Reviews of Sonor Small Soprano Chromatic Glockenspiel

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I wanted a well-tuned glockenspiel with beautiful bell tones and found it in this lovely instrument. It's the perfect size to carry with me to classrooms and sing to children, playing it on my lap while using it to enhance the performance of Singable Picture Books like "There's a Train Out for Dreamland" and "The Big Bell and the Little Bell." It's also a wonderful little instrument for helping "explain" musical concepts with sound since it contains all the notes you need. This is a lovely perfect little instrument, exactly what I need.

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A friend gave our daughter the starter pack for her 5th birthday a few months ago. She absolutely loves it. She tore through the first few puzzle books in the first day, so I bought the next set. Great variety of teaching concepts, from spatial reasoning to mathematics. Terrific teaching tool, lots of fun for our daughter, and ingenious method to show the child that the have the correct answer. I look forward to moving up to the more challengin set of books for 7-8 year olds.

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Discount Sparkup - The Magical Book Reader + 2 Books

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Just when you were afraid books were becoming obsolete, along comes a product to allow children to experience the magic of reading. This great product allows anyone to record them self reading a book and then have the child hold the book, turn pages and hear their grandparent, parent or other loved one read them a story. Great for long distance grandparents, a parent away on business or a new reader who wants to practice their skills. And the magic in Sparkup? If the wrong page is turned, the device knows just the right words to read. How much better to be tucked in to bed with a real book instead of a computer screen. Great product! Signed, RAS, a Bank Street educated Early Childhood Specialist

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My students had a fun time learning about measurement. The visual foot was a great way to help students understand and estimate.

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The kids love to use these. They love to use these for guestimating measurements. Would recommended to other people looking for fun ways to introduce measuring.

Swing-N-Slide Babaloo Drum Reviews

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Nice drum, just like the ones on professional playgrounds. I was very happy with the purchase as much as my daughter was. Highly recommend this product from this vendor.

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It was broken when we received it and CNS was great to refund our money very quickly. This drum would be great if it weren't broken.

KLOO's Learn to Speak French Language Card Games Pack 2 (Decks 3 Review

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First of all, go ahead and buy both packs of cards, you won't be disappointed. I've reviewed the cards in general on the Pack 1 site (5 stars!), but wanted to say that these cards are just as impressive as the first set. Even if you speak no French at all, you can just jump in and start learning from the moment you open the cards. I think it's brilliant how the game was designed. The word on each card is not translated on that card you get points not only for making sentences, but also for translating the sentences. However, the translation of the word is somewhere at the bottom of another card in the deck. As you play, you will get better and better at knowing what each word means. I've had some French classes in high school and college and been to France twice. My daughter knows no French. However, we are able to play the game together very well. There are plenty of words I don't know, and she's quite fast at picking up the vocabulary. A great game for the whole family!

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My husband and I purchased Decks 3 & 4 (actually, both packs including Decks 1 & 2) without knowing if we would enjoy this game. Not a very expensive risk but still a risk because we did not see it in our local stores or knew of any friends who owned them so that we could try the game out first.

We had a blast! It was a little challenging at first since we are very new to french but now we realize how much we have learned when days later we are remembering the words from playing the game. They stick in your brain! I should add that the words on the cards are useful and are needed for everyday language which is very important to us.

I highly recommend this game to anyone new to the language and needing a fun and interesting way to learn.

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This little guitar (about 10 inches long) complete with it's own stand is so much like the real thing, down to real strings.

I'm using it as a birthday cake topper for a 40 something rocker. I'm sure it will an instant hit.

The order was filled the day I made it & shipped that next day. I had it in 3 days. It comes with a nice box &

would be perfect on a bookshelf as center or lots of conversations.

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Discount Geomag Kids Color - 110 pieces (Colors May Vary)

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This system is just a lot of fun. When you build something (and it doesn't have to be like a building), you have a whole new perspective on where the forces go: One wrong move and it collapses. On the other hand, when you build a structure like the star shown here, it is durable enough to hand--from other geomags, of course. The magnets and spheres all fit together easily, but you find after a while that the direction that you put the bars matters. And, being magnets, they sometimes move on their own...

There are also small panels available in other sets, which make more stable structures.

Both I and my granddaughter (she is 5) like it, so I think that the age given of 3 yrs. to 15 is a little restrictive. Actually, I don't think that most kids would get much out of it until they are 5 or so, but after that, I can't picture an upper age. There is a website at the manufacturer's that has ideas to pursue (if you have thousands of parts). I enjoyed it enough to order more--it may be addictive--but even with only a hundred pieces, you can build some fun structure. .

Also, if you have children who put things in their mouths (either from age or habit), all the small parts could be a problem.

This is a great toy, both educational and just plain fun.

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We have several sets of Geo Mags and all my kids love them. I wish they still made the original shorter magnets but these are just as fun. They made a nice addition to our older sets.

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Geomags are fun for kids and adults too! High-quality, strong magnetic toys that can be used for education or just for fun. As long as your kids are old enough not to swallow them, that is. I give these my highest recommendation.

Reviews of LeapFrog Easy Reader Phonics Kit 1

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While my son enjoyed the illustrations anf fun content of the books in this set, I felt it was disappointing as a learning tool for beginning readers because it moves much too quickly. The first book is just letters and letter sounds. Very introductory. The second book introduces three letter words right off with no transition at all like 2 letter blends. That was ok to me since it was phonetic 3 letter words, but by page 2 we were already "leaping" to 4 and 5 letter words and by page 3 they were already introducing a sight word "does" and a double consonant word "cannot". I thought the pace was frustrating for my son. I was hoping/expecting a book devoted to just blends and/or 3 letter words. Instead this program is organized by vowels with the letter a being introduced first. I don't see that as a problem, but I was expecting more phonetic 3 letter words to start and introducing harder 4 and 5 letter words by maybe book 3 and sight words coming later, like maybe book 4. Unfortunately, you can't see exactly what your getting until you open the box.

Nonetheless, the audio is entertaining for children with music and humor thrown in and the reward stickers, poster, and ribbon are a fun way to recognize your child's achievement. The practice game is basically just like the Word Whammer Fridge Phonics product but with cards instead of magnets.

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My five year old is in Kindergarten this year, and I have gotten very frustrated because I just don't know how to teach him anything! I am an internal learner, and mostly learned how to read from watching Sesame Street as a child. So, I was pretty desperate for some help. I purchased the whole "Learn to Read" Kit, which includes Phonics kits 1-3, plus the Read & Write Leappad. We've just started the first kit, and my son is extremely excited about the sticker chart, and he really wants to earn the ribbon that they provide. It says "I Can Read". I agree with the review that states it is very fast moving. I was hoping for a bit more in the connecting sounds to create words area. My son has listening issues and has a learning delay and he's responding very well, but it's also very frustrating for him. The main issues that I'm having with this is how difficult it is to decipher the sounds at times from the little electronic speaker. It's difficult to tell the difference between "f" and "s" for example. The other big issue is that when playing a game where my son was supposed to listen to the letter sounds and figure out what word they were spelling, it kept saying everything started with "C"! It was confusing for him. It would clearly say "errr" "aaa" "ttt" (Rat) and then say it began with "C" or "sss" "lll" "aaa" "mmm" (Slam) and then say it began with "C"! he kept hitting "Cat" and then it would tell him he was wrong. He wouldn't believe *Me* that the machine was wrong, because they never lie *headdesk* However, for its purpose of giving ME the tools to better teach my child, it deserves four stars.

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I bought this also along with kit 2 and kit 3.. while they do move a bit quickly, these books, kits, are suppose to help give the child an idea of what "they" are and how the sound. These books and kits are MEANT to be used with a REAL person, and to reinforce what they are being taught, they are NOT meant to teach the child every thing there is to learn! A teacher or parent should be teaching these things in full to begin with and the books and kits to be used as a tool, or as a back up to help the child as a reniforcement. If you use them correctly they are a wonderful tool for any child! Ho and if you buy one kit you really should buy all three of them because the three together are a wonderfull addition to school work, practice, learing, reniforcement of what is being taught.

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My children love their leappads and I love the fact that they are continuing to expose themselves to reading even when I'm not supervising them. These phonics kits contain cute stories that help reinforce the concepts that I try to introduce. I don't believe that this kit will teach them phonics on it's own but I love them anyways. As with all leappad books, I wish they were a little sturdier as the pages can get caught on the pen when littles are turning them, causing rips and tears.

Advanced Math Creator 4 Reviews

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Good quality learning toy, but not complete.

The only complaint I have is the ability to create curves, which it can not.

It is limited to sharp angles, though tight angles, which helps.

This can be, and most likely will be, solved with new parts which Zometool's allows you to order separately.

This is the greatest strength of this product, keeping the base product while making it better with newer parts.

The Lego set for the mathematically inclined.

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Very interesting And powerful mathematical tol. It's a product of very higness quality And Vero utilitie . Congratulaciones for tris product

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Thank you! This is a great product and it is giving my daughter and I long hours of creative fun

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The Zometool system is a compelling math tool -in theory. I was introduced to it at the Museum of Mathematics in NYC and ordered a set for my family. I'm disappointed, however, by quality of the materials. While the connectors (the white balls) seem very well made, you be disappointed by the small imperfections at the ends of the struts (the rods) on many pieces. You often have to force the end of the strut into the connector because there is extra (or frayed) plastic due to poor manufacturing. Sometimes the alignment is a tiny bit off so you likewise have to muscle the pieces in. If you are used to Legos, which have legendarily precise machining and manufacturing, you will be annoyed by this. Lego is obsessed with the quality, standards and exactness in manufacturing even the simplest Lego 1x1 brick. This translates to a very pleasurable building experience because the kinetic/haptic feedback from fitting Legos together conveys assurance the the pieces have been locked together perfectly. In this way, building with Legos give you a thousand little perfect feelings which is why every kid goes crazy building with Legos once introduced. It hits some pleasure feedback loop. I was hoping for a similar experience with Zoomtools because the literature about the product is, even more so than Legos, quite high-minded and principled (and even the most basic set is not cheap!). Alas, not so. All and all: excited by the concept, disappointed by the product.

Buy Skip Hop Giraffe Safari Activity Toy

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My son likes the textures on the blue leaf, both to touch and to put in his mouth. And there are other areas on the toy for tugging, like the ears, tail, and some loops along the giraffe's back. Keeps his little hands busy.

Some areas of the toy seem to be stuffed with different fillers, like beads or seeds, which make it satisfying and interesting to squeeze because of the different textures.

The wooden ring is really nice. It's smooth and unpainted, so I know that no paint is going to chip off in his mouth as he chews it. This toy makes a pleasant jingling sound when you shake it. Neither loud, nor annoying.

I also like the size (it's the size of a small stuffed animal), because it is more substantial than your average rattle. So it could make a nice gift.

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this toy was an instant favorite!

anything with a mirror is a hit at our house and this one is top of the list...

my favorite feature is that the giraffe's "mane" is a row of loops that the plastic clip hooks into so you can hang it from the car seat canopy or attach it to the stroller so it won't fall out. i LOVE that i can attach the clip to the bottom loop so the giraffe faces right at my baby while it's attached to the canopy! other toys don't work that way and when they're hanging from above, she can only see the bottom of it. with this one, i can hang it so it faces her perfectly and she can see the mirror and pull on the legs, teeth on the wooden ring etc. there's lots to do and feel with this.

i also love that once she's older, i can remove the clip altogether and it'll just be a cute stuffed-animal toy for her.

this collection of skip hop toys is really cute – i love that they're gender neutral and modern looking. a total go-to for a cute baby gift!

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The only reason this doesn't get 5 stars is its claims to its activities are over-rated. I almost sent it back, but fortunately learned the infant perspective is different from mine. I take care of my twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl. When I got this they were 5 months, with adjusted age for prematurity of three months. Both can be entertained in a seat for longer with this toy than most others, and that has continued for a month now. I don't know why, because the supposed chime inside can barely be heard, the leg pull moves too little to be significant, the mirror is a distorted blur, and the toy just seems ho hum to me. But so glad I kept it because the twins are able to hang onto it well and they find it entertaining so it occupies one while I take care of the other. From their view, it is a five star toy.

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After teaching biology and Anatomy and Physiology for 30 years I retired from teaching in a public high school and took a job in a private middle school. One of the subjects I would be teaching was earth science. I had never taught this subject before. The video labs are terrific. I think the name is misleading. I think of them as a complete unit in a box. I would start by giving the students a pretest which is provided. The students thought the pretests were very hard. I would keep them and after going through the complete set of 12 labs in small groups doing the experiments, and answering the questions provided I would give them the test again. This time they would declare the test was easy. I let them compare the before and after and the feedback was all about how much they learned and how much they enjoyed the process. It did not take much time for me to be completely confidant in my ability to teach the subject. I struggle to declare a favorite video lab. Rock cycle, Minerals, Weather, the sun and our solar system, the universe. All are great.

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It is my experience that the manipulatives and activities in this resource really augment student comprehension of the rock cycle. I recommend it highly.

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I love this kit. My middle school and high school students found it motivational and fun to do. The video introduces the subject beautifully, and the activities, a full week's worth, are spot on to encourage student involvement in their own learning. Learning outcomes and all necessary worksheets and materials have been carefully and masterfully produced. As a career science teacher, I cannot recommend this videolab too highly. It is also wonderful for less science secure teachers, who will find it has done all of the ground work for them to simply plug in and use. Excellent!

Review of FLASH CARDS MONEY 96/BOX

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Recommended by local Montessory school. An excellent tool for kids 5-6 and up to learn how to identify money cards have photos of US coins and banknotes. Coins are pictured in both heads and tails!

There are 96 cards with bills, coins or combination of both to challenge little minds. Quantity is stated in both numerals and words. Well made. Set allows to do computation of money combinations, math drills and also has an activity idea card to make up fun activities while learning a very important skill recognition and counting of money. Highly recommend.

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Hape - Qube Play Set - Numbers and Colors Review

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Over all I like the blocks. They have nice bright colors and they are constructed of solid wood so they should be very durable. The one qualm I have is that the package says they are stand-up numbers. However, many of them do not stand-up on their own. Only the zero, eight, and two can stand up on their own. The rest fall over due to their shape so in this the advertising is misleading. Otherwise they are what they seem to be...brightly colored solid wood number blocks.

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Taggies Big Soft Blocks Reviews

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It's a nice soft toy for younger kids. Each of the blocks has something different such as a ring or a "mirror" along with different animals. However our do not stack as shown in the picture. They are soft which is a good thing but it also means that it can be crushed pretty easily which is not a problem until the corners get bent in. When that happens, the cubes do not return to their original shape by themselves but rather must be pulled back into shape which generally works but must be done by a parent.

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Taggies big soft blocks. My 6 moonth old Granddaughter loved these blocks (so did my nine year old West Highland White Terrier). They have little tags everywhere and are very tactile as well as cute animal designs. They are very well made and will last a long time. The fun animal designs will be more interesting as baby gets older.

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I got these for my grandson. He loves them, especially the tags. My daughter was thrilled because he can stack them and if they should be tossed at someone, it will not hurt!!!! Great product....lots of different textures and sounds for baby to explore.

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My 9 month old loves tags and strings that stick out from anything. So I thought these taggies blocks would be great for him. The blocks are colorful and each block has different tags and strings and crinkles and jingles. Absolutely adorable! You can hang them in your stroller to keep them busy.

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These blocks are really cute. I bought them thinking my baby (who loves to chew on the tag of anything) would enjoy that there were so many tags everywhere. Well, I think because the blocks are bulky, he can't hold onto them very well yet (he is 6 months old, but the blocks are pretty large -larger than a softball). Due to that fact, he can't manuever the block to get the small tags in his mouth. The only tag he can really get in his grasp is the big item tag that he usually finds on most items. They are cute though, and offer lots of different textures and sounds. I think he will like them more as he gets older.