![]() ![]() I’ve been working on letter recognition with Jade for the past year. Right now, it’s just matching for her later, it will be a useful math skill. And as the app repeats, “Five plus five is ten,” she’s learning that. Jade (doing Kindergarten this year) hasn’t done much adding yet, but just by guessing, she completed most of the game. This is something my older girls learned in Grade 1. I’ve been impressed by what she’s tried, and what games she’s managed to play just by guessing.įor example, I watched her play a matching game for sums of 10. Jade can pick and choose her games, based on how she’s feeling that day. The learning games range in level from letter identification to multiplication (preschool to Grade 2). With Starfall, I don’t have these problems. Other times, I’ve printed tracing sheets or activity pages, only to find her bored by them and leaving them also unfinished in her drawer. We have a big pile of half-finished books in her drawer. Many of the workbooks I’ve tried get too hard too quickly, frustrating her. However, it isn’t easy to find resources at the right level for her. ![]() ![]() She wants to do school like her big sisters. I’m always watching for educational activities to keep Jade, who turns five next month, busy. Early in the novel, Louisa May Alcott revers to Jo as an “Atalanta.” I thought, “Yay! I know what she means-thanks to the story in Starfall that Pearl has listened to many times!”ĭo your children love reading stories with you? Enter to win a plush Backpack Bear (star of many stories in the Starfall app!) with two fun books! Just click the prize image below and scroll down for the Rafflecopter form: Funny anecdote: I reread Little Women this year. These days, it’s four-year-old Pearl and two-year-old Joey listening to the stories and playing the games. Updated 2020: Starfall is still our favourite educational app for preschoolers. They’ve been more than happy to help me review this educational app for preschoolers! I love seeing their heads bent together as they listen to the alphabet song or match shapes together. Multiple times a day, either my four-year-old or my two-year-old asks to play on our tablet with The Starfall Home Membership from Starfall Education Foundation. North American Martyrs Kids Activity Book.You can get your younger kids started with alphabet recognization in Starfall ABCs, and Starfall Numbers is great for math help. The Starfall Learn To Read app is just one of many in their roster. Hopefully we can get Charlie reading quicker than it has come for Zacharie with the help of a little proactive Starfall play. The game is a little over Charlie’s head, but he knows his letters, he’s starting to write his name, so practicing sounds and how words are formed is still something he can grasp. At first Zacharie was against this rule, but now he’s starting to get the hang of the words, letters, games, and his reading is jumping quickly. 15 minutes of Starfall needs to be worked on before the iPad comes on at any time. We have a rule that no tvs or iPads are on before 4p in our house. You can leave the kids alone to mess around by themselves, or you can work through it together. There are little Sesame Street– esque vignettes to introduce literacy concepts, there’s a variety of games and tasks to play with each lesson. This is a slick, highly interactive experience. I clicked over to give it a second shot and was thoroughly thrilled. I had forgotten about Starfall until my Dad Blogger group started sharing apps for readers. My guys have no idea how to use a keyboard and mouse, but leave them alone with a tablet for enough time and they’ll figure out any game even when they can’t read the instructions. Websites don’t work for kids anymore, apps do. A keyboard experience is not how my kids and I spend our computer time. My brother used the site to help my niece read, but I couldn’t get past the Windows 95 layout. So bad, in fact, I clicked away after my first visit. The Starfall website has long been a great resource for parents trying to help their kids with literacy skills, but it’s a terribly designed website. Starfall Learn To Read, Starfall Education ![]()
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