“Meet the Letters” Giveaway
I can’t believe Julia almost missed out on one of the best video learning tools available!!!
These videos should be everywhere… shouting out at parents every direction we turn the way Baby Einstein is. But even though they were created in 2004 and have won tons of huge awards, I still didn’t know about them.
Then thankfully, my mom came across the Preschool Prep Company when she was at the New York Toy Fair in January. When she brought home the Meet the Letters DVD and we put it on for Julia and Jackson to watch, we were thrilled to see how much they both loved it.
The videos are designed for ages 9 months to 5 years and they really can be used for all those ages. Julia who was 1 ½ and Jackson who had just turned 5 both were thrilled with the video and still keep wanting to watch it over and over again.
Soon after we got the entire set – Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, and Meet the Colors. They were all a hit! This Preschool Prep Company DVD series definitely tops the charts for Julia and even Jackson.
The entire set is the perfect gift for a baby shower or a first birthday. The Meet the Letters and Meet the Numbers would also be a wonderful gift for any baby, toddler or preschooler. The colors and shapes are best for children under three.
They are uniquely developed to teach the alphabet (and numbers, shapes and colors) to babies and toddlers while they are learning to talk. But they can be used for any child that has yet to master any of those subjects. One of the reviews listed on their site mentions how the videos “have been embraced by parents of children with special needs.”
Speech and Language Pathologist Shanon Kong said, “The simplicity and repetition along with the bright, fun characters are a perfect combination for teaching children with language or processing difficulties their ABCs.”
We were actually rather surprised by how much Jackson likes watching the Meet the Letters video with Julia. He’s currently in preschool and is learning to read and write. He loves to watch the letters turn into fun little objects and if they are watching it and it is time for him to go home, he always says, “After one more letter… no five more letters.”
“A study of over fifty babies and toddlers, who watched meet the letters 3-5 times a week, resulted in over ninety percent of these children having complete upper and lowercase letter recognition within two months. Many of the older children (ages 2-4) learned in less than two weeks! Most impressively, nearly seventy percent of children under 24 months of age mastered the alphabet.”
As with so many of the brilliant products we feature, Meet the Letters was created by a mom. Kathy Oxley, mother of 4 and founder of Preschool Prep Company, invented the product while teaching her own 14 month old the alphabet. Kathy was on a business trip with husband and her toddler and while watching another popular video about the alphabet, Kathy kept repeating out loud the letters that were coming on the screen. Soon she had taught her toddler the letters, but she couldn’t find a video that taught lower case or that used the simple concept of word repetition. And thus she came up with the concept behind her videos.
We are such fans of this product line, we wish we could give a copy to every little child… but obviously we can’t afford to do that. So we’ll do the next best thing and give a copy of the Meet the Letters DVD to one of you!!!
And yes, this contest is open to all you wonderful Canadians too. Just leave a comment and we will announce the winner next week. You are not required to link back, but you might want to so that your readers can also discover this great series and have a chance to win a copy of Meet The Letters.
143 Comments
How cool is that! We are working letters and phonics with our preschool!
Please enter me!
This looks great! Count me in!
Although I never win anything, I’m going to put my name in for this anyway. It would be such a cool thing to win for my kids. Sign me up!
Am I too late? These look really awesome.
This looks amazing!!! Wow.. I’d love them for my two boys..
Dee- I dont win anything ever either, but i still try
I’ll try to link up if i get a minute away from sick babies
Since there is no way that Parker will be able to go to preschool when he ages out of EI I’ve been looking for great preschool stuff for me to use when homeschooling him. These look great!
I’m in
Yes please!!
Thanks.
Sounds like a great set. My kids love the Baby Einstein stuff & I always wanted there to be more “educational stuff” like letters & numbers.
I haven’t heard of these videos either. What a nice giveaway!
Putting my name in the hat for the draw!
Thanks for sharing another amazing product! In goes my name!!!
Thanks for the heads up! I have an autistic son who loves Baby Einstein, and I think he’ll really love these videos too.
Wow! Those look great. I’m really surprised I hadn’t heard of them already.
This sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing the fun.
Sounds like a neat program!
Count me in. These sound perfect for my 22 month old!
Add me in please!
Very cool. My daughter loves movies, and will sit longer for those that for reading with mommy. So yes please, it could be very beneficial.
This looks great, especially since my daughter is just starting to learn about the alphabet. Count me it.
Please, enter me. Thank you.
Sounds great! I have three toddlers to preschoolers, so count me in.
Sign me up!
Please sign me up.
I am so glad I found this site this evening. I am definately adding you to my favorites! My 2-year old would love these videos.
These look GREAT!! And just when I am ready to start teaching my daughter how to read.
Put us in! What a wonderful prize!
This looks GREAT! Count me in, I would love to win it for my 2 year old and 4 year old!!!
Some early learning sure couldn’t hurt!
Awesome resource, thanks!
I hope I’m not too late to enter this! I would love some educational and fun videos for my little “bear”.
This video looks GREAT! I would love to show it to my son. He absolutely loved the Baby Einstein videos when he was really little.
Sandra (adtake) entering.
Urailak entering.
I just discovered “Meet the Letters” at our local public library. My 2 year old loves them and has almost the entire alphabet down in two weeks!!! She probably knew about 5 of the letters prior to that….I love these and I to am surprised that they have not taken off like Baby Einstein. Could be marketing dollars available? I thought Baby Einstein was owned by Disney. I could be wrong! Thanks for the giveaway! I’ll purchase all the DVDs if I don’t win, but winning is more fun!
I would love to win this dvd. I have a 2 1/2 and a 8 month old. I also work at a daycare and teach 2 year olds. So not only could I use it for my own children, but all the children year after year in my class. Thanks so much for sharing these with me.
looks great. really want to try. count me in please. thanks!
Sign me up please!!
This sounds great..being unemployed and not able to send my soon to daycare.. I figured I would start to teach him myself… this sounds great.
My son loves watching DVDs, so I am hoping a tool like this will engage him more and work better than the flashcards I am using for letter recognition.
I’ve heard that these are great educational videos. Love your website
Seems the DVDs are really good. I wish I can find one before my son’s first Birthday next month.