I was so excited to receive some Lakeshore Learning software to review and offer as a giveaway here. Don’t we all love Lakeshore?!
I received 5 games to try out. I thought they were all fantastic for pre-k, and I decided to review the All About Life Science software. The science software has several activities covering a variety of topics:
- Five Senses
- Animal Homes
- Habitats
- Living & Nonliving
- Mother & Babies
- Insect or Spider
- How Many Legs
- Life Cycles
- Swim or Fly
- Plant or Animal
Each topic has a short video the children can watch first. I like these short video clips because research has shown that young children learn more by watching short segments or clips of a video rather than a long video. Videos also allow children to see animals in their real habitat that they otherwise would not have the opportunity to see.
After watching the video clip, children can play the corresponding game. For example, in the Living and Non-Living activity, the video first teaches children about living and non-living things, and in the game, children look at a picture and choose whether it is living or non-living. The little owl encourages the children if they get the right answer or to try again.
This software is great for children to use with a friend at the computer, but I also like to use it as a large group with the computer projector. We can talk about it as we work through the activities together and the class can tell me the answers while I click their choice. The Phonemic Awareness software makes a nice Large Group literacy activity and has 3 activities: rhyming, syllables, and beginning sounds.
The giveaway is for 4 Lakeshore software games:
Enter the giveaway using the Rafflecopter below.
Rules:
- There are several entry options: you can write a comment below this post naming a favorite Lakeshore product.
- Other options include: pin it to win it, follow Lakeshore on Pinterest, tweet the giveaway, etc.
- Entries are only valid if you enter with the Rafflecopter.
- You forfeit the contest if you claim to pin and do not, or claim to tweet and do not, or claim to comment and do not, etc. Winning entries are checked, so it’s in your best interest to be honest.
- If you are a winner, you will be notified by email and you have 5 days to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
- If you win, you must provide a U.S. mailing address.
- Giveaway ends at midnight on Friday, January 25, 2013.
Disclosure: I received five Lakeshore software to review, I was not compensated in any other way. All opinions are 100% my own.
About Karen Cox
I teach prek and I purchased and use the Lakeshore Interactive board, Numbers and Count game. It is a great activity for counting and number recognition. Plus the children love it and it makes fun sounds for correct and incorrect answers.
I work in children’s services at a public library. We are putting Play Literacy kits together for patrons to check out or play with in the library. We have purchased many items from Lakeshore and have been very pleased with all. The plastic totes are good quality, strong and kid friendly, as in a public place you need tough, long lasting items. Lakeshores totes were the best I found.
The “Go Away Big Green Monster” set, along with the book w/same name is going into a kit about feelings. I am sure the children that get to play with this kit will enjoy it as much as I have.
I love Lakeshore they always have the coolest things. I have already placed two big orders with them to start up our pre-k classrooms. I have had so much fun shopping. I also love the bilingual section they have it is great! Looking forward to seeing more of the interactive softwear. Thanks!
Whenever we visit my in-laws, who live 5 hours away, I always stop at the Roseville Lakeshore store. I feel like a kid in a candy store! My latest favorites are the giant magnetic numbers, patterning & counting boxes and beginning & ending sounds computer games, just to name a few. I am also very happy that Lakeshore participates in Donors Choose, since I’ve been fortunate enough to receive many Lakeshire products from generous donors!
We work with pre-k classrooms and funds are seriously limited. It would be great to have software to share.
I love Lakeshore…the quality of the materials is unbeatable! This year we were able to get 3 tricycles for our playground, which are a hit! We also love the magnetic tiles and the playstix!
Regular dot art painters!
I actually have never been to the lakeshore website. But, I have a 4 year old daughter and another one on the way, so I am really happy to have discovered it, now! I went to the website earlier today after seeing this post, and I have found several items that I am about to buy! I really want the regular dot art painters!! Love the colors. I love the variety: software, arts and crafts, action toys, etc…!
My favorite items from Lakeshore are the musical instruments. Our children at our Preschool love playing them.
In my preschool special needs classroom, we use the first learning games in order to explore colors, letters, & numbers. My students love to play them!!
I have lots of Lakeshore products, but the one my preschoolers and I use every morning is the Circle Time Center. They use it during center time to play school too.
I absolutely love all of the materials Lakeshore learning offers! This giveaway will help with integrating technology into my classroom. I teach prek in a low SES school with very limited materials. I currently have a student with autism who thrives on anything related to our mimio/smart board. Having this package will help increase his interest during our circle time and whole group routine ,as well as small group center instruction.
I love the number puzzles from Lakeshore! I used them with my 4 children and continue to love them for my preschool class. Their quality is unbeatable!
I love the different grade levels many of the products are available in.
Would love to introduce something new and exciting to my Daycare. There are so many things that I could do with the software with my daycare or even at home with my 4 year old.
Love the Lakeshore material.
I really like the All About Life Science Software.
We use Lakeshore for most of our materials for PPCD and PreK. One of my all time favorite products is the Easy Clean Room Divider. They are the perfect height, easy to move, and they can be connected together. Whenever I need a new space in my room it only takes a minute to make it happen!
Would love to win this working a Pre-K located in a daycare means we have even less funds than others it seems.
I teach pre-k and my kids love working on the computers and other items we have in our classroom from LakeShore. My kids come from mostly low income families so any type of technology I can introduce would be wonderful.
My fav. product are.the letter sound tubs. I use them to introduce.new letters.in.conjunction with the all aboht the letter pocket chart
I love the puzzles we’ve gotten from Lakeshore. They are used daily a favorite of the kiddos is the shape ones.
I love the theme boxes and matching literature!
Lakeshore has so many great products it’s hard to choose a favorite! My class plays with animals (such as dinosaurs, ocean creatures, farm animals, etc…) and love them all! Also blocks as well as puzzles and other materials! Their stuff is great and my class would benefit hugely from winning these items!
We love the Lakeshore Letter Treasure game where you match a lettered gem with the three gems bearing pictures of objects that begin with that letter’s sound! It was particularly popular during a recent pirate unit! I seriously drool over the entire Lakeshore catalog, though! Too much goodness!!
I love the Magna-Tiles! They are one of my students’ favorite toys in our classroom. Every single day you can find someone building with them.
I love lakeshore. I have a Smartboard so I love their smartboard software.
Tina
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I was just browsing the Lakeshore site and was reminded of the Dressing Frames. I realized I need these for my classroom! Especially for fine motor!
Thanks!
I love the rubber stamp alphabet!
I enjoy to work with all Lakeshore products, one of my favorites are the Giant Tracing Numbers!! Kids love them!!
Lakeshore is my favorite place to get just about anything for my pre-k classroom!
I am a kindergarten teacher and I order from lakeshore all the time!
I enjoy the Lakeshore file folder games! They cover a variety of subject areas and are engaging for my pre-k kiddos!
I love Lakeshore learning Products. I love all the realistic looking animals that go with the different habitats.
I like the Lakeshore ideas they a very good and i gain alot of idea and apply them to my own enviroment.
I have looked at these in the Lakeshore catalog and have wondered if I should purchase them. It is great to see a review by someone who works with younger children. I would love to use these in my classroom and I know that my students would enjoy learning with them
I love Lakeshore! The Discovery Place preschool and ECFE that I teach at has items from them that have been around for years and years. We’d love these games to use with our 3 year old class or for the 4’s and 5’s class! We might be expanding our program to a partner school, so this could really be put to good use!