Having heard a lot about Meadow Kids in recent months, I was very happy to be asked to review one of their products, the Magnetic Learn and Play chart – Tell Me About Today. With Jack getting really into reading now and starting to recognise words, I thought this would be a great help in aiding him to learn about the days of the week, the months, the seasons and the weather.
I know his nursery has something similar where one child changes the board each day but I wanted to see how Jack coped having to change his everyday by himself.
As you can see, the chart itself is for ages 3+ and is designed to help physical development, thinking and communicating. The chart comes with days of the week, a variety of numbers for the date, months of the year, seasons, years and even weather! With the weather changing as often as it has recently, the weather section has certainly seen a lot of movement!
This is how the board looks without any magnets attached. I love the fact that it is magnetic rather than having to use stickers or velcro – they use velcro at Jack’s nursery and it can make an awful mess! Both Jack and I love how colourful the board is and we both appreciate the string at the top so he can hang it either in his room or downstairs – he’s currently got it in the dining room!
The magnets themselves are just as colourful and I appreciate the fact that they actually have put two 1’s and two 2’s in the set – it has really frustrated me before when using products and not having enough numbers to make the right date – its nice to see someone get it right for once!
So what does Jack think of the magnetic learn and play chart? He loves it. Every morning before breakfast he insists on changing it round and takes a peek out the window to see what the weather is like. He is still struggling with days of the week but he is slowly starting to recognise them a little more – Wednesday is one of the easier ones for him being the only day with a W but he’s starting to differentiate between Tuesday and Thursday due to the sounds they make!
Would I recommend? Certainly! This chart is really helping Jack with his reading and comprehension skills and it is so cute to see his mind at work early in the morning as he changes the chart for the day ahead. We will definitely be continuing to use this for the months and possibly years ahead, its a great product that every household with young children should own!
What do you think of the chart?
Item sent for purpose of review. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
I am currently reviewing some items from Meadow Kids. That chart looks great 🙂 My girls would love to do something like each morning
We used a chart with smiley face magnets for my neice. And it really worked! She loved adding them but hated taking them away and everyone saw a massive difference in terrible twos tantrums lol!
Looks like a great chart. Lovely to hear that it’s helping Jack with his reading and comprehension skills! x
Aww what a lovely board – your going to have to be my calender everyday now Jack!
Thischart looks fantastic. Eldest has one at school he always mentions I think I should get him one for home.
This is a great way to help kids learn about days, months, years, etc. Much more fun then just eventually learning from writing it at the top of an exercise book every day!
I think these visual aids are the best way to do things when they are at nursery. It also gives a good interaction about what they’ve done during the day
This is perfect! This would be our go-to calendar. I think the kids would enjoy changing it each day.
That is a nice looking chart. I would want that.
We have this! I absolutely love it – the only thing I would say is that the younger kids pull off and lose the magnets which drives me mad BUT it’s avoidable by putting it up higher!
This is brilliant. I think I’ll look into getting one for my eldest bedroom. I love how colourful it is and also (asyou said) there are enough numbers.
This looks like a fab product! I love how colourful it is.
This chart is fantastic, wish I had something like this when I was younger x
OOOh now I think I need one of these to keep myself on track, I think it is more reliable than my phone ha x
The magnetic chart looks brilliant and I like how bright the colours are too!
What a fun way to help little ones take an interest in the weather and also to help recognise words and numbers.
That looks like a really useful chart for children, the words and letters are a good size and nice and colourful.
This looks like great fun! I’d love my daughter to use something like this when she is older!
Fab fab fab. Where would I get one of these my nephew is 1 and I would like to get him something like this for my sister in law to put up in the kitchen xx
this looks great! its something they could look forward to doing in the morning
This is such a fun idea! I really like that it’s magnetic too.