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I randomly came across this video and had to share – what better way to commemorate the Presidents of the United States than with the Animaniacs?
My sister and I had this memorized during high school. It was a neat party trick. And possibly explains why we weren’t invited to many parties.
Be back tomorrow!
I absolutely love all the speech therapy apps I’ve used by Mobile Education Store, and their newest one, Rainbow Sentences, is no less impressive. This iPad app is great for speech therapy, but I’d say it’s really a grammar app – great for any student who is just having trouble in English class with the who, what, when, where, and why of sentences.
Rainbow Sentences has 165 fun photos to create sentences from. The words of a corresponding sentence are below the photo. The words are color-coded b those that go together; the blanks that the words go in are color-coded as well, but you can turn these color hints on and off to change the level of complexity and make the activity easier or harder for your kiddo. As a matter of fact, there are six different levels you can work on or progress to.n I adore the fact that it is so customizable for use with lots of different students, and easy to change when a child is ready to move up a level of difficulty. As just a parent, not a teacher or therapist, this app is very easy to use and facilitate, which I love! The tutorials are quick & helpful.
Another fun thing I love about this app is that after you get so many correct responses, you get to unlock a puzzle piece on a picture – great motivation to get lots of answers right so you can figure out what the mystery picture is!
I have Sophie look at the picture and tell me what’ s happening in the picture before she starts putting the words in the correct order to form a sentence. Then, she goes for it. After she’s done, she can record the sentence and play it back to hear herself. I love this feature! Helps work on her articulation, and she’s hearing herself say a sentence the way it was meant to be said.
Here’s a short video of Sophie playing on her own:
I highly recommend this app for speech, grammar help, or homeschool! I bet it’s helpful for learning English as a second language, too, although since I have no experience with that, that’s just an “educated guess”.
Go buy it on iTunes or the app store! It’s well worth the $7.99.
Thanks, Mobile Education Store, for letting Sophie and I review this app. Great work once again!
As Jenny mentioned earlier this week, we’re the proud new owners of iPhones. We didn’t even have the shiny new things in our hands before we started worrying about dropping them or our kids breaking them – we needed cases and we needed them fast!
Since we’ve worked with Otterbox in the past, we reached out to them to see if we could review the new cases for the iPhone 4S, and they kindly agreed.
Jenny knew right away that she wanted the absolute best protection for her phone that she could get, so she picked out the Otterbox Defender Series.
From their website:
This rugged iPhone 4S case provides heavy duty protection from rough treatment in the worst environments. Our Defender Series iPhone 4S Case defends against drops, dust and damage without taking away from the interaction of the iPhone’s features. The iPhone 4S Defender Series Case offers triple-layer protection and is built from a high-impact polycarbonate shell, durable silicone and a built-in screen protector, making it one of the toughest iPhone 4S Cases out there.
Jenny’s not exactly using her phone in a war zone, but let’s face it – life with kids ensures “rough treatment in the worst environments.” The case has protected her new phone well, which is good because I’m pretty sure she’d off herself if her phone broke.
I also wanted great protection for my phone, but it was important to me to find a case that offered that but that also fit in my pocket easily. I picked the Otterbox Commuter Series case.
From their website:
This sleek and tough iPhone 4S case protects from scratches, bumps and shocks. The new camera rivals point-and-shoot cameras on the market and deserves the level of protection only OtterBox delivers. The Commuter Series iPhone 4S Case has two layers of protection that work together to divert any impact force away from the device, keeping you and your new iPhone 4S ready for anything.
I really like the case a lot, and I feel very comfortable knowing my phone is protected. I’ve dropped it a couple times, and it’s no worse for the wear. I picked the color shown above, and if I had it to do over again I would have picked a different one because the white silicone has gotten a little dingy. Other than that, though, it’s perfect.
Both of us got the black iPhone 4S, but I’ve heard that the white version is slightly larger than the black phone and that finding cases to fit it is not easy. I did some research on the Otterbox site, though, and according to the FAQs, all of their cases work with the white iPhone 4s as well.
We’ve been quite happy with all the Otterbox cases we’ve tried, and we highly recommend them!
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This post is linked to Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries.