 | Leap Frog - Letter Factory
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.69 This is one of the easiest and most fun ways that Luke learned his letter sounds... which is the first real step to reading
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 | LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Alphabet Set
Buy new: $35.80 Luke's very first introduction to letter sounds... he got it when he was 18 months old and he used it for at least 2 years pretty much every day... now his little brother is 18 months and is quite intrigued by it too
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 | Inchworms
Buy new: $15.99 Great way to learn measuring with one-inch-long pieces that snap together
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 | Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $6.96 One of our favorite phonics books for sure... very solid foundation for reading
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 | Educational Insights See 'n' Solve Visual Calculator
Buy new: $24.34 I'm a visual learner and I think most kids are too... Luke loves this calculator because you can actually see the math problem as you are calculating, instead of just the answer.
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 | Kumon: My First Book of Lowercase Letters by Kumon
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $1.50 Awesome book for teaching the fine motor skill of handwriting... great workbook for beginning writers/readers
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 | Family-Time Bible: for families by Kenneth N. Taylor
Buy used from: $8.35 Our all-time favorite Bible story book! Great pictures, not too cartoony but very kid-friendly.
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 | Hi Ho Cherry-O
Buy new: $14.99 A great first math game... we all love it!
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 | Melissa & Doug Classic Wooden Abacus
Buy new: $12.92 Great first calculator... we sometimes use it to check people out when we play store
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 | My First Book of Money: Counting Coins by Kumon Publishing
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $1.37 Great first money-counting book... starts with making sure they can write numbers to 100 before starting with counting one penny and going on from there... we love this one
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 | My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.20 Our favorite telling time book... once again by Kumon... are you seeing a trend here?
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 | My First Book of Mazes (Commonwealth Edition) by Kumon Publishing
Buy new: $8.23 / Used from: $8.22 Great for fine motor development, before actual handwriting
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 | My First Book Of Cutting (Kumon Workbooks) by Shinobu Akaishi
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.78 Good book for fine motor also.... using scissors is fun for any 4-year-old!
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 | Leap Frog - Talking Words Factory
Buy used from: $6.44 Another great one from Leapfrog
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 | Leap Frog - Math Circus
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.35 We all enjoy this one... it teaches simple addition and subtraction... nothing too hard
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 | Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers by Bobby Lynn Maslen
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $8.25 Luke loves reading these aloud... they use all short vowels, easy words to tell simple stories that sometimes hardly make sense but we don't care :o)
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 | Learning Resources Teaching Cash Register
Buy new: $44.19 We don't have this but someday I would LOVE to get it!
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 | Vocabulary Power - Kindegarten
We keep this in the bathroom and change the word every day... great for early readers
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| Vocabulary Power - Grade 1
Buy new: $9.95 We read this one every day at the dining room table... it's too hard for him to read but it helps to build vocabulary when I explain new words to him
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 | Math Gear: Fast Facts - Addition by Ikids
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.15 So fun! It's like a calculator but it's a book! You turn the little wheels and the numbers change to answer the addition problems! My little math-head boy loves it!
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