Lastly, and one of my favorite items, and clearly one of my sons, is the
Create-a-chain-reaction STEM starter kit. This kit has several pieces that are needed to create a slew of different chain reactions, with the goal of getting your ball from the starting point, to the goal.
This last item isn't something that I use for my son, but it is a
Lakeshore Learning item, so I wanted to include it in this post. This is something that I use with my daughter, who is in Kindergarten. These are
alphabet learning locks, and they help her with letter recognition.
Each lock has an uppercase letter on one side, and a picture of something starting with that letter on the other side. Each key has a lowercase letter on it. I spread them out on the table and mix up the keys, then let my daughter find the matches.
At school, she does something called iStation, which scores her based on her reading ability. One area she is tested on, is letter knowledge. Since starting these lock and keys with her, her letter knowledge score, has started to go up, with each new report! They are lots of fun, and clearly working!!