Special Birthday Month Give-Away - Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1

My grandsons are curious boys who enjoy learning about new things and figuring out how things go together. So, when I saw three new resources from Silver Dolphin I was pretty sure they would be interested in them; and was delighted when Silver Dolphin said they would send them for me to review. When they also said they would make one additional Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1 available for give-away, I was happy to be able to offer another opportunity to you to win.

PLAY-DOH Let's Create: Numbers
Scientriffic: Roller Coaster Science
Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1
Publisher - Silver Dolphin

PLAY-DOH Let's Create: Numbers
Author - Susan Amerikaner
Illustrator - Kara Kenner
Ages - 4+
Favorite Features -

• Set includes board book 
• Six small cans of play-doh
• 10 number molds
• Colorful double-sided play-mat
• 2 extruders
• Story teaches counting and finding specific items and sets of numbers
• Book makes part of box to store everything 

I love this creative and fun set and how it helps little ones learn numbers and counting while they are having fun playing with play-doh. My grandson Caleb especially loved PLAY-DOH Let's Create: Numbers! He had great fun making numbers and matching them to the numbers on the play mat and literally sat for hours playing with this set. PLAY-DOH Let's Create: Numbers would make a wonderful gift for Children's Day (June 8, 2014)!

Silver Dolphin says, "Spend a day at the fair - and learn to count to ten at the same time! PLAY-DOH Let's Create: Numbers is a hands-on educational book and play set which teaches children to count from 1 to 10."

Scientriffic: Roller Coaster Science
Author - Chris Oxlade
Illustrator - Shaw Nielsen
Ages - 7+
Favorite Features -

• Set includes a book with pretty much everything you could ever want to know about roller coasters, how they work and even experiments children can do to understand things like gravity, momentum and more!
• Includes 44 cardboard model pieces and instructions so children can build their own roller-coaster 
• Book has more than 20 science experiments for children to enjoy as they learn!

Summer-time is the time of year when many of us head out with our family for a visit to our favorite amusement park. When our children were young, we took them either to Cedar Point or Great America north of Chicago. Many fun memories were made at these parks! Most kids - and adults, love the roller-coasters, so a book about the science of roller-coasters has to be one which children will find interesting! Scientriffic: Roller Coaster Science is filled with science and fun - a winning combination!

Silver Dolphin says: "Adventurous young learners will lose their marbles when they spend an afternoon with this fun set, all while learning some fascinating science along the way! Using a ball or marble and a small-scale ramp, children are introduced to amazing principles of physics like gravity, momentum, velocity, acceleration, friction, and centripetal force. A unique kit which introduce budding scientists to the fields of physics and engineering, Scientriffic: Roller Coaster Science challenges children to think about scientific principles as they ride on real roller coasters."

Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1
Author - Mary Anne Chmelik
Illustrator - Anastasia Drakova
Ages - 5 - 6
Favorite Features - 

• Includes 32-page phonics book and a 32-page math book, 12 page parent guide, puzzle cards, double-sided bingo cards, game spinner, game markers, snap cubes and one analog clock
• Helps children build skills in addition, subtraction, story problems, measurements, telling time, long and short vowels, nouns and verbs, reading comprehension
• Jungle-themed activities
• Colorful and fun way to help children learn over the summer so they are ready for the Fall!

Josiah is making great progress at sounding out words, spelling and reading, so for him Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1 would be review over the summer before he beings first grade in the Fall, but definitely a fun way to review and keep his skills over the summer! I love all the different components of Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1 . . . so many fun ways to review and learn and enjoy doing so!

Silver Dolphin said, "Simply by playing, children can build skills in addition, subtraction, story problems, measurement, telling time, long and short vowels, nouns and verbs, and reading comprehension. Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun is a smart way to sharpen the minds of first-graders, helping young learners strengthen many basic skills and concepts while having fun and building confidence."

I'm very happy to say, not only did Silver Dolphin send me one Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1 for review, but they are making another available for me to give away (USA only)! If you are over the age of 18 and would like to be in the drawing for Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1, which will be on May 29, 2014, you may enter by commenting below to let me know what your favorite subject was in school when you were a child; I loved reading, writing and history . . . so I guess this was more than just one subject!!!

Additional entries in this give-away are available if you follow on Google+, Google Friend Connect, follow by liking on facebook with the tab at this link (not just liking the post) and/or have followed grandma's cookie jar by email. For each of these which you have done you will receive one entry. In addition, if you "share" this post, you'll receive an additional entry (please let me know if you share!) This will help me be able to draw names from among people who would like to win Skill Sharpeners Math and Phonics Fun: Grade 1 and it gives you several ways to enter the give-away! Thank you for reading grandma's cookie jar and for sharing it with the people you know!