{"id":172,"date":"2008-04-03T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-04-03T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:56:41","slug":"great-toy-lauri-primer-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/great-toy-lauri-primer-pak\/","title":{"rendered":"Great toy: Lauri Primer Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re currently in Hawaii with Ruby, and in preparation for the long plane ride, I bought some toys and activities to keep her occupied. So far, the best in terms of time spent and value has been the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauritoys.com\/products\/view.php?part=2117\" target=\"_blank\">Lauri Primer Pak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauritoys.com\/products\/view.php?part=2117\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauritoys.com\/products\/view.php?part=2117\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauritoys.com\/images\/products\/2117\/LR-2117.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is packed full of absorbing activities and only cost me about $15. I haven&#8217;t even given all of these things to Ruby yet! So far, we&#8217;ve gotten the most use out of the alphabet puzzle. It&#8217;s really helping her learn all the letters, and as of today I think there are only 3 or 4 letters whose names she forgets. We play a game where I remove all the letters and put them in a bag, then pull one out randomly. She names it (if she can), and then puts it in the puzzle. It&#8217;s fun to watch her learn and get faster.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that this is a game that she enjoys and asks to play. We play a game where I take all the letters out of the puzzle and put them in a bag, then randomly pull one out. She names it (if she can), and then puts it in the puzzle. It&#8217;s been fun to watch her get better and faster at it each time. Afterwards, she usually asks me to spell words for her, so I show her short words with no duplicate letters such as RUBY, CAT, RUN, and MAP (which she remembered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=163\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re currently in Hawaii with Ruby, and in preparation for the long plane ride, I bought some toys and activities to keep her occupied. So far, the best in terms of time spent and value has been the Lauri Primer Pak: It is packed full of absorbing activities and only cost me about $15. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-language","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}