Showing posts with label home schoolers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home schoolers. Show all posts

3/13/13

Priddy Books USA Activity School book

Details: Priddy books: United States of America wipe clean let's learn activity book is for ages 3 and up.  Has 26 pages of wipe clean activities.  Children can practice writing, counting, and solving puzzles.  Learn about the 50 states, their capitals, their flags, they're state flower,  insect or tree.  Word searches, missing letters, counting images, finding the differences, and more mini activities per page.  Priddy Books has a large variety of Wipe Clean books available in different age ranges, topics, and places.
My Review: We got this book when my son was 4 years old so that he had an activity to do as we drove across country moving.  In the car he got really bored of it really quickly this is definitely something for parents to work on with their children especially as a school activity or at your regular extra learning activity book.  Now that my son is 6 years old he starting to be able to do it on his own if he can now read a lot of the words understand what he supposed to do with a different activities and puzzles and he's having a lot of fun using this as a school activity book.  He's learning a lot about the USA me he's learning about the states their capitals the United States Capitol.  This is supplementing with other states puzzles and activities that we use on the Kindle, On the computer with books and teaching so that everything is just memorized.  I feel like this is a great tool to use especially for home schoolers.

Pros: fun, great facts, awesome activities
Cons: not for children to do on their own unless they can read. 

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3/11/13

Write, Slide, & Learn School Books

Details: The Write, Slide and Learn book series has 3 titles Math, Phonics and Spelling.  What the wipe clean pages you can write on them, slide to see the answers, and learn which keeps your children engaged and entertained as you work through these books.  These books are for ages 5 and up.  The wipe off pages allow for easy repeated practice.

My Review: Hinkler Books: Write, Slide and Learn: Math, Phonics, and Spelling.  I have only known about these books for a couple weeks now I bought that math book and the spelling book from Goodwill for 3 dollars each.  As I home school my kindergartner in a preschooler I try to find a fun activity books that will help them easily love to learn to read love to learn to spell love to learn to count and write.  These books seem to do that all in one.
The math books specifically helps your child  learn how to count from 1 to 12, word problems, missing numbers, most and least, even numbers, odd numbers, counting backwards, addition, subtraction, and other such a valuable skill that children need to learn. My 6 year old loves using these books!  He loves being able to slide out the answers to make sure he's doing it properly and it helps and learn to visualize the numbers not just write them.
The Spelling book specifically helps your child learn to spell 280 commonly used words, work on beginning sounds, ending sounds, missing letters, rhyming words, consonants and vowels, and other such important skills needed.  Since right now all I have is the last book in the spelling but I can't wait to find the phonics book even if I have to pay full price these are totally worth it I highly recommend these books.
Again these are great for home schoolers for Parents to just want to give their kids extra help with their school work and great for the summertime when you want to make sure your kids don't forget what they learned the previous school year.

Pros: excellent content, easy to use, easy to clean

Cons: I would like to see this series of books come in different levels: like Kindergarten and First Grade.

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2/12/13

Rachel and the Tree Schoolers


Details: Rachel and the Tree Schoolers: A Rainy Day is a DVD/ CD combo pack produced by Two Little Hands, featuring Rachel from Signing Time.  Preschool is delivered to you in the form of a movie and music Cd.   Children are engaged through music, movement, educational topics, rhyming time, with the help of all the fun little creatures who go to school in the Tree house.  The Rainy Day curriculum includes: weather concepts, problem solving, rhyming, sorting, story telling, American Sign Language, and the values of courage and kindness.

My Review: My kids LOVE movies when it comes to doing SCHOOL TIME.  The day my kids opened this package we watched the movie 2 times for the next 14 days, they loved it so much!  My 6 year old's favorite song is the Lightning and Thunder song.  My 3 year old loves the weather song.  During many of the songs there are shots of real children indoors and outdoors.  What is funny to me, is that all of the summer shots with children outside I recognize the park.  We used to go to that park all the time 3 years ago.  Another song shows children holding up weather pictures they've created.  So as part of our 14 day double feature we had to do those pictures that are weather related.  Now my kid's bedroom is fully decorated in weather and seasons!  Great science projects for young children.

Pros: love this, I want the whole set

Cons: none





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