*This post was written by me on behalf of School Zone Publishing. I received complimentary product samples to facilitate this review. All opinions are 100% mine. 
Lately I’ve been struggling with balancing the amount of time that my children spend on their electronic devices. On one hand, I want them to be technologically savvy and able to compete in today’s modern technological times. On the other hand, I don’t want them to become consumed with spending time on their tablets playing games that don’t always have a significant educational value. I was very excited when I learned that School Zone, a trusted educational workbook and flash card company that I have know for years as an educator, has now taken all their educational experience and trusted content and created a kids’ tablet called Little Scholar™.
Little Scholar™ features and A+ app that allows parents to track their child’s academic progress and identify how much time their child has spent on each individual topic or curriculum area. Parents can even use an App Management Tool to choose from the preloaded 200 apps, videos, songs and e-books that are active on Little Scholar, so the can tailor the content to fit the learning needs of their children. The apps are valued at nearly $400 worth FREE content. There’s no need to buy additional apps although they are available should you decide to expand your child’s progress.
This is definitely what I have been looking for to immerse my boys in technology that allows them to be productive and that has educational value. I’m secure now in knowing that my son spends time on this tablet actually learning and having a great time doing so! The entire time he is engaged with his Little Scholar he is actually learning reading, spelling, math, and other essential skills that he will need in order to excel in the third grade next year.
My son really enjoyed watching Charlie & Company, a new educational video series with live action and animation. It stars Charlie the Golden Retriever and his best friend, Miss Ellie, who embark on educational adventures. The show features performances and original music by Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe. He also loved showing his creativity by using the rear- and front-facing camera. The tablet allows him to play with silly special effects and save pictures to his own personal gallery.
Little Scholar™ is recommended for kids ages 3-7 and features an 8-inch screen and runs on a Google Android 4.2.2 operating system. My son just turned eight and the content on the tablet was even appropriate for his learning needs. It is available now and has an MSRP of $149.99-199.99. It will be available at ToysRUs this fall. The best part is that our Sponsor has given us a Little Scholar Tablet to give away to one of you for your child to learn from!
Let’s Discuss: How do you think the Little Scholar™ Tablet will help to prepare your child for back to school?
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Our Sponsor is giving away a Little Scholar™ Tablet to one reader of Tough Cookie Mommy!a Rafflecopter giveaway
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The Scholar Tablet will help my grandchild to do better by being more interested in school activities. As we know, schools are headed into using mostly technological tools. By the time these children get to high school, they will probably use a higher level tablet. I want my grandchild to have the opportunity to start at a young age and make learning fun!! Thank you!!
Finally a tablet that parents don’t have to worry about what their children are doing! I love that this company realized that the kids of today are going to be on electronics one way or another and came up with a solution!
My little guy is already really behind in school. This sounds like something that would be beneficial in helping him catch up with everything. I love that parents can keep track of them too! Love it!
I think it will benefit my grandson because it will be a great tool to use for extra practice on skills like letters, numbers, and early beginnings of reading/phonics. It will make him more prepared for Kindergarten.
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This looks like an amazing tablet for younger kids and of course educational too. But the feature I like best is how you can track their progress. We are all busy so this is amazing so uyou can figure out how to best help them move forward in their learning.
Esta tablet le sería de mucha ayuda a mi hija de 5 que esta aprendiendo a leer.
I try to limit tech time, too, but think that educational programs are quite helpful. The ability to track their progress would be quite handy, too.
I get so jealous seeing all the great tech for kids today. Seems my girls were born just a couple years too early!
Yes and he will have his own tablet. Currently my tablet is full of learning apps that he loves.
My daughter’s reading skills can benefit always from eroding and games and any type of extra enrichment that is available.
The Little Scholar Tablet would help my kids do better with their reading and math, while they have fun.
This could help my son learning his colors, shapes, reading, math. I am impressed with this tablet. The Little Scholar Tablet could prepare him for technology in the future! He can even pass it down to little brother in a couple years.
This would totally help my girls. I find that they learn easily when fun is involve. They don’t realize they are learning which is the greatest.
with all of the technology everywhere today it is just as important to have children learn before and outside of the classroom as it is to still maintain a limit to the time spent on such devices.
I think this would be great for my son because it would make learning fun. He loves to imitate me, so I know he would like to have his own tablet like mommy.
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With my grandson just starting school, I think it would help him really learn to love school I think it will teach him that learning is fun.
My Grandson gets bored easily unless his mind is stimulated. I think this would help to keep him busy and not be bored in the least.
This would be great for my little girl. She does great in school, but my phone is covered in learning apps for her. This would be her own little learning tool
MIne islearning to read and this would give them something fun to work on
my son is in a special needs class, he has to ride a different bus to the same school that all the other kids in the neighborhood ride. His ride to school takes over a hour. This would be great for his bus ride to help him pass the time.
It would help my daughter practice her letters and work on her pre-reading skills.
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My little boy is 4 years old, so this would be great for him to practice sounding words out. It would also be great to practice math. I love the price point on this – very affordable!
I Think The Little Scholar Tablet Would Help My Nephew Stay Engaged In Learning By Making It Fun And Letting Him Explore.
My son is having a hard time recognizing his letters so this would be a perfect visual to help him learn.
I think The Little Scholar Tablet would help my granddaughter enjoy learning by using fun visuals.
I haven’t tried this one, but we’re always looking for new apps for my kiddo.
My daughter with autism has a Nabi tablet and I’m getting her an iPad. But, this looks like it could be beneficial for her in an academic sense.
We can’t wait to check this out. It looks awesome and finally each kid will have a tablet.
My son is learning to read and I think this could help
This is a great idea for a little one to have a tablet! I really want to look into tech toys for my kids, especially since they made their own computers out of cereal boxes the other day.
I would love this as a gift for my nephew. I think it would help him learn letters, shapes and eventually reading words. Thanks for the chance!
I think it would help him greatly. He loves playing games, and combining learning with a game is the best way to get him to participate and pay attention!
I know how much my kids are excited to learn when something is on the tablet or computer to play. This is awesome, I will pass it along.
I think it would be great for my youngest! Our local school starts the kids out on Ipads in kindergarten so this would help him get a head start on the skills needed to use one!
This will make learning so much more fun for kids. Love the photos!
I think The Little Scholar Tablet would help my son enjoy learning more!
I am sure that both of my boys would fight over that LOL, so I would have to get two! It looks awesome.
our daughter loves to learn and absorbs everything see watches. She would love the challenge and fun of The Little Scholar Tablet !!!
We will be starting kindergarten and home school this year. This would be a great help, my son learns a lot through interactive learning.
It amazes me how young kids start on technology these days. Mine are grown but my niece was visiting over the summer and when I had a problem with my computer…she fixed it!!!!! At 12 I couldn’t believe it!
That’s pretty neat! They learn to use these things so early now – might as well let them have their own sooner rather than later, so they don’t keep “borrowing” mom and dad’s!
you got like anything that can help children get head and learn.
Tablets are an amazing tool for helping kids learn. There are so many great apps that are bright and fun that keep a child’s attention.
It’s always a good idea to get kids a little headstart. it is amazing what they need to know before they even start school.
My toddler would love a tablet! Thank you for this idea!
My grandson could learn colors, how count, and quite a few things. He is only 3 and just started Headstart.
Great giveaway! It also looks like a great little tablet!
That looks like a great tablet to subsidize their school work and learning. I’ll have to see if that would work for my son
The School Zone tablet looks really cool! My daughter had something similar to this a few years back and she loved it!
My son is 9 but I have a couple of daycare kids who could use it 🙂
That tablet looks pretty cool! It would also be useful for our older adults slowly losing their cognitive functions to maintain what they have 🙂
I think my girls are too old for this, but I bet it is a great teaching tool for the younger set. Awesome giveaway!
I love the fact that it combines fun with education. I can see why kids would love this so much and it is great that is has a camera too.
He is always grabbing my tablet or computer and checking out things for school or homework I definately think his own tablet would benefit him.
This sounds great. I like that you can track your child’s progress.
This is a really nice learning tool. Someone is going to be happy when they win!
This looks like a great device for kids to use. I like that it comes with a wide range of it’s own apps for kids to enjoy.
My child is very active so he struggles to sit long enough so that he can learn. But, he loves technology. So I think would help him a ton.
Love this! My kids are older but my friend has young kids. I will tell her about this great tablet for kids.
I love these tablets that are specifically created for children. This is a great giveaway!
My nephew hates to read but he loves to play games. I think this tablet loaded with llearning games would ‘trick’ his dislike of reading into thinking he isnt doing anything but playing.
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I think it will help my son with numbers and learn more with the games.
I think that this tablet would help with her creativity.
With over 200 preloaded apps, I am sure there are things to help my grandson on his way to learning.
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I think this tablet will be a big help. It has all of the fun learning apps on it. Kids today have come to expect everything electronic!
This tablet will really help my four year old daughter. She really wants to learn when I am homeschooling my boys. This way she can work on her education when I’m not available.
I think this would help my child academically because of the learning apps. They like to learn through games and play. The Charlie & Co series looks interesting.
it appears it would help my child with her abcs and number so that is mostly why i want this ! thank you! xoxo
it help my daughter learn to read, and she is really struggling with that.
my daughter would probably be more motivated to learn to read if she could use her own tablet to play the games
It would help my girls how to read and my son his letters and numbers.
I think by teaching her to read better by interacting with the tablet is a great learning tool.
I think it would be great because it would make learning fun for my 3 & 5 year old! I love that it teaches them to read!!
I think it would actually encourage her to want to learn using a tablet and to continue this without asking to get on disney jr or nick jr.
My daughter is in need of extra reading assistance. I think this tablet would engage her and help her with sounding out words, reading fluency, and spelling!
this would be a tremendous help with teaching my daughter how to read. what a wonderful learning tool.
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I love that it is preloaded and can be tailored for the individual child. I would much rather know that my son is playing something educational instead of switching off the educational app and playing Angry Birds like he does on the iPad
Oh I think this would help Carter with his math skills! He loves the tablets and playing the little kids games..and I love how it teaches so many of the basic skills while they are having fun too!
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The educational videos that make learning fun is the greatest way to achieve a child’s learning development. I love that this can cater to each individual child and their learning capabilities.
This tablet would help with making learning fun.
My granddaughter La Princesa has autism and apparently the colors and music in apps help her learn better. I’m sure this would be perfect for her on many levels. Gracias for the Giveaway.
My grandson has ADHD and some other learning disabilities so this would be great for him to practice at home!
Entered the Kohl’s giveaway too.
I think that it would be a nice alternative to t.v. My youngest can play learning games and feel like a grownup with his own tablet.
My four year old grandson is a bit behind on his vocabulary, this might help him pick up some new words!
I think that this will help my boys because it had nothing but educational content. It will great for my six and four year old, since it is user friendly.
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i think all of this would help my daughter. it also looks fun!
Having fun while learning is a good way to keep a child interested and to do better.
probably help him learn by making it fun
It would help him learn to read and how to count!
I think it will help because instead of playing a game for fun with no point- this will be games with education. Its a great concept!
This would be perfect for teaching my son colors , letters, numbers and so much more before he begins school. This tablet would give him a great head start.
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I think this tablet would benefit my great nephew that lives with me and has just started Kindergarten. It would help him with learning everything while he is having fun with it. I love educational toys and gadgets. Everything is tech now and this would be a great headstart for a child.
it would help him learn problem solving and so much more. my son loves playing on the tablet and i love that this is educational.
This would be awesome for my son. I love that it is all educational. It is great for trips in the car.
I believe the tablet will make my nephew interested in learning through interactive games. I believe kids do better academically when you make learning fun instead of just boring and tedious to them. By learning how to solve math problems, read, and pronounce words through interactive games I believe kids will do better in school by applying the abilities they learned from the tablet to challenges in school.
I believe that it will help her with her reading, no doubt there. She will also be able to do the other apps which will sharpen her skills in things like phonics and math. Of course, with homeschooling, this would be a wonderful tool for her.