Review of Fandex Family Field Guides: Dinosaurs

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I got these for my nephew and he loves them. They have so many facts on each card, but the best part are the dinosaur pictures on the top. The graphics are fantastic and are clear enough for children to begin associating the specific dinosaur type to the all kinds of pictures easily identifying the different kinds of dinosaurs.

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Reviews of Leapster L-MAX SW Game: Sponge Bob(Lic.)

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My young children (boy and girl; 4 and 6 this month) are not allowed to watch SpongeBob but that doesn't keep all three of us from enjoying this game. It is simply one of the best Leapfrog LMAX/Leapster game cartridges that we have.

**Skills and Games**

Word Building

Arrgh. Some of SpongeBob's friendly jellyfish have letters inside them. There is a water cannon that can be used to knock the letters out. On the first level, children are shown the last two letters in a word: such as _ a t. They can `free' letters which then float up to fill in the blank to make a word such as hat, cat, etc.

[I have noticed this is helping my preschooler `get' the entire word building concept.]

Phonics and Attributes

In this silly and fun game [even mom likes!], Patrick must move around three conveyor belts collecting objects. Sometimes these objects are just anything that is `yellow' and sometimes the objects are shapes, items with start with a certain letter, items grouped and equaling a certain number of things, and in the advanced round: items which are grouped and equal to an equation such as (8-3).

Money and Addition

SpongeBob is at one of those grab-a-prize machines. He gets to try to grab something if he has the right amount of change.

[This has been great for my kindergartener and preschooler. The latter can now identify various coins, while the former is learning not only to count change (for example, that 4 quarters make a dollar) but also to count by 5's and 10's.]

Music

There is a fun section in which children can play around with instruments and sounds.

Five Stars. [A]. Better background story than most of the cartridges. Better graphics other Leapster cartridges. Lots to learn. Good humor for all ages.

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My boys are all big SpongeBob fans, so it was no surprise that my five year old loves this game. He loves to count out the coins to play the "claw machine" game. We have about 8 leapster games and this one rates in the top two!

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If you have diehard spongebob fans in your house, be sure to grab this game. It is a lot of fun for the games sake and it teaches how to count change, some math and introductory word formation. However, if Spongebob gets on your nerves when he's on television, it's worse with this game! I think of all the games we have, this one is the least challenging for my five-year-old. The Batman game provides more of a challenge and it seems to be more fun for him. This game is just okay, and isn't played as much as I thought it would be. My five-year-old loves Spongebob, but this game just isn't as much fun as some of the others, especially Letters on the Loose, Batman, Spiderman (all spelling and word formation, fantastic game!), and Number Raiders.

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My almost 6 year-old loves this game. He doesn't even realize he's learning and we're looking forward to having his L-Max on long trips.

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We bought this cartridge for the Leapster. Our grandchildren have been using it non stop. It certainly holds their interest and was a great purchase

Review of Brilliant Minds Montessori Math Kit

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As a classroom teacher, the Brilliant Minds Math kit has helped my students understand the concepts behind math so much better. Rather than my students reciting numbers in sequential order, they actually understand how is applied. I have worked with many different types of math manipulatives, from number counters, bears and blocks. With this kit, the students learn the differences between ones, tens, hundreds and thousands by using the units, ten bars and cubes. The math kit provided by Brilliant Minds is the best one I have come across yet. I can't say enough about how helpful this kit has been to all of my students.

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I bought this as a backup to public school after we had to transfer my daughter from Montessori. It has been great to reinforce the traditional methods she is being taught in public school. Her little sister, who is 3 years old and in Montessori school, loves doing "homework" with these materials while big sister is doing her homework. Good quality. Very happy with the purchase and will probably be buying the advanced kit soon.

Plan Toys Planactivity Cupcakes And Swiss Rolls Play Set Reviews

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These are lovely and well-made. My three-year-old played with them all day on Christmas after she received them as a gift. I second the commenter who suggests glueing the strawberries to the tops of the cupcakes. Otherwise the cats play with them like they are mice, chase them all over and get them lost under the stove.

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My 4-year has had this set for a year. She plays with it often celebrating her dolls' birthdays. The set is well-made, nicely colored. The only thing I don't like is that the strawberries and pink candies (?) on top of the cupcakes come off very easily. They are meant to do so to allow the child to change decorations around. But I glued them in place, otherwise they would have been lost under the couch long time ago. That's a minor issue for such a nice toy. I would buy it again.

Reviews of Teacher Created Resources Fruit of the Spirit Stickers, Multi Color

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Teaching English at a Christian-founded Japanese pre-K, I have an opportunity to share simple concepts. These little stickers were a perfect reward at the end of my lesson. My kids loved the happy faces, bright colors and a chance to repeat the name of the fruit. Nice little teaching tool and reward. My only recommended improvement would be to make them scented according to their fruit, however that's also what imaginations are for. :)

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I was looking for stickers that I could give to my preschoolers at church for when we study the Fruits of the Spirit.

These are perfect and I can give them several. Great product, great price

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We had a WIC event in our community, where people came to learn about healthy eating for women and kids under the age of 5. We thought these would be a cute item for kids. When we received them, the inks were terribly faded on all of the sticker sheets. It look like either they had been laid out in the sun for months and months, or the printer had gone in an printed at 30% saturation to save on ink or something. They looked really sad, and we felt pretty awful giving them out to kids who couldn't ID the fruit according to color.

Very disappointed.

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I thought that they were both colorful and useful. I like them. I am glad I can order these like I did.

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They were just as I was hoping and wanting them to be-used them as rewards in my VBS class and the kids loved them.

Buy Hape - Fantasia Stacking Block Train

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This toy has provided constant entertainment for my son. He is 1 1/2 and loves the 3 train cars especially. He loves to drive them around, being that he is really into scooting stuff around at this time. It is very simple, durable and leaves room for imagination. I do however not like that the production of Educo toys are outsourced to Asian countries so far from our own economy.

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Great craftsmanship and beautiful toy. My 1yr old son is still a little young to learn to stack, but likes to take it apart and push it around.

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This toy is smaller than we anticipated. It is really adorable, and we have enjoyed playing with it, but think that the tiny pieces will not be the greatest yet for our grandchildren. The 7 year old will probably do fine with it, but the 4 year old will not be able to play with these little connectors. The little pieces will be easily lost, so will keep it back as a special toy with supervision.

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Review of Quartet Characters for Magnetic Letter Boards, Helvetica Font, 1

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The Magnetic Letters are perfect for the magnet board we already had. We had many missing letters, now we can use our sign again. The condition the package arrived was perfect. Thank you.

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Magic rocks are classic in my opinion. My kids had a blast with them as children and now I buy them for my grandchildren. I was really happy to find that they were still around. We just use an old pickle jar or whatever and have fun adding new ones every day.

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I bought it for my 7 year old granddaughter. They worked, but they are much smaller than one would think. They are exactly the same product that was sold when I was about 7 years old! She enjoyed watching the "rocks" grow.

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This is pretty much exactly as advertised. The "magic solution" is a little worrisome, so I had to do all that part myself. But she really liked watching the crytals grow and it's easy to do!

Cheap Subtraction Practice Math Machine

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I just pulled this item up because I have the whole set that is now a good 5 years old. I have to tell you that as far as I can tell these tile boards are indestructable, incredibly durable, and extremely educational not to mention the fun that my daughter has had pushing to buttons. Anyway, I pulled the site up so that I could send the link to our local elementary school that my daughter attends. I bought all 4 (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) as a set while my daughter was in Kindergarten. I struck GOLD!! We still use the multiplication and especially the division one, she is now 12-years old. Excellent way to keep the kids SHARP. I have my daughter close her eyes, randomly touch upon one of the tiles, and then.....we see how sharp she is. My daughter has acute ADHD and these boards have been the ticket!! They are engaging versus sitting still and memorizing math facts. An absolutely awesome learning tool.

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Kids love this and have fun while learning their math skills. I do suggest you have them do it in random order to make it more challenging.

Cheap Rhythm Band Headless Tambourine 8 Inch

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Ordered them for my bridal party to use during our reception. They were a HUGE HIT and every aspect of dealing with the mechant was excellent! Highly recommend.

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Best LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Sonic X Deals

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Before I decided to purchase this item for my children, I did what I always do: jump on Amazon.com to check out the reviews. To my surprise, there weren't any. So, I hopped over to Leapfrog.com to view the synopsis. Leapfrog doesn't even list this game as an available title on their site. Next, I did a Google search to try and find a review on this title and I was directed to the Sega website. I clicked on the link for the Sonic X game and was directed, suprisingly enough, back to the Leapfrog website, where no results were found. Talk about hitting a brick wall...

So, I took and chance and I bought it for my 4 1/2 year-old son to add to his ever-growing collection of Leapster titles. It's a hit. Both he and my daughter love it. They actually played the Sonic X game last night instead of the Wii which they have been playing daily since Christmas. We actually had to pry the Leapster out of my son's hands just to get him into bed.

As for the game, I had my reservations since this game seems to have been produced by Sega as opposed to Leapfrog; so I wasn't sure if it would have the same educational themes as most Leapfrog games do. While the theme of this game is much more video game based than most of the LeapFrog games, it is also very educational. Not having played any of the Sonic game titles that seem to be so popular, I can only compare it to games I am familiar with. The graphics remind me a little bit of Super Mario Brothers, and some of the challenges seem to follow similar themes. Also, the game is set up into different zones, which each have a different activity.

For example, one of the activities in the game teaches addition by having you add blocks at the top of the screen. Once you think you have the answer, you have to find it on the board while taking care to avoid the wrong answers. Another of the activities teaches your child how to count backward by following the sequence on the top of the screen, then racing to find the next number. All the while, you have to collect little gold rings from each stage of the game which are added at the top of the screen. Some of the stages are timed, so you can't take too long to figure out the answer. There are also activities that teach number sequencing and subtraction. Each activity has three different skill levels to choose from.

The target age for this product is listed as Kindergarten to 1st grade. I bought it for my 4 1/2 year-old and he is doing very well with it, but he is much stronger with math than reading and writing. I think this is a great game for preschool and kindergarten aged children to help reinforce number recognition, counting and simple math concepts in a very fun way.

For frame of reference, my son also enjoys the following Leapster titles: Counting on Zero, Mr. Pencil, Learning with Leap, Letters on the Loose, Mole's Huge Nose, Cars, Letter Factory, Kindergarten, Spongebob and Cars. If your child has similar interests, he or she will most likely enjoy this game. If you are looking to reinforce your child's mathematical concepts, I recommend this game or Counting on Zero.

Update: LeapFrog has updated their website in the past few days to at least show this title, although it is listed as "coming soon".

Hope this helps.

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We got this game along with two others and this is by far the favorite of the whole family!! My sister, Dad and I are willing to play this game. It plays more like a real video game then the others did, with the math and learning included. This was the only game I was willing to play on the leapster. I remember playing Sonic on the Sega handheld thing a few years ago and it was still fun now.

The game is about counting and numbers. Through each place on the map there are three levels to play. Each level you can get 99 rings to get a jewel. You don't get anything special if you do though like I thought, no secret game to unlock, just the satisfaction of getting them all. Through each level it ask you to find the correct number that comes after what ever number they give you, like 123... what comes next? you have to find the 4. If you touch the wrong number it will make the right number glow. So if your child doesn't know the right answer, they aren't running to you to tell them. Then there are robots that catch you and you have to do some special math game, every place on the map has a different game. Most are adding and subracting and you can't move on till you get it right. This might be the hardest part, even I had trouble with this because on one game you had to circle some robots to add them to your bucket but they moved so it was hard to draw a cirlce around something that's moving.

Overall this game is a must!!!! This is the game that will get your kid to use the leapster for sure and maybe even the dad or other kids.

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My boys have about 6 leapster games overall, and this on is my 6 year olds favorite. We got it just before a trip to the beach, and out of the box of stuff I got him, this is all he needed. My 3 year old watched him play it for a few hours too! He played it the whole way up, every time we got into the car for any length of time, and the whole way back! I know its educational, so I wasnt worried about it. Guess what, he STILL plays it all the time! It went through the washer and dryer in the pocket of his pants, and still works. Any kid who is a game junkie, this is the one that will keep their attention.

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I got this for my 5 year old grandson and he loves it. He wishes he were Sonic X. His parents have to limit his playing time to get him off the couch and outside to play. Otherwise he would be at it all day.

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I hope that other parents do not make the mistake I almost made by overlooking this game when deciding on new titles to buy for the Leapster. I steered away from this not being sure it could do justice to Sonic as I know and love him and as my son thinks of him due to his very limited experience with Sonic for Wii. Boy was I wrong! My 4-year old son begged to buy this game with his birthday money, so I let him. It turns out that this was exactly what I had in mind when I got the Leapster for him in the first place, "big boy" feeling video games that teach something! It immediately catapaulted to his #1 favorite position, even ahead of Spongebob, Star Wars, and Batman, all of which are a little too difficult yet I think. I wish I had bought this sooner and waited on those others. It's a great transition game after some of the really young titles. It really reminds me of the platform Sonic games and yet he is learning from it! Leapster nailed it with this one, now...if they only come out with Mario!

Reviews of Baby Einstein Traveling Discovery Cards - Ocean Animals

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My son received this discovery cards "book" when he was a baby... Four years later, he still loves to look at the pictures and it looks as new as it did when it came out of the package. Very well made with wonderful ocean creature pictures.

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Discount Ferrofluid 4 oz 120 cc bottle Great for Science Projects

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Experience: The material was as expected. Normal shipping. No problem.

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Ferrofluid is really cool stuff! Too bad it stains like no other! You'll also need a hydrophillic container if you want to see it in easily.

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First the bad, as others have noticed, this stains like mad and the container does not pour well. It also stinks to high heavens as well.

But wow is it neat! I used a 1/2 inch neodymium magnet and put about 15-20 ml in a plastic food container. (Glad brand thin plastic resealable food container, like cheap thin tupperwear) Putting the magnet under the container produces immediate results. You can make the fluid flow uphill, and so much more.

It is a rather expensive gag/novelty item, but very neat to play with..

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Title clearly says 120 cc bottle, description says 30 cc bottle. This makes it look like a better value for volume per dollar, but 30 cc is only one ounce, for nearly thirty dollars there are a ton of other options that actually provide a 60 cc bottle. Don't get ripped off.

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The ferrofluid works great, exactly what I wanted. The only problem I had was that the bottle had a very narrow neck, which means that I have to either get a funnel to put it back or use a jar with a larger lid. Came in one piece and in a reasonable amount of time. I intend to use this to demonstrate magnetic fields with a neodymium magnet