Sunday, February 23, 2014

Review: School Zone Workbooks for Kids


School Zone
The World's Best Workbooks, Flash Cards, & Software for Kids

Workbooks Make it a Great School Year!
Give your kids fun ways to enhance classroom lessons with School Zone’s award-winning workbooks. We pack them with challenging lessons that reinforce reading and math skills and give your kids an edge in the classroom. Shop and save on colorful, fun and engaging school workbooks that help improve math and reading skills, starting at $2.99!

The Workbook Advantage
  • Simple – Easy instructions help children understand and complete the exercises. A straightforward guide for parents suggests a natural sequence.
  • Fun – Colorful, smiling, and funny characters feel like friends and motivate children to learn.
  • Effective – Preparation and reinforcement of classroom skills can be used for working independently at school or at home.
New Workbooks from SchoolZone:


Little Thinkers, Preschool
Help sharpen your preschooler’s problem-solving skills. Dozens of quick, fun, and creative learning activities encourage looking--and thinking--carefully. Little Thinkers have to compare, evaluate, and imagine. This 32-page workbook combines skills and stretches abilities and makes it fun! A few examples: Check the animal that does not belong in the group. Color all the squares red. Check the traffic light that tells you to stop. Color to finish the pattern. Circle the rabbit that is going to the right. Draw a line to where the cow lives. X 5 things wrong in the picture. Match the cookie cutter to its cookie. Circle the picture that rhymes with frog. Whew! Thinking gets a world-class workout. Slip this workbook into backpack or tote as a super take-along for travel and appointments.
Features & Benefits
• 32 workbook pages
• Dozens of activities
• Easy directions
• Lively illustrations
• Affordable learning!

Skills: focus; following directions; shapes; problem-solving; counting; comparing; same and different; compare and contrast; matching; rhyming; sequencing; patterns; critical thinking; hand-eye coordination; perception; imagination


Little Thinkers, Kindergarten
Help your kindergartner be an A #1 problem-solver! Dozens of quick, fun, and creative learning activities encourage looking--and thinking--carefully. Little Thinkers have to compare, evaluate, and imagine. This 32-page workbook takes the basics, and with a whimsical twist, turns them into challenging adventures! A few examples: Circle the picture that shows why this happened. Circle the clock that shows 4:00. Write the missing number. Draw a line to match each letter pair (uppercase and lowercase). Circle the word that matches the picture. X the snake that is the longest; check the snake that is the shortest. Write the number that is between two other numbers. These strategic activities sharpen multiple skills fast! Slip this workbook into backpack or tote as a super take-along for travel and appointments.
Features & Benefits
• 32 workbook pages
• Dozens of activities
• Easy directions
• Lively illustrations
• Affordable learning!

Skills: alphabet; letters; uppercase letters; lowercase letters; coins; more and less; focus; following directions; problem-solving; counting; skip counting; comparing; matching; sequencing; patterns; opposites; compare and contrast; rhyming; counting; spelling; telling time; critical thinking; perception; imagination

Try-n-Spy, Places & Spaces
Help your child learn to read, and sharpen observation skills at the same time! Kids love finding picture clues, and this Try-n-Spy Places & Spaces workbook gives them plenty of practice, as they discover city life. Each colorful page is filled with cute characters and fun objects to find. By spying each one, your child will also develop attention to detail, perception, and problem-solving skills. Silly rhymes add to the fun and learning. “Read the rhyme and put a checkmark next to each picture you find. “Try-n-spy a gecko, a turtle named Hank, a tent, an egg, and a pink piggy bank.” Or “Try-n-Spy an otter, a long, crooked cane, a lightbulb, a cookie, and a tiny, toy plane.” The majority of the English language is phonetic, and familiar rhymes and patterns help build reading and language skills. Picture clues reinforce the meaning of the words. Choose from 32 whimsical adventure scenes that include a pet shop, a porcupine’s art studio, and library full of chickens. Take this book along anywhere, and turn restless wiggles into attention-grabbing giggles. What a great, learn-to-read adventure!
Features & Benefits
• 32 themed try-n-spy scenes
• Easy directions featuring clever rhymes
• Lively illustrations
• Affordable learning!

Skills: reading readiness; focus; observation; hand-eye coordination; perception; fine motor skills; following directions; rhyming; spelling; vocabulary; creativity


School Zone's Children's Tablet: Little Scholar
Little Scholar
More than 35 years in education have produced the world’s best in parent-trusted, teacher-approved learning materials. That legacy and expertise now deliver the best in mobile learning: Little Scholar. Bursting with great content, this tablet is uniquely designed for children in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade! Playful, powerful, and packed with learning, it will build readiness skills to last a lifetime. Kids will have a blast mastering math, reading, spelling, and more, with over 150 preloaded apps, videos, e-books, and songs. Progressive challenge combines with playful creativity. For example, both parents and kids will enjoy learning and singing 87 original, toe-tapping songs.
The learning—and the fun—continue with one-of-a-kind video programming. Enjoy family time with Charlie & Company, a new, interactive, educational video series with live action and animation. It stars Charlie the Golden Retriever and his best friend, Miss Ellie, who embark on educational adventures. The show also features performances and original music by Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe. 
With Little Scholar, you avoid the risks and inconveniences of so many other e-products. The positive "no's" include: no registration or credit card required at start-up; no apps to download; no upsells for buying more apps; no expensive cartridges to lose; no lite or partial-version apps; no advertisements, and no worries about kids accessing objectionable content.
Turn on Little Scholar, and let the learning adventure begin! It’s ready right out of the box and comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. Shipping insurance is included automatically with your order.
Features
• Over 150 preloaded apps, videos, books, songs, and games.
• Exclusive, interactive, educational video series: Charlie & Company.
• Original content, in a kid-safe environment, with no additional costs.
• A+ Report Card app for viewing dynamic graphs and reports of children’s activity with each Little Scholar program.
• Audio praise and feedback.
• Rear- and front-facing camera.
• Durable construction designed for little hands and rigorous use.
• 100% money-back guarantee!

Skills: colors, shapes; patterns; counting; numbers; addition; subtraction; letters; ABCs; uppercase letters; lowercase letters; multiplication; telling time; counting coins; phonics; rhyming; beginning letters; letter sounds; short and long vowel sounds; letter blends; spelling; matching; same and different; vocabulary; critical thinking; memorization; problem-solving; fine motor skills; observation; eye-hand coordination; focus
(U.S. English language & math conventions)
Ages 3-7

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Our Thoughts
We love School Zone!  We already own at least eight sets of their flashcards.  And there's lots more sets on their website that isn't offered in local stores that I'd like to get for my son.

Although flashcards are still his favorite, we're starting to get into workbooks. School Zone sent us the Little Thinkers - Preschool, Little Thinkers - Kindergarten, and Try-n-Spy - Places & Spaces.   I'm planning to send my 5 yr old son to public school for, at the very least, the social aspect, however I will be implementing some homeschooling studies.  He deals with speech and motor apraxia, which means he is non-verbal and unable to sign.  I hate it when people assume he isn't smart because he has no functional means of communication - you just have to learn his language.  His attention span may be an issue in school, too, so I'll do whatever I can at home to expand his knowledge base.

I thought my son would be more interested in the Little Thinkers series, but he loves to look at the Try-n-Spy workbook the most!  He studies things in minute detail and there's a lot to look at in the Try-n-Spy series. I would LOVE to get my hands on their new children's tablet, the Little Scholar, but it's a bit (okay, a lot) out of my price range.

School Zone offers SO many different workbooks, flashcards, books, apps, software, & activities! If you haven't tried School Zone with your kids, give them a try - we are big fans here!! 


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