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Books Included: When the Earth Wakes; Month by Month a Year Goes Round; Tell Me a Season; Animals in the Snow; Run Jump Whiz Splash
Activities Included: Seasons Wise Game, Hopscotch Rug Focus: Seasons Wise is a sorting game where children categorize different things that go with each season. This helps to build vocabulary, language and reasoning skills. The Hopscotch Rug features a sunny pattern and can be used indoors or outdoors. Playing hopscotch encourages gross motor skills such as hopping, jumping and balance. Hopscotch also helps with number recognition and counting. |
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Books Included: When the Elephant Walks; Daddy Could I Have an Elephant; Big, Rough and Wrinkly, What Am I?; Elephant Small is Lost; Strictly No Elephants
Activities Included: Elephant Puppet, Stacking Elephant Game, Elephant Alphabet Focus: Using stuffed animals and puppets to retell a story enforces reading comprehension for young children while also reinforcing skills like patterns and the sequence of a story. The Elephant Stacking Game promotes fine motor coordination while also reinforcing color recognition during this fun building game. The Elephant Alphabet is a fun way to reinforce letter recognition skills. Children can link the letters together to create short words with these fun colorful elephants. |
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Books Included: How Long or How Wide, On the Scale, a Weighty Tale, Crash! Boom! A Math Tale
Activities Included: Inchimals, Simple Tape Measure, Balance Frog Math Game Focus: The Inchimals are a set of 12 wooden blocks printed with measurements and vibrant animal characters. Children can practice counting skills, sequencing skills, fine motor skills and visual-spatial skills with these blocks. The Simple Tape Measure can help children develop a basic understanding for how measurements are used in real life. It measures up to 4 feet - perfect for comparing heights. The Balance Frog Math Game stimulates number learning, counting, measuring weight and balancing. The small counters also help with fine motor development and hand-eye coordination. |
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Books Included: Pattern Fish; National Geographic Kids: Patterns; Gruffalo
Activities Included: Ocean Sorting Creatures, Pattern Play, Magnetic Drawing Pad Focus: Coding is a new literacy standard that today’s young children will encounter when they reach school. Being able to recognize when a pattern is occurring and identifying the pattern is an important concept in coding. Patterns help us make predictions and are important in coding and basic math skills. |
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Books Included: Franklin's Bad Day; Franklin's Blanket; Franklin is Bossy; Franklin in the Dark; Franklin is Lost
Activities Included: Franklin hand puppet, Robot Turtles game Focus: Using stuffed animals and puppets to retell a story enforces reading comprehension for young children while also reinforcing skills like patterns and the sequence of a story. Inspired by the Logo programming language, the Robot Turtles game lets children ages 4 and up write programs with playing cards. Gameplay provides a stealth learning experience, where players learn computer programming principles in a fun, easy to learn way. |
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Books Included: Nuts To You, Scaredy Squirrel, Squirrels and Chipmunks, That's Not My Squirrel
Activities Included: Squirrel puppets, Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game, Building Block Tree Set Focus: Using stuffed animals and puppets to retell a story enforces reading comprehension for young children while also reinforcing skills like patterns and the sequence of a story. The squirrel game is an easy-to-play board game that reinforces color learning and helps develop matching skills, strategic thinking, turn-taking, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. The tree set stimulates creativity and an awareness of patterns and shapes. Use the blocks to explore numbers, letters, words and geometric shapes. |
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Books Included: A House for Birdie, 3 Little Firefighters, A Pair of Socks, The Color Monster
Activities Included: Sorting Pie, Frankie’s Food Truck Fiasco Game, Magnetic Maze Color Sort Focus: The Sorting Pie teaches early number skills, patterning, problem solving and visual processing. The jumbo tweezers reinforce fine motor skills while children sort the fruit in a variety of different ways. In addition to sorting this activity will reinforce number and color recognition. Frankie’s Food Truck Fiasco is a shape matching and sorting game that helps children learn to identify geometric shapes—a beginning math skill—and develops fine motor and pre-handwriting skills. Sort the colors in the Magnetic Maze. Kids use a magnetic wand to guide bright disks through the maze which boosts pre-writing skills and find motor coordination while sorting. |
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Books Included: Where the Wild Things Are, Wild Animal Babies, Glow Wild, First Big Book of Animals
Activities Included: 3 Monster Puppets and 1 Max Puppet, Spot It Animals Jr., Tangram Animal Shape Puzzle Focus: Spot It! Animals Jr. is designed for young gamers to challenge who can be the fastest to spot matching symbols and call them out. It helps develop focus, visual perception skills, speech-language skills, fine motor skills, and learning animal names and sounds. The Tangram Animal Shape Puzzle allows children to try to figure out what pieces make the designs on the cards and create their own design. The puzzle is an effective way to encourage the construction of freestyle shapes and it helps develop their critical thinking, fine motor skills, dexterity and problem solving. |
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Books Included: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, L M N O Peas, Elmo’s ABC Lift the Flap
Activities Included: Magnetic Letter Builder, Alphabet Popsicles, Wikki Stix Alphabet Cards Focus: With Magnetic Letter Builders, kids simply grab a letter card and use the magnetic builders to copy the shape of the letter. This develops skills in letter recognition, letter building and fine motor development. Alphabet Popsicles click together, so little ones can match lowercase to uppercase letters, and vice versa helping with both upper case and lower case letter recognition. The Wikki Stix Alphabet Cards add a kinesthetic element to support your child with hands-on, engaging, educational fun. The cards have directional arrows show proper stroke for letter formation, essential for young learners working on their ABCs. |
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Books Included: Ten Little Dinosaurs (board book); Ten Little Dinosaurs (regular); Little Dinosaur; Dinosaur Train; Dinosaur Roar; Dinosaurumpus; Dinorella
Activities Included: 10 finger puppets, Dinosaur Figures with Activity Play Mat, Snap-n-Learn Matching Dinos, Dinosaurs Floor Puzzle Focus: The Snap-n-Learn Matching Dinos are versatile toys that assists in building children’s fine motor skills, shape recognition, matching, problem solving, color identification, motor planning, parts to whole relationships, and eye-hand coordination. Use the Dinosaur Figures to inspire imagination and creative thinking in interactive play as well as teach different types of dinosaurs. Playing with puzzles is a great way for children to explore their creativity while fine-tuning their gross motor skills, improving their hand-eye coordination, strengthening their problem-solving skills, and beginning to develop logic and critical thinking processes. |
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Books Included: Little Sibu, An Orangutan Tale;
National Geographic’s Orangutan; Where’s Wallace?; Orangutanka Activities Included: Orangutan Puppet, Orangutwang, Monkey Balance Boards Focus: Using stuffed animals and puppets to retell a story enforces reading comprehension for young children while also reinforcing skills like patterns and the sequence of a story. Orangutwang is a silly game that encourages fine motor skills, balance, hand eye coordination and taking turns. The Monkey Balance Board encourages gross motor skills while children balance on an artfully decorated platform. |
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Books Included: Little Blue Truck, Look Inside Things That Go, Freight Train, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Activities Included: Construction Site Vehicles Set, Town Vehicles Set, Vehicles Puzzle Focus: Combine the construction and town vehicle sets to teach different kinds of vehicles and their uses. Children can then explore further using open play. The floor puzzle promotes hand eye coordination and is designed to help children develop strong problem-solving skills. |
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Books Included: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!; Icky Bug Alphabet Board Book; Icky Bug Counting Board Book; Giggle Bugs; The Bugliest Bug; Little Kids First Big Book of Bugs
Activities Included: Bug puppets, Bug Collection, Bugzzle, Bug Magnetic Puzzle Focus: Inspire curiosity and discussion with the real-life Bug Collection. Use the Bugzzle matching game to encourage spatial reasoning, fine motor skills, logic, critical thinking and problem solving. The magnetic wooden puzzle game features a garden full of common bugs and insects and is a creative way to encourage eye-hand and fine motor development. |
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