Toys Bear Will Actually Play With

This game, a gift from my mother, is by far one of Bear's favorites at the moment.  You listen to the cd of animal sounds and try to find the card of the animal that made the sound on the track.

Why it probably won a Toy Guide Excellence Award:
a) It exercises sound discrimination, a skill necessary for reading later.
b) The game can grow with your child as it increases in difficulty depending how you play it.

• The first track plays sounds by large card, making finding the animal cards and matching them to the larger card much easier.  The rest of the tracks go out of sequence.
• The game can be played just by finding the animal card and disregarding the matching aspect of the game.
• You can pause between each sound to allow the child more time to find the animal. 
• A presentation sheet with an "answer key" is provided so if you can't tell the difference at first between the dolphin and the whale, or the hyena and the donkey, you can just look at the key.

c) It teaches a lot of vocabulary and the presentation guide gives you the names of the animals in French, English and Spanish!  Perfect for our trilingual family:)

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