LeapFrog: Letter Factory
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Movie Reviews of LeapFrog: Letter Factory
Movie Review: Not that this needs another high rating but...
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this DVD for a 12 hour (one way) car trip for our just-turned-2 year old. She watched it a half dozen times on the way down and 3 times on the way back then switched to "Word Factory." When we got home she requested and watched it at least once per day for a week or so. She doesn't watch alot of TV but the TV she does watch we try to make it educational. Anyway...back home after the holidays she went to her "school" and blew all the teachers away by the fact that she knew not only all her letters (which we had been working on for awhile) but also the way the letters SOUNDED - "The B says Buh!". In fact, the teachers brought her up to the Director's office and showed off her abilities. Imagine how proud the parents are when they hear a story like this - it made our day. Around the house we sing the song "Every letter makes a sound the H says..." and she responds with the proper sound...amazing how quickly kids are able to soak information in especially when it is presented in such an entertaining and easy to digest manner. Hat's off to Leap Frog - I just purchased the other DVDs in this series to have on-hand when she is ready.Movie Review: By the time he was 2, my son knew his letter sounds!
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is by far the most effective educational program we have ever owned. It teaches letters and their sounds in a fun, entertaining way that holds a child's attention.
All three of my kids have learned from it, but I am most impressed with how much my youngest has learned. He's almost 3 now and he knows all his letters by sight and there phonetic sounds. But he knew the phonetic sounds far earlier...by the time his second birthday rolled around.
My 4-year-old knows the names and sounds of the letters as well and is already starting to sound out words. He won't enter kindergarten until '07 (as his birthday is in Nov) so he should be reading quite well by then.
Now I know this isn't that incredible. Kids their ages are doing this all over the world. But as much as I adore my children, I am not a very patient person. So I have not spent nearly as much time as I should working with them on these skills. I have to give Leapfrog most of the credit.
I highy recommend this DVD. All Leapfrog's DVDs are great, but this is definitely been the most effective.
Movie Review: Excellent Learning Tool but beware!
Summary: 5 Stars
My son is in preschool and suddenly knows every letter and how to build words and sound them out after watching this video and the talking word factory. He just turned 4 and in preschool, but I am certain he is now ahead of most kids in my daughters kindergarten class and they are over halfway through the year.
The weird thing is he LOVES watching it and playing the simple game at the end using the remote. I watch him as he mouths the sounds as the letters come up.
The only downside is that we as adults have to hear it. The simple songs are eerily addicting and almost impossible to remove from your head after only a couple viewings. My wife and I laugh about it and when we notice the other looking content and peaceful, all the other has to do is sneak up and sing "The B says "buh"". Its good for a laugh but sort of mean because it take a few hours to forget it again. I'd almost rather have 6 hours of hiccups.
As for my son, he could have worse songs stuck in his brain so I'm sure he'll be OK. But definitely buy the video and be amazed at how smart your kids really are.
Movie Review: like kindergarten on TV
Summary: 5 Stars
My daughter somehow got through preschool with out learning all her letters and almost no letter sounds. She had little to no interest in learning these concepts. She hated being read abc books and loathed the "Word World" cartoon. During her first month of kindergarten my sister gave me the "Letter Factory" dvd and, to my pleasant surprise, my daughter watched the entire thing! The next morning she asked to watch it again. When it was over she asked to replay it. She asked to watch the "Letter Factory" video at least twice a day for the rest of the week. And then she was done. She knew ALL the letters and ALL the sounds. She didn't want to (or need to) watch the dvd again.
I am a credentialed teacher and tried many times over the years to help with her pre-reading skills, but her intense lack of interest (and out right refusal!) quickly ended all my attempts. Lucky for both of us I had seen first hand that reading is a very developmental skill and doesn't need to be forced; lucky for me I had a wonderful tool, "Letter Factory," available just when she was ready!
Movie Review: Super!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a preschool teacher, I am always on the look out for great teaching aids, and this is certainly one of them!! I used it at the tail end of the year last year to help introduce the more difficult letters like x, y, and z. Each time we watched a segment, the children wanted more.
The story takes place in a working letter factory where they are manufacturing letters and teaching them their sounds before going off to books, or wherever a letter is needed. Each letter has to be taught their own sound. For instance: a monster scares the letter "a" and it says "ah!". The letter "c" is c-c-c-cold! The letter "o" lives in a jungle and swings from vines like Tarzan while saying the short o sound.
The dvd is divided into 27 short (30 seconds or so) chapters with each letter containing it's own chapter and an intro as the 1st chapter. This makes it very easy to pop in with each letter and help learn the story of that letter before going on to do activities around it.
Bottom line: I reccommend this for all parents of preschoolers. I haven't heard of a disappointed parent yet!