New Music Presentations are available:

• Encyclopedic Knowledge – Music: Musical Instruments 1 (includes facts and sounds; available files in English, Russian and Bilingual). (5/20/2009)

New presentations for the color concepts in specific colors:

• Encyclopedic Knowledge – Art: Masterpieces in Yellow . With illustrations & paintings info. (5/17/2009)
• Encyclopedic Knowledge – Art: Masterpieces in Red . With illustrations & paintings info. (5/15/2009)

New presentations for teaching kids to read in English and Russian:

• Teach Your Child to read… in English: Couplets 10 – objects 2 & colors . With illustrations & sounds. (5/13/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in Russian: Syllables with B – ba, bo, bu… words, images, and sentences with those syllables . With illustrations. (5/13/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in Russian: Syllables with Yo – pyo, ryo, syo… up to zcyo + words, images and sentences with those syllables . With illustrations. (5/12/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in Russian: Syllables with Yo – byo, vyo, gyo… up to nyo + words, images and sentences with those syllables . With illustrations. (5/12/2009)

Hm, apparently I should have changed the fonts for my kid a while ago: he can read small letters in A.P.P.’s presentations without problem (available here: Fantastic Collection of Presentations by A.P.P.)! Yet, I am reducing font sizes and changing colors gradually for everyone’s sake:

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Some more English words and couplets for everybody to enjoy!

• Teach Your Child to read… in English: Couplets 9: body parts 2 & opposites 1 . With illustrations & sounds. (5/1/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in English: Couplets 8: animals & colors . With illustrations & sounds. (5/1/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in English: Introductory Single Words – Actions 2 . With illustrations & sounds. (5/1/2009)

For those who are teaching Spanish:

• Teach Your Child to read… in Spanish: Couplets 7 – foods and colors. With illustrations, word reading & animal sounds. (4/28/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in Spanish: Animals 2 – Animals on the Farm . With illustrations, word reading & animal sounds. (4/28/2009)

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Thanks to A.P.P. and Isa for these amazing presentations!

• Encyclopedic Knowledge – Geography: What the World Looks Like 1. Beautiful presentation with sounds! Thanks to A.P.P.!!! (4/25/2009)
• Encyclopedic Knowledge – Geography: Capitals of All World Countries. Incredible bilingual presentations in English and German. Includes randomizer, pictures of those countries and their location on the map. Thanks to Isa!!! (4/25/2009)

Thanks to Tamsyn for sharing!
I recently purchased this and my little one loves these videos so I thought I’d recommend them. My Mom bought these on VHS 10 years ago and it helped my siblings learn to read. The pros are they have great voice talents and they use real music (not digitalized) including classical music excepts. I even chose a song from these videos for my Jr recital at the University. The music is great. The other pro is the cost, 4 DVDs for $10. The cons are that it’s an older video and the animation reflects that. Also from the phonetic sense they teach that L says “la” and not just “l” by itself, which is contrary to how I’m teaching Peter his letters. But that’s a minute point. For the songs, they sing it once, then speak it once while showing the words and highlighting the word. Then they sing it with the text below. Then they sing it in the foreighn language it originated from, if applicable. I don’t get anything from this, I’m just a happy customer
sharing what I found. The seller has a few of these.

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New Geography presentations were kindly shared by Isa. All of the presentations are bilingual and include randomizer (based on palmchristi template). Thank you very much Isa for an amazing collection of presentations!

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