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Going back to school….with gears!

G loves gears. The Christmas after he turned three, he simply asked Santa for “gears.” We recently adopted a family dog, and G named him Pushbutton, “because,” he said, “I like buttons…and machines….and gears.”

Toys involving gears are terrific for building left-brained problem-solving and construction skills, as well as cause and effect learning. Any construction sets, including this one, are great fine-motor skill builders.

Learning Resources’ Gears! Gears! Gears! sets are right up his alley….and would intrigue and entertain any building set-loving, technically-minded kid. And this summer, just in time for the new school year ahead, Learning Resources debuted their newest Gears! Gears! Gears! playset: The Gears! Gears! Gears! School Set!

The pieces (over 60 in all) are thick, durable, super-colorful plastic that assembled painlessly and snapped together easily.

The color-coded directions were easy to follow. To boost creativity, this set can be reconfigured and rearranged to create different play scenes every time!

The schoolhouse has a dry-erase surface with a blackboard inside that can be written on and erased over and over again. And when class is over, there’s a fantastic playground “outside” the schoolhouse for recess!

Both our 3-year-old and almost-5-year-old love tinkering with the gears, letting the plastic “classmates” play and learn on a miniature scale. The Gears! Gears! Gears! School Set is recommended for ages 4-8. It retails for $34.99 and is fully compatible with other Gears! sets by Learning Resources. You can purchase this set directly from Learning Resources’ online store or at several local-to-you retailers (you can use the handy store locator here).

Win it! Thanks to Learning Resources, one of you can win a Gears! Gears! Gears! School Set for your own kids to enjoy! Just browse around at the other terrific Learning Resources products and tell me in one comment another product you or your kids would love. I’ll close the contest next Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 11pm EST. Sorry; US entries only. Good luck!

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

Congratulations to commenter #19, Sheila, the lucky winner!

Wow – there’s so much to choose from! I think Josiah would like the Let’s Tackle Math Patterning and Sequencing Set. Lots of very neat products!

The Teaching Cash Register looks like fun!

mfalcon13@hotmail.com

I used to get catalogs from Learning Resources. Their products are fantastic.
Another item that would make learning fun is the “A Bee C Buzz!” Many thanks, Cindi

The Geosafari talking microscope would be a huge hit in our house. Great giveaway!

I like the Over & Under the Sea™ Mat

What great stuff! I think my son would really like the Smart Toss™ Bean Bag Tossing Game

My kids would have so much fun learning with the ABC Chalk Talk!® Electronic Learning Chalkboard

My space-crazy little boy would love the
Planet Quest™ Game! Thanks for the chance!

I like ScienceDiction™ Vocabulary Game.

janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com

Our little one would enjoy this mat because she LOVES the ocean:

Over & Under the Sea™ Mat

Shapes ahoy! Dive into early learning games and make music.
3-6 years
$39.99

I love Alphabet Marks the Spot! So cool!

i like the Pretend & Play® Doctor Set

I like the teaching cash register. There are so many neat things! The gears would be perfect for my son. Thanks for the giveaway.

Christy
sheridesthatbigredhonda@yahoo.com

Would like the Over & Under the Sea™ Mat

My kids would love the Play Foam Creative Kit. So cool!

i have 4 kids and we all love chalk art so i would love 2 win the ABC chalk art

oooOOOoo…the hot dots pens and accessories looks like some fun learning!

My son would love the Gears! Gears! Gears!® Old McGear’s Farm… I think we found his bday present!

I like the Teaching Cash Register to help with adding and subtracting.

Pretend & Play® Bakery Set looks like so much fun. My daughter loves to play in her kitchen

My daughter would also like the Rainbow Peg Play™ Activity Set

Any of the PlayFoam sets would be nice. Thanks for the great giveaway.

My son plays with Gears at therapy and would love his own set. Another product I’d like for him is the Alphabet Fun Frog.

I like the Gears! Gears! Gears!® Old McGear’s Farm™

My son would love the Pretend and Play Camp Set. He loooves the idea of camping!

There are so many great things here. I like the Pretend & Play Meal Time Play Set.

My daughter would love The Teaching Cash Register.

I like the idea of Funny Phone™ Early Listening Game for my nephew. It will make him quick-witted.

My kids would love the Teaching Cash Register.

My son would love these. He’s always building “machines” out of something. He’d also like the Gears! Gears! Gears!® Illuma•Bot™.
iluvchrisnlevi@aol.com

I like the Talking Telescope.

My son would love the GeoSafari Light Writer too!

I think we’d really enjoy the Moose Track Math Bingo!!

Let’s Tackle The ABC’s would be perfect for Parker!

And he would love the gears as well!

As my son has a suspected Auditory Processing Disorder, I think that ”
Reading Rods® Phonics Activity Set: Letters & Sounds” would be really beneficial for him. He could use it to comprehend words as well as use the pen to write them (using fine motor skills that he needs too).

All the toys and learning products look excellent and most have good reviews.

My guys would love the teaching cash register.

denise_22315(at)yahoo(dot)com

I like the number knockout electronic math game. My grandson is almost ready for it and I think he would love it.

Teaching Cash Register for us!

Thanks!

I think our little guy would like the Smart Safari Piano Pal Hippo. Very cool products.

My daughter would love the Pretend & Play Bakery Set. She loves to “bake!”

My son would love the Jumbo Insects.

Love the Marvelous Mosaics Set!

I really like the sciencediction vocabulary game. It would be a fun way to learn, Thanks

My son would love the Pretend and Play Doctor Kit. I thinkI am going to have to get this for him.