Parents, want a cool hack to keep your kids learning over the summer and avoiding the summer slide? Try the Flocabulary app. It's packed with over 800 hip-hop learning videos that engage kids in a unique way. Also, just a quick note about the summer slide --it's is when kids, on average, lose two months of reading and math skills over summer break. In good news, Oxford Learning says that just … [Read more...]
Fanciful Grammar App for Kids
Imagine your kids playing with grammar. And enjoying it. Unless you're a geeky English major like me, that probably isn't something you imagine. But I've discovered a grammar app for kids called Sleep Furiously that is goofy, funny, and 100% grammar geeky -- that my kids love. The name Sleep Furiously comes from the sentence linguist Noam Chomsky coined to demonstrate this concept 60 years ago: … [Read more...]
My Backpack Free Learning App for 4 – 7 year olds
Waterford Early Learning doesn't just make computer-based curriculum, now they have a free bilingual iPad learning app for kids ages four to seven called My Backpack. It amazes me how much is packed into this app -- all for free. There are story books, learning songs, math games, and nursery rhymes which are in English and in Spanish. From a user perspective, the app has solid … [Read more...]