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Monday, December 1, 2014

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I used this Halloween, of course, and it works well. I use it every year. FX is a decent product. It stayed on all night. Make sure to paint the whole tooth to include the top of your teeth. I recommend. Easy to take off. Take rubbing alcohol on a q-tip and brush on. Brush your teeth. All clean.

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Friday, November 28, 2014

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I've been a lab scientist for nearly 30 years, and these are good slides. I finally put these under the microscope last week when my granddaughter came over...she's a little 7-year-old brainiac. They are very beautifully stained and colorful. I've made biological slides myself with mounting medium and it can be a mess, but these are great with no bubbles trapped under the cover slips, nice thin sections, not smashed or distorted....beautifully stained. Very neatly labeled. Great sample of various 'things to look at'. No sharp edges on slides.

In no time, granddaughter was taking them out of the very nice quality wooden slide box, putting them on the scope, and putting them back when she was done. She looked at different structures in stem sections of different types of plants, stomach lining cells ( I explained they were 'wavy' so they would have more absorption surface) and insect parts. I skipped explaining the life-cycle of the Ascaris egg. As I said, all of the cross sections were extremely crisp with no distortion and beautifully stained. Definitely professional and well-done.

A lot can go wrong when making slides...these were clean and very well prepared. This is a great option for teaching because there is no mess!!

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I bought this product for my 9 year old son to use with his new microscope, and he was amazed with the slides, the quality is great and the specimens are interesting for a 9 year old or an adult, not at all like other slides that are "toy quality". They arrived very well packaged, and the wood box is quite sturdy.

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I purchased this set for my 7 year old grandson. When I pulled them from the wooden box I noticed the slides were smudged and dirty. Looking at them through the microscope you could see the dust paticles and smudges. I had to clean them before use. The images are great. I would recomend these for young users as well as older people interested in the micro world. The only reason I did not give a 5 star rating is because of the slide conditions with the smudges and dust.

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Most of these slides are like the same thing. There's little variation in the slides. I bought them for my 8 year old's new scope. But they don't hold his interest. I would look elsewhere.

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I am not sure if it is manufacturing of the slides or the box or whatever but every slide was dusted with grit. Not a real problem because they can be cleaned but it does show some lack of care in the production process.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

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My grandson began using "Letter Factory" when he was 3 years old and leaped ahead of the game in reading and comprehensive skills because of the phonetic skills learned! He is now age 7, 2nd grade, and, as of October 2009 reads and comprehends at a 4th Grade, 6 month level! He has a younger brother who is now 3 years old. My daughter's desire was to allow him the same leap ahead. She was not able to locate their Game Cartridge; it has been missing since they moved 2 years ago. She searched and could not locate another Letter Factory because Leap Frog no longer makes this Game. I searched Amazon in November 2009, found it, bought it, and my younger grandson will receive it this Christmas! He will have the same opportunity his older brother did, for which we are Most Greatful and anticipate the same Leap Ahead for Him!!! If you have younger children and/or grandchildren and can locate one of these Game Cartridges Give your child this same type of Hop, Skip & Jump into their Reading and Comprehensive Skills!

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Monday, November 24, 2014

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Overall I'm happy with them. I was surprised by how small they were, but they worked fine. I used them with my students and they held up to the abuse very well and my students enjoyed checking rock and mineral streaks.

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Friday, November 14, 2014

Cheap LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra eBook Learn to Read Collection: Fairy Tales

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program What is an Ultra eBook? The foundation is a traditional children's picture book, with short simple sentences. Now, add the ability to touch various items in the book to hear sound effects. For example, touch a bird and it chirps. This is like the LeapFrog Tag books, though the tablet (LeapPad or LeapPad 2) lacks the charm of a physical book. However, since it is built from the ground up for the tablet, the bird would also have a bit of animation. There are many things to click on, and it is fun to see what everything does. The tablet can also detect tilt, so you may see an egg roll across the screen if you tilt it to the side, or a character lose his balance if you shake it. Additionally, much like DS games, a few pages react to blowing on the microphone. In short, the books feel more alive than ever before in the LeapFrog line.

The Ultra eBooks also add periodic game breaks throughout the story (around 10 total). As always, you can adjust the difficulty for the age of the child. These games are very short and simple, but do add some solid assistance in learning to spell. It is not like a full lesson, so much as it is sneaking a little bit of extra meaning into the experience. This should work well for kids with short attention spans. The learning element is also supplemented with a list of all the words learned, and the ability to record your own reading of the book. The latter is a little clumsy and unintuitive, but it sounds okay when you get it working.

The two stories presented are basic interpretations of Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs. The LeapFrog characters are used, which is great for kids that already know them. The animation style is very charming, somewhere between the LeapFrog DVDs and traditional story book art. There are not many frames of animation, but what is here is impressive. I can see kids falling in love with the stories and going back to them over and over. Music is pretty good quality and not annoying, with computer reproductions of an orchestra. You probably won't be humming them, but they set a nice tone. The narrator does a good job as well, though he reads it a bit straight, considering the material.

My only complaint about the material is that in adding the spelling lessons and cutifying these stories, they also largely lost their primary educational value. These classic fairy tales were strongly rooted in illustrating important life lessons. The moral of these LeapFrog versions? I'm not sure.

Overall, I think that most children will enjoy the Ultra eBook Fairy Tales and learn a little too. The production values are good and the interactive elements add a lot to the experience.

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This Ultra-eBook is certainly preferable to a mere game, since it offers some opportunity to read and learn story pacing. But it suffers from the significant shortcomings that afflict other digital "learning" toys. I wish programmers were required to study educational research carefully before designing these kinds of materials or persuading parents to trust their educational value.

Here's the problem: Sights, sounds, and animations may indeed help lure a child into reading and thus, may get him/her reading sooner. This makes it look like technology has "accelerated" the learning process. But it comes with a trade off. The multimedia experience also trains the brain to follow shorter attention cycles and become dependent on superficial audio/visual cues. Your child may start to recognize new words faster, but will also begin to develop a shorter, more media-dependent attention cycle that staunchly resists the quiet, sustained reading practices that enable much higher levels of thinking and reading later. The "head start" on reading that initially looks so positive may actually turn into attention-deficit types of problems in high school or college. That's because the brain literally becomes addicted to audio/visual stimuli, and thus, averse to quiet reading and less adept at decoding words without the benefit +of pictures and sounds.

The "Fairy Tales" Ultra-eBook is a perfect example of how this impoverishes the deeper reading and learning experience. It contains two fairy tales: "The Three Little Pigs" and "Jack and the Beanstalk," both retold with a frog theme and a more benign plot. In both stories, the reading experience is repeatedly interrupted by "Game Time." I suspect the programmer is influenced by a mid-1990s philosophy of instruction which was meant to be applied to multimedia CDs/DVDs used for training new employees. The prevailing view was that the trainee needed periodic breaks from information in order to organize his/her thoughts and refresh his/her attention. Brief quizzes and games were ideal for that purpose. But that philosophy only applied because the adults were watching CDs/DVDs with a lot of decontextualized and technical information. It is NOT applicable to literature/fiction as it pertains to a child's cognitive development. In a well-told story, the details are not decontextualized, so the information is easier and more enjoyable to process. In fact, a story is far MORE engaging when it is NOT interrupted, assuming that the plot is of sufficient quality to build drama and tension. In other words, if you are telling a good story in the first place, you don't need "breaks" from the information. Instead, you need the story to advance in a delightful, engaging, uninterrupted manner.

With that in mind, the Leap Frog fairy tales are problematic for at least three reasons. First, the periodic interruptions for "Game Time" (which occur three times per story) powerfully undermine the story's ability to build drama. (Just think about how it feels to you when you're interrupted while reading a good book or watching an engaging movie.) Besides breaking the child's concentration, the games interrupt the linear flow/coherence of the story. Neither effect is conducive to developing advanced reading skills or improved concentration. While your child may learn new words and manage to piece the story back together, he/she is losing the most important cognitive benefit of the experience. (You will still be impressed to see him/her learn new vocabulary, but what you won't be able to see is that certain attention-deficit patterns are also being reinforced. Those patterns may not surface in problematic ways until a much later stage of education, when quiet, sustained concentration suddenly becomes vitally important.)

Second, Leap Frog's version of each fairy tale strips away its most essential dramatic components. For example, in the story of the three little frogs (a retelling of "The Three Little Pigs"), the "wolf" is replaced by a friendly dog. The dog appears as a shadowy figure whose identity is concealed until the end of the story, but the classic, tension-building moments in which the wolf demands to be let into each pig's house are conspicuously missing. In Leap Frog's version, the three frogs still build houses from straw, wood, and bricks, but the first two houses simply fall down due to poor structural design (the dog never threatens to "huff and puff"). The original tension of a direct threat to each pig's personal security is replaced, in Leap Frog's version, by the dull fear of shoddy house construction. This ruins the literary quality of the tale and thus, teaches children nothing about the aesthetic quality and plot design of a well told story. Leap Frog throws out centuries of cultural evidence that children feel deeply engaged by the threat of a wolf at the door, and instead caters to the politically correct assumption that fear and conflict are unhealthy topics for children. In truth, fear and conflict are THE essential ingredients of a well-told story--the surest means of engaging a reader's attention and sympathies, as well as provoking personal/ethical reflection.

Third, Leap Frog's revised versions destroys the re-reading value. By making the plot so shallow and devoid of dramatic tension, the "Fairy Tales" eBook actually discourages the kind of close, repeated attention by which a reader learns to extract increasingly mature insights. For example, when the first two frogs run to join their sibling in his brick house, the shadowy dog shows up to reveal his friendly identity. This already-dull turn of events retains none of the original tale's conflict-resolution structure. It also ruins the story's "re-readability". In the original tale, the real threat of a hungry wolf at the door remains compellingly dramatic even on subsequent re-readings (that's why kids love to hear the story told again and again). In Leap Frog's version, once the identity of the shadowy dog is discovered, whatever modest tension was created by concealing his identity is lost for good. After the first read, the child will always know that the shadowy figure is a friend, not a threat at all. No hint of drama or suspense remains. Even very young kids will quickly understand that they're reading a story in which very little of importance happens. Two frogs build shoddy houses that collapse, they run to the third frog's nicer brick house, and then they chat (somewhat irrelevantly) with a friendly dog in a wolf costume who happened to follow them home. The most valuable reading experiences (dramatic tension, sustained concentration, conflict-resolution, AND the take-away lesson) have all been sacrificed for this cutesy retelling. Yet the only reader likely to notice the cutesiness is someone who already knows the original tale, and thus, is AWARE of the "cute" departures from that version (!).

Admittedly, Leap Frog recovers some of each story's re-readability value (albeit marginally) by providing three reading levels of text. While this may get the child to re-read the book several times, it cannot restore the drama/tension lost to the shallow plot. Thus, it will not spur the child too look for the "deep meaning" of the story. In short, there is little here to teach kids that stories can be usefully instructive. Leap Frog's cutesy version probably advertises itself as non-threatening and undramatic to please parents who increasingly tend to think politically, rather than aesthetically or morally, about what makes for a "good" story. But as I tell my college students: The rules of drama are no different for children than for adults. The threat has to be REAL and SUBSTANTIAL or the story will falter. Don't underestimate your child's ability to know the difference.

My goal is not to berate Leap Frog or this particular Ultra-eBook. Leap Frog makes a very fine line of products and the production value of the "Fairy Tales" eBook is undeniably good. But parents need to recognize that "Ultra-eBooks" still have more in common with GAMES than with the cognitively-beneficial activity of reading PRINTED BOOKS. Certainly, kids can learn from this kind of technology, especially basic skills like word-recognition and pronunciation. But what parents don't understand is how much gets lost in the process when digital tools become a replacement for (or serious distraction from) traditional reading. Although digital multimedia tools can help pull your child into basic reading sooner, there is no "short cut" to intellectual growth.

BEWARE the cognitive losses that are also occurring. They can grow into serious obstacles later when your child reaches a more advanced reading level. I am a college English professor who is unusually well read on the subjects of digital technology and cognitive development. I see these problems firsthand in students of the present "digital generation". Regrettably, most educators have embraced digital tools (and marketing rhetoric) in a wholly uncritical way, and have made no real effort to inform the public about what the healthiest educational experiences truly require. To be clear, Leap Frog isn't doing anything wrong, and in my opinion, they make the best children's electronic learning products on the market. But do not make the mistake of believing such products are unequivocally "educational" or entirely harmless. Your child needs to spend as much time as possible on quiet, traditional reading, without multimedia distractions and the interruption of games. As I said in my review of the LeapPad2 tablet, the average teenager now experiences withdrawal-like symptoms (akin to substance abusers) if deprived of access to a screen-equipped digital device (smartphone, laptop, iPad, etc.) for more than 20 minutes. And they spend an average of 9 hours per day using media on screen-equipped devices! They are products of an entire generation of parents who unwittingly allowed them to become addicted to digital multimedia. As a result, their brains were never required to develop the capacity for quiet, sustained attention and nuanced reading that is absolutely indispensable for attaining the highest levels of education and precise thought.

The Leap Frog "Fairy Tales" Ultra-eBook's best features include its charming illustrations, its modest use of animations, its well-paced narration, and its ability to "sound out" words when they are tapped with the stylus. Had those elements been used to accentuate a more traditional version of each fairy tale, without the "Game Time" interruptions, the reading experience might have been truly outstanding. The games aren't bad, but they should be placed at the END of each story, not only to avoid interrupting the child's concentration, but to reinforce the story's vocabulary and to expand on the story's lessons. (I can imagine a wonderful game in which the child must select proper materials to build a house, and then arrange them into a stable structural design. It would assess their comprehension of the story and some of its implicit lessons, while also being fun.)

In short, this is a great add-on for distracting and lightly educating your child, but it is NOT a valid replacement for traditional quiet reading. I gave it three stars overall because despite the high quality of the product, its design is clearly at odds with the high educational expectations that probably prompts most parents to buy it. I suspect the same critique applies to most or all of the Ultra-eBooks.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program We definitely like this! I would have paused about the price, but this included two stories, amazing graphics (it's kind of like an animated movie/story book), and some games. Definitely worth the price, though the cost can add up, so we'll have to pace ourselves in buying others.

When we clicked on the first story, we first got a song about how letters make sounds and sounds make words. It was catchy and fun (and not even annoying to me!).

Then it goes to the story, which has periodic breaks for games. I do agree with Leapfrog that this will help my daughter with phonics and sight words. (Sometimes they say something will, and I think it's a reach. Not this time!) Our little guy who is three likes to watch her play, so he's learning along with her. The difficulty can be adjusted to make it easier or harder; right now, as a new kindergarten student, we have it at the easiest and it's perfectly at the intersection of ability and challenge, so she's learning without getting frustrated. (She currently knows sounds of each letter and can identify a few basic words.)

The stories were definitely changed from the originals. They are the Leapfrog re-tellings, and for example The Three Little Frogs story has each frog build a house and then a wolf wants to play after they've built their houses. They don't let him in ("not by the green of my little frog skin"), but the wolf doesn't huff and puff. Instead, the inferior materials of some of the homes just fall apart when the frogs jump. At the end, the story is softened from the original by having the "wolf" actually just be their dog whose shadow looked like a scary wolf. I liked the new stories, and I think it could be a good critical thinking skills exercise for kids to compare and contrast the original story with this one.

I do wish the game times were separate from the story. Each game time was fun for our daughter (like one with spelling where she got to chose different vowels to complete a word and then the game read the new word to her and taught her a bit about phonics sounds in the process), but each time felt like an interruption to the story itself. My daughter didn't mind, but it still felt disjointed, and I don't think she retained as much of the story. (For example, she had difficulty re-telling it.) I think as she plays with it again and again it will be less distracting, so I don't think this is a major flaw.

Overall, I've been impressed with our Leappad experiences, and this ultra e-book is no exception.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This is an excellent product for young readers and children learning to read. It combines a traditional illustrated storybook with interactivity and games. Two fairy tales are included: Three Little Frogs and Leap and the Beanstalk. They've both been Leap-ified so the main characters are frogs.

Parents can choose the reading level (or the child can choose for him/herself). Level 1 is for the youngest readers and 3 for older readers. In increasing complexity, for example, the same sentence:

1: The frogs want a home.

2: The frogs want a new place to live.

3: The frogs want to choose a new place to live.

Tapping the + icon pulls up a menu. Here, the child can change the reading level, navigate to a different page, record his/her voice to read along, and access the games. Left and right arrow icons change the page. A book icon re-reads the entire sentence. I find these icons a bit too small and perhaps not so intuitive to younger children. They should be large and easy to tap with a finger.

There's plenty to do. The characters are all animated ((akin to Flash animation), and some pages have more elaborate animation than others. The backgrounds look like watercolor artwork. Tapping on parts of the screen causes different animation effects to play, or hidden items to pop out. Spoken instructions tell you to shake the LeapPad to interact with the story's characters (like waking someone up or shake a cowbell). In the beanstalk story, you can use the stylus to shake some salt and pepper onto a pot of soup. Badges are sometimes awarded for uncovering hidden letters. All these encourage exploration.

There is no way to toggle between repeating whole words and individual letters. Swiping across a word quickly with the stylus repeats the whole word. Swiping slowly or clicking on letters sounds out individual letters or phonic groups (ea, ch). There is some inconsistency here. A few words are repeated whole (want, the) and the rest are broken into phonetic parts (f-r-o-g-s).

Another potentially annoying feature is the interruption of phonics games every 5 or 6 pages. The child can cancel the game, but it disrupts the reading experience. Overall, this is a very high quality product and an excellent value. There's a lot for your child to do and explore for the money.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program My 6 year-old has about 15 games and apps for her LeapPad, and this one is a favorite of both of ours. The Fairy Tales eBook contains two stories, Leapfrog versions of The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk, and has the same basic format as the other Ultra eBooks we own... full-color, interactive, narrated story pages, interspersed with educational mini-games. Leapfrog's versions of the fairy tales are fairly far-removed from the originals, very inoffensive and mild. Though they definitely aren't my favorite retellings, they're not bad stories, and I think my 6 year-old who knows the original Grimm versions inside and out actually enjoys spotting and telling me about the differences between the "real" stories and the Leapfrog ones.

Anyway, the thing that sets this eBook above the others we own are the learning games... they are much more interesting and far more educational than the others we've tried, as well as being perfectly targeted for the true beginning reader. My favorite activity is one where your child is given an incomplete sentence and asked to drag and drop the missing word into the appropriate spot... it is perfect for learning Kindergarten sight words! Overall, this is one of the better LeapPad learning tools out there and very definitely recommended for Kindergarten-level readers.

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

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Math Elementary School Pocket Poster Collection Booklet - 30 fun, educational posters in a handy booklet!
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As a math teacher I ordered this for my younger or lower level students so I can give them laminated pages to read or refer to if they run into forgetfulness and just need an extra nudge. Very helpful, thorough, concise, clear and easy to understand. Parents would be able to use this as a homework helper for quick reference with their students at home.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

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I was hunting for a globe for a christmas present for my girlfriend when I came across this one. The reviews looked good so i decided to take a chance and boy, Im glad i did! The globe looks amazing and the size is perfect for ones desk or bookself. It does'nt look cheap and it was well packed for shipping (another consern of mine). All and all im super pleased with it. I just hope my girlfriend will like it too. If not im keeping it for myself ;-)

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I bought this at a huge discount off the usual Amazon price, from their 'Warehouse,' and at that much lower price I feel like I got my money's worth. Pay attention to the 'specs' for this item -even though the product description says "large," you are *not* buying a full size globe! I knew what to expect there, so no unpleasant surprises in that regard; this makes a nice little side-table decorative/conversation item for an office. The base feels good and solid, has nice weight to it, and does not wobble while sitting on a table. The craftsmanship is not top-shelf, however; the globe itself is lightweight, with the mapping appearing to consist of paper glued to a thicker paper/cardboard ball. One thing, for example, that I noticed was that where one seam ran down the globe, the letters in "North" and "America," with some of each word on each side of the seam, did not line up correctly to the extent that the last few letters in each word looked like subscript. In addition, the globe will not spin very smoothly on its axis, perhaps due to the materials used in the sphere itself. Nonetheless, for the purpose I intend, mostly decorative as opposed to close examination and/or any kind of regular use, this product is quite appropriate and satisfactory -at the price I paid.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

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It seems all rock tumblers come with a bag of rocks to tumble and enough grit to tumble that one bag of rocks. I ordered the coarse and fine grit and the polish so I could tumble the rocks that I already owned.

There's no instructions with the grit, so I had to look up the amounts to use on the internet. Having done that, these grits worked great. It seemed to me that they polished the rocks at each stage faster and more nicely than the other grit I had used. I like them better than the grits that came with the tumbler, and they will last me for many, many batches of rocks.

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I used this product to create sea glass. The price is a little high, but the product works to do what I want it to do.

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I finally tried it out, I used it in the tumbler to tumble broken glass for 5 days. Checked it out and I wanted it a little more frosted like beach glass so I tumbled it for another 5 days! It came out perfect!!

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Great product used it for sea glass and it did a perfect job in less the time as other brands. Made the glass look very natural.

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We tumble glass scraps cut from wine bottles and other household items in this grit. They come out looking like they're fresh from the ocean! I highly recommend this grit, very high quality, and does the job I bought it for perfectly. I've had jewelers ask for my secret I can only attribute it to this grit.

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Monday, October 20, 2014

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My kids like these DVDs for a few minutes then quickly get bored. They are informative and well done for kids, though.

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These are very good. I bought them separately and then bought a separate boxed set as a gift.

I wish there were a child's book to go with each disc.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

LeapFrog Farm Animal Mash-Up Kit Reviews

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My son got this for his second birthday and he loves it. My biggest problem is the animal inserts are made of thin plastic and are a little difficult to put in. We have the Leapfrog ABC magnets and they are much easier to put in. I am not sure if this because they are thicker and not hollow.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program We had one similar to this several years ago that was a refrigerator magnet. This one is much more user friendly in my opinion. The little barn that the puzzle pieces fit into is the lid of the storage bucket. There are more animals with this set too. If the little one puts the front half of the pig with the back part of the duck, there is a little song about it that ends with "that's silly." If, on the other hand, they get the correct two pieces together, there is a little song praising their effort and telling them what animal they made and what sound it makes. It is such a cute toy and the babies love it. The therapists love it too and frequently use it when they come. This has been a great hit at our house with our two toddlers.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I thought this was a magnetic set, which in the past I had in the alphabet version, and was a little disappointed that it wasn't. However, for the under twenty price and the hours of entertainment my little guy has gotten I've moved passed pining for the non magnetic version.

I like that these store in the stream lined box, and how easy they are to put in and out of the 'mashup maker'. So far my 13 month old can't quite put them in, but loves taking them out and pushing them down, and pressing the music button. The animal noises are cute, and the "that's silly" phrase makes him laugh. It's simple, but gives animal facts, colors, noises, and songs, which makes it a total win in my book.

It's very sturdy, and has survived being stepped on, dropped, shoved under a couch. You can't miss with this for your little one, or as a gift!

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My grandson and I love this so much we are hoping for a zoo animal one just like it. Well, OK at 14 months he hasn't exactly said that, but I know that he thinks it.

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MY son loves animals and we are definitely a leap frog family. Honestly, I bawked at the price point and wondered if it was worth it. But, it is adorable and both my boys (2 and 3) love it.

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Review of Jellycat My Peek A Baby Soft Book - 6"

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I am a baby-holic and have expensive taste. I received this book as a gift and LOVE it. I have been reading it to my baby since he was four months (he's now seven) and it is by far his favorite book. He loved looking at the interactive images during tummy time, it was the only thing I could do to stop him from crying on his stomach. Now that he's moving, I use it to lure him to crawl and it works wonders. I have other soft books but this one has more crinkly paper which works well. I have even read it to a 3 year old toddler and he can't stop reciting the words. This is definitely my next baby shower gift!!!

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This is a great book for infants and toddlers. It is soft and has several flaps to lift, under which baby is hididng. The flaps have different textures and/or make different noises. It is also very colorful with simple text that teaches different prepositions: udner, behind, it, etc. Under the last flap is a mirror in which your baby can see himself. I washed mine and let it air dry and it held up well.

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My daughter loved this toy at 1 month and at 6 months. It jingles, it crinkles, it hangs, it flaps, soon it will be a fun game.

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Personally I loved this book, its so ingenious! Each page has a little surprise for the baby to find.! But my baby doesn't seem to like it much. She would play a little with it, but loses interest fast. I'm holding on to it in the hope that once she is a bit older, she will be able to appreciate it.

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This soft book is colorful, packable, washable, and provides constant fun. It travels everywhere with baby. Would order more similar books.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

LeapFrog® Crammer Case Reviews

LeapFrog® Crammer Case
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What a cool case for the money. It has a caribeaner that my son uses to attach to his backpack. You can also use crammer when it is still in the case by flipping up the front cover. Small and Slick design Leapfrog!!

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Monday, September 15, 2014

Best Educational Insights Word of the Week Chart Set - Grades 4 to 5 Deals

Educational Insights Word of the Week Chart Set - Grades 4 to 5
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My students enjoy the comic portion of the word of he week. It is easier for them to learn new words because it is only one new word a week.

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This pocket folder and accompanying Words of the Week make a great bulletin board to enhance students' vocabularies. Students are eager to learn new vocabulary words, and mastery comprehension of these words is achievable due to the single word given per week. This set even works great with my sixth grade students who may have heard these words, but were unfamiliar with their meanings.

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I use this all of the time and when I have exhausted their words we just make r own. I have it in a special place in the room and the kids refer to it each week.

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We have posted all three in our elementary by the 3 4th grade bathrooms. The teachers and students have loved seeing these. Great resource :)

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Reviews of American Educational Fundamentals of Electronics Kit

American Educational Fundamentals of Electronics Kit
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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Bought this as a gift for my younger brother along with a "Snap Circuits" product. My hope was that he could learn from the Snap Circuits then use this to get more realistic experience. I think it will work, but I was pleased with the contents of this package and would recommend.

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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Best Bugs World Blocks - 6 insects Deals

Bugs World Blocks - 6 insects
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We got these bugs to view under my 8 year old son's microscope. They are durable and very interesting to view normally, but even better under the microscope.

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