| | |  | DVDs | Home » » LeapFrog: Phonics Farm | | | | | | | Description: | | Join Scout and his friends as they learn letter sounds with the help of some amazing animals! Scout, Violet, Eli and Penny long to learn about new animals. When their magical toy car, Axle, whisks them away to a farm, they discover a remarkable alphabet collection and ABC antics ensue! As the friends get in shape with an athletic alligator, console a sad seal, converse with a high-pitched horse and more, they make their way through the entire alphabet! | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Scout, Violet, Eli, Penny | | Director:
| Ron Myrick | | Format:
| Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| LIONSGATE | | Run Time:
| 35 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| November 08, 2011 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 20 reviews |
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33 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 Great Video, worth every penny!Jan 02, 2012
By Mom of three boys
I will only show educational video's to my kids and I love almost all of the Leap Frog video's and this is one of the best ones yet. I used to be the typical parent and play Shrek, Tangled and all those video's in the car cuz the kids love them and keeps them quite for long rides. In preschool, my 3 year old and was having alot of difficulty learning and memorizing the alphabet, colors and numbers. He was one of the lucky ones who got into the town preschool via the lottery. I was told that she would suggest holding him back from kindergarten until he was 6. I got rid of all those worthless DVD's and invested a ton on money on these DVD as well as Rock to Learn and many others. I would only show these video's in the car, every day, and my now 4 year old knows more than most kids his age and going to kindergarten at age 5. He knows upper case, lower case, numbers, all shapes, sizes, and have been working on phonics cuz he is ready. My favorite DVD's for those on a budget are anything by Leap Frog & Rock to Learn are Letter Sounds, Colors Shapes & Counting (age group says 4 but all appropriate for every age). For those with younger kids, I showed these video's to my now just turned 3 year old, and he knows everything backwards and forwards from just watching them in the car. I started my collection of DVD's in April of last year when he was just over 2, and he knew everything by summer. He is also doing sight words and this is all from just watching these awsome video's in the car. His preschool teacher would be shocked and so excited to tell me when I picked him up, that he knows his colors, oh, he knows all his letters, and I sent him to preschool when he was 2 & half cuz his birthday. I cannot emphasize how valuable these DVD's are in your childs learning. I have a 1 year old and he now is watching them too, and he is starting to say colors, some alphabet. Love them. Other good ones that are worth every penny are all the Preschool prep DVD's, I just purchased the phonics series, all very good. Munchkin Math ones are good, but expensive and short. Fundamentals DVD (2) are good, but fast paced. My kids did not care for the Baby Genius series, Brainy baby, Galloping Minds (all for younger 1-2 years old) Cedarmount Kids but all get excellent reviews. I just purchased Baby Bumblebee, and they don't care for those, but the opposites one is good. The Hooked on Phonics learn to read by HOB, not good. Also great show on PBS is Word World. My kids love it and we DVR it, and now that we are learning phonics, I have learned how valuable this show is. I hope this review is helpful to you. I cannot tell you how these DVDs have changed my kids lives, and how I look at other kids and watch how much they know, and how much better my kids are and its all cuz of these DVD's. Its worth your hard earned money.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 OkayFeb 10, 2012
By Jennifer W. Bardsley
I have a confession to make. When my six year old son is at school, my two and a half year old daughter and I sometimes fire up his Kindle Fire without his knowledge. One of the videos I have downloaded on the Kindle for my daughter to watch is "Leap Frog Phonics Farm". I think it is mind-numbingly boring, but my daughter likes it a lot. It covers the same topics as "Leap Frog's Letter Factory," but in a less entertaining way. The upper and lower case letters are introduced along with their corresponding sounds, and there is also a song about vowels. It is probably good for my daughter to learn the same information in a different format. But if you were only going to choose one video, "Letter Factory" would be a better pick.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
It's a good one!Nov 09, 2011
By Lauren Bentrup
We regularly buy any Leapfrog DVDs that come out, and this one kept both of our kids' (son is 4, daughter is almost 2) attention better than most of the other ones that have come out recently! Glad to see the dogs (Scout & Violet) rather than frogs all the time. It's a fun & educational DVD, and the songs aren't annoying! :)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A solid introduction to learning the alphabetJan 28, 2012
By Zzonkmiles
My 2-year old son loves this video. It keeps his attention far better than the Baby Class, Color Crew, and other early childhood series. The storyline basically consists of a group of animal friends going to a farm where they meet various animals corresponding to different letters of the alphabet. For example, they meet a bouncing bear, messy mouse, tired turkey, and zippy zebra.
Skills emphasized: animal names, general adjectives, letter sounds, extra sounds vowels make
Most of the animals work out quite well and are easy to understand, such as the colorful camel and rocking reindeer. Others are a little less easy to understand, though this is because there aren't a lot of animals or adjectives that start with certain letters. The odd otter and whiny walrus might be too tough for some kids to understand, for example, but there aren't a lot of adjectives to work with for these letters. Also, some of the animals they presented were disappointing in that they were very common animals. For example, I would have liked to have seen a hungry hippo (instead of a high-pitched horse) or a party penguin (instead of a princely or picky pig). Also, a victorious vulture carrying a bunch of trophies and ribbons might have been more useful than a violet vulture, especially since people are more likely to use the word "purple" in their conversations. But these are minor issues.
One other strength of this video is that it presents the letters one by one and at a manageable pace. After maybe 6 or 7 letters are introduced, they review these letters as a set. (Unfortunately, they don't do this for the final bunch of letters.) At the end of the movie, they show all the letters in succession as a review.
They also emphasize the most common sound for each letter. Of course, this means that some letters that have multiple sounds, such as "c" or "g" get shortchanged. They might teach "c" as in "captain," but not "c" as in "cinema." But the one-letter-one-sound theme is probably sufficient for kids this age. Vowels get two sounds in this video, but again, some sounds fall by the wayside. They teach "a" as in "apple" and "a" as in "ape," but not "a" as in "father." Again, that might be too complex for kids this age.
Parents shouldn't find this video too unbearable to watch. If anything, the frequent giggling of the animals might get on a parent's nerves after watching this video enough times. But the songs are upbeat and tolerable for adult ears. This video has no content that parents should find objectionable. There is no violence, no unpleasant language, and no teasing or meanness. It is a solid video that is heavy on learning and light on weaknesses. I highly recommend it.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 The alphabet never seemed so long, but...Jan 03, 2012
By M. Whatley
From an adult perspective, this is fairly hard to watch, especially after the quality and care of Sesame Street and other productions out there. But our 2 year old loves it, and the actual teaching seems effective. In my opinion the music is horrible, but luckily music is only featured in a couple of segments.
Shoot, we're watching it again and I guess it's kind of charming. The synthetic, longish songs are the main reason for minus one star.
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