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The Preschool Box October 2016 Review
The Preschool Box is an educational subscription for children 3-6. Boxes are $29.95 and come with a month's worth of activities to help children learn, while letting them have fun. Each box is filled with activities for letter recognition, number recognition, sorting, shapes, colors, and more. Each box also contains a sheet of colorful stickers. A parent guide is included to give details about each activity in the box.
The Details
Cost $29.95
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What's in the box? Each box comes with a month's worth of activities to help children learn, while also letting them have fun.
The Preschool Box comes in a small box with a cute owl on top.
First Look.
Each box comes with a brochure, which goes through every activity in the box and gives suggestions on how to help your child learn.
Inside the brochure, there are descriptions and pictures of that month's activities.
All the activities were placed in this file folder. I like the the activities were compact, so you can sit this on a desk, without needed a large box of activities to keep track of.
Alphabet Sing Read Learn Landoll $4.99 This book is a sing, read and learn book about the alphabet. There are pictures to coordinate with each letter. There is also a cd that has 12 songs about the alphabet.
This is a look inside the book. This has been a fun book for my 4 year old to read, while running errands.
Stickers Each box contains a full sheet of stickers, to reward your child for their hard work.
Week 1
Letter of the Day Aa Each week has letter of the day cards. The letter is on one side and there are coordinating pictures on the other side. You can tape these to walls and have your child search of the letter of the day cards.
Each card features a picture that begins with the letter of the day.
My son really enjoyed these cards, more than I actually expected. He likes reading them in the car and we also have posted on the doors throughout the house.
Letter A Tracing Sheet Each week features a new letter and a new letter sheet. These sheets are just like the sheets my son has been doing in preschool. Your child traces the letter, then colors only the pictures that begin with that letter.
Tracing the letters was great for my son's fine motor the skills and coloring the pictures helped reinforce letter sounds.
A is for Alligator Craft This fun craft involved glueing little green squares on the letter A, and turning it into a cute alligator.
The teeth of the alligator had to be cut out, so T got to practice his cutting skills.
This is the completed alligator, which proudly displayed on our refrigerator.
Sorting Red and Blue The box contains a bag or various colored objects to sort. For week one, your child sorted objects into red and blue categories.
T did a great job with this activity and enjoyed sorting,
There were some objects in the bag, that couldn't be sorted in any of the activities. I like that there were other colors that didn't fit with the activities in the box.
Create 0-5 Velcro Cards Your child places the correct number of velcro dots on the back of each number card. You child can read the number and count the dots on the back. Your child can also close their eyes, and determine the number, by the number of dots on the back.
T worked his fine motor skills by sticking on the dots, then practiced his numbers.
Week 2
Letter of the Day Bb The letter for week 2 is Bb. My son really enjoyed the banana card, his favorite food.
Letter Bb Tracing Sheet There was a new letter tracing sheet. The letter B is a much tricker letter to trace, than Aa.
Letter Bb bean craft Your child glues the beans on the B sheet. This works fine motor skills and reinforces the letter of the week.
Counting Cups 0-5 There were 6 cups (0-6) and a small bag of beans. You child places the correct number of beans in each cup. This craft works fine motor skills and number recognition.
We combined the letter cards from week one with this activity.
Sorting Yellow and Green This week, your child works to recognize yellow and green. T knows all his colors, so this was an easy craft, but still fun.
Week 3
Letter of the Day Cc The letter for week 3 is Cc. I think this was T's favorite week of cards.
Letter Cc Tracing The letter c is actually a foundation letter for many other letters. I made copies of these sheet to practice again and again.
Letter Cc Cookie Craft Your child cuts out the cookies, then glues them to the jar. You can discuss the objects that start with the letter Csc, besides cookies.
Gumball Sequin Counting Sheet There was a tiny package of sequins. Your child glues the correct number of sequins on each gumball machine. The tiny sequins make this another great project for fine motor skills.
Creating #'s 0-5 using Play-Doh This was my T's favorite activity. He loves Play-Doh and will never turn down an opportunity to play with it. For this activity, your child makes the numbers 0-5 and tiny balls to go with each number.
We used the number cards with this craft as well, to make it easier to form each number.
T spent about an hour playing with the Play Doh and forming letters. This activity was a huge win.
4 Square Color Sorting The final color sorting was to sort the blue, red, yellow and green objects.
T enjoyed playing with the objects and sorting them.
Week 4
Letter of the Day Dd The last letter of the day for this month was Dd
Letter Dd Tracing Sheet The last tracing sheet was the letter d.
Writing #'s 0-5 Sheet This sheet help reinforce the number recognition your child has worked on the previous 3 weeks.
Letter Dd Dot Painting Your child uses the watercolors to make dots on the letter D sheet. My son loves painting, so even though this was week 4, we did it right away.
There were cotton swabs included, so your child doesn't destroy a paintbrush painting.
Final Thought This was a fantastic box. There were many activities to do but they didn't take up much room to store. The box included the same type of activities my 4-year-old does in school. I love doing activities that interest my son, that also reinforces what he is learning at school. The only materials you needed was glue and scissors, which are pretty common in a house with a preschooler. To subscribe, use this link with the code 20PRESCHOOL to save 20% on your 1st box.
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