Alphabet DVD is true to its name, providing animated segments and playful songs and games that teach children the letters of the alphabet while building word awareness and phonic familiarity. Alphabet Al is the animated host who leads us through the fun and learning, starting with the New Alphabet Song, a sing-a-long that takes us through all the letters of the alphabet, first in upper case, then in lower. Next, each lett...Read more

CWIST is a free website parents use as a means of providing high quality activities (both physical and educational) for their children to do and, more importantly, the motivation to do them. Kids use CWIST because it's fun. In the dashboard, parents add to their account the children who will be participating and then can assign to any of those kids a cwist. A cwist is, among other things, an educational, community service...Read more

Kiddy Read is a 14-month long early reading program that uses short (2 - 10 minutes long), preplanned daily sessions, six days a week. The structured curriculum encompasses four 3.5-month terms, starting with single words in the first term and then progressing through couplets, phrases, and sentences/stories. The bite-sized brevity of the lessons makes them easy to digest and an excellent fit for families on the go. One o...Read more

Little Champion Reader is a comprehensive reading program that combines three proven reading approaches - Phonics, Sight Word Memorization, and Whole Language, into a single system. The system is broken into three levels within which your child moves from reading words, to phrases, and then to complete sentences. While progressing through the levels, your child uses all 3 reading techniques simultaneously, so that he or s...Read more

This DVD does an exceptional job of communicating to children specific ways to stay safe. These serious topics are presented as such, but in a way that is quite entertaining and non-threatening. Both the content and presentation are utterly age-appropriate. Live-action footage of Ruby (the bright, cheerful host) interacting with viewers and several adorable onscreen children is intermingled with original songs and animate...Read more

There's something utterly refreshing about the way Carl Sommer interacts with children throughout this DVD. As we watch the tale unfold onscreen, the video cuts away regularly to show him elaborating on the story and its implications with a group of kids to whom he is reading the story. Their questions and his answers are sincere, enthusiastic, and insightful. The combination of his warm, expert narration and those live i...Read more

Young children sometimes have a hard time winding down, but they can rarely resist an opportunity to watch the GiggleBellies. And this time out the adventure is soothing, relaxing, and carefully designed to put kids on a gentle path towards quiet time or sleep. This mix of original and classic children's tunes is done with typically inimitable GiggleBellies style - fresh-sounding arrangements and captivating animation tha...Read more

Playing this DVD has the near instantaneous effect of making children joyful. That's because each of the 9 music videos on it are filled with audiovisual details that trigger smiles and laughs, one after another. Among those magical ingredients is the GiggleBellies crew itself, a cast of happy-go-lucky, silly animated characters who sing, dance, bounce, and clap their way across the screen. Young viewers tend to either im...Read more

Volume #2 of The GiggleBellies Musical Adventures picks up where Volume #1 left off. This time there are even more fully animated songs (13 in all) to enjoy. A huge part of the pleasure comes from watching and listening to the wildly creative animated arrangements of songs. Some are originals, some you'll know (classics like Itsy Bitsy Spider), but even those you're familiar with have a fresh spin that will knock your soc...Read more