Me and Marie Learning Review and Giveaway

Introduction:  Ashley is currently an at-home mom with her beautiful and very active daughter.  She taught first grade in the past and holds a degree in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education.  Ashley also has a Master's Degree in Reading and Literacy.  She loves spending time with her family and friends and creating games and resources for teaching little ones. 

Ashley blogs at Me & Marie where you can find tons of great ideas for teaching your little ones. Ashley also has an online shop where you can purchase fun and educational activities for helping your children learn.

Selection: The Me & Marie Learning Shop is filled with adorable games, pretend play props, learning packs, story units and more. You can also purchase packs for preschool circle time. Ashley also offers seasonal learning packs, a dollar section and several freebies as well. All of the items in the Me & Marie Learning Shop are available for immediate download as a PDF file.

Here is a small sampling of the wonderful products you can purchase and download from the Me & Marie Learning Shop.

Months and Days Poster

 On the Go I Spy Cards

The Color Red Learning Pack

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Story Unit

Review:  We received an Alphabet Pups Baggie Game as well as a Letter Cc and Letter Ii Learning Pack from Me & Marie Learning.

The Alphabet Pups Baggie Game is fun, educational and fits inside a sandwich bag. This pack includes the following three games.

Pup Letter Sort: Sort Uppercase and Lowercase letters

Bow Wow Letter Puzzles: Match up tops and bottoms of uppercase letters

Find the bone Match: Match uppercase to lowercase letters

We easily downloaded this game pack and printed the pages on white cardstock. For extra durability you can laminatethe pages (something on my to do list).

I love these games from Me & Marie Learning and the kids have really enjoyed them as well. 

Ashley's Letter Learning Packs are packed full of wonderful resources and activities for young children. Here's a list from Me & Marie Learning of what is included in the Letter Learning Packs.

Letters, Letters, OH MY! Check out all the GREAT materials in this pack at a great price!

Label: This label is for you to use when storing the letter materials. Consider storing each letter in a different bag, file folder or notebook. Use this label to quickly identify which letter is being stored.

Large Letters: An uppercase and lowercase letter is included in the pack. Decorate these letters with the ideas given.

Letter Picture Cards: Four picture cards displaying pictures of items using the target letter of the alphabet.

Letter Poem: A great poem to read together! It is short, easy and contains pictures! Consider having your child highlight all the target letters with a highlighter. Display on the fridge or bathroom mirror and recite often!

Letter Snack and Sensory Ideas: This page of the pack contains a snack recipe focused on the target letter for you and your little one to do together. A Sensory Table idea sheet is also included giving ideas of materials you can put in your sensory tub that start with the target letter.

Letter Book: A fun, repetitive, rhyming book to create together.

Dot Paint Letters: These letters were created to be used with Dot Paints.

Letter Flipbook: A repetitive and easy to assemble flipbook focusing on the target letter. Your child will be able to help read this book with the accompanying pictures.

Letter Hunt: Search for letters in many different places! Look on food packaging, mail, magazines and newspapers for the target letter. Then, glue the letters you found on this Letter Hunt sheet.

Letter Puzzles: Mix up and piece the letters back together! Letter Lacing: Get out the string or yarn for lacing fun! To prepare, hole punch each gray dot on the uppercase and lowercase letters. Have your child lace around each letter going in and out of each hole.

Letter Size Up: Help your little one order the capital letters by size. Letter Sort: Sort the target letter by lowercase or uppercase. Use the sorting mat included.

Letter Writing: Pre-writing and letter writing practice page. Start at the top of the page and help your child practice the strokes needed to form the target letter. Once he or she has mastered the strokes, move on to tracing the letters. After your child shows confidence in tracing the letters, have them create their own letters using the last line of the page.

Letter Match Up: Practice matching uppercase to lowercase with this fun game.

Puppet: Make a puppet to focus on the target letter. Follow the directions on the puppet page to create.

 Here's a look inside the Letter Cc and Letter Ii Learning Packs that we received.

  

  

We printed most of these pages on white cardstock(the ones that would be reused). We've also laminatedseveral items to help them last even longer.

Emahry has really enjoyed these sets, she especially likes all the colorful pieces. Jonathan's favorite activities right now are the do-a-dot pages.

Buy It: You can purchase your own Baggie Game Set from Me & Marie Learning for only $3.00. The Learning Packs are also only $3.00 a piece.

Win It: Ashley would like to offer our readers a chance to win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Me & Marie Learning Shop. 

To Enter This Giveaway:

Mandatory
1. Visit the shop, then come back and tell us one item that Me & Marie Learning carries that you'd love to have.

Make sure you leave an email address with each entry if it is not posted in your profile. (If we don't have your email address we will have to choose a new winner.)

For additional entries you may do any (or all) of the following. Please leave a separate comment for each entry. If you complete one of the following that is worth more than one entry, please leave the corresponding number of comments so your extra entries will be counted!

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5. Tweet about this giveaway ~ leave the URL to your tweet & include @heart4home & #Giveaway. (1 entry) Feel free to use this tweet: Win a $10 GC to Me & Marie, Educational Preschool Activities @heart4home #giveaways #homeschool http://tinyurl.com/478nsf7 Ends 4/13

The giveaway will end Wednesday, April 13th at 11:59pm EST. We will pick the winner through random.org.

Photo Credit: Me & Marie Learning and A Heart for Home

(While the product review was provided for A Heart for Home, no other compensation was given. All remarks are the personal and honest opinions of A Heart for Home. The prize for this giveaway will been supplied and shipped by the sponsor. A Heart for Home is not responsible for any unsent, lost or damaged prizes.)

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