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 Products We Like! Baby Chatterbox
"Showing close-ups of the mouth is highly effective in teaching young children to speak," says Don Stewart, president of Baby Chatterbox. "This actually shows how a word is formed. The narrator then repeats the word, as the camera’s focus remains on the mouth, to reinforce the lesson. It is widely known among speech professionals that this is an important way to help baby learn language. Baby Chatterbox is the only video/DVD that provides this up-close experience."
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It was in 1977 that two former elementary school music teachers from the Northwest, Pam Beall and Susan Nipp, first recognized that traditional children’s songs were disappearing, being passed verbally and vocally down through generations, but rarely written down. The two friends, who were now teaching musical workshops for parents and teachers, set out to relocate those songs and compile them into songbooks for their classes. When demand for the books became significant, Beall and Nipp realized just how important it was to restore this music to the community. When a publishing company started distributing the songbooks, their reach became national and a small but mighty industry was born. Soon after came audiocassettes followed by the Wee Sing videos - then, and now, the only original full-hour live action children’s musical videos.
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Sony/MGM has released the following movies on PSP:
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OrganiZed KidZ.takes a fun approach to walking children of all ages through the steps of organizing their domain including their rooms, backpacks and lockers. The book also gets kids involved with organizing and maintaining order in central rooms of their homes. Plus tips from Debbie's son, David, are included in each chapter, so kids will find someone on their own level with whom they can relate.
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Rather than simply suggest that parents "read to their children" to improve the likelihood that they will become readers, Read Right! provides an extensive array of easy-to-apply techniques designed to help parents and educators foster excellence and appropriate reading development in children. Included are:
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Verdict has now produced two albums for infants and toddlers. "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep: An Album of Classical Lullabies" and "Hangin' Out With My Baby" will be released nationally on October 11th, 2005 through Sumthing Distribution out of New York. "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: An Album of Classical Lullabies" is a selection of Classical Lullabies written by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and other composers beautifully arranged for guitar and violin and played by Eric and Susan Davis. Parents will be thrilled to find this combination of classical music that we know stimulates a child's brain cloaked in entrancing melodies that soothe a child to sleep.
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Loaded with interactive fun, MY LITTLE PONY: A VERY MINTY CHRISTMAS contains two episodes: the 44-minute main story, “A Very Minty Christmas,” and the 20-minute bonus video, “Dancing in the Clouds.” It will be available in the U.S. as both a collectible VHS (clamshell/slipsleeve; $9.95 srp), with special foil-enhanced packaging and DVD ($16.99 srp); Canadian DVD pricing will be C$19.99srp and VHS C$9.95srp. The DVD edition also features two original, new holiday Sing-A-Longs: “That’s What I Love About Christmas,” and “Nothing Says Christmas Like a Pair of Socks.”
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Award-winning Baby Chatterbox is unlike any other product in the growing children’s video/DVD market. Created by a team of speech language professionals, teachers and parents, the video (Volume One: Developing Early Speech) combines eye-catching color, movement and, for the first time, extreme close-ups of a narrator’s mouth as she forms words, to help teach children, from infants to 3 year-olds, how to speak.
In 1985, before the days of high-tech toys, frenetic computer games and 24-hour cartoon channels, a most innovative video series was introduced to the delight of children and their parents and teachers. Created to capture a child’s vivid imagination, Wee Sing was the first line of full-hour music videos for kids, ages 1-8, filled with classic songs they could sing with, move to and learn from. Colorful puppets and wildly costumed characters joined each story’s young heroes as they journeyed to magical, eye-popping lands to have fantastic adventures and learn a thing or two about growing up. And now, after many years and countless requests, these unforgettable, award-winning Wee Sing musicals are returning in a new format, DVDs, for a new generation.
Sony's new PlayStation Portable (PSP) has been gaining a lot of steam since it was released last March, and while the games are getting a lot of the hype, you can't forget about the movies -- in fact they actually outnumber the amount of games on the market right now (123 to 52). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has been leading the charge, already having released over 35 top titles and getting ready to launch a slew of new movies for PSPs over the next few months as the format continues to grow. By the end of this holiday season, over 240 titles from most major studios will be available on PSP.
In Williams' latest book, OrganiZed KidZ. (which she coauthored with her 9-year-old son, David), she lays out five steps to becoming a successful time manager that specifically relate to school and school activities. From prioritizing to managing interruptions to asking for help, the book provides tips and action plans that help kids get it all together. With her typical light sense of humor and easy-to-follow instructions, Williams also reveals why student planners can be a hindrance rather than a help and what to do about it.
On the Night You Were Born weaves breathtaking illustrations and everyday events to instill a deep sense of worth in every child who reads it. Polar bears dance. Geese fly home to celebrate. Before the tale ends, children are whispering their names and wiggling their toes in joyous celebration of their own unique wonder.
READ RIGHT! COACHING YOUR CHILD TO EXCELLENCE IN READING (Mid-August 2005; McGraw-Hill; $16.95), by reading expert Dee Tadlock, Ph.D., is the first book of its kind to suggest that 150-year-old assumptions about reading are the reason that 1 in 5 children continue to develop significant reading problems. Supported by 25 years of research they show that children, parents, and teachers are not to blame. The continuing epidemic of reading problems can be directly tied to incorrect assumptions about what the brain does when it reads and what the brain requires to produce excellence.
A new video game hero has emerged. Live the hair-raising adventures of Chicken Little and his friends Fish-Out-Of-Water, Abby Mallard and Runt-of-the-Litter. Use your imagination to get out of sticky situations like alien invasions, spiraling asteroids and corn field mazes. Collect and master an arsenal of gadgets including bottle rocket jet packs, slingshots, catapults and a trick yo-yo.
He's Back! Get ready for a whole new Nightmare. Experience the world of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas on your GBA. Play as Jack Skellington - The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. Encounter eerie locations and bizarre characters. Battle against Oogie Boogie's henchmen with an arsenal of unique weapons like bat boomerangs, jack o-lanterns and more.
Listening to some of the music written, produced and packaged for children these days, gives the impression that adults must think children are stupid. There are some wonderful exceptions out there, but they are few and far between. Did all of the musicians who didn't have what it takes to make it in the mainstream industry decided to go into children's music? If so, that could explain the inane, homogenized music that people produce for kids to listen to that also drives new parents to ban all things purple from their homes! So, when Verdict Records got involved in the children's music business they decided that kids weren't stupid and neither were parents.
JumpStart Reading with Karaoke is an exciting way to teach children to read. Val, the lovable cat, gives feedback for each sound and word kids read aloud into the included microphone. Through 8 engaging activities and 24 toe-tapping songs, children will master more than 200 key early reading words.
In Math Blaster: Master the Basics for Windows, robots are running the galaxy, so players must fire up their energy gloves, hop on their space cycles, blast through space and master their math skills to save the universe and defend the human race. They will defeat the robots by solving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems, zipping and zooming through thousands of practice equations. Speed and accuracy will be increased as they play through three action-packed worlds and eight levels of math difficulty, gaining the confidence it takes to master math basics. Besides gaining speed and accuracy of basic math facts, players will also get to practice skills such as recognizing fact families, solving problems, finding equivalents and mental math. The software also offers automatic progress tracking so parents and teachers can provide additional instruction to help students gain mastery of specific concepts.
Finding Nemo: Learning With Nemo is an engaging, educational software title for kids ages 2-5. In this game it is Nemo’s first day of school, and players must help him and Dory collect pictures of sea creatures on an exciting scavenger hunt. Players will encounter games like Pearl’s Garden Eel Bingo, Knock ‘Em Down Nemo, Turtle Hopping at the EAC, and finally All Aboard! for a ride back with Mr. Ray to the coral reef. Along the way, players will pick up valuable preschool-level skills like letter, number and color recognition. There are three levels of play, including an easy mode for younger players. Throughout the game children will be able to take pictures of collectibles and add them to an album in Undersea Sticker Fun, which can be personalized in multiple ways. A wrap-up movie completes the game, and children can return to the main menu to play a new adventure.
Get back in the groove with Disney's hilarious all-new movie. After his wild adventures with Pacha and Emperor Kuzco, lovable lug Kronk, Yzma's former henchman, has happily started a new life as the head chef in his very own diner. An all-new wacky adventure begins, however, when a llama-gram arrives telling him that his father is due for a visit. Before you can say "squeaker, squeak," Kronk is cooking up trouble with the sly enchantress, Yzma, trying to make himself look like a success in time for Papi's arrival. After a bunch of big blunders and a massive cheese explosion in the restaurant, Kronk finds himself covered in a heap of trouble. It is only with the help of friends both old and new that Kronk learns to be true to his groove.
Uh-Oh! When Minty accidentally breaks the Here Comes Christmas Candy Cane... the beacon that shows Santa the way to Ponyville each year... she’ll do anything to save Christmas for her Pony friends. And they’ll do anything to save Minty! Together, they discover Christmas comes wrapped in the love of good friends and the heart of one little clumsy, minty-green Pony.
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When a bag full of money lands at their feet, two young brothers embark on the adventure of a lifetime in Danny Boyle’s (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) “magical” (Time) film MILLIONS, debuting on DVD November 1 from Fox Home Entertainment.
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