15 Minutes a Day to School Success with Highlights is all you need this year to get the school year back on track. Kick off back to school with a monthly subscription box created to supplement the school system and provided supplemental help at home. Highlights has you covered with readers, workbooks, and other educations games and puzzles.
About Highlights
Highlights is a global media brand dedicated to helping children become curious, creative, caring, and confident through engaging content and experiences that are focused on nurturing and developing the whole child. Highlights reaches children 0–12 with its most popular magazines and books, and on multi-platform digital experiences, digital apps, toys/games, a podcast, and more.
Highlights announced the launch of 15 Minutes a Day to School Success, its first-ever subscription box service designed to support preschool, kindergarten and first-grade learning. Developed with teachers and aligned to school standards, activities in each 15 Minutes a Day School Success box are formulated to use in 15-minute bursts – blending grade-specific skills practice with fun activities to ease the learning process and make it enjoyable for kids and parents alike.
Research shows that it takes as little as 15 minutes of engaged practice for a child to get the most out of a learning activity. Every 15 Minutes a Day School Success box features award-winning content with kid-friendly directions and built-in motivators that excite children and encourage independence and resilience as they master each skill set.
15 Minutes a Day to School Success
Kicking off back to school with this monthly subscription box. Every monthly box includes two practice workbooks. Subjects covered include Math, Reading, Phonics, and Handwriting. Set also contains an activity book for mastery through practice. The subscription box also includes Hidden Pictures puzzles, activities, mazes, and jokes. 15 Minutes a Day to School Success boxes follow along the overall progression of the school year.
Monthly Subscription Boxes
The first 15 Minutes a Day School Success box is being offered at a 50% discount and includes a School Success Starter Kit containing a program guide, wall-sized progress poster, sticker rewards sheet, and double-sided wipe-clean writing board. Each subsequent monthly box will cost $24.98.
15 Minutes a Day to School Success subscription boxes are available in Preschool, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 levels.
Based on the normal flow of the classroom setting, the skill sets needed by age group include
Preschool:
• Early Writing, Letters and Tracing
• Early Reading, Vocabulary and Critical Thinking
• Early Math and Learning Concepts
Kindergarten:
• Phonics, Sight Words, Vocabulary and Handwriting
• Pre-Literacy, Comprehension, Connecting Ideas and Visual Literacy
• Shapes, Number Writing and Counting
• Addition, Subtraction, Logic, Sequences and Comparisons
• Fine Motor Skills, Open-Ended Thinking and Creativity
First Grade:
• Phonics, Sight Words, Spelling and Vocabulary
• Addition, Subtraction, Fact Families and Place Value
• Writing, Reading Comprehension and Handwriting
• Life, Earth and Physical Sciences
• Reasoning, Problem Solving and Following Directions
Other Activity and Workbooks
Highlights carries a large line of activity and workbooks for children that will have them asking to “do school”. Some of our favorite include:
2021 Almanac of Fun
Get a jump start on the new year with the Almanac for 2021. This book is packed with puzzles and activities. Learn about both the traditional and wacky holidays all through the year.
Almanacs are annual publications that include a calendar for the upcoming year. It also includes information on events, strange celebrations, and details on sunrises and sunsets. The 2021 Highlights Almanac includes over 300 pages of the fun activities with hundreds of puzzles, activities, jokes, quizzes, facts, and so much more.
The Highlights Book of Things to Do
Having won the The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, the Parent’s Choice Fun Stuff Award and the Mom’s Choice Award, this book is a must have for your children. It is packed with over 500 technology free ideas (yes your children can have fun without their devices or screens)!
Let them enjoy the activities included for building, playing, experimenting, crafting, and cooking. With over 500 ideas, your children can find something to do every day!
Puzzle Readers
Level 1: Nick and Nack Set
These introduction to reading books introduce Nick and his robot pal Nack. In these books, Nick and Nack work together on a creative story. Throughout the books, fun Hidden Pictures activities help support the story line while helping to build the vocabulary needed for reading.
Level 2: Kit and Kaboodle Set
This set of readers introduce Kit the cat and Kaboodle the mouse. This pair love traveling. They have a different approach on what they need to pack for their trips. Kit never packs enough in her tiny little suitcase, while Kaboodle always packs too much in his huge suitcase. In these stories, Kaboodle’s extras that they pack always save the day for the pair of travelers. The pair’s packing list also doubles as clues to hidden objects for children to find in Hidden Pictures scenes throughout the book.
My Thoughts on 15 Minutes a Day to School Success
When I was a child, I loved the hidden pictures that came in my monthly magazine from Highlights. Even now, this type of puzzle is one of my favorites.
As a parent, being able to have this subscription box arrive each month gives me the support I need to help my children. And knowing that it only takes 15 minutes a day to school success makes it manageable.
This year we have little ones in various school settings. Some are attending school full time while others are learning remotely. With so many changes in our schedules, this subscription box is something the little ones enjoy bringing out and working on.
Highlights has supported teachers for decades and now offers this support to parents and home educators. Whether you are schooling at home or another combination, make sure to check out all the products offered by Highlights.
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