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Recently the opportunity came up to review the Preschool Curriculum by La La Logic through the Schoolhouse Review Crew. My younger daughter loves to “do school” and especially loves the computer. Since I tend to concentrate more on her older sister’s schoolwork, we both really looked forward to spending some focused time together.
La La Logic Preschool Curriculum
The Preschool Curriculum from La La Logic is an online logic program for preschoolers based upon childhood IQ tests. It helps children from ages 4-6 learn problem solving skills and includes both online and offline learning activities. The program gets progressively more difficult and includes 100 “weeks” of activities. Each week includes 3 activities — a short online component with 3-5 activities, a worksheet and an extra enrichment activity.
The enrichment activities include things like word games, scavenger hunts, and logic games. It also includes classically based activities such as literature, nature studies, and poetry memorization. The worksheets work on motor skills and include things such as cutting, pasting & coloring.
How We Used La La Logic
We used the Preschool Curriculum from LLL in both of the available ways. The first way is to do all activities on a week by week basis. Each week consists of 5 days of activities. The computer program is done twice a week, once with help & once independently. The worksheet is done one day. And the enrichment activity usually covers two days but is slightly different on each.
The second way is to use the Continuous Brain Challenge. The continuous brain challenge plays all the computer activities in a row. You can select the starting point every 10 “weeks” or levels.
Each day’s lessons do not take long–maybe 10-15 minutes–making this ideal as a supplement to whatever curriculum you might already be using. We have been using the continuous brain mode on the 3 days where computer work is not called for.
Summary
The La La Logic preschool curriculum is a great way to either get a little focused time in with your preschooler or to add some fun to their school day. The beauty of this program is that you can move as quickly or slowly as desired. You can do the computer work only or you can work through the enrichment activities and worksheets, too.
From the lazy mom (or efficient, if you prefer) point of view, this is super easy to use. I have VERY little to no prep for each day, even doing all the enrichment activities and worksheets. My ONLY wish is that I could download more than one week of pages at a time. Right now, you have to go into each week and download/print them.
I do love that the documents are short. There are only 2-5 black & white pages a week, making it super easy on the budget and printer. And you don’t even have to print the agenda for the week if you don’t want because they are generally pretty similar.
You could easily do the week of work in 2-3 days, or over 5, or simply do a week of work every day. The activities have been varied and she has enjoyed them all! It’s totally worth the low price of $29 for lifetime access for up to 5 children. This is a wonderful program for any family with young children, especially if they haven’t learned mouse skills. The exercises are quite forgiving in that regard.
See what other members of the crew had to say about LaLaLogic’s Preschool Curriculum.
