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Awesome tool for the classroom
By Ms. A.
from Jefferson City, MO
About Me Education Oriented
Comments about Hot Dots® Jr. Let's Master Kindergarten Reading:
Hot Dots Jr. Reading has been fabulous for my Kindergartners. They use it independently with very little help from me. They like that it tells them if they are correct or incorrect. The skills are tied to our Learning Objectives and are age-appropriate. I have two children work on the Hot Dots Jr. together during centers time. It really is a "Top Choice" in my classroom.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Perfect for Learning to Read!
By Amy D
from Massachusetts
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
I dont know about you but there are so many Kindergarten work books out there that tend to waste a ton of paper. I bought several for my daughter but since she was practicing I didn't want her permanently marking the pages. That is why i now prefer this reading set. It is essentially similar to the typical K reading workbooks, but rather than mark the pages, your child just has to touch the pen to the answers. My daughter has been learning so much, and it is surprising me so I am thankful to have this easy to use set!! Plus, the blue puppy is really cute! It requires 2 AAA batteries that are not included.
Teacher Approved Resource!
By Chad
from Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Me Education Oriented, Kindergarten Teacher
The Hot Dots Jr. Let's Master Kindergarten Reading kit from Educational Insights is a definite buy for any incoming or current Kindergartener. As a Kindergarten teacher, my students absolutely loved this kit. The kit comes with two, durable, high quality books and a talking, teaching dog pen named Ace!I use the reading kit in my daily classroom centers. My students love the automatic feedback Ace gives when they identify the correct answer. The students enjoyed the Hot Dots Jr. so much that they often think they're just playing a fun game, but little do they know, they're learning too! This kit is a great independent center activity that works on many of the skills taught in Kindergarten. I absolutely love how this kit provides 15 challenging reading lessons for advanced learners too! The books provide a lot of letter and sound recognition that is great for beginning readers. It is easy to transport and can easily fit into any bag, purse, backpack, etc. for great activities on the go!Overall, I would highly recommend this kit to any parent, teacher, or child. My students were so eager to learn with the Hot Dots Jr. Reading Kit and I love it too!
Help Your Child Find A Love For Learning
By CrissaR
from Utah
The Hot Dots Jr. Kindergarten Reading set is a great way to continue to work with you child after school without them feeling like they are doing worksheets or homework. It will help them with small words, sounds, punctuation, and grammar. I am a firm believer that parents need to put in time with their children outside of school to not only help them learn but help them find a love for learning. Using this set will give your child the knowledge they need to feel successful in school. Ace the Talking Dog pen helps them know if their answers are correct or not but does not take the place of a parent. This set has instructions and problems that parents should be explain and help coach their child through.
Help reinforce and teach reading skills!
By Alexandra Young
from New Jersey
About Me Stay At Home Parent
I received this Hot Dots product from Educational Insights to conduct a review. All opinions of this product are my own.My daughter is in kindergarten and learning constantly how to say new words. We absolutely love this Kindergarten reading Hot Dots Jr set! She loves being able to do the activities to see how to spell words. In two books there are over 85 different lessons teacihing different types of lessons such as letter recognition, sight words, phonics, and more. I love that this set puts her ahead of where she should be in class and also helps to reinforce the things that she learns in class.
Great Learning tool!
By Julie M
from West Seneca NY
About Me First Time Parent, Stay At Home Parent
I got the Hot Dots Jr. Let's Master Kindergarten Reading kit for my son and I love it! It comes with the Ace the Talking Teaching Dog Hot Dots Pen and two of the Hot Dots workbooks. There is so much for my son to do in the workbooks, it has questions and each has a multiple choice answers with a black dot next to it. Then my son just uses the Hot Dots pen to pick his answer. When he gets the right answer the pen turns green and when it is wrong it turns red.He really enjoys school work so this is great to keep him learning. So this is a great way to continue learning when he is not in school. It is really easy to use. He is learning letter recognition, reading readiness, phonics, sight words, punctuation & grammar. And it is all fun so he doesn't even think of it as learning, which is great for me. There are over 100 lessons so he doesn't get bored with it. This is worth every penny! I really love the Hot Dots jr collection!
Wonderful for Kindergarteners
By Mary
from Omaha, Nebraska
About Me Education Oriented, Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent
I received Hot Dots Jr. Let's Master Kindergarten Reading free for review. All opinions are my own.Hot Dots Jr. Let's Master Kindergarten Reading includes Ace the Talking Teaching Dog Hot Dots Pen and two Hot Dots workbooks. The workbooks include questions, and multiple choice answers with a black dot next to each possible response. Your child will use the Hot Dots pen to select an answer by vertically pressing down on one of the dots. If the answer is correct a positive reinforcement will be heard and the pen will light up green. If the answer is wrong, a try again message will sound and the pen will light up red. The Kindergarten Reading books cover topics such as letter recognition, reading readiness, phonics, sight words as well as punctuation and grammar. My 6 year old started with the Kindergarten Reading books to see how she could do and flew through them. She was done in less than 30 minutes with both books. She immediately grabbed the 1st grade reading books to try out after that which gave her more of a challenge. My 4 year old started out with the Pre-K Reading books, got through them with some concentration and then moved on to the Kindergarten books to give them a spin. They were just a bit too hard for her. She could get through most of Kindergarten book 1, but then had trouble with book 2. With both of these age assessments on my kids I would agree with their placement of age 5+ on the Kindergarten reading set. Overall this is a great supplemental kit for teaching kindergarten age kids reading. The pages are durable and made to last through repeated use. These books can be used as a teaching tool and as a review for previous concepts to reinforce those ideas. I recommend this kit to anyone with a kindergarten aged child. It's a great introduction to math for them.
Reading Fun with Ace
By Mulholland Family
from Michigan
Ace makes learning fun with this continuation of reading introduction. With 100 lessons they will be kept busy and ask to keep "working" because they are enjoying the fun. Must have to add on to other Hot Dot Jr. sets you may already own.
Helps Prepare For Kindergarten!
By Miss Frugal Mommy
from Georgia
My four year old son will be starting kindergarten next fall and I wanted to start preparing him. This his been a fantastic resource to help introduce him to the things he will need to know when starting kindergarten. He always is much more engaged in learning activities that are fun and Hot Dots Jr. is exactly that... fun! This has helped build his confidence and is something he know asks to use, instead of having to be told it's learning time. Such a great product that I highly recommend!
Better than an app!
By Maine Mummy
from Maine
We used this set to follow on from the Hot Dots Pre K set and it was a really nice build on to the earlier books. My son had raced through the Pre K set no problem, and it illustrated which letters he struggled with. I found that working through the Kindergarten set (he just started Kindergarten this year) really let me see how far along he has come since September and identify more clearly what he needs to work on, and what he is simply lazy with. The activities are a little more challenging than the Pre-K set, which definitely helped hold his attention. He did start to get frustrated doing the whole alphabet through for each activity, but he never tires of using the puppy pen, and so it was no trouble to keep going. He would switch out with the Owl from his fairy tales set, and thought that was hilarious. We go through this about once a week, and he still enjoys the activities. The mechanism of Hot Dots is really great for his age group, and I enjoy doing this with him, more than I have enjoyed some of the apps we purchased him for our Ipad. The physicality of it is a bonus, holding an actual book and an actual pen with him feels much nicer than swiping the screen. I like that it is tactile in its approach to learning.
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me and jim bean and jack Daniel were discussing world politics when the war of 1812 came up for discussion.
the redcoats burned washington DC to the ground back then . if the red coats burned washington DC to the ground and beheaded a few corrupt politicians today they might be helping rather than hurting the USA, however i think the next invasion will also be a war of occupation, they are coming to stay this time around.
with the sorry state the country is in today if the US continues to crumble away, i am sure some other foreign power will decide to just walk in and take what they want.
the question is how long before the US is invaded by a foreign power through collusion or direct force??
with canada and mexico "helping" , south america filling up with with immigrants, i don't think the country as we know it has got all that long.
how many years you think before the mullas take over?

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The council unanimously approved the first reading of Ordinance 2013-11, which prohibits unclothed acts in commercial establishments within the city limits.
Fines for violation will be $250 on first offense, $500 on second and the fine for the third offense will not be less than $750 but not more than $2,500.
Columbia City Mayor Ryan Daniel said this ordinance was a matter of the city attempting to get ahead of a problem rather than be behind it.
"The city of Angola has had quite a fight on their hands recently as far as strip clubs are concerned," he said. "They are slightly smaller than us, population-wise."
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"Instead of fighting this after the fact and having a situation to handle with the press, we thought we would move forward with the ordinance," Daniel said. "I think it fits the profile of our community. Residents, both young and old, talk about how nice and wholesome the community is, you see family values here."


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HAZARD – A familiar name for Kentucky high school basketball fans will take the reins as head coach of the Perry Central Commodores next season, as Shannon Hoskins was officially hired for the job on Wednesday.
Hoskins, a standout guard for Clay County High School in the 1990s, was rumored to have been at the top of the list for replacing Kevin Spurlock, who announced last month that he would no longer coach at Perry Central after one season. Hoskins has served as an assistant coach at Perry Central for the past five years under coaches Spurlock and Allan Hatcher, and will be the third head coach in as many years for the Commodores.
He said on Wednesday that he's ready to get started on a new season.
"Perry Central, in my estimation, is one of the top two or three jobs in the mountains, and I'm really excited about it," Hoskins said.
Fans of the Commodores are used to winning seasons. Since 2008, Perry Central has amassed a 134-53 record, reaching the 14th Region finals five times and the Sweet 16 once in 2011. Under coaches Hatcher and Spurlock, the Commodores were able to win with a methodical half-court offense and a focus on the defensive end. Hoskins said he has an offense he prefers to run, but he won't know what sort of system he will implement until he meets his team.
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Unlike some of the other professional sports franchises across the country, Thanksgiving provided Valley athletes with a complete day of rest.
And in the midst of their respective grueling seasons or even offseasons, it's always interesting to see how a 'day off' is spent.
Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald will try to help Arizona snap a six-game losing streak Sunday. But that didn't keep him from giving back Thursday.
@larryfitzgerald and Jerry, our dining room manager. Thanks for serving today Larry! twitter.com/SVdP/status/27�— St. Vincent de Paul (@SVdP) November 22, 2012
Suns rookie guard Kendall Marshall is adjusting to pro life in just his first month in the league. So with no practice on Thursday, he chose to catch up on some much-needed TV time.
Big Bang Theory season 1 and 2 for me today. oh yes #TheLife— Kendall Marshall (@KButter5) November 22, 2012
Once a kicker always a kicker for Jay Feely. Even away from the office, Feely couldn't help but feel for fellow kickers Jason Hanson and Shane Graham during the highs-and-lows of the Texans' 34-31 overtime victory.
Anyone who says kicking is easy; Shane Graham knows if he misses this kick his career may be over. That's pressure!— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) November 22, 2012
The Cardinals Calais Campbell may return Sunday after missing last week's game against the Falcons. But on Thursday, all the defensive end could think about were the fans.
Happy thanksgiving to everyone! I am thankful to be a Cardinal and have the best fans in the business cheering me on every week— Calais Campbell (@Campbell93) November 22, 2012
Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton didn't have time to keep up with any potential trade rumors. He had enough on his hands playing with his nephew.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone - thankful for family time and my nephew Riley #futurefirstrounder twitter.com/JUS10UP10/stat�—Justin Upton (@JUS10UP10) November 23, 2012
Cardinals rookie wide receiver Michael Floyd has come a long way from his childhood days in Saint Paul, Minnesota. But when families get together, photo albums usually come out. Here's a throwback of Floyd.
#tbt family looking at old pics back at the crib. twitter.com/MichaelMFloyd/�— MichaelFloyd (@MichaelMFloyd) November 23, 2012
And then there's Suns guard Goran Dragic. The Slovenian didn't have a traditional Thanksgiving Day feast. Instead of turkey, pumpkin pie and stuffing, Dragic opted for a more unconventional choice.
Last time I eat cotton candy I was 5 years old :) twitter.com/Goran_Dragic/s�— Goran Dragic (@Goran_Dragic) November 22, 2012
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