop1125@gmail.com
I use the school binding machine to make science journals and assessment binders.
ReplyDeleteThe one we have at school only works half the time. :(
Would love to have my own.
I would bind my students' memory books.
ReplyDeleteBarb
msualum99@juno.com
I would bind the poetry books we make for Write Night along with class books and other books we make throughout the year. Thanks for the opportunity to win this great machine!
ReplyDeleteBobbi :)
bobbikmettler75@gmail.com
I would bind student made books, my reams of data I am collecting, and stats books for our cross country team.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have this binding machine to make journals and class books for my kiddos! Thanks for offering this contest. :)
ReplyDelete~ Lisa
Teaching Kindergarten Kiddos
Classbooks, guided writing booklets, writing from a genre study to be sent home...soo fun!
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Growing Firsties
Class books, problem solving journals, calendar journals, writing journals-- what wouldn't I bind? :)
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I would bind my students data notebooks!
ReplyDeleteœKaryn
A is for Apple B is for Blog
Kideducator@comcast.net
Class books, student stories, the possibilities are endless!
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ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to win this!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMichelle
applesandabcs@gmail.com
We have been making lots of class books! Also to get the end of the year scrapbooks put together!
ReplyDeleteI would love to be able create end of the year portfolios with this. Maybe even bind stories written in Writer's Workshop when it's time to "publish."
ReplyDeletechristyholder27@gmail.com
I would bind math journals, Vocabulary journals, Writing Journals, Classroom Books, Individual Books, and a lot of other ideas as they came along....
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway. I have tons of classbooks that I would bind together. I also want to make cookbooks for Mother's Day.
ReplyDeleteI would bind everything in sight! Debra
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway! We would bind our books we write and a few projects. We sure can use one! Shari
ReplyDeleteI would bind EVERYTHING! I was just talking to our secretary today about needing a new one!
ReplyDeleteKaci
I would bind books we made as a class and books students write during Writer's Workshop. Oh yeah, can't forget about those handprint calendars and end of the year scrapbook.
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I would bind all the word family workbooks!
ReplyDeleteI have TONS of things that I could bind - poster sets, books, class projects...
ReplyDeleteWhere do I begin? I would bind: student books, student stories, class books, class stories, poetry, class peoms, each student's writing from day 1 until the end of the year, Parent Pipelines (from The 2 Sisters), a book of our Great Poetry Race poems, etc.....
ReplyDeleteI would bind journal and books that the children have made.
ReplyDeletelraines78@gmail.com
I would love it to make class books, individual student books, and memory books for the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteSandy
http://sandyslearningreef.blogspot.com/
sandywoot26@yahoo.com
If I had this binding machine I would bind my students math journals, shared reading journals, as well as guided reading response journals....all materials which our school was unable to buy this year. As of today I have my students doing all of their journaling on loose paper and keeping them in various folders. A little hard to make sure they don't loose any of them. So one of these would be really great. Thanks for the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI would bind all my class books that we make! :) quiltwoman0@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI make poetry journals, word wall journals and sight word journals for all my kiddos every year, and would love to have my own fabulous binding machine to do it with!
ReplyDeletecandacegilmore@gmail.com
Hi there! I would bind all of our class books and journals!Thank you!
ReplyDeleteShannon
riddzie@mymts.net
I would make a guest book for my cousins wedding :)
ReplyDeleteWould love to bind math workbooks for my kids (we homeschool) :) And make a planner for myself. I'm sure there is much more I could bind as well :)
ReplyDeleteToni
thomasnrichards@hotmail.com
I would bind my music students theory work and practice pages and gosh, so much more!
ReplyDeleteSarah mitmouse1@yahoo.com
I actually make myself a planner each year already, but have to use the binding machine at school. If I had one of my own at home, there isn't ANYTHING I wouldn't bind, especially books I create for my classroom and quote books to write down my personal kiddos to-die-for quotes that I don't want to forget...
ReplyDeletesspeller@verizon.net
I would bind books that are made by my class, teacher created books, easy reader books, create "themed notebooks" to keep me organized, etc... Endless possiblities!!! :)
ReplyDeletekendall.braxton@gmail.com
Wow! I have to get this! Working at a charter school, we don't have ANY kind of binding machine! This would benefit every teacher in my school and we all know when the teachers benefit, so do the students :) Portfolios, class books, art work, testing materials. I can think of so many uses.
ReplyDeleteI would bind class books!
ReplyDeleteKaren
An Apple a Day in First Grade
I would use this to bind class books!
ReplyDeleteI'd bind a homemaking journal.
ReplyDeleteI would do a lot more class books as well as student books and have them bound for keepsakes.
ReplyDeleteShibahn
I make enough class books every year to send one home with every child at the end of the year. I would love to use the binder!
ReplyDeleteI would bind class books and our reader's response journals!
ReplyDeleteJust about everything...I make workbooks for my g'kids...I make journals, and I make my own scheduler.
ReplyDeleteI would love to use this with all my class books!
ReplyDeleteI would use it to bind my class books. I'm trying to do a better job at making class books with my students this year. So far, we've made 4 and I'm hoping to make more.
ReplyDeleteI would bind our class recipe book!
ReplyDeleteI would love to be able to bind our writing journals or books we make as a class!!
ReplyDeleteI would love to have my own binding machine!! :D Think of all the awesome books we could make! :)
ReplyDeleteAmanda
First Grade Garden
I would bind our class books;)
ReplyDeleteBarbara
Grade ONEderful
Ruby Slippers
I would love to have a binding machine to use in my classroom. I would be able to make so many of the things that I want to into little books.
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withers.brandy@yahoo.com
I'm a writing teacher, so I would bind my students' published books. It would be great to have my very own! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
ReplyDeleteΡΌ Lori
Teaching With Love and Laughter
luvyorkies@gmail.com
I make class books all the time and I have an old binding system that I use!!!!
ReplyDeleteI make class books all the time and I have an old binding system that I use!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat wouldn't I bind? Number of the Day books, alphabet books, schema books, the list goes on and on. What a great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would bind class books!
ReplyDeleteSM
I could do sooooo many things with a binding machine. Differentiating my instruction for my kinders . . . Oh my gosh... I'm giddy with ideas of how to use this. Of course, then I'd have to get a laminator too...I tell you. My Binding is like a candy store for teachers...Pick me Pick me.
ReplyDeleteMarsha
A Differentiated Kindergarten
This would be perfect to make our class books with! Here's hoping! :)
ReplyDeleteNatalie
Teachery Tidbits
Class books all the way!!! Thanks friend.
ReplyDeleteKelley Dolling
Teacher Idea Factory
Class books, handwriting books, memory books...you name it!
ReplyDeletekelly_burnard@hotmail.com
I would use them to bind student published stories! how fun!
ReplyDeleteNicole
Teaching With Style
I love creating new books for my library center and I can totally relate to having to lug the HUGE binding machine around...not to mention the one at my school is so old it doesn't even work properly anymore. I have considered buying one of these for a little over a year now. You are soo lucky to have one!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool giveaway! I could think of SO many things I'd want to do with this binding machine. Right now I'm in the middle of my first book project with my kiddos, a monthly set of pages for each student to go in a yearbook at the end of the school year!
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DeleteThanks for the opportunity. I would bind the alphabet books that I use for my students.
ReplyDeleteyvonneeyrg@gmail.com
I would bind class book after class book.
ReplyDeletelfielder@fortsmithschools.org
How nice would it be!!?? Reading a great blog and a new binding machine!! A 1-2 teacher's dream!! I would bind reading and writing journals, class books, and teacher resources! Thanks!
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