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This is a great product! It allows for adjustments that even more microscopes cannot offer. Also, the customer service is very helpful. One issue is that the 2000x magnification is difficult to adjust easily. This is understandable, because the magnification is really high for the microscope's design. The other magnifications come out clearly. Also, the stage only goes back so far. Sometimes I need to flip a slide around to view what the stage could not reach to. Finally, on the higher magnification settings, the stage needs to go higher than the objective lens to put the image in focus.

I could compare this microscope to the one I use at my university. What I like is that this microscope has some unique features (like the ability to add different color filters. Additionally, it can view higher magnifications. However, the one at my university has better adjustment control and therefore allows for a slightly better resolution (not saying this microscope does not give superior and very similar resolution).

Overall, this microscope is the best value with the amount of features it has and its price.

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Best Teach Your Child to Count to 10, Math & Logic #1, ChildUp Early Deals

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These cards are amazing! When I received these I was very amazed to find that they were filled with so many learning ideas. Not only are these cards set up to help you learn your numbers, but as a parent you also have the opportunity to use them in so many different ways. We used both of these sets with my youngest daughter who is 3.5. We started with the first set and once she started better recognizing the numbers from 1-10, we moved on to try the 11-20 cards as well. She is still struggling with these but she is catching on. What she loves is the fact that the cards themselves are made for kids her age. With vibrant colors and fun animals, she can relate and she enjoys counting the animals that were on each of the cards.

I started being the one who would pick each set of cards within the pack, but I quickly found that she was saying that she wanted to do Math at night like her big sister and that she wanted to be the one to choose what cards we were using as well.

I have seen a marked improvement in both number recognition as well as comprehension through using these cards and I have to say that anyone that is looking for a set of cards that will assist with their own child's math skills, you should look no further than these cards.

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Both my girls love the colorful cards. My youngest is still too young to really understand, but she loves listening to her sister say the numbers and has even started repeating a few herself! Yeah to new words. They are durable and offer a variety so they do not get old.

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Ben immediately points to the farm animals' series when I asked him which cards he wants to play with first. I kept the rest and practised the farm animal series of cards with him as I wanted him to get familiar with the cards.

How I Tested the Cards?

I started with the first pack of the cards with Ben by getting him to be familiarised with the animals on the farm, followed by the number of animals (from 1 to 10) and I then asked him what are the animals for the cards I picked and the number of animals on the card picked.

As of end of August, he has yet to master the numbering part but he does answer quickly when it comes to naming the animals on the cards.

I would definitely continue using this as I feel there is much more potential for this cards on Ben.

What's good?

* I like that I can teach Ben on counting from 0 to 10.

* I like that the cards come with both sides showing different designs (one showing the animals, the other side showing the animal with the number)

* I also like that I can teach my child the different types of animals.

Room for improvement?

* I would prefer if the cards are thicker. It somehow felt thin and fragile and I was worried it gets crumpled easily.

* I would prefer if there is just a standard sheet of paper for the Parent's Cards so that I can read it at once (it also reduce paper wastage).

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ChildUp Learning Cards are a wonderful tool for parents to use with their young children (aged 1-5) to teach them early math skills.

These cards are made for parents and children to use together, creating an interactive learning environment. I found the Parent Cards to be particularly detailed and useful! They provide parents with background information in order for them to understand how their child learns and more. The cards guide the parent through very specific questioning techniques they can use on their children in order to help their learning throughout the use of the Learning Cards Set. They also walk the parents through very specific lessons so that they can be their child's teacher when using the learning cards. The lessons are detailed right down to specific dialogue that can occur in order to really focus the child's learning.

As a former Kindergarten teacher, I highly recommend these learning cards as they help young children develop some key early learning skills such as:

Math and logic skills

Learning and cognitive skills

Listening and memory skills

Attention and concentration skills

Language and social skills

We will definitely be using these cards this summer as I prepare my son to enter Junior Kindergarten! What a fabulous resource for parent and child!

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These Early Learning Game Cards are just the thing you need to help your child develop early learning skills. The cards say good for children ages 1-5; my 2 year old wanted to play with the cards more than pay attention to me. After about 2 months, of me and my oldest daughter working with her, she started to actually pick up on counting. I think it would be much easier for a child a little bit older but, every child is different!

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These are so cool! I got it for a costume party (and I'm a Dino nut) and everyone wanted to see them over and over, and I kept getting asked if they were real.

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Very detailed and the weight is right on track. I went to the Big Horn mountains for a week to do a Dinosaur Dig with my university, and Federal law stipulates we can't take or remove any bones for personal use! However, we can always get little keepsakes to remind us of the adventure. I chose to spraypaint mine since they look far more realistic with black bone (we were digging in the Morrison formation).

Password Journal 8 Review

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This is a fun toy and it is perfect for its target audience of 6-12. An adult or older child will need to help with initial setup, at least for younger kids, but once the setup is done (about 5-10 minutes), it is simple enough for a child to use.

What's In The Box:

* Electronic Journal holder (password activation and built in light)

* Small spiral notebook.

* 1 "invisible ink" pen.

* Instruction pamphlet.

The journal itself it not electronic. All your writing goes on a small journal which is a spiral notebook. This "journal" sits inside case. It is this case that runs on batteries and can be opened/locked electronically with a password.

The case is cute, it is pink with gray trim, and measures 11.25" high by 10" wide by 2" thick. It is made of plastic.

Out of the box, you need to remove a small plastic cover on the back of the case. For this you need a small Phillips head screwdriver. This reveals the battery compartment. Install three AA batteries (not included).

Once you put the battery compartment cover back on, you are ready to "program" the journal. There is one large button on the outside of the journal case. This opens the journal.

Inside the case you will the invisible ink pen and the spiral journal. Above these are a movable light arm and four buttons.

The four buttons control:

* Menu Button: Used to navigate through options, which are to record a greeting, record a password, record an alert, and record a sign-off message.

* Record Button: After you use the Menu button to reach your desired option, press `Record' when you are ready to record and a green light comes on to let you know it is recording.

* Light Button: Turns the light on and changes the light color. First the blue light comes on (to read what you write with the invisible ink pen). If you press the button again, the plain "white light" comes on for reading in the dark. The light is on a movable arm so you can rotate it over the journal and back again.

* Lock Button: This button sets your security level (password off, low and high).

How to use:

Open the journal and press the Menu button to create your recordings. You can record the greeting, alert, and sign off in any voice. For the password, you must use the voice of the little girl who will be using the journal. Once you set up the password, any time you want to open the journal you press the gray button on the outside. You will be prompted to speak your password. If you provide the correct password, in the right voice, the case will open

You can record a variety of ways. For example, I recorded my voice for my daughter's journal, with a greeting of "Hello Kyleigh", and a sign off of "Goodbye, your journal has been secured." The alert plays when someone tries and fails on two attempts to access the journal password. For this my daughter recorded "Hey mind your own beeswax!"

As far as password options, you can choose `Off' which means that anyone can open the journal case by pressing the gray button on the case. If you choose `Low' the password can sometimes be used by other people (I had my older daughter try to mimic my 10 year olds voice and she was able to access the password, as their voices are close enough. If you select `High' the password is a bit more secure, but your child has to remember to say the password as close to the same as possible each time, or the journal may not open.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you choose the Low option and decide to change to High, you MUST re-record your message BEFORE you close the journal. Otherwise it is very unlikely that your password (recorded under low option) will be recognized. It's not the end of the world, you can always reset the device with the button on the back, but then you need to re-record all your greetings.

Once open, you can open the journal notebook, remove it from the case, etc. The invisible ink pen works well. You write on a page and don't see what you wrote at all, but using the blue light reveals your writing in white text. The regular light is bright enough for reading at night. The journal pages are white and unlined. I would have preferred lines on the pages.

There is also a "secret compartment", which is a recessed part of the case which you will see if you remove the journal notebook. The recess is large enough for a girl to put a few small keepsakes in it.

I have had no problems with the passwords working and the device opens and shuts as expected. I think any young girl who is at an age to have her own "private diary" is going to love this, and the ability to feel she has her password on it, etc.

My lone knock on this is that the journal (the spiral notebook) has 50 pages in it (25 sheets of paper front/back), so if your daughter does any writing at all, you'll need a replacement in no time. Plus you really can't use the left-hand side of the pages unless you take the notebook out of the case, as there's no good writing surface beneath the left pages when the journal is open. As younger kids write large and like to doodle, you may need a replacement in short order. The notebook is about 6" tall x 4" wide.

Overall, a decent toy. I think just about any girl interested in a little journal would like it.

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I bought these for my twin granddaughters and they LOVE them! We took a road trip over the Christmas holidays and they really enjoyed playing with their Password Journals in the car.

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My granddaughter is 8 and she loved her journal. She is able to use a password to open her journal and found it to be so enlightening to do this. She love it tons!!

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A password journal is always something i would have loved to have as a young girl, so ofcourse i jumped at the opportunity to try one out.

First off you'll need to insert the batteries to get the product opened, there is even a secret compartment inside. A great gift idea would be to put something in that compartment like a necklace before gifting it.

My daughters friend has an older version and it opens no matter who said the secret word, however we were all pleasantly surprised that only my daughters voice could open it up.

You can also record things for incorrect passcodes and when you close it so that's fun. The light inside that shows the writing is fun but I've caught my daughter up past bed time doodling..oh to be young..

Its a decent price and would make a great gift for most young girls. Id recommend the product to others for sure.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Pink. Girls like pink. And purple. And blue. Those three colors; pink, purple, and blue seem to be the main colors for girls in the 9-11 age group. A diary that locks with the strong potential to keep snooping younger siblings and hopefully parents out of private thoughts. Wonderful! Got this for my daughter and so far she loves it. Have not had any issues with unlocking the deivce or her using it. Good choice.

Leapfrog Tag Activity Storybook Kung Fu Panda: Po's Tasty Training Review

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After purchasing the LeapFrog® Tag Reading System and having my son work through the "Ozzie and Mack" book that came with it, I realized that I would need to get him a book that was much more in line with his interests.

Enter "Kung Fu Panda"! The movie was awesome, the story was awesome and the lessons were awesome. In short, the book was awesome. It continues to inspire spontaneous acts of Kung Fu movements in the car, the dinner table and just about any place where my son can flex his little body. He really enjoyed it. I highly recommend this Tag Book for little boys!

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My grandson is 4 and really loves these books. He requested this one and listens to it all the time. Really great and fun activity to help him listen and read.

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Kung Fu Panda: Po's Tasty Training has been a great addition to our leapfrog tag library. My boys love reading the book and playing all the games!

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My son loves this tag book, any tag product is great, I have no complaints except for making the memory bigger in the tag pen!

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A friend purchased the Leap Frog Tag for her 4 year-old son recently. We sat and watched as our boys were captivated by every wordat the playground on a sunny afternoon in Seattle, no less. I knew this would be my son's 4th birthday present. The other mom and I agreed to trade books over time. My son LOVES his. He sits and "reads" alone and has memorized Kung Fu Panda, which happens to be his favorite movie. We are not big on TV, movies or electronics for kids but this is fantastic. Highly recommend.

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We first used this at Sylvan Learning Center and my child loved it so much he asked me to purchase for home. We homeschooled so it fit into our day perfectly. You will enjoy this and it's fun learning for children. So much more than a textbook with fill in the blanks. Here your child can actually play with manipulatives to answer the questions in the books. Books include Spell, Tools for Language, Build with Language, Vocabulary Builder, Word Tools, Tools for Everyday Reading, Construct Meaning and Reading and Understanding. Plus a Teacher's Resource Guide!!!

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My 3 year old daughter loves milly! she is bigger than i expected and seems to be of a great quality! Milly sings, counts, names shapes and overall, is really fun and colorful toy to play with, not to mention the educational benefits. This gift was a big success!

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My grandduaghter's eyes lit up when she opened this gift. She spends lots of time playing and learning with the many things that this doll has to offer.

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This was a great buy, arrived quickly well packed. Was exactly what we wanted at a great price. Happy with our purchase.

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Daughter loves this. It is really teaching her to count easily with Mili's voice. It's really clear and fun and not too loud for her to play with

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The doll is nice sized and educational. My 3 year old loves it. I only took one star off because of the price. I realize its a name brand product, but its a little pricey for a talking doll.

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We gave these to our nine month-old daughter as an Easter gift because we thought it would be nice for her to have her own set of cars. While we normally avoid toys with sounds and music, these are not too loud or annoying. Only the bottom "deluxe" car, as it is called in the description, lights up and makes the five individual sounds when the "driver" is pressed: a honking horn, laughing and giggling, tinkling bells and two short songs. A neat feature is that they are played randomly keeping one from having to hear exactly the same series if the button is being pressed over and over again. It also finishes each sound/song even if the driver is being repeatedly pressed down.

But the pictures are a bit misleading--at least with the cars we have. When the cars are taken out of the stack the "drivers" of the middle and top cars fall down into their respective cars so that only about a 1/4" of them is visible. These two drivers are only seen if they are stacked. It's not a big deal, but I wish Fisher-Price had made a way for them to twist and lock in the upright position once they are unstacked. Maybe we're missing something.

That issue aside, we're happy with the purchase and it is a very cute set that both my daughter and four year-old son have enjoyed. And the stacking feature is not only nice for play purposes but for storage as well.

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This toy is super cute and the songs are not annoying. One of the three cars (the bottom ice cream truck) ligths up and makes noise. It's nice to have a set of cars that are girlish in color. Our daughter is six months old and she loves rolling the cars around (and tries to eat them too, of course). Very cute toy!

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Our 9 month old baby girl has been playing with these for a couple months now and really enjoys them.

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I wanted some "girl" cars, and these are cute. One of them plays music, and they also stack, so it is nice that they have multiple functions. My baby just isn't interested in them. I think she is not as drawn to the pastel colors, like she is to the "boy" cars that are brighter.

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Cute, but not that exciting. I got this for a gift for my 1 year old cousin. She was really not that interested in it, and I could see why, just kind of boring. I would probably buys something else if given the chance again.

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My kids ages 8, 5, 4, 1, all love this game it has helped with letter and word recognition. Great game

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The game was as just like if I got it from F-P store! I would buy more if we needed them. I was very pleased!!!!

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I bought this to use as a prop in a short film SPYGLASS, it's perfect. Just the right size and finish.

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I love this telescope. It looks nice, has some real weight to it, and I can easily focus on objects 100 feet away. Came 1 day before estimated arrival. Great bargain

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My child has ADHD, so having a responsibility chart really helps, for she responds to schedules. These magnets really help.

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These magnets are great because they are functional, but my only problem is the font they came in. I abhor Comic Sans font and sure enough instead of the pristine font shown, I was given Comic Sans. That oddly is a big deal to me. I know this is nitpicking but I was disappointed because I didn't get exactly as I ordered. As this is for my child's chore list and the "a" in the Comic Sans font is one of the only fonts with how preschoolers are taught, I won't be returning the magnets.

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These are the cheapest chore magnets I could find and they're perfect for the chore chart I made! Lots of different options and even some kid-specific ones.

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too small for small children, but as a give-away to adults it is great they act like a small child when they see it with the exception of putting into their mouth, of course well, at least most of them

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We're so happy with this drum for my almost-two-year-old. It's a real musical instrument -you can make lots of different sounds with it, and it's so inviting. It's also incredibly strong. It has been thrown, stood upon, etc. etc. etc. and is still in perfect shape. I love that my son can hold and strike this at just about any angle and still get a satisfying sound. It's a winner, and a great value.

UPDATE: 1/5/12: Not long after I wrote this review, my son did indeed manage to damage the drum. The drumming surface now has a small dent, and it's not a great toy anymore -a step below drumming on an oatmeal canister from the grocery store. We should have supervised our young son more closely with it, or waited until he was older. I just wanted to update my review and let you all know that this thing is not, in fact, indestructible. :o)

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As I have been building a personal Rhythm Band collection for my 14 month old granddaughter, it has been very important to me that I select appropriate size instruments and good quality instruments. I do not want to give her toys to play with for this experience. The Hohner Kids Hand Drum and Mallet are a good selection for my goal. The size is perfect for my granddaughter at her age. She can easily hold the drum in one hand and hold the mallet in the other hand. The mallet is a little bit thin for my granddaughter's age, but will be acceptable for school age children. We often use our fingers to tap the drum, or the heel of our hand. Experimenting for different sounds is a great thing to do, as well.

The multiple colors of the drums are a nice feature, but the purchaser is not able to select or determine which color he/she will receive. I ordered two drums and received the same color for both. It would have been nice to have been able to request the color I preferred. Over all, this is a good beginning hand drum for young children.

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I'm a musician myself, and have a toddler who simply LOVES making noise when I'm playing. Unfortunately, she typically wants to make the best noise, which usually involves one of my instruments. Many of mine are either fragile or too dangerous for her to play with, so they're right out. So I bought this, because it was supposed to have a decent sound, good for kids, and it was really affordable.

I'm honestly surprised with the sound, for one. Sure, it's got a plastic head on it, but it's got a much better tone to it (it's actually got some tension to it) than any other plastic-headed toy drum I've ever seen. It's lightweight, it's easy for a small child to hold since the frame is nice and rounded on the inside, and it's got that nifty little way of storing the stick. All in all, it was a great buy. My daughter loves it, thus I love it. I think the stick is a bit on the thin side, so it'll probably break eventually. Thus, I'll probably replace it with one of my bodhran tippers.

So yes, if you've got a small child that loves playing with drums, this is a great portable little drum.

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For my child it was ok. Bought it when he was about a year old.

The sound is not great unless you hold it up and hit it, which my son never could figure out.

His favorite thing was to drop it on the hard floor and listen to it crash and wobble.

Not exactly sure what happened but he broke it somehow. The drum part you hit was just plastic but it came loose and he

Stopped playing with it so we tossed it out. Was good for about 8 months. Was ok, glad it wasn't expensive.

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bought it for my 15mo old daughter. She loves the toy, runs around banging the drum. It's reasonably loud, well built and makes a racket but a good toy nonetheless.

Magnetic My First Learning Calendar - BLUE (Also available in PINK) Reviews

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I received this item and like another reviewer I received 2 springs and no summer. I contacted the company via email. They responded the same day. Within a couple of days, I received the summer magnet. The calendar is so great. We homeschool and our friends who see it love it and want one too. The magnets are thick and durable. They also stay stuck. Nice size squares. My 5 yr old manipulates it perfectly. We have suffered with many through the years and this is an ideal size and great quality. I highly recommend.

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This was purchased to start homeschooling our toddler. We wanted to get him started with basic daily skills. This calender is great.

Pros

Good size, we are able to hang it on the back of our pantry door, light weight, can hang on a simple command hook

Colors are bright

includes all types of weather, from sleet and snow to party cloudy, so your child can match the weather report if you wanted (Living in Arizona, makes the sleet and snow useless for us, LOL)

Easy to use, magents stick well and are easy to put on and take off

Cons

None! I love it

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This is a great product & my four year old daughter is very excited to be learning with it. All the pieces are magnetic & stick well. I like that it includes seasons & weather. Another great idea is that they color coordinated the months with the season they are in. Great attention to detail. The only reason I did not give it five stars is that I thought the back of the calendar was magnetic too. We have steel doors & I had intended to stick the whole calendar to it. It comes with an attached rope, so I will have to hang it with a hook instead. Not a big deal, I just wasn't expecting that.

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I homeschool 2 preschoolers and was looking for a calandar that could be changed on a daily basis. This is small but has all the essential information: month, date, day, season, weather. My kids love taking turns changing the information each day. The magnets stick great and are easy for small hands to handle.

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This calendar isn't a giant one like you see in the classrooms. It teaches the child number sequences and days of the week. My daughter loves to change the date each morning and she has learned the different seasons and the order of the days of the week. It also helps with learning the order of numbers. I think this is a great teaching calendar to put in your home for those that are 4-5 yrs old..and even older.