tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910567723606310061.post5563968093833428134..comments2023-09-06T07:49:16.424-04:00Comments on Wedded Mommy Bliss!!: Letter of the Week and Hooked on PhonicsMommy on the go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01546330001795150334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910567723606310061.post-73037891541477508922012-01-30T08:16:53.423-05:002012-01-30T08:16:53.423-05:00Thanks for your thoughts! I forgot that we do have...Thanks for your thoughts! I forgot that we do have the Leap Frog movies and he has seem them a handful of times....after you mentioned that, it makes sense the he's doing so well with letter sounds having been exposed to them already! Darn....I thought I was just doing an amazing job of teaching him! :)<br /><br />I actually used the Leap Frog movies with my first graders when I taught and I lent them out to my ESL students. I thought that having those videos for my ESL students might help them and their parents to understand the language a little better.Mommy on the go!https://www.blogger.com/profile/01546330001795150334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910567723606310061.post-31971345567533642902012-01-29T13:20:21.663-05:002012-01-29T13:20:21.663-05:00I am not even kidding when I say that the Leapfrog...I am not even kidding when I say that the Leapfrog videos are AMAZING. Phoenix went from not knowing a single letter sound, to knowing all of them after one viewing (this was a few years ago). My 2 year old (Sev, the younger boy who turned 2 last week) watches the video now in the car on long car trips and knows a bunch of letter sounds even though we haven't started formally teaching them to him at all. I'm not traditionally a big fan of having the TV teach your kids stuff, but the progress was so immediately noticeable that I tell everybody. Math Adventure to the Moon and Letter Factory are the two most specifically helpful, and if you want them I can give you the DVDs since we have them on our leapsters and don't actually watch them on the TV ever anymore. <br /><br />On-line, there is an education game subscription called nick jr boost that we have for Damlen (it teaches multiple subjects using dora etc.), and he also likes Starfall and Reading Eggs. Reading Eggs is a little old for him so he just plays in the play area, he doesn't actually do the lessons. Once he starts aging out of star fall as an older 4 or younger 5 year old, Reading Eggs will be AWESOME. I have the subscription now because my older kids (6 and 7) love it, but I don't know if I'd pay for it just for Damlen. We do pay for the extra subscription on starfall and that is totally worth the money.<br /><br />Dreambox is also pretty awesome when kids hit kindergarden age. It's an interactive math story world but would be far too difficult for a younger child. It is WELL worth the money. I don't think there is anything as good as starfall for math that is free.Nikkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250815507879755948noreply@blogger.com