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If you’re looking for a pre-schooler friendly app that will get your child into the writing spirit, then you’ve got a winner with Write On. Baccizrecognizes the importance of learning the proper strokes in forming letters. This will make for fewer frustrations down the line for you and your children when they start writing prolifically later on. The app does a fantastic job of modeling how each letter is formed and allowing for your child to practice his or her writing in a very enjoyable setting. Write On gives your child a wonderful head start in learning their letters, sounds, and animals. Both you and your child will start pre-school with more confidence, knowing that they’ve already mastered the alphabet.
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Write On Homescreen
The homescreen has the whole alphabet displayed with inviting wide-eyed animals next to their corresponding letters. Kids LOVE animals, and these animals are very appealing to the eyes. Tapping on the speaker icon will play a wonderful rendition of the alphabet song, which your child will be sure to play and sing along to again and again and again. The letters are highlighted as the song is sung, so your child can learn each letter in no time. Tapping each individual letter will take your child to the handwriting page introducing that letter, its beginning sound, and an animal that begins with that letter. (A new 99 cent add-on allows you to add 70+ more animals to the app.) A short animation is played when you tap on the animals. If you tap on the letters (upper-case and lower-case), it will announce the letter, the sound, and will also demonstrate how to write it. Your child can trace the letters in blue, green, red, or yellow. If you have a stylus, it will give your child an even better feel of writing the letters and words. The eraser serves as an undo button. There is even an option to learn the cursive letters! Young children appreciate the “sophisticated” letters, too.
FlyingBooks Reader is a terrific interactive e-book reader for kids with many cool additional features (and more to come in the very near future). It allows you to create different personal profiles so one e-book can be read aloud and recorded by many different narrators. So, if you’re away on a trip, or if the grandparents are not in town, your child can still feel that bond of reading with loved ones. Better yet, if you’re on a road trip and you have the iPad in your hands, you can listen to recordings of your child reading to you! Another feature your child will love is the ability to create your own books with the photos from your iPad Camera Roll or you can take live shots with your iPad camera and put them right into a book. You can also add text and record your voice(s), too. Cool, right?
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Record your own narration!
In terms of book choices, the FlyingBooks store currently offers over 40 books, which are labeled with recommended age levels. More and more books are being added, as they are getting a great response from talented and passionate writers from all over the world. Currently, the book narrations can be heard in English, German, French, and Spanish. Another great feature is that you can see a short trailer of each book when you tap on it. You could also download a demo of the book, which lets you preview and listen to a few pages, so you and your child can decide if the story is a right fit for you. Each book costs $2.99. There are some discounted bundles available, too. In the coming weeks, mini puzzles will be offered for each book to encourage active learning, along with coloring pages. There will also be an auto-play option on the read-to-me feature to make it easier for the little ones.
The FlyingBooks app is a FREE download, so I highly recommend you give it a try. Go ahead. Create a book. Download a demo. Record yourself. Record your child. Let the joy of reading begin!
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Jennifer Luitwieler wrangles The Dog, a cat and 3 perfect angels who adore her and find her to be the best homeschool teacher ever in the universe. When she is not filling their sponge-like brains with limitless knowledge, she wrangles ideas into sentences with an imaginary golden lasso. (Of course it's imaginary. No one has a real golden lasso.) She writes on crafts and sports in monthly columns. Her first book, "Run With Me: An Accidental Runner and the Power of the Poo," was released in 2011. You can find her at http://jenniferluitwieler.com, on Twitter @jenluit and Facebook.com/jenluitwieler
About the Book:
Author Jennifer Luitwieler shares her insightful and often hilarious journey of accidentally running to stop the dog from pooing under her sewing table. What starts as a way to deal with the dog, ends up providing the space to confront some deep issues: from endlessly comparing herself to others, to competing with herself to be stronger, faster, and to pursue endlessly her own reasons and goals.
Run With Me: An Accidental Runner and the Power of Poo is about finding the unapologetic courage to confront who we are as humans. As women. As men. As parents. As spouses. As divorcees. As managers and employees. As people. And who we are, as a whole, are people created by a loving God to do good things. We are strong, capable, confident, intelligent, creative and amazing. Discovering the courage is the first step towards realizing the life we’re all seeking.
My take on the book:
Scooch over, Tiger Mom. Make room for Samurai Mom, Jennifer Luitwieler. Her book, Run With Me: An Accidental Runner and the Power of Poo, brings to light many of the issues and challenges life has thrown at her (that many Prime Parents like me can relate to), and how she has battled back. I’m not a runner and not very fond of dogs (I definitely loathe dog poo), yet I found this book to be an enticing read, thanks to Luitwieler’s whimsical, honest, and charming writing, right down to her must-read endnotes. She unabashedly reveals her battle scars and courageously confronts all the “poo” in her life.
As a reader, you feel as though Luitwieler has invited you to run with her. One appreciates her candor and trust, as she opens up and shares about her personal story and life. Her powerful narrative and vivid childhood memories evoke emotions many can identify with. As you go running and training with her, you feel stronger and liberated knowing that it’s okay that you do
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VivaKids’ ABC is one of the most creative and artistic made-for-kids apps that I’ve seen (and played with) on the iPad. Toddlers and pre-kindergartners will be sure to love learning the alphabet through this incredibly “organic” app. It combines art and design with mesmerizing music, stop-motion video, animation and photography.
Ulrike Kerber, the creative director of VivaKids.tv, developed this concept because she was dissatisfied with much of the “cheesy, flat and digital looking” media that young children are often exposed to. She wanted children to learn in a fun, playful, and loving way. This app provides the wit and charm for kids and adults, as it brings the alphabet to life with dazzling displays of imagination and creativity. Even though the app is viewed on a two-dimensional surface, the animations and images pop out with have their vibrant color, shape, and texture.
As children swipe through the alphabet and touch a letter, they are able to view artistically captivating video clips associated with that letter and a corresponding word or words. It has a Sesame Street style to it, presenting and teaching each letter in a very fun and creative way. When children “click” on the palette icon, they are able to “paint,” trace, and fill in each letter with their fingers or a stylus (if you have one).
A few minutes of play, and it just boggled my mind how much time, thought, and creativity must have gone into the development of this app. VivaKids’ ABC will be sure to bring out the artist in your little ones, and thoroughly impress the alphabet on their imaginative minds.
Renny Fong has been an educator for over 15 years, teaching pre-kindergarten through fifth grade; he currently teaches technology. His wife and his five-year-old son are his biggest joy and inspiration. He started his blog, TimeOutDad, in September 2009 and has been a contributor to Book Dads since 2010 and KidZui’s blog since May 2011.
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Oliver Chinhas written the Tales from the Chinese Zodiac series, Welcome to Monster Isle, Julie Black Belt, Timmy and Tammy’s Train of Thought, The Adventures of WonderBaby, and other books. His family lives in San Francisco, CA.
About the illustrator:
Justin Rothillustrated The Year of the Tiger and has contributed to animated TV series for Nickelodeon, Disney, and 4Kids Entertainment. Currently animation supervisor at the advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi, he lives in New York, NY.
My take on the book:
Move over Bugs Bunny. 2011 brings on the Year of the Rabbit, and Oliver Chin adds another adventurous Tale from the Chinese Zodiac to his collection, The Year of the Rabbit. This tale introduces Rosie the Rabbit, who is born with super long ears, which brings her both misfortune and fortune. As luck would have it, a boy named Jai, whose grandmother would rather eat Rosie for dinner after getting caught raiding her garden, saves Rosie. Later on, it’s Rosie who returns the favor to Jai in this fast-paced animated story. It definitely has a comic book flavor to it. As with some of his other tales, a younger audience might get scared of the ferocious tiger and dragon, so a pre-read is definitely suggested. Chin continues to creatively reveal the virtues of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac through his series.
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