Smart Apps For Kids

Good Free App of the Day: Rosetta Stone® Kids Lingo Letter Sounds

(Take a look at today's Featured Free and Discounted Apps too!)

This is one cool app!  There are two activities — in the first you match the first letter of a word to its corresponding toy picture.

It's the second activity that I'm really excited about, though.  My kids already have an interest in learning Spanish from being exposed to Dora the Explorer so this game was warmly welcomed. Kids repeat a word in Spanish and if the the speech recognition bot thinks the pronunciation is correct the GoGo Lingo characters carry out their requests (ie: dance/baila, dance quickly/baila rápido).

Review: The Little Witch at School — It's exam time!

 

 

Bottom Line: Follow a little witch and her elf friend as they take their first witchery and wizardry examination.  Designed for kids ages 4 to 10, this app is the prequel to The Witch with No Name. Free lite version available that includes the first six pages of the book.

Osito Polar: Viaje para pescado y patatas fritas — Review

 

 

Bottom line: Hold on — before you go run to your favorite translating site because you're afraid you've found the wrong website, rest assured. (And please don't leave.) SnowPo: The Trip for Fish & Chips is now available in Spanish! The same loveable polar bear, the same story, different language.

The Bird of a Thousand Songs — Review

 

 

Bottom line: An interactive book app that tells of a mythical bird capable of recreating the song of any other bird in existence but lacking a song of its own. It is meant to teach children the importance of being themselves.

Lately Lily: Paris for a Day! — Review

 

 

Bottom line:  Lately Lily: Paris for a Day! is a lovely interactive story app that follows Lily the Traveling Girl on a quick jaunt to Paris to visit her friend Audrey and see a concert.