Early Learning
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Colors & Shapes Match Me® Game
$14.99
Award-winning Match Me® Games engage learners' matching, memory, and word/picture recognition skills with fun, interactive play. 1 to 8 players use one side of the board to learn six colors and eight shapes, the other to identify shapes of real-life objects. Game plays three ways in an easy-to-follow format. Two-sided game boards for multiple skill level play. 52 cards, 3” x 4”.
WonderFoam® Lacing Letters & Numbers
$14.49
Durable, washable foam letters and numbers are great for developing fine motor skills, language and math activities. Also helps to introduce problem solving, develops concentration and raised surfaces promote tactile learning. 40 pieces. Ages 3 and up.
Farmer's Market Color Sorting Set
$39.99
Develop color recognition and sorting skills with bushels of realistic, relationally sized produce. Perfect for dramatic play and nutrition lessons too.
Educational Benefits
Includes
Educational Benefits
- Learning Styles: Tactile, Visual
- Skill Development: Counting, Sorting, Matching, Problem solving, Critical thinking, Imaginative play, Fine motor skills, Eye-hand coordination, Visual processing, Color identification, Vocabulary building, Social interaction
Includes
- 25 foods, 5 baskets, 5 stickers for labeling – red, yellow, orange, green and purple, activity guide
$27.99
Choose one of 48 spatial perception challenges from easy to very difficult. Select the truck(s) and pieces indicated. Fit the pieces into each truck so they do not protrude over the top edge. Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award winner! Ages 3+.
Link 'N' Learn® Links, 1,000 links in 6 colors
$34.99
Use these 6-color links for sorting, patterning, counting, measurement, even graphing activities! Pliable 1.6" x .75" links are easy for young children or special-needs students to connect and separate. Activity Guide included. Packaged in a reusable storage bucket.
$16.99
Great for building early shape, color and size differentiation skills! Features 25 colorful wooden pieces to match and stack on three rods. Ages 2 and up.
$35.99
Kids learn early math skills when they play with Number Puzzle Boards & Pegs. This teaching tool provides progressive challenges as kids advance. Each number puzzle connects only to the puzzle board with the correct number of holes. Use the self- correcting puzzles alone, or combine them with the stacking pegs to practice counting and learn basic adding and subtracting. Ages 3 and up.
Junior Rainbow Pebbles® Activity Set
$29.99
Early construction and manipulative set, ideal for developing fine motor skills. Young learners aged 18m+ will build their fine motor skills when stacking these odd-shaped, plastic pebbles. Sort and sequence these pebbles to develop early math skills. Encourage creativity or follow the life-size activity cards to create clever patterns and pictures. The smooth, warm texture of these pebbles will delight inquisitive hands.Includes 36 pieces: 3 shapes and 6 bright colors with 8 double-sided activity cards. Colors are blue, green, purple, red, yellow and orange.
$24.99
Pop together these frozen treats to match uppercase and lowercase letters. Each pop is double sided so all letters of the alphabet are included. Pops are self checking by color. They are also great for fine motor practice and imaginative play!
Includes:
Common Core State Standards Alignment: Reading Foundational Skills
Learning Styles: Tactile, Visual
Skill Development:
Basic Concepts- Students explore and differentiate a rainbow of colors with the varied shades of pops (e.g. dark and light blue, dark and light orange).
Language- Reinforces uppercase and lowercase letter recognition through matching. Expressive and receptive language skills can be engaged by quizzing the student to find specific color matches and naming the letter aloud.
Fine Motor- Promotes two finger isolation with thumb and forefinger by holding the base of the Alpha Pops™ stick to pull the pops apart or connect them together. This strengthens hand muscles needed for daily living activities like buttoning clothes or brushing teeth.
Includes:
- 26 Alpha Pops
Common Core State Standards Alignment: Reading Foundational Skills
Learning Styles: Tactile, Visual
Skill Development:
Basic Concepts- Students explore and differentiate a rainbow of colors with the varied shades of pops (e.g. dark and light blue, dark and light orange).
Language- Reinforces uppercase and lowercase letter recognition through matching. Expressive and receptive language skills can be engaged by quizzing the student to find specific color matches and naming the letter aloud.
Fine Motor- Promotes two finger isolation with thumb and forefinger by holding the base of the Alpha Pops™ stick to pull the pops apart or connect them together. This strengthens hand muscles needed for daily living activities like buttoning clothes or brushing teeth.
Hot Dots® Jr. Card Set, The Alphabet
$14.99
Getting ready for school has never been this fun! Set of 72 alphabet activities on 36 double-sided cards teach children all they need for success including upper and lowercase letters and sequencing. For use with Hot Dots® Jr. Ace the Talking, Teaching Dog® (EI-2350), available separately. Grades PreK+.
$9.99
Everyone will enjoy the ins and outs of lacing with these sturdy lacing panels. Contains five double-sided lacing panels, plus five thick, color-coordinated laces! Ages 3 and up.
Music & Movement in the Classroom, Grades 1-2
$26.99
Children Sing and Dance Their Way to Better Basic Skills
Channel children's natural enthusiasm for music and movement into a rich, positive learning experience with this toe-tapping program, featuring music by Greg & Steve. The concise, easy-to-follow lesson plans make teaching music enjoyable for the musical novice and expert alike. Written by Steven Traugh, each book includes two CDs featuring a total of over 30 fun songs. 64 pages each.
Music & Movement in the Classroom is a complete program of materials and teaching techniques designed to channel children's natural enthusiasm for music and movement into productive learning experiences. The program features:
- Step-by-step lesson plans to make the program enjoyable to teach for both the musical novice and expert
- Activities that are easy to schedule into weekly lesson plans
- Lessons that reinforce basic curriculum goals and standards
- Multimodal learning opportunities (visual, kinesthetic, auditory)
- Ideas to foster children's creativity and self-expression
Thirty fun activities and motivating music by Greg & Steve create the magic for this exciting music and movement program!
Track Listing
CD 1
- The Freeze
- Say Hello
- Count and Move
- Piggy Bank
- Aerobics A-Z
- B-A Bay #1
- B-A Bay #2
- Nocturne
- Months of the Year #1
- Months of the Year #2
- Just Like Me
- Let's Go to the Market
- Disco Limbo
- Purple Cow
- Hand Jive
- A Man Named King
CD 2
- The World Is a Rainbow
- Slowo Mojo
- Fast Forward
- An Adventure in Space
- We All Live Together
- The Three Little Pigs Blues
- Show Me What You Feel
- Everybody Has Music Inside
- Old Brass Wagon
- Eensy Weensy Caterpillar #1
- Eensy Weensy Caterpillar #2
- Down By the Bay #1
- Down By the Bay #2
- Dancin' Machine
- We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands
- Ballin' the Jack
- Friends