Review: Lone Star Learning

  If you haven't heard of Lone Star Learning, you are missing out. I was blessed to be able to review their Target Vocabulary Picture cards for math and they are so cool! Each card has a word related to math on it, and it is drawn or arranged to show the meaning of the word. They are intended for grades 3-8, but I had P using them too and think really they can help anyone. Even adults can benefit from these picture triggers.

Aren't they cool? We received set 1, in the small 5.5″ x 4.25″ size. These were great fun for us and so bright and colorful that we loved "playing" with them. It is awesome when you can learn while playing! We chose a word a day...or sometimes a couple of them if they went together, like right, acute, and obtuse angles....then discussed them and reviewed them at lunch. I just left them out on the table all the time. After about two weeks, we had gone through enough of them that they started using them like flash cards and drilling each other. Thankfully, there was a sheet of definitions included in the package so I knew how to describe the pictures to the kids. :)

Here is P, practicing with the new words for the day. They have already memorized how to find the area of different shapes and circumference of a circle in CC, so this just puts a picture with that peg. Love it!

The math cards sell for $29.99 and include the following words (copied from site):

acute angle area circumference complementary angles cone congruent cube cylinder decimal decreasing diagonal diameter dividend divisor edge

equilateral triangle even exponent exterior face greater than hexagon horizontal increasing interior intersecting lines isosceles triangle less than line segment mean

median mode numerator/denominator obtuse angle octagon odd ordered pair parallel pattern pentagon perimeter perpendicular polygon radius range

ray reflection right angle rotation similar sphere supplementary angles symmetry translation vertical X axis Y axis

The company actually made a mistake and sent me set 1 of the Science Vocabulary Picture cards first, but promptly sent out the correct math cards AND let me keep the science too! Awesome customer service!! There are 40 cards in the set and they are 5.5″ x 8.5″ in size. They are the same as the math cards - bright and coated for durability and full of possibilities for learning. It was a fun bonus to get these too. Many of the words are in our CC science lists we are memorizing so it was nice to put a picture with those words.

The science cards sell for $29.99 and include (copied from site): 

blizzard carnivore Celsius condensation conductor conglomerate conifer deciduous evaporation fall fern

fibrous root flood friction load – fulcrum gear gravity herbivore igneous inclined plane inherited lever

magnetic mammal metamorphic moss permeable precipitation pulley reptile sedimentary spring stretch

summer symmetry taproot turn wedge wheel winter

I think these are both fantastic products for visual learners, which my kiddos are!  Lone Star Learning has several other sets of math and science cards, as well as Latin/Greek root cards, which I want to get next. I liked that there were a lot of words they have learned in CC in there - since they are familiar with those "big" words, they could then attach a picture to it in their brains which will help them remember them forever. The price might seem a little high for "flashcards", but when you consider that all of your kids can use them, for years, it isn't so tough to swallow. ;)

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Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this product through the Schoolhouse Review Crew in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC Regulations.