Lots of New Things at PERC!

We've been really busy the last few months! First, we'd like to introduce our themed bags. We have put together a series of kits dealing with different subjects of interest to parents and children. Some of these subjects include Potty Training, Kindergarten Preparation, Growing Things, Alphabet, and more. Each bag contains several books, a video, and at least one game or toy to illustrate the concept. If you're home schooling and you have a lesson theme, or if you've got a child who is struggling with a concept, these bags are a perfect solution.

Thanks to a generous donation from Kid Budget, we have special items to give away. The Vault is a method for teaching money management to kids ages 6-10. It includes four pouches to separate accounts, a wristband to remind kids to save, and a workbook full of fun activities and lessons. These would make great Christmas presents for kids or grandkids. PERC has several to give away. Please ask a staff member for more information.

Last, but certainly not least, there are a couple of new ways for you to support PERC! We have set up an account with Amazon Smile that will allow you to donate half a percent of any applicable purchases to PERC. Just log in to your regular Amazon account at smile.amazon.com and search for Parent Education Resource Center Orem when it asks you to choose a charity to support. In order for the donation to go through, purchases must be made through smile.amazon.com, and not the regular Amazon site, but both sites are functionally identical. The link below should make things easier for you.

Parent Education Resource Center

Some patrons have expressed an interest in donating a toy or game to PERC for Christmas. To make this easier, we have set up a wish list on Amazon.

We really appreciate our patrons. Thank you for helping make this a great year at PERC!

Teen Summer Games Today!

Join us for Teen Summer Games Today! June 11th! Come to the Orem Library and join us in the Media Auditorium. Hope to see you there.

2014 Summer Game Days

This summer, PERC will be hosting it's 5th year of "Teen summer game days."

 The game days will be every 2nd Wednesday of each summer month. The days are June 11th, July 9th, and August 13th, at 2-3pm, in the Media Auditorium at the Orem Library.

This event is for Teenagers and Tweens. We feel that as long as a Tween (ages 9-11) can understand game play they will fit in fine.

We will play board games that are available at PERC. These games range in topic; from thinking and reasoning, to math, to word games, to geography, and also general board games.

In the picture to the right you can try out one of the games that will be featured in our first game day on June 11th.

We hope that you will come and join us for one hour of fun.

New Item: Learning Mats

 Improve your child's understanding in all these areas with these Learning Mats. The mats are writable and have great pictures. Here is a list of subjects we have on the Learning Mats:

Dinosaurs
Set the Table
Fire Engine

Planets
United States
Numbers 1-10
Handwriting
Division
Multiplication
Subtraction
Counting to 100
Discovery Landscape Picture

Blog Highlight: Spanish Section

Here at PERC, we have a section just for learning to speak Spanish, playing games, or reading books in Spanish. We have Flash Cards, Bingo, Dictionary's, CD's, DVD's, books, and lots of other learning materials to help you. If it interests you, check it out the next time you are in PERC.

Volunteer Spotlight: Lily

"A favorite item at PERC is the Science Crafts for kids. If you have a kid/kids that love to create, invent on their own, and love challenge, this is a book to consider. A long hours of trial and errors, hands on activities in science build confidence and who knows? a budding future scientist!" -Lily

Blog Highlight: Leaping Frog Math

If you're child is learning addition and subtraction; here are a couple of fun games to help them learn the math.