ISBN 10: 0578001047 ISBN 13: 9780578001043

Publisher: True Learning LLC, 2007

TRUE LEARNING: The award-winning early learning curriculum on CD-ROM. Over 3,000 printable worksheets covering 6 core subjects for your young child: Math, Literacy, Critical Thinking, Motor Skills, Art and World. True Learning combines the best aspects of traditional paper and pencil workbooks with the convenience and flexibility of printing-on-demand. (Mac and PC compatible) Visit our True-learning website for free sample pages.

FUN AND ENGAGING AT-HOME CURRICULUCM: True Learning is the perfect at-home curriculum for your preschooler, with fun and engaging activities, beautiful illustrations, and lovable characters. Plus it's simple, just 3 easy steps: Open, Print and Learn!

CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING: Print activities to meet your child s progress. Reprint favorite activities. Reprint activities for reinforcement. For a fraction of the price of costly tutoring centers, give your child your attention and time.

MATH provides an advance foundation in math for your child with visually intuitive and engaging exercises. Your child will begin with simple counting and one to one correspondence activities. Step by step, your child will become comfortable with ever more complex math concepts, including: addition, subtraction, multiplication, relativity, symmetry, fractions, measurement, time, money and more.

LITERACY Provide your child with a solid foundation for reading and writing success with True Literacy. Early exposure and success with phonics instills confidence in the early reader, which leads to the love of reading and writing. True Literacy integrates captivating illustrations with phonics lessons. Each level systematically builds upon the literacy skills mastered in previous levels ensuring that your child will gain confidence in reading and writing.

CRITICAL THINKING Strengthen your child s critical thinking skills with True Thinking. Our fun-filled activities allow your child to explore analogies, deduction, spatial relationships, sequencing, patterning and other important cognitive concepts. Your child learns to focus on the task at hand and to think ahead to logical conclusions.

MOTOR SKILLS True Motor Skills systematically develops your child s fine motor skills with specially designed pencil exercises and entertaining cut-fold-assemble activities. The activities of True Motor Skills also enhance your child s capacity to concentrate, to follow directions and to complete sequential tasks.

ART Introduce your child to the joy of art through activities that explore colors and shapes as well as the works of great artists. Beginning with freeform scribbles and dashes and progressing through multi-step drawings, your child will further refine fine motor and cognitive skills.

WORLD Cultivate your child s curiosity of the world through the pages of True World. Your child will explore the sights of London, Paris, Honolulu and Tokyo, all the while enhancing his or her fundamental skills in Math, Literacy, Thinking, Motor Skills and Art.

Review:

We all know the value of education, but a trickier decision parents have to make is when to start formally educating their kids. It's becoming more common to send toddlers for a year or two of preschool before they start kindergarten at age 5. And the structure is a lot different than in years past even kindergartners get homework these days. Many feel that it's never too early to start introducing academic activities, and True Learning makes it easy. True Learning is a package of 3,000 worksheets, activities your kid can do that are fun and educational. The worksheets are PDF files on two CDs, and you can print them via Preview, Adobe Acrobat, or any other PDF software reader. You'll want to use a color printer to take advantage of the colorful graphics and characters True Learning uses. Did you shudder when we mentioned characters? No worries. These worksheets aren't a means of marketing for toy companies, and there are no commercial tie-ins. All the characters are generic in nature, but with a professional look and feel. True Learning covers six subjects (art, literacy, math, motor skills, thinking, and world), and each subject's worksheets have four levels of advancement. For example, level-one math worksheets teach how to count up to five objects, how to write numbers in sequence (up to 5), number matching with objects, and more. In level four, kids learn how to count and write by 10s, money math, basic multiplication, and more. The art worksheets teach basic illustration and design skills, from how to draw curves to coloring. The literacy worksheets range from basic letter recognition to words and their relationships to people, places, things, and actions. The motor skills section includes craft activities such as drawing and cutting shapes. The thinking section builds critical thinking skills, and the world section adds a cultural aspect to the curriculum. The bottom line. True Learning offers a broad series of educational activities, and it grows with your kids. It s great for a rainy day, or even as a daily activity. --MacLife Magazine

Whether your child goes to public school, private school, or is home educated, early childhood learning facilitated by an adult or caregiver can improve their understanding of the basic skills needed to be successful later in life. This is why we love doing worksheets at home! Kids find them fun and entertaining, and I love that it helps them learn basic skills and keeps them busy, too! The True Learning Early Childhood Curriculum on CD-ROM is a fascinating but simple way to access over 3,000 printable activities for your youngster. Lovable characters introduce math, literacy, thinking, motor skills, art, and world culture concepts through four levels of learning. Kids ages 3-6 (as well as special needs students of all ages) will find the activities encouraging, yet challenging enough to be interesting. This printable curriculum is different from so many other resources I have tried for a few major reasons: The CD interface appears in a browser window for quick viewing of all levels and lessons. Navigation is easy. The layout is visually attractive. The preview feature allows you to see the full first page of the activity upon mousing over the worksheet link. You don't have to waste time opening several different worksheets to find just the right one. Worksheets are large enough for any child to easily work on. Directions are simple enough to follow, but with enough steps to make the activity engaging. The True Learning website is more than helpful. A clever resources page gives links to all kinds of free resources for parents and educators. After trying so many different services offering online worksheet downloads for high annual membership fees, I'm pleased to see this offered for such a low price. Unlike other services I've seen, the worksheets are something I would actually use over and over again, and I'm not pressured to purchase extra features or extend a membership that I may never use. Lille Punkin' gives True-Learning a very high grade! --Lillepunkin blog