School Zone has a wide variety of very creative and fun learning tools for all ages. We’ve spent the last few weeks reviewing several of these products

School Zone Magnetic Tin

The bright and colorful packaging of the School Zone Magnetic Tin instantly peaked EBoy’s interest (I’m not going to lie it peaked mine as well-so interesting and vibrant). The colorful puffy magnets were not only great for learning but provided a sensory experience to assist with doing activities. EBoy did not have much interest in working with the tiny letter magnets yet but I know as the school year progresses we’ll get lots of usage from these as we work on phonics and spelling.

The tin came with a few sheets with different learning activities for your child to work with the magnets, but the topics were so varied I would have liked to have seen more emphasis on each specific subject area. I also would have liked more direction for different activities for these magnets. Plus you definitely have to be careful with these if you have little ones around, the really small alphabet magnets are very easy for a little one to swallow. Overall I would still recommend the magnetic tin because it can definitely grow with your child- from being used at a very basic level like a puzzle (ETot loves matching the magnet animals and seeing them stick) to more advanced skills encouraging reading, spelling, sorting, and counting.

Start to Read Kit Level 1

Audio books are definitely a wonderful tool for learning and the School Zone Start To Read Kit provides the book, activity workbook, and a cd with the audio version of the book along with music to help encourage vocabulary and retention. I Want a Pet was by far EBoy’s favorite book of the 2. He asked daily to listen to the cd while reading the book. Each story is told in an entertaining fashion with bouncy background music which makes it interesting for the child to follow, and clear audio cues let them know when to turn the page of the book. The workbook and activity book were also very easy for him to work with and will be even more utilized as he’s reading more. He was not fond of many of the songs on the cds (his “favorite” song was the book being read) but ETot and I had fun dancing to the rest of the music. You can listen to samples on the interactive School Zone website.

Both of these products are reasonably priced and overall I was very impressed with the quality of the materials. If you are looking for a way to add new interest to learning in your house without emptying your pocketbook definitely give School Zone a try.

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