Kids Love Spanish DVD's Review & Giveaway!

My kids have dabbled in Spanish a bit and have really enjoyed it.  So, they were pretty excited when we received the Kids Love Spanish DVD Box Set for review.

Kids Love Spanish was was created by two mom's that have a love for Spanish and as well as teaching.  With a desire to teach their own children they created this wonderful interactive Spanish DVD series.

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Krisse & Julie, the creative mommies that created Kids Love Spanish!

The Kids Love Spanish Box Set consists of 7 Volumes, each lasting about 30 minutes.  These DVDs will teach your children:

• Volume 1 - Basic Words
• Volume 2 - Alphabet & Numbers
• Volume 3 - Family
• Volume 4  -Food
• Volume 5 - Colors & Shapes
• Volume 6 - Animals
• Volume 7 - Basic Phrases

Kids Love Spanish is geared for children between the ages of 1 and 8.  My 10 year old loves it as much as the other 3 kiddos, if not more. 

My kids love the upbeat tone of the series, the music and the variety of words that they can learn.  You can see a sample video here.  One thing that my kids have really enjoyed is copying down the words as they are learning them.  They like to test each other and then come and test my knowledge, which is usually not great.  I suppose I need to be watching Kids Love Spanish too!  : )

We think that Kids Love Spanish is a great tool for kids who are learning Spanish as well as those who are a tad reluctant to learn.  This series is fun and exciting for the kids.  Even though it is repetitive, for obvious reasons, the kids love it and do not get tired or bored with it. 

If you would like to order your own Kids Love Spanish DVDs you can do so two ways.  The DVDs are available separately for $17.99 or you can purchase the Box Set for $99.99 (a $25 savings).  Which ever way you decide to purchase, these will make a great addition to your home school video library!

The wonderful ladies at Kids Love Spanish have offered to GIVEAWAY a WHOLE 7 DVD Box Set of the Kids Love Spanish Series to one of YOU!  The GIVEAWAY will end on May 20 , 2011.  Here is how you can enter to win:

• You must be a FOLLOWER of LSG, so let me know that you follow. 
• If you are an email subscriber also, please let me know.
• Visit the Kids Love Spanish website.  Watch the sample video and tell me what you liked best about it!
• You can follow Kids Love Spanish on Facebook.
• Share this giveaway on facebook, Twitter or your Blog and leave me a link to it for an extra entry.

Thanks For Entering!

The Kids Love Spanish Box Set was given to us free of charge for review purposes only.  Please know that the opinions stated here are mine and I was not at all influenced by the free product. 

TOS Crew: GoTryBe

My kids love to move, constantly it seems. They run, jump and play outside on a daily basis. In addition to their play, I like to have something a little more structured for them to do to get their daily exercise in (and their wiggles out).

 

We were happy to be able to review GoTryBe for the TOS Crew. GoTryBe is an online fitness membership program that helps kids get active and motivates them to stay active. The online exercise videos, motivation, fun and incentive points that GoTryBe offers all make a winning combination!

The GoTryBe fitness program has daily activities that are separated into 4 categories, fitness, nutrition, motivation and wellness. Each day kids can do the daily activities and earn points. Here are some of the fun things that the kids can do:

• Fitness - This is probably my kid's favorite. Here they have the option to make up their own workout. GoTryBe allows the kids to pick and choose which warm-up, cardio, strength and flexibility videos that they want to customize their own workout. With so many choices they can always do something different, so they aren't getting bored with the same old thing.
• Nutrition - Here the kids get to answer a new nutrition question each day. Not only do they learn fun and helpful nutritional facts they get to earn points in the process.
• Motivation - This area of GoTryBe that allows the children to watch a motivational clip about eating right, exercising and being healthy. Today's clip included a baseball player that was encouraging the kids to get outside and play, and to not to be couch potatoes! He told the kids that when he was a kid he was always outside, building forts and riding his bike. 
• Wellness - Here the kids get to answer additional questions about general fitness and wellness, and of course they get to earn more points.

 

 

  

You may be wondering what all these points that I keep talking about are. When you first sign up with GoTryBe the kids get to create their own avatar. The points that they earn can then be used in the Trybe Store to purchase clothes, shoes and accessories for their avatar. We have bought ours a new shirt and pants, I've got my eye on some very cute sunglasses and flip flops : )

 

    

GoTryBe offer 3 different levels that you can choose from depending on your children's ages:

 

•  ZooDoos - for the elementary ages, K-5th grade
• Trybe180 - for middle school ages, 6th-8th grade
•  NexTrybe - for high school ages,  9th-12th grade

This program is great to help keep the kids motivated to exercise daily. It is also a wonderful tool for homeschoolers to use for physical education. The kids and I enjoyed GoTryBe and we would recommend it! Don't just take our word for it, go try it out one day for FREE! Use the PromoCode GETFIT.

 

After you've tried GoTryBe and find that you love it too, you can get your own yearly membership for $19.95.

 

 You can see what other TOS Crew Members think about GoTryBe by clicking here.

 

We were given a subscription to GoTryBe for review purposes only. We were not influenced by the company or the free product that we received. Rest assured that the opinions expressed here are definitely mine : )

TOS Crew: Circle C Beginnings Book Review

I have another great book series to tell you all about.  We were given one of the books in the Circle C Beginnings series to review from Kregel Publications.

Circle C Adventures is a series written by Susan K. Marlow for ages 9-12.  Circle C Beginnings is spin off of the original series, except it is for kids ages 6-8.  In Circle C Beginnings you will read about the same wonderful characters that many have come to love from the original series, but they are younger.  Children will appreciate the nice illustrations scattered through out the book as well as the one page dictionary that introduces new words to them at the beginning of the book.

The book that we were given to review was the first book in the new series called, Andi's Pony Trouble.  In this book the little girl, Andi, is turning six and she wants a horse, real bad.  I gave this 70 page book to Computer Girl to read.  She is just starting to read little chapter books so this was great.  I think it was very easy for Computer Girl to get into this book, becasue she could really relate to Andi.  They are about the same age and they both REALLY want a horse.  Unfortunately, for Andi (and for Computer Girl) her parents think that she is much too young for a horse of her own. 

Computer Girl enjoyed reading this book, and would like to continue in the series.  She thought that the story was iteresting, she liked the characters and of course the horse! 

Let me tell you a little more about the books in the Circle C Beginnings series:
 
Andi's Pony Trouble is the first book in the series and the one that we reviewed.  Andi Carter is a 6 year old living in the late 1800's.  Little Andi thinks that she is old enough for a horse all of her own.  Her parents do not share the same opinion.  Andi will be stuck riding an old hand me down pony named Coco, unless she can prove that she is ready for her own horse.

In the second book in the series, Andi's Indian Summer, Andy's friend shows her an old book about Indians.  This book gives Andi the wrong impression about Indians and really scares her.  One day when Andi and her friend Riley wander to far from home, they learn that Indians aren't what they once seemed.   

 

 In the third book in the series, Andi's Fair Surprise,  Andi is little upset that she can't take her new foal to the county fair.  Once she gets there she ends up having a great time, until she gets some bad news.  Andi finds out that she can't keep the blue ribbon that she worked so hard to win. 

In book four, Andi's Scary School Days, Andi thinks that there isn't anything that she is affraid of, until she has to start school.  Being away from her family, ranch and Taffy doesn't seem like much fun to Andi.  She also encounters some problems with a boy at school.

Due for release in August 2011, Andi’s Lonely Little Foal, is about Andi's horse Taffy is growing up too quickly.   Taffy will soon have to leave her mom and stay by herself.  After being told by a mean boy that bad things can happen to foal's separated from their moms Andi is worried if she can keep taffy safe.

 

The next book in the series, Andi’s Circle C Christmas, is not due out until August 2011.  In this book Andi’s holiday break is spoiled once a grumpy visitor comes to visit.  Andi can no longer run and play, wear her farm overalls or watch spiders.  With a turn of events Andi learns that she can help this unwelcomed guest in a way that she never imaginied.

This is a great wholesome series for young readers and I would recommend them.  They are very reasonably priced at only $4.99 each.  You can find them on Amazon or directly through Kregel Publications.

Circle C Beginnings has a great website where you can learn more about the series as well as print out free coloring pages, do games and puzzles.  They also have lapbooks available for purchase. 



You can see what others on the TOS Review Crew are saying about Circle C Beginnings HERE.

We were given the book Andi's Pony Troubles at no charge for review purposes.  The opinions expressed here are my own and I was not influenced my the company or the free product. 

TOS Crew: Yesterday's Classics

We love to read here in the LSG house.  I think I have even said a time or two that I am a collector of books : ) I love to have great books available for our reading pleasure or for topics we are studying.  So, when I was asked if we wanted to review Yesterday's Classics for the TOS Crew, my answer was "You bet we do!"

Yesterday's Classics is a company that republishes classic literature for children.  They have taken books from the golden age of children's literature, 1880-1920, and republished them into easy to read paperback and e-book formats.   Many of the books that they have republished were otherwise out of print.  Children's literature from this time period is generally wholesome, educational and very enjoyable. These stories are like little lost treasures that have been found!

Yesterday's Classics offer a large variety of books, 225 different books to be exact.  Topics include:

• History Books - from different time periods, such as Ancient Civilization, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Middle Ages, and American History
• Poems
• Literature
• Faith and Bible Stories
• Fables and Fairy Tales
• Nature Studies
• Hero Tales
• Children from Around the World

We were blessed with all 225 Titles from Yesterday's Classics in the ebook format to review. (You can see the complete list of titles available on Yesterday's Classics website)  While we were not able to read and view them all, here are some of our favorites:

READING-LITERATURE: The Primer 
by Harriette Taylor Treadwell
This reading primer includes classic stories like The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Man and Chicken Little.  I love the fun and simplicity of these classic stories for the little ones. 

 

A Child's Own Book of Verse, Book One
by Ada Skinner
There are actually 3 volumes in this collection.  Each volume is filled with poems, lullaby's, rhymes and lyrics for the children to enjoy.  Wonderful for memory work!



 

The Natural History Story Book
by Ethel Talbot 
This is a fabulous collection of stories about some of the most interesting animals in the world.  Children will read about man's encounters with elephants, ostriches, ant eaters, wild boars and many more from the nineteenth century.

The Burgess Bird Book for Children
by Thorton Burgess
Here you will read about a variety of birds, as seen through the eyes of Peter Rabbit.  Learn about different birds, their nesting habits and food preferences. 
You will meet new friends such as Jenny Wren, Scrapper the King-bird, Redwing the Blackbird, and many more.


 

Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages
by George Hodges 
In Saints and Heroes you will read stories about great Christian men such as Calvin, Luther, Knox and Bunyan.  We will be studying the Middle Ages next year and I am looking forward to getting in this book more.

 




If you have have ever tried to build a home library with good children's literature, then you are well aware that it is not cheap to do so. Tracking down great books at bargin prices (online, yard sales and book sales) is not always an easy task, either.  From May 1st to May 31st Yesterday’s Classics is offering the 225 Book Collection in either Kindle and EPUB format for the sale price of $99.95.

I think it is a great deal to purchase the whole collection for several reasons:

• The price is phenomenal!!  If you purchase all 225 books for $99.95, that is like $.44 per book! 
• You will have a wonderful selection of books, mostly living books, that are great for independent reading, read a louds, memory work, and studies in history and science.
• I love that they are in e-book format.  Not sure about you, but if I were to purchase 225 paperback books I would have to go but a new bookcase or two!  I like how the e-book version take up now space in my home. 

If you would like to order Yesterday's Classics 225 Titles you may purchase them on sale, here.

You can also read what other TOS Crew Members have to say about Yesterday's Classics.


Please note that we received the 225 Ebook Collection from Yesterday's Classics at no charge, for review purposes only.  The opinions expressed here are mine, and I was not influenced by the company or the free product.

(Please excuse the spacing on my post, Blogger is acting up and after 30+ minutes of trying to fix it I threw in the towel.0

Hosanna

Words & Music: Deborah D. Smith/Michael W. Smith

Chorus:
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

King of Israel welcome to our hearts
Here to reign in righteousness
Oh Ruler of the world, Ruler of our hearts
Now ascend Your throne
You are the King of Kings
Hosanna

Chorus

To Jerusalem, to the sons of man
Riding on in gentle strength
Oh come to save Your own, come to give Your life
The Kingdom is at hand
You are the King of Kings
Hosanna

Chorus

King of Israel welcome to our hearts
Here to reign in righteousness
Oh Ruler of the world, Ruler of our hearts
Now ascend Your throne
You are the King of Kings
Hosanna

Chorus
 
Another song I love!  You can listen to it here.

What is your favorite hymn?