Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Grand Finale #1 ~ Itty Bitty Bookworm CLOSED


For those of you who do not know, I am a former Kindergarten teacher and I have an early childhood education degree. Teaching young kiddos is my speciality and I love it! When Tara from Itty Bitty Bookworm offered to send me both the Bo and Bailey curriculum to review I was thrilled! I have heard a lot about it and was very curious!

The CD arrived, containing an entire year's worth for both age groups and I began browsing through it all. Without being long-winded, I will tell you that this is an extremely developmentally appropriate program, which exposes young kids to the joys of early literacy. I was beyond impressed with the many resources offered. It gives you everything you need, besides the books themselves (which you can easily find at the library!). It is thorough not only in the lessons themselves bu also in educating you, the teacher/parent, about young children. It was basically my college education all wrapped up in a nice little package!!!

The curriculum is written for a group setting so it does take some minor adapting for a homeschooling mom, but it worked fine for us! The books featured are wonderful, and I had a hard time choosing 1 to work with for our review!

Krash is 3, I knew I could choose from either program, so I decided on Is Your Mama a Llama (from Bo, year 1, February) and chose a few of the activities to do for our Tot School time, which ended up including Pac Man too since it was fun and artsy! This was an awesome activity and one I would have never thought of on my own! We made silhouette paintings using templates provided on the CD, for each animal in the book!

It was a fun activity and we have done a few others too and will certainly be doing more! The Cd's we have now are FULL of great ideas and book extensions. I am so excited to have this awesome resource for our homeschool.

Tara has generously offered to give one of my readers an entire year's worth of either the Bo (ages 3-5) or the Bailey(18-36 mos) curriculum!!!! This is a $300 value!!!!

Mandatory Entry...

In a comment tell us why you want to win this curriculum and which you would choose (Bo or Bailey).

After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by doing any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...
  1. If you sign up for Itty Bitty Bookworm's newsletter (scroll down), give yourself an extra entry!
  2. If you follow IBB on Facebook, extra entry!
  3. If you follow IBB/Tara on Twitter, extra entry!
  4. If you subscribe/follow Raising Itty Bitty Bookworm's blog, extra entry!
  5. If you follow 1+1+1=1 on Facebook, extra entry!
  6. If you will post about your win and Itty Bitty Bookworm on your blog, if you win, give yourself an extra entry!
This Giveaway is open for anyone...
USA will get the CD in the mail, international will get downloadable files emailed!


I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS October 18, 2009. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.

See general 1000 Subscribers Celebration Guidelines Here! This giveaway is the first of our Grand Finale giveaways, so everyone is eligible to win, even past winners during our celebration!

412 comments:

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A Learning Journey said...

I am following Tara (Itty Bitty Bookworm) on Twitter. I am trying everything in hopes to win.
tlmswt2000@msn.com
Tracey

A Learning Journey said...

I am following "Raising Itty Bitty Bookworms" blog.
tlmswt2000@msn.com
Tracey

A Learning Journey said...

I became a fan of 1+1+1=1 on Facebook.
Tracey
tlmswt2000@msn.com

A Learning Journey said...

I have posted a comment on my blog about the IBB giveaway and will definitely post again if I won the curriculum!!!! http://totplay.blogspot.com/
Tracey
tlmswt2000@msn.com

Natalie said...

I would love to win the Bo curriculum to do with my 3 year old who I am starting to do some "tot school" with! I just love doing activities with him and often lack planning time.

Natalie said...

Of course I would blog about IBB & my wonderful prize if I won!

Dianna@KennedyAdventures said...

I would love to win this .... I'm attempting to homeschool my 3 small children -- my 3.5 year old daughter, as well as my 17 month old twin sons.

I would choose the Bo curriculum.

Dianna@KennedyAdventures said...

I follow IBB on Facebook - Dianna Kennedy

Dianna@KennedyAdventures said...

I follow IBB on Twitter -diannakennedy

Dianna@KennedyAdventures said...

I follow 1+1+1=1 on Facebook : Dianna Kennedy

Dianna@KennedyAdventures said...

I follow IBB's blog in Google Reader

Granola said...

I would choose the Bailey program. I don't have anything formal planned for that age range and I have a little one coming up on 18 months. I like what Carisa said about it being an education for the parent as well. Thank you for such an exciting give-away!

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