Besides making incredible educational products, one of the main reasons why I love working with LeapFrog is their commitment to teachers and education. Since 2009, LeapFrog has donated more than $1.5 million in Tag Reading Systems and books to the classrooms of more than 20,000 students. Our local elementary school has benefitted from donations of…
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Gifts for Kindergarten and First Graders
Kindergartener and first graders spend all day busy learning skills that are built upon in upper grades. The best holiday gifts allow them to learn and practice the things they’re learning in a fun hands-on way. Here are my picks for the best gifts I’d give to a 5 or 6 year old. GIVEAWAY: LeapPad ($99.99)—…
LeapFrog LeapSchool Reading Game Makes Reading Fun
Learning to read is engaging and interactive with the LeapFrog’s LeapSchool Reading cartridge game. As a former first grade teacher who taught kids to read, I know how difficult it can be for young children. Concepts like letter recognition, phonics, rhyming, word families, sight word recognition, and more need to come together to read fluently. While…
LeapFrog Ventures into Apps with new Scout’s ABC Garden (w. giveaway)
New from LeapFrog, Scout’s ABC Garden is a fun app that allows preschoolers to practice their letters on iDevices. Scout’s ABC Garden app has educational features that one would expect from LeapFrog as a trusted name in learning tools for children. The app encourages children to explore letter names and sounds step by step,…
Donate Tag Books to K Classrooms with LeapFrog’s Like. Give. Read on Facebook (w. giveaway)
LeapFrog continues their commitment to early literacy by putting more Tag books in schools with their new Like. Give. Read program. For every Facebook fan who “Likes” the LeapFrog page, the company is donating a new Tag book to a Kindergarten classroom up to 50,000 books. With so many books to give away, LeapFrog needs…
Giving Back to My Community with Donations of Zhu Zhu Pets, Leapfrog Toys, and Books from Scholastic and Sandra Magsamen
While we live in DC Metro suburb that often appears on lists proclaiming us to be among the “most wealthy” and “most highly educated” in the nation, our county has pockets of poverty where families struggle to put food on the table, send their kids to school in ill-fitting shoes, lack supplies to complete homework,…
LeapFrog Leapster Camera & Video Recorder Review (w. giveaway)
LeapFrog Explorer with Camera & Video Recorder This week I reviewed the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Camera & Video Recorder in my weekly Leapfrog Community Column. Here’s a teaser of the review and I’m offering a giveaway of one to go with your child’s Explorer! The new LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Camera & Video Recorder is a…
Giveaway: LeapFrog Tag and USA Map & Chance to Win All Expense Paid Trip to Hollywood!
Would you like to win a LeapFrog Tag Reader and the new USA Map (which we love!) along with the chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood to help celeb moms give Tag Readers away to needy students? I thought so! Thanks in large part to your support, LeapFrog’s Tag. Give. Read. campaign has…
Put LeapFrog Tags in Teacher Hands and Win for Your Family & School!
Another school year is underway, Education Nation has launched, Waiting for Superman is on movie screens, and we all want to give our children the best possible school experience. Knowing that literacy statistics in recent years have been discouraging at best, last year LeapFrog decided they had to do more to help our youngest kids…
Lessons About September 11th
For eight years September 11th has come and gone and my husband and I have quietly remembered the tragic loss of so many lives without uttering a word to our two children. I always knew that one day the time would come to talk about the significance of 9/11 and today was that day. Today,…
