LeapFrog: Let's Go to School
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Movie Reviews of LeapFrog: Let's Go to School
Movie Review: Fun to Watch, but learning is little...
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a huge fan of many Leap Frog products because kids love them and as an educator, I really appreciate how well they reinforce given skills. My absolute favorite DVD for teaching phonics skills is the Leap Frog Letter Factory DVD. So, when Let's Go to School came in the mail I opened it right away and let me kiddos, ages 3 and 6 watch it. Tad is back and ready for another learning adventure. This time Tad and Lilly are going to school for the first day. Leap makes Tad and Lilly a little nervous about the first day. Soon they find out that school is pretty cool & everyone gets nervous sometimes. As they tour their classroom they learn many things when typical classroom items come to life and teach them. Basically, this DVD has a little of everything, ABC, numbers to 20, animal classification, more an less... It is definitely cute and the songs are catchy. It kept my kiddos attention. They enjoyed the catchy songs. I am giving it three stars because I was not impressed with the teaching value of the video. It seems to try to cover too many concepts in a short amount of time. I love the other Leap Frog DVD's because they focus on one skill. Fun to watch, but learning is little.Movie Review: Okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought the video was okay. My four year old and two year olds did not particularly care for it. I was disappointed because they loved all the other leap frog videos.Movie Review: Who the heck made this movie?
Summary: 2 Stars
Like another reviewer here, we purchased this movie for our child who is about to enter kindergarten. We already own all of the other Leap Frog movies and they have been favorites for years (Letter Factory, Talking Words Factory, Talking Words Factory II: Code Word Capers, Learn To Read at The Storybook Factory, Math Circus, and A Tad of Christmas Cheer). I cannot say eneough good things about those movies.
I guess I had wrongly assumed that this new movie would be like the "next" in the Leap Frog movie series--which it absolutely is not.
It's like whoever made this movie had never seen any of the other Leap Frog movies before. Suddenly, big sister Lily is now the same age as little brother Tad? Suddenly, Lily AND Tad have forgotten everything they knew from the previous movies and have to learn the alphabet all over again? Not even that they have forgotten, the movie actually implies they have never learned anything ever before! This is just not alright!
This movie is no more educational than Barney or Dragon Tales. In fact, this movie DID remind me a lot of Dragon Tales. Just horrible. It was not put together well at all, and really was a disapointment when compared with the previous Leap Frog videos.
My child immediately noted that the letters were not the same colors as in the other movies, and they did not have their classic characters that they have always had (the letter K used to wear a karate uniform and kick, the letter L used to lick a lollipop, etc.) Leap Frog omitting this from their new movie is just another disappointment.
My child was also very much looking forward to seeing the "Quidgits" again in this new movie (remember them from Math Circus), however what looks like quidgits on the back cover is actually a stack of blocks, not the quidgits.
I recommend buying all other Leap Frog Videos except this one, because it really just doesn't fit with the previous movies in the series.
Movie Review: Not a well developed DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
I agree with the review from K.M. It does touch on some new learning (days of week, months of year), but they did not keep consistency with the other Leap Frog Videos.
To reiterate: Like others, we purchased this movie for our child who is about to enter kindergarten. We already own all of the other Leap Frog movies and they have been favorites for years and cannot say eneough good things about those movies. We assumed that this new movie would be like the "next" in the Leap Frog movie series--which it absolutely is not.
It's like whoever made this movie had never seen any of the other Leap Frog movies before. Suddenly, big sister Lily is now the same age as little brother Tad? Suddenly, Lily AND Tad have forgotten everything they knew from the previous movies and have to learn the alphabet all over again? Not even that they have forgotten, the movie actually implies they have never learned anything ever before! This is just not alright!
I recommend buying all other Leap Frog Videos except this one, because it really just doesn't fit with the previous movies in the series.
Movie Review: Why not focus on things not learned in the other DVDs
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a fan of the Leap Frog series. We have the others and my kids love them.
When I bought this one I was excited as my oldest was getting ready to go to preschool.
After watching this with them I am disappointed to see that time was spent on already covered topics (letters) and topics that add a minor value when just starting school (animal groupings).
They could have spent more time on time/calender, math.
If they were going to do a section on letters then it would be appropriate to talk about how to write them and not going through sounds again with different symbols compared to the earlier DVD. I liked the counting with the small section on numbers larger/smaller in comparison with the building blocks. The math topics do not need to be advanced to be valuable.
Also, Leap and Lilly were different ages in previous videos and now they are the same age.
If you create a series of videos, please stay consistent.