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ENGLISH & MATH
EDUCATIONAL GAMES
Foam Alphabet Puzzle $1 EC Lower case letters to learn as children find the right place for the letter piece. 4-6 years.
Magnetic Alphabet Letters $2 GC Over 40 various colourful magnets.
CD-ROMS, CDS & DVDS
Typequick “Kewalas’s Typing Adventure” Version 11.2.6 VGC $40 ($109.00 in shops) An excellent and fun-filled way to learn to touch type. An Australian programme using Aussie animals as characters. 8+ http://www.typequick.com.au/PC%20User%20Award%202003.pdf
DeAgostini Multimedia Learning Land CD-ROM Collection $50 EC Wonderful learning resource for the littlies aged 4-8 years. I can’t recommend them highly enough for their bright, engaging format their educational and entertainment value. Our son and I had many hours of pleasure together with these. CDs come in two handy desktop storage cases. Windows 95, 98 and XP compatible, probably the other Windows versions as well. Titles include, (although there may be a few other additions if I locate them):
#1 At The Playground
#2 Biff’s Birthday
#3 At The Funfair
#4 Let’s Go Shopping
#5 Tim’s Got A Cold
#6 Seaside Fun!
#7 In The Garden!
#8 Off To School
#9 Sports Day
#10 Down On The Farm
#11 Putting On A Show
#12 Spring Cleaning
#13 Biff’s New House
#14 Milly’s Birthday
#15 Toy Hospital
#17 Gym Club
#18 In The Woods
http://www.deagostini.co.uk/learningland/
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS
Animalia (Graeme Base) $7 HBDJ EC, $6 PB EC (Inscription) What's this elaborate illustration? "Horrible Hairy Hogs Hurrying Homewards on Heavily Harnessed Horses," of course! Graeme Base's astonishingly creative alphabet book challenges the standard idea of how long reading a book for small kids ought to take. Animalia, like many of Base's books, is a vast puzzle, built with entrancing pictures that unfold into layers and layers of objects--all matched to each page's corresponding letter. Base leaves us stunned and amazed, painting reflections into the oddest surfaces and driving the urge to page-turn. This wonderful picture book works for 2-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults alike--something few other alphabet books can manage. Can’t recommend this one highly enough! We used this so much with teaching our young son the letters of the alphabet and their sounds……..and he LOVED it! http://www.amazon.com/Animalia-Graeme-Base/dp/0810918684
RN Education Pty Ltd “Sequence Cards Series 1” (Thora Gould) $3 VGC Seven story cards including Getting Dressed, Having Breakfast, Brushing Teeth, Washing The Dog, Having A Haircut and more. Use these to develop your child’s language and sequencing skills. Includes large cards and small set cards. 5-9 YO
The Usborne Book Of Better English (Robyn Gee) $5 HB EC, $4 PB EC This is an excellent all-rounder, covering puntuation, grammar and spelling. Ideal for those who want to brush up on their skills and knowledge. An excellent teaching aid, as definitions are clear, examples/exercises are user friendly and adaptable. Use of cartoons and illustrations liven up the definitions and exercises without seeming patronising. Suitable for children 10+ and adults. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Usborne-Book-Better-English/dp/0860207056
Learning With Letts “Everything’s Different” (Irene Yates) $3 PB EC A lively family story accompanied by simple activities to encourage young children to develop the early language, math and science skills that are learning. Wonderfully bright and engaging pictures and fun activities! 5-7 YO
Learning With Letts “Stranded At Sea” (Irene Yates) $3 PB EC English activities with additional math and science based on an exciting adventure story. The story is divided into chapters, each of which is followed by several related activities to extend and revise what children are learning at the time. A great resource! 8-10 YO
Questron First Grade Skills Workbook (Beverley Dietz) $1 PB EC Lovely colourful activity book that reinforces spelling, phonics, simple math and social studies as children have fun doing the games and activities. 5-7 YO
Questron The Storytime Activity Book $1 PB EC A fun-filled activity book which helps student’s comprehension skills. Read the story, than do the fun games, word searches and other activities related to each of 10 stories. 5-7 YO
Write And Wipe “Learning Cards Fun Pack” $6 BRAND NEW These innovative new learning cards allow your child to write the answers directly on the card with the included erasable marker. Learning is made more fun and more effective with this new system. Contains four sets of flashcards with whiteboard markers: First Words, Spelling, Letters A-Z and Phonics. All in a lovely fold-out carry case Recommended! http://www.fivemile.com.au/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=194&Itemid=29
Write & Wipe Learning “Writing” $3 PB EC Allows your child to practice activities over and over. Each activity can be used to reinforce what you’ve learnt or introduce new ones. All in full colour, distinguished by charming, humorous illustrations that children love. Pages are clean and crisp, and always provide adequate space for children to write and draw. 4-6 YO http://www.hinklerbooks.com.au/img/cat/1865153443_lge.jpg
Write & Wipe Learning “Spelling” $3 PB EC Allows your child to practice activities over and over. Each activity can be used to reinforce what you’ve learnt or introduce new ones. All in full colour, distinguished by charming, humorous illustrations that children love. Pages are clean and crisp, and always provide adequate space for children to write and draw. 4-6 YO http://www.hinklerbooks.com.au/img/cat/1865153435_lge.jpg
Practise Your Spelling Skills 3 (John Rose) $4 PB VGC This fun book provides a sequential and comprehensive coverage of spelling requirements for primary school students. Made up of 36 to 40 units of work, with each unit focused on a spelling list. The spelling lists are chiefly based around common letter patterns but theme-based lists, frequently-used words and Revision units are also included. A wide variety of engaging activities and word puzzles allow the children to explore and practice the list words in each unit. Recommended! 8-11 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practise-Your-Spelling-Skills-Level/dp/0733978193/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205973400&sr=1-15 (Cover different)
Gold Stars “Fun With Reading: A Learning Workbook” $3 PB EC These workbooks entertain as they teach. The activities will help children develop and practice key skills in reading and counting in a fun and easy manner. Gorgeous illustrations, nice, clear layout. 5-8 YO http://www.parragonpublishing.in/gallery.aspx?Id=10665
First Vocabulary Builders “In And Around” (Linda Hughes) $1 PB GC Lovely book with cute drawings designed to help 5-7 year olds learn new words about where things can be (prepositions.) Increases their vocabulary by showing pictures illustrating a sentence given.
POETRY
Poems About Food (Amanda Earl) $3 HB EC (Ex lib) This series of thematic poetry anthologies deals imaginatively with the chosen themes and, on the whole, the poetry slots in well with a child's frame of reference. The joyful subtlety of the poems for young readers is reflected in the imaginative experiments in form, word play, rhythm, rhyme and sound in poems by well-known, less well-known and child poets! The poems, superimposed on beautiful colour photographs or illustrations relevant to the text, capture mood and atmosphere; their novelty and originality should stimulate creative responses from eager, receptive readers and might spark off stimulating class discussions and activities. 6-11 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-About-Food/dp/0750210370
Poems About Families (Amanda Earl) $3 HB EC (Ex lib) A further title from the POEMS ABOUT... series, containing 25 poems selected from all over the world, and dealing with the pleasures and problems of family life. 6-11 YO. http://library.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=Sensier%2c+Danielle&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=0&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=0750211237&fr=tl
Poems About Weather (Amanda Earl) $3 HB EC (Ex lib) The poems in this colourful collection have been written by some well-known poets such as A.A. Milne, Ogden Nash and Christina Rossetti and by one or two talented young children. There is a great deal of energy discernable in the poems, and the formats are interesting. Some of the poems are quite sensuous (i.e. appealing to the senses of taste, touch and hearing) especially those dealing with snow in winter. The shape poem entitled Shower by Moira Andrew is sure to appeal to children. 6-11 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-About-Weather/dp/0750210354
Poems About Food (Brian Moses) $3 HB EC (Ex lib) Get your teeth around this feast of delicious food poems. Feed a dragon with fiery food, spy a pie through a baker's door and find out why the sun is like a cupcake! This is an irreverent and humorous look at food through poetry which includes a range of poems that are old and new, familiar and fantastical, poems containing patterned and predictable language and ones with more challenging vocabulary. 5-10 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-About-Wayland-Poetry-Collections/dp/0750224428
MATHEMATICS
Write And Wipe “Math Learning Cards Fun Pack” $6 BRAND NEW These innovative new learning cards allow your child to write the answers directly on the card with the included erasable marker. Learning is made more fun and more effective with this new system. Contains four sets of flashcards with whiteboard markers: Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication. All in a lovely fold-out carry case Recommended! 6-11 YO http://www.fivemile.com.au/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=195&Itemid=32
Usborne First Learning “Starting To Add” (Karen Bryant-Mole) $3 PB EC Lovely, bright workbook with treasure hunt and lots of puzzles and activities. Planned and graded to develop adding skills. Recommended! 5-7 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Starting-Add-Usborne-First-Learning/dp/074603587X
Usborne Math Skills “Adding & Subtracting Puzzles” (Karen Bryant-Mole) $3 PB EC A children's book that teaches addition and subtraction skills. This lively new series is designed to help you with basic and essential skills. Enter the eccentric 'Stone Age' world of the Og family and have fun helping them play their games, solve their problems and correct their mistakes. 9-12 YO http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/116991/used/Adding%20and%20Subtracting%20Puzzles
LETTS Pre-School Skills “Counting” Book 1 $3 PB EC (A few pages were done in pencil, but I have erased and looks like new) This is a bright and gorgeous workbook with lots of colourful activities on learning to count, notes for parents, ideas for further family activities and info on pre-school education and child development. Recommended. Ages 3-5.
Write-On, Wipe-Off Times Tables $2 (Spiral bound board book) A great multiplication tool that enables students to practise their multiplication tables over and over again. 7+
Golden Step Ahead “Math Skillbuilders 3” (Bryan Bunch) $3 PB VGC A deluxe math skills workbook (64 pages plus stickers) for grades 3-4. Clear and attractive layout. (A small number of the stickers used) http://www.amazon.com/Math-Skillbuilders-Grades-Step-Ahead/dp/030703657X (Cover older design)
