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July 17, 2014

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Product Review: Stoplight Golight vs. Time Timer Plus, tested for Classical Conversations Foundations

To complete this review, I received both a Stoplight Golight Timer and a TimeTimer Plus in exchange for my honest opinions. I am a mechanical engineer turned stay-at-home mom to our two boys (5 and 2), and tutor /teach a CC class of 4 and 5 year olds as well as homeschool my 5 year old. I looked at a variety of similar timers and you can read about my pros/cons for each here- http://freshtomorrow.blogspot.com/2014/09/timer-review-time-tracker-visual-time.html . I contacted the companies of my top two and both were wonderful to send me their product to test out in our Classical Conversations Foundations classroom and at our home. Each timer was tested in our class and at my home over the course of two weeks. In the classroom, I: had parents operate them while I presented the new grammar, used as a visual reminder for the kids during their 3-minute presentations, watched the kids response to the visual and auditory alarms at the end of each 4, 3 and 30 minute se...

Timer Review: Time Tracker Visual, Time Tracker Mini, Stoplight Golight, Time Timer Plus, Dataxx, Amco Color Alert

For the past year and a half we have participate in a home school community called Classical Conversations (www.classicalconversations.com). Last year I tutored a class of 4-6 year olds and although I had a blast, keeping our class on schedule was a major challenge. In addition to our weekly student presentations (each child has 3 minutes to present on a chosen weekly topic), I have 30 minutes to present 7 topics of new grammar; which breaks down to only about 4 minutes per subject! I tried various apps for my iPhone, but found them frustrating to use as my screen kept going into power-save mode, they drained my battery, and I had to keep switching between setting the timer and trying to teach. This year I knew I needed something that could help explain elapsing time to a 4 year old and keep me on track during the day. It would also be nice to have something that I could use at home- as my 5 year old has resorted to counting to 60 when...

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