• About
  • Contact
  • beauty
  • Fashion
  • food
  • lifestyle

Chic Mummy

everyday life, lived in style

Product Review: Time 4 Learning

September 19, 2010 | homeschooling, product reviews

I was recently given the opportunity to try out Time4Learning’s online subscription program for a month. Time4Learning is an online program of educational games and programs for children in Pre-K through to grade 8. Stephen is 3 and a half, so we tried the Pre-K program and loved it!

The Pre-K program has two levels, so we started on level 1. The majority of level 1 was the perfect level for him. With numbers and letters recognition, shapes, colours, animals etc it covered the full range of what I would expect in a Pre K program. At this level, Stephen was able to “work” on most of the games by himself, (especially the numbers and colours games) with just minimal assistance. Often, I was told, “Muumm…I can do this myself!”. Since he was pretty good with level 1, we then tried level 2. Level 2 covers pretty much the same topics, but either in more depth or at a more challenging level. The English based games at this level were definitely beyond him and we carried on working at level 1 for those. Stephen is still at the level of letter recognition, so it was not unexpected that syllables, rhyming etc would be too challenging. For the maths games, level 2 was the perfect level. The rest of the games we tried, like colour mixing, were great as a “work with mum” to push Stephen to the next level. He really learnt a lot from the games at this level, rather than reviewing what he already knew.

I don’t have a set curriculum for Stephen; he goes to a play-based pre-kindy two mornings a week, and at home we really just work on things that he enjoys or learning through doing (such as counting when he helps me bake etc). So while I wouldn’t use the program as a full-time curriculum (especially since I don’t believe in a lot of screen time for young children) I found Time4Learning a great supplement to what we already do. Over the last month, it has become a regularly asked for activity, and I will probably schedule in two or three half hour sessions a week going forward.

post signature

Disclaimer: I was provided with one month’s access to Time4Learning for the purpose of this review. All opinions are my own and not influenced in any way.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Share this:

  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Welcome!

 

Subscribe to Chic Mummy!

Instagram

Instagram did not return a 200.

Archives

Top Posts & Pages

  • Ballet Beautiful Custom Workout Review
  • Product Review: Bumble and Bumble's Don't Blow It (H)air styler
  • Apple Poffertjes (Dutch Pancakes)

Copyright © 2023 · Chic Mummy · Design by Boutique Design Studio

Go to mobile version