LeapFrog Tag Junior Book: The Backyardigans Opposites
- Learn about opposites as you race to outer space with the Backyardigans
- Touch your Tag Junior book pal to any part of any page and discover more than 130 audio responses in this book
- More than 24 playful activities encourage toddlers to take charge and explore, while helping build confidence with books
- Each Tag Junior board book focuses on a different preschool skill
- See your child’s progress through the online LeapFrog Learning Path, and get printable activities to expand the learning
- The Backyardigans Opposites focuses on opposites and also introduces position words and matching
Learn about opposites as you race to outer space with the Backyardigans! This TagTM Junior board book springs to life when you touch the Tag Junior book pal to any part of any page. More than 24 playful activities and 150 audio responses encourage little ones to explore while helping build confidence with books. Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog® Learning Path to see their child’s progress and get printable activities to expand the learning! \n\nIntroduces:\n\n – Opposites\n\n – Position words\n\n – Matching\n
LeapFrog Tag Junior Book: The Backyardigans Opposites
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Some examples are confusing,
I own the entire Tag Junior library. Read my reviews before buying books! (I wish I had researched before buying them all!)
The reason why this book gets a lower rating than the others I’ve rated is because sometimes the concept the book is trying to demonstrate is often confusing based on the examples they use. Here are the “opposites” they teach in this book:
-Start v. Finish*
-Slow v. Fast*
-Top v. Bottom*
-Over v. Under
-Wet v. Dry
-Inside v. Outside
-Near v. Far*
-Narrow v. Wide
-Last v. First
-Hello v. Goodbye*
Starred are the confusing ones.
Start v. Finish is demonstrated by a map where X marks Start and a finish line marks Finish. For children who are not familiar with the concept of maps, they won’t get it. Not only that, but the example should be obvious as to which direction they are going in, but start to finish is only joined by a dotted line with a very small arrow at the end at Finish. Perhaps it should have a dotted line with large arrows on it pointing toward finish.
Slow v. Fast is also confusing because it shows one of the Backyardigans going on a ski slope in regular skis which represents Slow and Pablo on a snowmobile which represents Fast. The child would have to have a background knowledge of winter sports to be able to know that the snowmobile is motorized and therefore faster, but I live in a place that never gets any snow and my child didn’t get what they were demonstrating based on this example.
Top v. Bottom was not clear at all. This concept is demonstrated by two snowboarding Backyardigans, one supposedly at the top of the mountain and one supposedly at the bottom. However, neither of them are on the mountain at all.
Near v Far is demonstrated by spaceships — one is Near to reader, others are “Far” from the reader close to the moon out in space. To further confuse things, they included the earth on the page, yet it’s not the base for comparison, so the child at first glance will not know what the spaceships are near to and far from — “the earth or me?” The way they did this whole concept is confusing because it is the first and only concept that uses the reader as its base for comparison.
And finally, Hello v. Goodbye is confusing because Hello is demonstrated by a handshake and goodbye is demonstrated by a hand wave. Most people use waving for hello and goodbye, and some people do not shake hands at all and given the germophobia of the 2000s handshaking is becoming a little dated in America.
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I usually like thinking outside the box, but when teaching a concept to toddlers, LeapFrog should be OBVIOUS with it. I mean, making the concept unclear is like writing a number backwards while teaching counting or writing a letter upside-down while teaching the alphabet. Overall, I like the idea/theme of the race to teach opposites, but I think they should change this book to make the opposite concept more obvious on some of the pages.
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|Great Product,
This is a great book. I would not knock the book down to a one just because it is not compatible. The focus is the book and this book is great at teaching opposites. My two year old daughter loves her reader and this book and my five year old son uses her junior reader instead of his older reader. Great buy.
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|My daughter loves this,
My daughter loves the Backyardigans and loves her LeapFrog toy. She just turned 2 in January and it didn’t take her long at all to figure out how to use this. She getting better now at answering questions the books ask. We also have the Dora the Explorer one and she loves that one too.
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