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Watch the first 6 Minutes of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure!

October 15, 2009 By

Tinkerbell DVDTinker Bell and the Lost Treasure comes out on October 27th on DVD and on Blu-Ray, and my daughter can’t wait to see it! Even my boys had to admit that last year’s Tinker Bell movie was “kind of cute”. In this adventure, Tinker Bell is asked to create a scepter that will focus the light of an unusual blue harvest moon through the special moonstone that creates pixie dust. Her friend Terence tries to help but Tink grows impatient with him and sends him on an errand, but what he brings back causes the scepter and moonstone to break. Tink then has to set off on a quest to fix the action. With the voices of Mae Whitman, Raven Symone, Anjelica Huston, Jesse McCartney and Kristin Chenoweth, this new Tinker Bell adventure is sure to be a hit with kids and parents too.

Thanks to Disney Entertainment, I’ve got a special treat for you! Here are the first 6 minutes of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure!

You can see more sneak peeks of Disney movies by going to their YouTube page. Watch for my review of the new Tinker Bell movie later this month!

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Wubbzy Goes Boo! Review and Giveaway

October 9, 2009 By

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the 5 winners-#155 Lily Kwan, #32 Lynn from Actual Scale, #57 Liz from My Two Loves, #3 Angel from The Angel Forever, and #106 from Anne at Forever A Younger. Check your emails, the sooner I get replies, the sooner you get your DVD!
Wubbzy Goes BooWubbzy and his friends are back in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Wubbzy Goes Boo!, an all-new DVD collection just in time for the fall season! Watch as Wubbzy, Widget and Walden clean up a crazy mess with Moo Moo’s magic wand, pick the perfect pumpkin and create the spookiest Halloween costume of all. There’s singing, dancing, trick or treating and kickity-kick ball too, plus plenty of positive values like creativity, patience and responsibility. It’s all here in the Emmy winning Nick Jr./Noggin hit that’s so much fun it’s scary!

These six episodes starring Wubbzy, Widgit and Walden teach kids about overcoming fears associated with Halloween, like watching scary movies and hearing about ghosts. There’s also the usual lessons about having patience, relying on friends, and having lots of fun! Kaitlyn declared Wubbzy Goes Boo! to be not spooky at all.  Her favorite episode is “The Last Leaf”, which finds Wubbzy and Widgit wanting to jump in an enormous leaf pile, but Walden wants to watch as the last leaf falls in Wuzzleberg. It’s a lesson in patience, and I think it makes Kaitlyn want to jump in a huge pile of leaves! Here’s a peek at the DVD:

MORE HALLOWEEN FUN: Click here to download PDFs of Wubbzy Halloween Coloring Pages!

GIVEAWAY:

Thanks to Starz/Anchor Bay Entertainment, I have a terrific giveaway just in time for Halloween. I”m giving away DVDs of  Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Wubbzy Goes Boo!  and there will be FIVE WINNERS! Approximate retail price of the DVD is $16.98 each. The giveaway is open to participants with a United States mailing address only (international readers can enter if they have a friend in the States who can accept their prizes by mail.) Enter by Friday Oct. 23rd at 12:00 PM EST.

WIN IT: For your main entry, leave a comment telling me your favorite part of Halloween or what your child’s (or your) costume will be this year. Make sure your email address is valid in the comment field. I’m having the DVDs personally shipped ON the 23rd, so please be available to receive my email on that day requesting your address for shipping.

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Giveaway- Make Learning Fun With Rock ‘N Learn!

September 7, 2009 By

This giveaway is closed.

rock n learnWhether you have little ones learning the alphabet or older kids who need to learn multiplication facts, I’ve got info for you on a totally  fun way to teach and learn educational skills – through rockin’ music!  Rock ‘N Learn combines music kids (and parents!) will love with skills like phonics, multiplication, division, science and social studies, even Spanish and French.

Younger learners will love the  cartoon characters, games, movement, and especially the MUSIC in the many Rock ‘N Learn titles aimed at preschoolers and kindergarteners. We received Alphabet, Alphabet Circus, and Alphabet Exercise for Kaitlyn, and she requests at least one of them almost every day.  Her ability to recognize both uppercase and lowercase letters improved dramatically after only a few episodes of Alphabet. Chris and I had already taught her the uppercase letters, but after watching Alphabet, she started pointing to letters on cereal boxes and stuff around the house and saying the letter. Alphabet Circus combines fun learning songs for each letter with the excitement of a circus, with ringmaster “Alphabet Al”. Alphabet Exercise gets her moving as she follows along doing Jumping Jacks, Windmills, “Picking Cherries”, and “Soaring With Eagles”.  The songs are so catchy, too. There are companion CDs that come with books that parents and teachers can use to reinforce the skills from each video. It really is Rockin’ AND Learnin’!

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For my older son who is 10.5, I requested Multiplication Rock and Division Rap on DVD, and Division Rock on CD.  If you have a child learning these skills either for the first time or if they need to brush up on facts, I highly recommend any of these.  Nathan really struggled with learning his multiplication facts last year, not that he couldn’t learn them, but that he couldn’t come up with the answers quickly in his head. Listening to the CD, with the question and then a pause so he could figure in his head, and then hearing the answer, really reinforced to him that he DOES know multiplication, so it boosted his confidence AND helped him with factors that he was stuck on.

For example, this is what your child will see on Division Rap- they can go directly to division concepts like how to use multiplication to check division answers, parts of a division problem, what to do with remainders, story problems (which Nathan also struggles with so I was VERY glad to see that included), and an introduction to long division. Each number from 2 through 9 has a very cool rap song, and there’s a drill section that just goes through each number.  In my years as a parent I have not found anything that is more in tune with what appeals to today’s kids in terms of how they learn and what kind of music they like to listen to than Rock ‘N Learn. Seriously!

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BUY IT:  To check out all of the titles from Rock ‘N Learn including how to save by buying DVD collections, visit Rock ‘N Learn.

WIN IT: Rock ‘N Learn will send one winner any two titles of their choice! For your main entry, you must visit the Rock ‘N Learn site, browse the titles, then come back here and leave me a comment telling me which two titles you’ll choose if you win. Enter by Wednesday, Sept 16. at 12:00 PM EST.

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Enter to win your choice of 2 Rock ‘N Learn DVDs from @MomReviews ends 9/16 http://bit.ly/137iwZ

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