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Time4Learning Review

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Crisc| 2 Comments

Since Heaven is 3 (soon to be 4) I thought it was the perfect time to teach her how to work the laptop and mouse. I started off with a site I had a random email for and for the most part she liked it. She would play for maybe 6 minutes at the most if “I” asked her if she wanted to play.

I remembered a site I had seen around the web called Time4Learning and decided to go check it out. Heaven was starting to get really good with controlling the mouse, so I was thrilled when I discovered they let Bloggers do REVIEWS for it. That’s AWESOME to me because Heaven is still young so I don’t want to buy something, that will only have her attention for a few minutes or days.

I contacted Time4Learning and in a timely fashion I was emailed back. Heaven and I immediately sat down to try it…..

Easy to navigate
FUN activities
TONS of different lessons to keep the kids thinking
Can be used for Homeschool or Summer

SHE LOVES IT!!! She can play it by herself for up to a half hour (2 lessons) and even comes and ASK me if she can play it. That is big because my daughter is always go,go,go.

I also used it for my step son who attends a Charter School but due to the amount of HW he gets, we really didn’t get a chance to use it. He did find the game section and played it often after HW =)

I KNOW THE ECONOMY IS NOT THE GREATEST and at times homeschooling can be pricey, so I would NEVER recommend something that was not worth it. THIS IS WORTH IT! I have a 3 yr old that can tell you all about CONSTELLATIONS!! We have only been using the program a month and she has picked up so much. AWESOME program and I give HUGE props to the Creators of it.

Links to check out..

http://www.Time4Learning.com – Online interactive curriculum for home use, PreK-8th Grade.
http://www.Time4Writing.com – Online writing tutorials for high, middle, and elementary school students.
http://www.Time4Learning.net – A forum to chat with parents online about kids, education, parenting and more…
http://www.Time4Learning.com – Online interactive curriculum for home use, PreK-8th Grade.
http://www.Time4Writing.com – Online writing tutorials for high, middle, and elementary school students.
http://www.Time4Learning.net – A forum to chat with parents online about kids, education, parenting and more…

Disclaimer- The opinions here, are mine and only mine. They come from the heart and are 100% honest. For writing the review I was given a 1 month trial to test out.

This post is linked to Tot School and HHH

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Writing Prompts For Kids Review/Giveaway

Posted on June 15, 2011 by crisc27| Leave a comment

UPDATE=CONGRATS cropper@swbell.net FOR BEING THE WINNER OF THE BOOK GIVEAWAY AND THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

These past couple years I have been having a hard time getting my now 11 year old step son to love writing or at least like it. When I noticed he had about 3 weeks of school left before summer break, I was blessed with an email. This offer couldn’t have came at a better time as JJ is extremely close to failing READING.

I agreed to read a copy of the book:

500 Writing Prompts for Kids: First Grade through Fifth Grade

The hardest part of this assignment was finding just one topic to write on. With summer around the corner we will have JJ, week on/off so I will be giving him the choice to pick his own topic each week.

JJ’s reaction at first was “this is boring”, but once he started using his imagination the story wrote itself. For his 1st story with no real directions he did AWESOME. He used so much detail telling the story his teacher would have been so proud. The book works for ALL AGES

ON TOP OF ALL THIS GREAT INFO—