Learning Resources Fox in a Box Position Word Activity Set: Educational Tools for Kindergarten and Preschool

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Fun set! Seems to get the children talking and doing things! That is the goal! Haven't used too much yet, but getting there. So we will see how it goes.

As a speech therapist I am always looking for fun ways to teach children prepositions (e.g. in, under, out) and this game is PERFECT! My clients enjoy playing this game and I enjoy watching their language grow as they learn vocabulary and how to follow directions. Definitley would recommended this product.

We need to see that children understand positional words and what a great way to do it.

My daughter is enjoying the game while I am showing her the prepositions.. it is a win-win. It is a fun way to reinforce prepositions and understand in what she needs some help.

This game allows children to be interactive with the pieces in a fun way. The spinner makes it exciting while the picture cards help them see the items and "read" the card. The durable plastic toys make learning about position easy and entertaining.

I love the activity set!!! I use it in speech therapy as well as in the classroom setting!!! Great product for a great price! Thanks!

This is a fun game to work on prepostional concepts, multistep directions and some basic vocabulary words. This has been a great game to use with my pre-school population that is just learning to play more structured games. As a speech-Language Pathologist, this has been a great tool to use for my students who are working on location concepts and novel 1 and 2 step directions. The direction cards have great visual cues which serve as good reminders for the students. I like that students are able to use this toy to give me directions as well. The direction cards are a lighter weight card-stock, so I laminated them to prevent them from being bent up or ripped. The rest of the toys are a nice plastic. The kids love the manipulatives and hiding the object cards. It has been a fun and interactive way to learn to play games as well as preposition words.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I got this for my nephew and he had difficulty understanding what to do with it at first. But when we sat down and played with it together, he became interested. I loved that he had a way to show off to his auntie that he knew his colors and numbers and animal sounds. I'm so glad I gave this to him!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is such a fun game that taught my boys about following 1 & 2 step directions as well as rhyming.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I received this game as part of an incentivised review program. I am a elementary teacher in Illinois. I think this game is great for peopkle looking for a cute game to have Pre K through first graders learn about positional words. The rhyming make the game a little silly and fun for these studnets. It is engaging and interactive as children place the picture cards on, in, over, below, etc. the colorful rhyming objects. The back of the box clearly and accurately depicts the contents of the box. I would recommend this product to teachers as part of a center and parents as part of a learning game at home.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] When you first open the box, you notice right away the tree, the box (with a lid!), the hat, and the chair. They're pretty big materials. With those items, you can match colors and rhyming words, and use prepositions to place little squares with pictures on them. Then there are activity cards and a spinner to also help guide you in your play with those manipulatives. At first, the directions were a bit overwhelming because of all the options, so our boys just played their own way, which worked great as well. The spinner is supposed to be double sided, but we couldn't get the arrow to detach from the one side so we could attach it to the other side. I looked for directions on how to change it on the website and couldn't find an answer. There's still lots to do without the other side of the spinner, but it would be nice to use it. Regardless, I know we'll come back to the fox in the box set again and again. And it all fits so well inside it's own box!

When we received this game, my three older children played with it right away. While there are instructions included in the box, it's pretty self-explanatory once you look at the pieces (4 bright, plastic "rhyming" objects - a hat, chair, box, and tree; a spinner; small picture cards - bee, cat, stair, etc.; and activity cards). The game lends itself well to variations, which allows the children to be creative while playing. It's a simple concept: read the card and figure out which small picture card to place where in relation to which larger plastic item -or spin the spinner and select a small card and rhyming object to use. My children divide activity cards and take turns, then they spin the spinner for a new position. Sometimes, they just play with the cards and make up their own positions and rhymes "the cat is BEHIND my back!" They have fun with it, though my 9 y/o tends to tire of it relatively quickly. It's suggested for ages 4 and up, and my 4 y/o enjoys it the most; however, she needs someone to help her play, since the game requires some reading ability. She has found a helpful reader and playmate in her older sister, who at 7 is just young enough that she likes to share her ever-growing reading ability! It is good, fun reinforcement for positional words and concepts, and my four year old is learning to figure out and read some of the more repeated words. I enjoy playing the game and watching my children play, but I really wanted to love it more. The concept is fantastic, and the execution is well done, too; I am not sure what I would change to improve the game. Perhaps small plastic figures in lieu of the cardboard cards to show the positions, or even some kind of game board to keep track of scores to make it seem competitive? It is a fun game, and I would recommend it to parents or teachers of younger children (pre-k through 1st grade). I received this as part of an incentivized review program in exchange for my honest review.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This game is so much fun. This game teaches you the different types of skills that can be used (spinner use, reading, rhyming) as well as the obvious intent of the game are helpful in developing multiple skills at differing age levels. Great for family time, or in a classroom!

I really like the concept of this game and large pieces make it fun and interactive for students. I am writing this review because those purchasing it should be aware the directional cards of this game are challenging for most four and five years old. I purchases this to use during center time to increase student's positional vocabulary, for a group of Pre-K children, ranging from beginning readers to at-risk students. Though the student really enjoyed the game, unless the students can read positional words, they cannot play the game independent from an adult. There is both a limited number of picture cards and Rubik cards available for students. Rubik cards use words for positional direction, making it difficult for beginning readers. Picture cards can be miss interpreted by students. The rhyming words are not always correct, like box and clock or box and rock. I am not going to toss this game aside but will use it in a teacher directed center vs. an independent center.

I received this product for a review and felt it was too difficult for my preK children. The children need to be able to read to play this game.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Of the games I would recommend to any teacher or parent who is interested in encouraging language learning, this would be top of the list. This is a creative, hands on, kinesthetic game that teaches prepositions; a difficult concept for most. Using a ball or small figure, I can use this durable toy to teach children as young as 2 early preposition concepts and following directions such as in, out, on and off. For 3-5 year olds, we can use the spinner to work on following and giving directions and learning more complex prepositions. Children need to use attentional and listening skills to find the correct objects (colorful pictures on, quarter-sized hefty cardboard discs). For children 5+ the activity cards are leveled by color and literacy skills can be practiced through understanding of the pictures on the easiest cards, basic sight reading of easy directions with color bolded prepositions, and more complex directions on the other three levels of cards. In addition to using this game with young children, I found it tremendously useful for my friends and I who are learning Spanish. We used this game to work on giving directions in Spanish and understanding directions given in Spanish. I also used it with my teen and adult Sign language learners to work on giving prepositional instructions and descriptions in American Sign Language; it's harder than you think! Overall, I have gotten tremendous use and enjoyment from this game across more ages and ability levels than I thought possible.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The 3 and 4 year olds in my class love playing board games! This is not a game that can be set out for the children to play by themselves (at this age) but playing in small groups with the teacher is perfect. Position words and actions are necessary for social development but since its in game form it's fun! When we say, "Can you line up behind Joe?" Behind is a hard concept. When the child picks up a Bee and spins the spinner and it says Behind, "Put the Bee Behind the Tree" is a concept they can grasp rather quickly. The rhyming words and different levels of play for different age groups is excellent.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We had a great time playing this. Wonderful tool for language development

My students were very creative and sometimes a little silly while doing the positional words. They were really having a good time as I read the cards to them and they placed their items in the appropriate places. The cards and the props are sturdy and can withstand multiple uses. The props are also very colorful and attractive. The small picture cards can also be used for initial sounds. They can name the item, and tell what letter it starts with. This is a great set to teach positional words and I would recommend it to everyone. This set was given to me as part of an incentivized review program.

I love the idea of this product. It is very versatile (rhyming, position words, reading skills). The colors are bright and appealing. I like that the cards are color coded. I wish the pieces used were plastic and not cardboard pictures. This would have made the game more appealing to my students and more durable. Younger children need to play this with an adult or person who can read the position words. This would be something I would take out to use one on one with a student or in a small group. I received this item as part of an incentive review program.