Meet the Letters

This will not keep your childs attention and will bore you to tears. The Letter Factory from Leap Frog is much better!!

I never thought I'd say this about something my son watches on television, but the Preschool Prep Series products are fantastic. My little guy has gone through the numbers, colors, shapes, and letters and really has learned all of them. He's only 22 months and has complete letter recognition, shape recognition, can count to 20, and identifies colors accurately. The DVD's can be watched in segments or for the entire 30-40 minutes. As we introduced each new DVD, he was a not quite as interested as in the previous one but by the second or third time, he really enjoyed it and started identifying the material.

As a teacher, I highly recommend this product. The pace is slow with simple colors and melodies. My son has been able to generalize his new skills into early reading and play. Meet the sight words is next and we are very excited to watch him learn!

I got this video for my 2 year old daughter. She could sing the alphabet song but could not identify most letters. I think she watched this video 4-5 times and can now identify every letter in the alphabet. I was shocked!!!! She would ask to watch "letters" over and over. I cannot rave about this product enough. We also got "Meet the Numbers" and I have seen the same thing. She gets excited to see numbers everywhere we go and wants to tell me which number is which. Its so exciting to see her learn and enjoy it.
If you are going to put a movie on for your kids to watch--they might as well learn something. I would highly recommend this series of videos!!!

The first impression I had was "How Annoying!" It really just repeats the names of the letters in the same boring voice (most of the time anyway) while changing the look of the letters. HOWEVER, it IS very helpful with learning letters. During the first viewing, my 22 month old immediately started repeating what they were saying. Frankly, I was surprised. I didn't think she could say all of the sounds. I don't always show the entire alphabet but the DVD gives you the option to start it at the beginning, middle, or end of the alphabet. (For shorter attention spans) Also, I discovered later, that if the sequential alphabet gets on your nerves too much.. .you can just put on the flashcard part. I find this much more tolerable. The voices are "fun" and they randomly pick the letters. If you're looking for good practice with the letters then I recommend it.

My 18m old started watching this DVD, along with shapes, letters and colors at 16m. She now knows all her colors, can count to 10 and has all letter recognition. My friends and family are amazed with what she knows at such a young age. The characters are cute and colorful but not over the top. Some kids like it and some kids don't depending on their attention span. My daughter actually asks for this DVD over mickey mouse, dora etc. I also purchased all the books to go along with the DVD's. They are also her favorite books. She loves to lift the flaps. I would suggest buying one and seeing if your child is engaged. . if she is I suggest buying the whole series.