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Alight.com Plus Size Clothing, Trendy Shirt #giveaway
Social Media has become the best way to advertise for on-line markets. I started following Alight.com on twitter and they contacted me. They are right on top of social media and I guess I grabbed their attention. Alight.com has decided to partner up with me for the next three months. Each month we are going to giveaway one shirt of their choice (not necessarily the one pictured) to one of my lucky readers. Alight.com makes plus size clothing come to life. They have the hottest trends that you can find in the junior section of any retail store. I’ve seen ...
Repax Reusable Grocery/Shopping Bags #giveaway
Going green is on everyone’s mind, even the mass merchandisers. Companies like Target are offering cents off for every reusable bag you bring in for shopping. Most grocery bags end up in the trash can and then in a land fill and it takes forever for them to decompose. So it’s very important to remember to bring in your reusable bags. Save money and the environment. Repax Bags are cute, stylish reusable bags that fold up super tiny so they are easily stored. They come four to a bag, and each one is a ...
Melissa & Doug’s Puppet Time Theater #Giveaway & Donation Sponsored by Gummy Lump
Gummy Lump is an on-line toy store, an on-line boutique high quality toy store. Many of the name brands they carry are from the top learning toy companies. They carry Alex, Crocodile Creek, Haba, and Schylling just to name a few. They have generously donated a Puppet Theater to my toy drive. I’m still collecting donations because I feel that giving should be all year round. We’re very grateful for this donation. The Melissa and Doug Puppet Theater is very high quality. Melissa and Doug makes most of their toys out of wood and keeps to the highest ...
Meal Plan
Monday – Pasta Tuesday – Lasagna Wednesday – Left Overs Thursday – egg burritos Friday – Left Overs or grilled cheese Saturday – Egg Salad Sunday – French Toast For more Meals visit the Org Junkie.
Tinker Bell’s Disney Fairies Video Contest And Costume #giveaway
Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies are known for their diverse personalities and talents. To celebrate the recent DVD launch and Disney Channel television premiere of the newest Disney Fairies movie, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Disney Consumer Products is inviting all little girls to discover their fairy talent by creating a video with a parent to showcase their talent in the most creative way possible. All videos can be posted to www.youtube.com/disneyliving now through January 24, 2010, and one will be selected to win two Disney Fairies collector dolls (click here for complete Terms of Use & Rules ...
Sunday Savings, What’s your best Money Saving Tip? #giveaway
It’s Sunday and it’s the day that I set aside to scour the ads and collect coupons from the Sunday paper. I also go blog hopping and find the best deals at the pharmacy stores like Rite Aid, Walgreens, and CVS. When I looked in the paper, I saw that there are three things you can get free at Rite Aid this week. Contac Cold & Flu Get $4.99 SCR #33 (Limit 1) GE Soft White Light Bulbs, $2 Get $2 SCR #89 Theraflu, 4.99, Get $3 SCR ...
Wash them grow with Suave Sweepstakes
I’ll be trying out some products from Suave. They will be sending me some new kids products to try out next week and I’m excited. My kids love to play in the bath tub and love to get all soapy. So it will be fun to share this experience with you guys. For now though, I have some great information for you. The Suave Kids “Wash Them Grow” Sweepstakes, offers awesome weekly prizes!!! And I have a huge request of you. The MomSelect blogger ...
Fitness Friday – Fighting Depression
My Progress for last week was wonderful and with the small amount of movements I’ve been feeling better. I had my follow up with my doctor and I’ve been released. So I can do more movement and get my life back to normal. I took the kids for one to three walks every day rain or shine and I hate the rain I really do. I’ve been depressed because of the rain. I need some sunshine so I’m going to spend a few weeks in Texas. It’s rained for 15 days straight. I’ve ...
Tropical Traditions Organic Coconut Peanut Butter Review and #giveaway
I’ve been trying different Tropical Traditions product for a few months now and the Organic Coconut Peanut Butter is by far my favorite. One, I love peanut butter and two, I love coconut milk and the combination is like magic. I want to eat the peanut butter straight from the jar. Tropical traditions is made from organic Peanut Butter and organic Coconut. There is nothing else in it, no sweeteners, no fillers, not binders and it’s perfect. Valencia peanuts grown organically by family farmers in New Mexico and Texas. Grown in the dry climate ...
Leap Frog:Math Adventures to the Moon and Teaching Preschool kids math
February 24, 2010 · Filed Under review · 11 Comments
Teaching kids math is pretty easy once they learn to count. So first you need to teach them number recognition and sequences. Leap Frog has an entire system to get kids ready for learning math. The first is with Leap Frog’s new movie Math Adventure to the Moon. Lionsgate sent me a copy of the DVD to review in honor of Math Day, March 14th, and I like watching it with my kids.Tad and Lilly are trying to count in the beginning and Tad can’t get past the number four. So their friend Edison transports them to a Spaceship where they can fly to the moon. This space ship helps them with their counting when it only allows them to take 10 items on the ship with them. Ha Ha, ten items, thanks Leap Frog for the adult humor. Part of math includes counting in different intervals and learning sequences and I was glad that Leap Frog included both of these in their math adventure. Tad and Lilly never made it to the moon. On the way they ran into a space storm and crashed onto a cute cube planet; where they had to do even more counting before they could return home.
LeapFrog: Math Adventure to the Moon is great for kids and parents alike as it encourages a shared and interactive educational experience that allows parents to watch their kids learn! You can purchase the DVD and see clips from the new film at http://www.leapfrogdvds.com
Also included in Leap Frog’s arsenal for preschool kids and toddlers are math toys that only re-enforce all of their other teachings. Remember it’s through repetition and interaction that your children are going to learn.
Learn & Groove® Counting Maracas – Get in the learning groove with the Learn & Groove® Counting Maracas. Music Play mode encourages baby to explore and create music—inspires creative interaction and open-ended play. In Counting mode, each shake encourages your child to count to 10 in both English and Spanish. $16.49; 3-36 months
Chat & Count Cell Phone – Fun learning in a smart little phone! Sing along to songs about counting and phone routines, explore more than 15 phone activities and call on Scout for learning fun as you trade calls and voicemails with your puppy pal. Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog® Learning Path for customized learning insights and ideas to expand the learning. $14.99; 18 months – 3 years They also shared math tips with me to share with you.
TIP #1: Math is everywhere!
Next time you’re in a waiting room with your child, scan the room (or the magazines on the tables) for evidence of "math." Advise your child to find as much math as possible, and you can give clues if you need to. Numbers, patterns, shapes, categories, and measuring devices (e.g., ruler, scales), are just a few examples of some of the math you might see all around you!
TIP #2: Patterns and Codes are All Around Us!
Make patterns using standard household objects. For example line up repeated objects–sock, stuffed animal, sock, stuffed animal, and so on. Next, ask your child to continue the pattern to figure out the "secret code." You can vary the difficulty of the pattern to suit your child’s ability–banana, banana, pear, banana, banana, pear. You can also make deliberate errors that your child needs to find–pear, apple, bananna, pear, apple, banana, pear, pear, banana.
TIP #3: Play the Sorting Game!
Take a deck of cards, and discuss with your child all the ways you can sort the cards. They can be sorted by color (red versus black), suit (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs), numbers (2’s, 3’s, etc.), royalty versus numbers (jacks, queens, and kings versus the numbers), odd versus even numbers, etc. Sky is the limit! You can play the sorting game with many collections of things around the house, such as socks and building blocks.TIP #4: Since It’s the Weekend — Make it a game night!
Playing number-related, age-appropriate board games, such as Chutes and Ladders, can help support many math-related skills. For an important twist, help your child practice saying each number he or she lands on and passes by with each roll of the dice. For example, if your child is on 23 and rolls a four, help him or her say "24, 25, 26, 27" instead of "1, 2, 3, 4." This way, your child can learn about order and magnitude (i.e., how large or small a number is in relation to other numbers).TIP #5: Count-down for Launch!
You and Your Kids can pretend to be rocket ships set for launch. Practice counting down to blast-off! You can make the challenge as easy or difficult as you want remembering that you don’t have to start counting down from 10. You and your kids can count down by ones (e.g., 17, 16, 15, 14…) or Practice counting by 2’s (e.g., 25, 23, 21, 19…)! For advanced math students, try multiples (e.g., 21, 18, 15, 12…)!
Leap Frog Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals
November 24, 2009 · Filed Under Announcement · 2 Comments
Leap Frog is just like everyone else and offering some great Black Friday Deals. Check them out.
· 25% to 75% off sitewide
· Select Leapster games as low as $5
· Select Tag Books as low as $5
· Up to 75% off on our gift packs
· Spend $50, get free shipping
· Black Friday Bonus, Spend $100, get $10 off
Leap Frog Learning DVD Set Donation
I am a bit irritated at myself because I wrote this post once already and instead of hitting publish I hit delete. Do you know how long it takes to write a good post/review with links and information about my family. I’m so angry at myself, esp since I didn’t even notice until last night that it wasn’t published. I was looking for the link to send to the rep who was kind enough to send us this from Lionsgate. MMMM.
So, Leap Frog Learning DVD set take two….
We were sent a copy of LeapFrog: Learning DVD Set
to review, but what’s to review. We already reviewed two of the three DVD’s and then there are 26 alphabet Flash Cards that come along with the set. I know that we would get a lot of use out of them but at the same time I can see how this makes such a great addition to the Toy Drive. It is a great learning tool and well disguised as something for for kids to do.
Included are:
Leap Frog: Let’s Go To School my Let’s Go To School Review
Letter Factory (we have not viewed this one)
Leap Frog Talking Word Factory my Talking Word Factory review
26 Flash Cards
We love Leap Frog and Lionsgate. They are both excellent at making learning tools for children. Leap Frog products aid children in learning the alphabet, numbers, math, reading, and problem solving skills. I have been very impressed with all of the products we have purchased from them so far. Of course, they do have a hard time standing up to the toddler year, but we don’t pay any attention to “recommended age”.
Stony Rewards with Leap Frog Tag Junior
October 15, 2009 · Filed Under Announcement · 1 CommentYoBaby has just teamed up with LeapFrog. They have come up with a promotion called Stony Rewards. Just like most rewards programs you have to find the code on specially marked packages and enter them on-line. WHY couldn’t they have done this sooner when I was spending a fortune on their yogurt. Or, perhaps it’s because I wasn’t in the “know” then like I am now. So help a mom out by spreading the word about what she can get for her kids by buying healthy yogurt.
Stonyfield is now offering consumers the chance to earn special freebies as part of a unique loyalty program. From free yogurt to carbon offsets, the rewards possible through the myStonyfield Rewards Program “show this isn’t your typical loyalty program,” says Stonyfield President and CE-Yo Gary Hirshberg. The process begins by consumers looking for reward codes on Stonyfield yogurt products, and then signing up on-line for a myStonyfield Rewards account at www.mystonyfieldrewards.com. Once registered, consumers enter the lid codes in an online account, save up points, and redeem them for rewards that will be shipped free.
The promotion begins in October and the Leap Frog item should be added before the end of the month. Consumers can buy any four YoBaby Yogurt products, Multipacks, YoBaby Drinkable Yogurts, or the new 3-in-1 YoBaby Meals and enter product codes online to receive a FREE Tag Junior ABC Animal Orchestra book.
The promotion continues through December, and you can find all the details on specially-marked packages or at YoBabyYogurt.com/Leapfrog. Like the Tag Reading System for older kids, Tag Junior uses a Pal – a handheld pen with a small, sophisticated infrared camera that recognizes or “reads” letters, words and symbols printed on the page. The Pal allows children to hear each page read aloud, hear fun sound effects embedded in the pictures, and listen to music
Leap Frog Let’s Go To School Review
September 18, 2009 · Filed Under review · 252 Comments
Leapfrog sent me two DVD’s out, just in time for back to school. We reviewed one of them but now that I’m back in my new house I want to give the extra copy away. In this new DVD, Tad and Lilly are back and getting ready to go to school. Leap gets them everything they need and then they realize, we’re going to school and they are afraid they aren’t ready.The DVD titled Leap Frog: Let’s Go To School hit stores on August 18th, and even if your kids have already started school or are going to next year it would make a great stocking stuffer. I know that I’m going to start my Christmas Shopping soon. I’m still working on cleaning out all the moving boxes. I need to get busy so we can start thinking about Christmas decorations too.
Leap Frog Back To School Review
Leapfrog has a new DVD out, just in time for back to school. This DVD will get your little ones ready to go back to school or just to go to school for the first time. In this new DVD, Tad and Lilly are back and getting ready to go to school. Leap gets them everything they need and then they realize, we’re going to school and they are afraid they aren’t ready.The DVD titled Leap Frog: Let’s Go To School hit stores on August 18th, just in time for Lilly and Tad to help your preschoolers get over their nervousness of heading off to school themselves.
SYNOPSIS
School starts tomorrow, and Tad and Lily are nervous! Join Tad, Lily and their magical firefly Edison as he gives them a tour of the classroom and shows them that the classroom is more nervous than they are! As the twins reassure the blocks, globe, clock and more talking ³teachers,² they learn key lessons about phonics, counting, days of the week and animals.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES *
· 5 Sing-along songs
· Interactive alphabet book
· A sneak peek at Math Adventure to the Moon *Subject to change
My daughter loves Leap Frog. She tells us all the time she wants to watch Leap Frog. I love it to because it has songs and everything in it is decent. She can learn how to count and how to read and her alphabet by watching Leap Frog. It’s not common anymore for children’s entertainment to be educational or completely appropriate. As my father would put it:
“Cartoons these days have scary looking characters and are just weird”
But he still loves to sit down with his grandchildren and watch whatever makes them smile.
Leap Frog is finally making a NEW DVD
June 17, 2009 · Filed Under announcements · Comment
Leap Frog is so wonderful. My kids are learning their abc’s with our Leap Frog Fridge Magnet. We also have the Fridge Words Magnetic Word builder. Miles loves to push the ABC button over and over again. He’s trying to say them too. Zoe can say every letter, not necessarily as the alphabet or in order but she knows her letter fairly well. Esp, for a two year old.
And we have this DVD to look forward to..
This new trailer is from Lionsgate’s Fall DVD release LeapFrog Let’s Go To School. It’s really cute and the best, most exciting part is that it’s NEW and not a re-release! It has been FOUR Years since they made a new one.
Leap Frog Talking Words Factory Review
Leap Frog Talking Word Factory is a Family DVD. I enjoyed previewing it with my children. They were both glued to the TV while it was on and they were sounding out letter sounds. I just love watching my children learn. Leap Frog is full of educational toys, books and software to encourage children to learn.
This DVD runs for 35 minutes telling you the story of Leap working with his older sister Lilly and his older brother Tad to enter their dad in the best dad contest. Leap doesn’t know how to read and write so he asks his brother and sister for help. They take him to the Talking Words factory where he learns how to read and create words that describe his dad.
There are a ton of cute songs that help children sound out words. It’s a great way to introduce phonics to children. Even my one year old started sounding out words. It’s amazing. “Every letter makes a sound”….
I noticed on an Amazon.com review that they wished it had play over and over again option. I also think that would be nice but I also hate letting them sit and watch things over and over again. Even though today that is exactly what we are doing. Visit Leap Frog to learn more about the entire Leap Frog collection.
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