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Order Today on Amazon! Product Description Fundamentals: Empower Your Child to Speak (6 months to 4 years)
Fundamentals inspires speech and teaches children to speak clearly from an early age. The video also provides basic tools for the child to make sense of her new word. We encourage guardians to perform the activities shown in the video with their children. When reinforced in a one-on-one manner, the concepts will empower the child with useful information and tools to be used for daily and future references. Fundamentals is:
* Age-appropriate
* Hosted by 12 cute, colorful stars
* Useful in promoting word formation and enunciation (demonstrated by Ms. Neumann on screen)
* Fast pace - continually introducing new concepts to hold the child's attention
* Varied using original music - to maintain child's interest Fundamentals includes:
* Names of letters, sounds of letters
* Colors
* Counting - shapes, animals, people
* Classification
* Verbs - motion of children, Starlets, and shapes
* Prepositions - placement of objects in relation to colorful boxes
* Vocabulary - people & animals, fruit & vegetables, indoor & outdoor items
* Music
* More... | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Melissa Neumann, Lita Crichton, Jared Donnelly, Miles Donnelly | | Director:
| Melissa Neumann | | Format:
| Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| The First Wave, LLC | | Run Time:
| 30 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| November 15, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 16 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 A wonderful way to learn through entertainmentSep 17, 2004
By wendybean
I watched this DVD with my two sons, ages 4 years and 6 mos. My younger son was entertained by the Starlets and I even caught him laughing when something on the screen delighted him. (Incidentally, I've tried a Baby Einstein or two with both my babies and they never seemed to enjoy them. So I was so pleasantly surprised to see the positive reaction with Fundamentals.) My 4 year old son was equally entranced with the DVD and watched it 3x in one sitting. He is working at preschool on putting concepts together (two red cars, three blue carts, etc.) and having that reiterated was very interesting to him.
I think that this is a terrific DVD for kiddos to learn in so many ways. The sing-song repetition and the friendly narrator are inviting as well so the kids stick with it and inevitably learn through this unique method. I highly recommend this DVD to help children understand more about this wonderful world of ours.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Impressive DVD for Toddlers/PreschoolersMar 18, 2006
By Just Angela
I bought this DVD for my 2 and 3 year old boys and was very impressed. It's not flashy and polished, but it effectively teaches the basics (shapes, colors, large and small, letters etc.) My boys were not only watching, but also interacting. We just received it today and I'm looking forward to playing it for them once a day.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 There is So Much Better Out ThereMar 19, 2006
By D. Mahon
"obsessivereader"
Based on the reviews, I purchased this DVD and was really diappointed. Like a lot of the reviews I felt that my son was getting a little beyond the Baby Einstein DVDs. This DVD is really unpolished and the women in the upper left hand corner is really distracting for my son. Additionally, the pace is a bit fast. By this I mean that the woman in the upper left hand corner of the screen repeats what's going on in the screen but she does it really fast and the item in the main screen is flashed. I'm pretty quick, but watching the DVD with my child I though the items were flashing quickly so I can only imagine that my child wasn't getting it either. Five minutes into it, my son got up and left. Such a disappointment and a waste of money. The preschool prep DVDs are so much better, but unfortunately there are only 3 of them (shapes, numbers and letters).
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
fantastic and entrancing educational videoMay 04, 2006
By BND, NYC NY
This video was fantastic. My son who is 3 1/2 years old loves it and has learned so much information from it. The sophisticated use of vocabulary is brilliant. I am so happy to find something out there that gives a toddler and infant the credit for being able to understand and express themselves in an elegant and ambitious way. It is wonderous when a child discovers a whole new language.
This video was especially good for my son who had some hearing issues and the woman speaking and enunciating in the corner (Melissa) was invaluable to him and to his understanding of the material. Children have different learing styles and respond to a variety of techniques, I believe that this video catered perfectly to both the oral and visual approaches in learning.
My child asks for me to play it again and again. Thank you so much for creating an insightful, creative, stimulating and fun video for him to watch.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A helpful tool for speech and a fun way to learnApr 17, 2006
By Monica Lopez
I credit Fundamentals for helping my daughter's speech problem. She was almost 2 years old and she did not talk that much. Thanks to the video, which she liked since the first time she watched it, her ability to talk increased very quickly. She started to say more words and also to recognize shapes, colors, letters, and numbers.
Since I found the video very helpful, I gave one to my sister as a gift for my nephew. She first showed it to him when he was 1 1/2 months. He loved it. At first he watched for five minutes at a time. She played the video for him every day, and three months later he could watch it all. This is the only video that he can watch from start to finish without getting tired, and it is her son's favorite video. My nephew also likes the narrator, smiles at her, and tries to talk to her and repeat what she says. My sister said it is really helpful for her too, because while he watches the video she is able to cook and take a shower.
We are anxiously awaiting the next video.
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