Comments on: one more thing!

By: john edelson

john edelson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:40:05 +0000

When we started Time4Learning, we talked about the materials as learning or educational games. Pretty quickly, we realized that this set the wrong expectation. Kids who thought it was going to be “fun like a game” were disappointed.

Now, we talk about Time4Learning as the most fun part of a day of learning. It’s curriculum but unlike workbooks or text books, it’s interactive and in that sense, kids thinks its - as you put it - more fun than other types of studying.

You put it very well.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:15:26 +0000

I am in total agreement here! For some kids, nothing will be fun enough.

After I wrote this post, I wondered if I shouldn’t have written it. Then I went the message board and saw a post saying something along the lines of “my child Loooves t4l!!” lol

So I knew it was a good point to make.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:52:53 +0000

Jennifer,

This is a very valid point and one that I had trouble with earlier this semester.

My first grader LOVES T4L and has worked through all of the K lessons, most of the 1st grade lessons and some of the 2nd grade lessons just since January. I definitely have had to reel him in. LOL

My 4th grader really enjoys parts of T4L, but he dislikes reading. He reads at grade level, but it is he least favorite thing to do. He is truly an artist to the core. I made the mistake of pulling his T4L account because of his protests over all the reading (Peedy didn’t cut the mustard with him for long).

I soon realized that T4L was the better choice for him. Nothing is going to make him happy other than drawing all day!