Download N Go Review: Terrific Tigers

Disclaimer: As a member of the Download N Go review team I am provided with a PDF copy of the unit study to use, review, and post about on this blog. No other compensation is provided. Thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
We are halfway through our Terrific Tigers Unit from
Download N Go. Being sick knocked us out for a few days, so we're a little behind.

So far we've learned about 3 different tigers, gone to the zoo, and had a lot of fun!

Marshall has been pretending he's a tiger and we're grateful for the break from being a robot and a dinosaur. Our toddler, Coen, even has his own little growl down. It's so cute!

Speaking of growls, I think one of the most interesting things I've learned in this unit is the different names for tiger's growls! A growl is a growl, right? Wrong! People who work with tigers actually have a few different names for different types of growls.

Marshall's favorite part was the jokes. He saw them in with the lapbook pieces and just had to practice a few before we could get started. He had a fun time retelling them to Dad when he got home from work.

Aside from jokes and growls, we have also done 2 tiger puzzles, one on-line, and one that was in the unit to be cut out.

Download N Go is quickly becoming a favorite of mine for 3 main reasons:
1. For the ease of use. Everything you need comes in the download for a low, low price! Just download and go, like the name implies!
2. Because the units cover a wide range of subjects like geography and map skills, to fun things like puzzles and craft suggestions. I love integrated curriculum!
3. These units are extremely well organized. They have a 5 main points on which they build the day's studies (see below). Each day has a subset of topics as well. This helps tremendously so Marshall and I don't feel like we're just wandering about aimlessly. There is direction and order.

Day 1: What Is a Tiger?
Day 2: Getting to Know Tigers
Day 3: Where Are the Tigers?
Day 4: The Science of Tigers
Day 5: Cool Things About Tigers

Here is the inside of our lapbook. We just have to finish up a couple pieces.

The frame of the cut out puzzle. I'm teaching Marshall to find the corners, then the edges before filling in the middle.

Coen and Marshall at Kansas City Zoo! We lucked out - residents are free in October and November!!

The zoo's very own Sumatran Tiger!! When I told Marshall what kind it was he said, "Hey, that's the first kind we learned about!" I was happily surprised he remembered such a fact. But my proud mommy moment came when our friend asked her mom "What do tigers eat?" And Marshall was the one who replied, "They eat deer and other animals because they're carnivores."

To see what other reviewers had to say check out the Terrific Tigers Blog Tour! This post will be linked up there as well.

Download N Go is a product of The Old Schoolhouse.

Let me end with a joke. See if your kid/s found the hilarity in it that Marshall did.

What did the tiger say to his friends before they went hunting for dinner?
Let us prey.

Download N Go Review: Rocking Robots

Disclaimer: As a member of the Download N Go review team I am provided with a PDF copy of the unit study to use, review, and post about on this blog. No other compensation is provided. Thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
I have exciting news! I was chosen to be part of Download N Go's review team!! Our first review was for a unit I had been eying - Rocking Robots. Marshall often pretends to be a robot, walking around like one and using a mechanical voice to talk. Ironically my last post was about winding him up to do his work. So this was a very fun, appropriate unit for him.


The Old Schoolhouse offers DNG unit studies at only $7.95 each. They come loaded with 110 (in this case) pages of fun. There is something for every learner. Each Download N Go unit has links to the web to read, watch, and learn about the topic at hand, that you can link to right from the PDF. After visiting a link or two, there are questions or activities to do to help recall and remember what you just learned. Also included are lapbook pieces showcasing your weeks' work. They also give a list of recommended books to read during the week. While the books are fun and helpful to delve more into the topic of robots, everything you absolutely need for the unit is right in the Download N Go PDF. So if you're in a bind and need a unit study STAT, DNG is way easy to do on the fly!I used Rocking Robots with Marshall, my 5 year old. The recommended grade level is kindergarten - fourth grade. There is a lot of information covered, including history, science, math, language (vocabulary words), and hands on fun with drawing and crafts as well.

This week we learned:
Day 1: What Is a Robot?
Day 2: The History of Robots
Day 3: People and Places of Robots
Day 4: Science Secrets of Robots
Day 5: Goodies and Gadgets of Robots

Between the time I was chosen for the review team and the time I had to have this posted by, only gave us a week to do the unit. While the Download N Go studies are designed to be completed in only a week, for a younger child (like my 5yo) I would recommend spreading it across 2 weeks OR simply go through the unit first and find what will be most age appropriate attention span-wise for your child/ren. A couple of the days had us online looking at robot clips and reading web pages here and there for about 2 hours. Marshall got bored and wiggly. The great thing about Download N Go though, is that you can take it and make it your own and tailor it to your son or daughter's interests! The activities and hands-on suggestions were fun, educational, and also provided a nice break from the computer work.

We learned about robots in space.

A fun dot-to-dot, always a hit!

As a science experiment, we made a water clock. To find out what that is, you'll just have to visit Download N Go and get a Rocking Robots unit of your own!

I am linking this post up to the Rocking Robots Blog Tour. Check out what some other reviewers had to say about Rocking Robots!