Egglo Entertainment Review

We are having another snowstorm right now so it is hard to believe it, but Easter will be here before we know it.  It’s only a little over a month away so it’s time to start thinking about what kind of activities I want to do for Easter.  I was able to review Egglo Entertainment which has some new ideas for Easter activities.

We started out with Hailey reading The Egg-cellent Easter Adventure book.  The book was a little long, so we used The Egg-cellent Easter Adenture (book audio download) to finish the story when she got tired of reading.  The audio download is $2.99 and is 30 minutes long.

Hailey read the Easter story and we talked about it.  There is big difference this year in her understanding of Jesus dying for us.  She said, “Why do we have to read this story?  It’s sad.”  But then, of course, she liked the happy ending 🙂

I had gone through The Egg-cellent Easter Adventure Program Guide ahead of time and picked some various activities.  The program guide is $14.99 and is basically a curriculum to go along with the book and the Egglo eggs.  It is 60 pages long and is full of fun ideas that can be used within your family or church group to help you put together a great learning experience for your children.

Hailey and Hunter loved the snack that we made- we talked about how Jesus had died but that rose again and his tomb was empty.  We made the He is Not Here snack, which they both loved making.

The donut represents the tomb and the cookie in front of it is the stone that was rolled away to reveal an empty tomb.

Of course, they enjoyed eating their delicious snack after we talked about it.  The guide also had some recommended questions to ask the kids while they eat the treats.

Since there were a lot of great activities to do, I spread it out over 2 days.

The next day we made some really yummy Light of the World snacks.  Our marshmallows represented a flashlight or a torch and we talked about how important it is to have a light source when it is dark.  (These snacks were sooooo good!!  This was my favorite treat.)

We did a fun scripture scramble to help Hailey learn the memory verse- John 1:5- The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.

As you can see, everything nicely connects together and reinforces the idea that Jesus is the light of the world.

We ended our Egglo fun with a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt.  Since we still have snow on the ground, we did it inside once it got dark enough.  I charged the eggs under the chandelier in our dining room, then hid them around our house.  Hailey and Hunter had a blast finding the eggs!

Once they found all the eggs, Hailey read the Egglo Treasure Scripture Scrolls ($4.29 for 12) that I had placed in the eggs ahead of time.

There is so much that you can do with the products from Egglo Entertainment!  It can be hard to come up with ideas and activities for Easter, other than the same old thing that people do year after year.  It was nice to have something new to try!

So, here is what it boils down to for me:

Pros:
Fun, new ideas for Easter activities
Can be used with a wide age range
Everything ties together very nicely to help children understand that Jesus is the light of the world.

Cons:
The book was a little bit long, which might be an issue for younger children.  But, that can be solved by not reading it all at once.

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Celebrating Dr. Seuss’s Birthday

We celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday last week.  We used our weekly reader from Scholastic to learn more about him and read several books by Dr. Seuss.

Then we made this cute craft.

The Cat in the Hat made by Hunter and Hailey.

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Review of ScienceandMath.com

Hailey absolutely loves science!!  It’s one of her favorite subjects and she can never get enough of it.  We haven’t found a science curriculum to use next year, so when I was given the chance to review ScienceandMath.com I was really excited to check it out!

So, what did we think of ScienceandMath.com?

I used ScienceandMath.com with Hailey, age 7 for a second grade science curriculum.  You can start anywhere you want with the DVDs.  You can pick a topic that is interesting to your child, you can pick experiments that you already have the materials on hand for, or you can just go in order.  You can do it any way you want.  We did several experiments each week, and I picked them based on what Hailey thought looked like fun and that we could easily come up with the materials to complete the experiments ourselves.

The first experiment we watched was called Color Changing Milk.  We watched it on the DVD first and learned why it works the way it does through a very detailed explanation.  Then, we tried it ourselves.

We put some milk on a paper plate (whole milk works best) then we put some drops of food coloring onto the plate.  Hailey dipped a Q-Tip into Dawn dish soap and then touched it into the drops of food coloring.  The results were really interesting!!

Hailey watched the lesson for Lift an Ice Cube with String.  Then we tried it on our own, using a cup of water, an ice cube, string and salt.  We learned why we put salt down on icy roads and sidewalks.

Hailey was amazed that it worked!

We also watched the Simple Lava Lamp lesson.  Hailey tried it on her own using water, food coloring, vegetable oil and salt.

It’s hard to see in the picture, but it did create a lava lamp effect.

There is so much to ScienceandMath.com.  This is just a small sample of some of the lessons and experiments we tried.  I really liked that the lessons were done for me, I just had to watch them with Hailey.  Science has never been easy for me, so it was kind of like having a science teacher here doing the work for me.  Of course, I had to help her do the experiments, but they were fun and simple.  Hailey also really enjoyed watching the experiments and always wanted to do several each day.

So, here is what is boils down to for me:

Pros:
Hailey enjoyed it and asked to do more.
We just had to watch the lessons, I didn’t have to do much ahead of time except gather a few materials.
I didn’t have to buy any materials- we had everything around our house that we used.
The lessons were very educational.
These videos can be used for a wide age range.

Cons:
The only thing Hailey did not like about the program was that sometimes the explanations of the experiments were a little too long.  I found the explanations to be very interesting and I learned quite a bit.  But, while Hailey loved the experiment portion of the videos, she lost interest in the explanations as to why they worked the way they did.

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Tot School

Hunter is 26 months old.

We had a fun week at Tot School learning all about the letter L.

Learning can be pretty tiring 🙂

Hunter colored this letter L printable from 1+1+1=1.

Doing some shape practice

Hunter dotted the letter L and then added some foam letters to his paper.

Hunter enjoys doing the ABC Find It for each letter.

He added the letter L to our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree.

Hunter made a L is for lion.  He didn’t want to touch the yarn though because he thought it was a spider, hahaha

We did lots of fun activities to celebrate the 100th day of school.

Hunter helped Hailey paint the continents for a project she was working on in history/geography.

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