Learning Resources Earns Prestigious Awards

Learning Resources, the trusted source for quality, award-winning math, science, early childhood and language educational toys, is announcing its recent product award winners that are sure to be the top of holiday wish lists! Adding to the company’s list of over 300 product awards, this year’s award winners include: Talking Math Mat Challenge Game - Kids get to think on their feet! Interactive talking floor mat with fast and crazy quiz games make learning math fun! Kids listen to the equation, do the math, then step on the right answer. The game gets faster as their scores get higher! Features six different games and two skill levels to reinforce numbers, counting, addition and subtraction up to the number 20.

Talking Clever Clock - It's about time and a fun way to learn it! Electronic learning clock teaches kids to tell time and solve elapsed time problems. Self-checking quiz feature with 2 skill levels makes mastering time telling easy! Use the Clever Clock Workbook for reinforcement activities and teaching additional time-related concepts including quarter-hour, half-hour and hour measurements.

Buy It Right teaches kids the importance of money recognition, adding and making correct change through interactive game play. Kids can set prices, buy and sell items and learn the value of money as they move throughout the game board. Includes calculator, game pieces, 40 paper play bills and 100 plastic coins.

Gears! Gears! Gears! Motorized Monsters Set - Create colorful, playful monsters with this 73-piece animated gears set. Turn your imagination loose by mixing and matching the assorted pieces to build creatures up to 14 inches tall that move and make sound. Motorized base features six monster sounds and forward/reverse movement. Includes four monster ideas or create your own.

Gears! Gears! Gears! Under the Sea Set - Bring the ocean to life with this colorful moving 67-piece building set. Underwater creatures include a peek-a-boo crab, slippery sea turtles, diving dolphins, an ornery octopus and spinning school of fish to help young kids create and learn using this imaginationbuilding oceanarium.

Spin your way to building better phonics skills with the Pharaoh’s Phonics Game. Multiple skill levels teach long and short vowels, explore beginning blends and practice consonant sounds. Players challenge each other to build 3, 4, 5 and 6-letter words. The student with the first completed pyramid wins.

Magnetic Soft Foam Activity Sets - Introduce young kids to learning with two fun hands-on activity sets. ABC Alphabet Fun includes upper and lowercase letters providing practice in ABC's and simple word recognition. 123 Number Fun includes numbers and math symbols introducing the basics of adding and subtracting. Each set includes 10-page magnetic activity flipbook, washable soft foam letters and 9 inch x 12 inch magnetic board.

Pretend & Play® Teaching Telephone® - Teaches children how to call 911 Emergency Service, call home and other important phone numbers. Parents can program their phone number and record a personalized message. When the correct number is dialed, children are rewarded with the message. Many police groups are using this phone in their school presentations. With the scary kidnappings in the news this past summer, this may be a way to remind parents how important it is for kids to know how to use the telephone.

Learning Resources can assist parents with the right tools that reinforce what their children are learning in school and keep the momentum going year round. Educators have embraced the company’s products for 18 years. These products help children to learn, think, solve problems, express themselves. These products will benefit children as they grow, learn and develop while building a concrete foundation of skills through exploration, imagination and most importantly, fun!

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