Summer Learning with @TYSclub Science Kits

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It's starting to be that part of summer vacation already....where the children are already sick of playing with their own toys, playing with their siblings and "are bored" all the time!

Keep your children entertained and learning this summer with the Young Scientists Club monthly subscription kits!

My children have tried them out and are LOVING them! Each kit has several projects you can do and it will keep your child engaged and learning for hours!

My children recently tried the Weather Station kit and loved making a weather vane, checking the temperature outside and so many other fun activities!

The Young Scientists Club has won the 2018 Reader Award for the Science Kits and Supplies category from Practical Homeschooling. The recognition was for the company’s Monthly Subscription kits, delivered right to your door! There are 36 themed kits, ranging from Phases of Matter, Circuits and Electromagnets to Stars and Surface Tension.

The organization said of the award, “Thousands of homeschoolers have cast their votes. A Practical Homeschooling Reader Award is the highest honor the homeschool community can bestow. The winners are the products that receive the highest ratings from satisfied users.”

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You can purchase the kits at the company’s site—each kit is $11.99 plus $4.95 shipping & handling.

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Get All the Educational Materials You Need This School Year from Carson-Dellosa!

A new school year has begun and with it comes all the craziness of another school year! If you are educating at home either with preschool or older children or just like to teach your children a little on the side, then let Carson-Dellosa help you get ready for the school year and eliminate some stress!

Carson-Dellosa proudly provides teachers, parents, and children around the world with the best possible educational materials including interactive digital resources; supplemental books for math, science, social studies, language arts, and early childhood; classroom decoratives; pocket charts; and games and manipulatives for prekindergarten through the eighth grade.

I received some great educational items that will help me teach my preschooler at home this year and for educating my children for years to come!

Perfect for students in grade K-1, the Tactile Letters Kit includes both sets of lowercase and uppercase sandpaper-textured letter cards, plus an activity guide. This set is ideal for teaching children letter recognition and basic phonics!

I love that my son will not only learn his uppercase and lowercase letters with this Tactile Letters Kit but he also learns about texture. These are also great if we are traveling for keeping my son entertained, learning and practicing his letters! I love that they include both uppercase and lowercase because they are important at my son's age to learn together! He can match them or practice them separately!

Hear & Go Seek Rhyming Word Sounds is the fun, easy way for young learners to develop important early literacy and listening skills! Players listen carefully to each word that is spoken on the CD to determine if it rhymes with a word that is pictured on their game card. Whenever spoken words correctly rhyme with the picture words, the players place game pieces on the matching pictures. The first player to fill his or her game board wins!

The game features photographic pictures that appeal to young learners, while teaching phonemic awareness and vocabulary recognition of rhyming words. It also improves observation and short-term memory, while helping children develop listening, visual discrimination, and critical thinking skills.

My son LOVES rhyming words and rhyming words with each other! So I knew he would love this Hear & Go Seek Rhyming Word Sounds! It can accommodate up to 12 players or it also be played just by a single player to reinforce visual and auditory vocabulary recognition. It is a perfect game for the classroom as a positive reward or an expansion of a unit theme, and it is ideal to play at home as well. Plus, each game includes an instruction sheet with suggestions for additional vocabulary-building activities. Play Hear & Go Seek and discover the sounds of learning fun!

One skill my son hasn't gotten a lot of practice with and I plan on focusing on this school year is cutting! This I Can Cut book is perfect for getting him started!

Big Skills for Little Hands: I Can Cut! will help children build hand strength and dexterity by teaching them to use scissors to cut lines, curves, and shapes. Children will create puppets, play games, and make puzzles while learning an essential skill for school success!

A write and wipe board in the back of the book offers more opportunities for learning. After completing this book, young learners will be proud to say “I Can Cut!”

Features:

• Cutting activities to create puppets, play games, and puzzles

• Activities support national standards for early childhood

• Essential practice in manual coordination

• A write and wipe board with bonus fine motor activities

My son ABSOLUTELY LOVES puzzles! He does at least one 50 piece Giant Floor puzzle a day and loves it every time! So I knew he would love this Alphabet Train puzzle and I loved that he would be learning at the same time!

Kids will love learning their ABCs with this 8-foot-long, giant floor puzzle featuring 26 extra-thick jumbo pieces tough enough for little hands. While assembling, children will develop and strengthen their visual discrimination, eye-hand coordination, motor skills, imagination, and storytelling abilities. Appropriate for children ages 3+.

So make sure this school year you are getting everything you need to help your children learn, thrive and grow and let Carson-Dellosa help you get there and eliminate the stress!

Buy It: You can purchase all of these great educational materials above (PLUS SO MUCH MORE!) from the Carson-Dellosa website.

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Letter Box Activity Set Review and Giveaway

My son loves to learn! Although he is only two, he loves to write and say his letters! He traces, identifies, and recites his letters but I don't have many other letter activities for him to advance his learning! I have been searching and searching for something that he will love to use to learn both his letters and what letters begin objects and words.

I found exactly what I was looking for to help my son learn when I found the Letter Box Activity Set from Learning Resources!

It has so many great features and my son is LOVING learning his letters from his new Letter Box! Since he is younger, I make a Letter of the Week for him to learn. For older children, you can give them a Letter of the Day!

My son loves that it is in a shape of a mailbox and he loves to open the mail “slot” to reveal the whiteboard, letter of the week, and display pockets.

The letters are also in the mail theme and look like letters with stamps on them! It makes it even more fun for my son to learn because he feels like he is getting mail! :)

The objects on the cards are big and colorful and my son loves to tell me what each one is! He can identify the letters on the opposite side and someday he can work on reading them and work on the sounds!

This fun activity set includes 104 double-sided alphabet cards with real-life photos and 13 double-sided letter cards (plus 8 blanks). It also includes an Activity Guide with reproducibles for home connections.

The chart is easy to hang because it is magnetic but it can also be hung with nails. It also features reverse storage pocket and measures 24"H x 18"L.

If you are looking for a fun way to teach your children letters, sounds, and words, then make sure to try out the this fun Letter Box Activity Set from Learning Resources! Your children will love opening up the mailbox each day and seeing the letter of the day!

Buy It: You can purchase the Letter Box Activity Set for $34.99 on the Learning Resources website.

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Teach My Toddler Kit Review and Giveaway

Teach My have created award-winning all-in-one learning kits for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. No need to spend hundreds of dollars going to stores buying individual teaching tools, Teach My learning kits provide everything necessary to teach your baby, toddler and preschooler the basics, all in one kit!

Teach My was founded in 2007 by Mompreneur, Christy Cook. Realising that parents are the most important teachers, Christy scoured educational supply stores to find learning activities to educate her 18-month old son, Finn. Not finding an all-in-one kit, Christy aimed to make it easier and less expensive for parents, so she created Teach My Toddler, the award winning first and only all-in-one learning kit for toddlers.

My Opinion

I generously received the Teach My Toddler kit for my toddler son. The Teach My Toddler kit contains 17 coordinated teaching tools to help toddlers master the basics. The kit is full of toddler games to teach the alphabet, teach numbers, teach shapes and teach colors. Teach My Toddler is the first step to teach toddlers to read. Just 20 minutes a day of supervised educational play with the Teach My Toddler learning toy and your toddler can master the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colours/colors.

I absolutely LOVE the Teach My Toddler kit! As a new parent, sometimes I am at a loss on how to best teach my son all he needs to know at this age! He is so eager to learn and I want to give him all the tools possible!

I can now do that with the Teach My Toddler Kit! It contains everything I need to teach him his shapes, alphabet (lower and upper), numbers and colors!! His favorite part of the kit is the shapes foam puzzle! He immediately sat down and began to put all the shapes in the puzzle and naming off all the shapes! He immediately learned new shapes such as oval, octagon, and diamond! I loved watching him learn!

I recommend the Teach My Toddler Kit for all families with toddlers! It has all the tools in one box that you need to help your child learn through the toddler years! Make sure to check out there other kits: Teach My Baby and Teach My Preschooler if you have children of a younger or older age!

Buy It: You can purchase the Teach My Toddler Kit for $49.99 on the Teach My site!

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