Lizzy wrote:

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daisy wrote:

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i am reading the christmas thread right now and i am totally ????? about this tag reader thing? and leapster? i'm SO OUT OF IT.
i dont get out shopping much at all (besides for clothes :bag)
so can someone give me the rundown?
for tag stuff, you need all special books? that seems like a major resource drain? :help
what else am i missing out on??
my poor kids are going to be so out of it...

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I feel the same way...but we do have the tag reader.  It is really nice!  I think that it is something that can grow with your child...but if Rachel is already reading, I am not sure - Ivy likes it alot and she is not reading yet.

 

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R can read but she's not all that interested. she figured out how to read really early and now seems to be taking a break from the whole thing, though if i ask her to read a word, she'll do it.  since she's not showing a natural interest right now, i havent been pressing it.  i am sure the interest will come back, and it's still so early!

what does it do, just like follows along the words adn reads the book outloud? clueless over here.

Lizzy wrote:

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daisy wrote:

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Lizzy wrote:

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daisy wrote:

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i am reading the christmas thread right now and i am totally ????? about this tag reader thing? and leapster? i'm SO OUT OF IT.
i dont get out shopping much at all (besides for clothes :bag)
so can someone give me the rundown?
for tag stuff, you need all special books? that seems like a major resource drain? :help
what else am i missing out on??
my poor kids are going to be so out of it...

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I feel the same way...but we do have the tag reader.  It is really nice!  I think that it is something that can grow with your child...but if Rachel is already reading, I am not sure - Ivy likes it alot and she is not reading yet.

 

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R can read but she's not all that interested. she figured out how to read really early and now seems to be taking a break from the whole thing, though if i ask her to read a word, she'll do it.  since she's not showing a natural interest right now, i havent been pressing it.  i am sure the interest will come back, and it's still so early!

what does it do, just like follows along the words adn reads the book outloud? clueless over here.

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it has sounds when you touch the page with the pen (it will also read the whole page if you press a button)....so weird to explain.  if you want, when don gets home, I can take a short vid of it w/ ivy.  she has two books right now...that could get expensive as each book costs around 14.00 (you buy the book and download the audio into the pen and the pen holds up to 5 books at a time - the newer ones hold 10. 

 

 

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cool, if you have a chance, i'd love to see that.  i was just watching demos online but i'm still not totally getting it.

Lizzy wrote:

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Kelly....here is what it looks like, etc.  (it was really hard to show b/c she usually likes to do more with it than just read the pages, but of course, when I am taping her she doesn't :eyeroll

fwiw, I like it alot...but I would  not have paid $50 for it.

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