ABCmouse.com - Early Learning Academy
ABCmouse.com - Early Learning Academy gallery
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that ABCmouse.com - Early Learning Academy is the companion app to the subscription-based ABCmouse.com, a website that offers a comprehensive preschool curriculum for 2-6 year olds. Families with a web subscription can use their same account on the app, or you can sign up within the app. Each account can track up to three users. Kids earn tickets for completing activities and can redeem those in-app for items for their virtual bedroom, aquarium, and pets.What kids can learn
The learning activities themselves are brief and are as enjoyable as traditional worksheets, coloring pages, and puzzles. The fun factor really shines in the ticket-based reward system, though.
Curriculum begins with "Toddler Time," numbers 1 to 5, colors, and vocabulary and advances through Level 6 which includes reading using word families and sight words and math including patterns and basic addition and subtraction.
You can view progress, customize the challenge of the curriculum, set time limits in-app, and print worksheets for off-line work.
What's it about?
Kids explore different activities in ABCMOUSE - EARLY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT'S virtual world; places to visit include a classroom, zoo, farm, and map. Kids can go directly to the day's featured or new activities; or they can work through a learning path that features five different activities for their level. Kids can learn letter and number skills as well as animal facts through simple games, books, puzzles, and coloring pages. Fun stuff includes customizing an avatar, choosing a pet hamster and aquarium, and shop using tickets earned in the activities.
Is it any good?
The content seems almost endless and kids will discover solid new learning activities every time they play, but there's so much it's almost overwhelming. At every point of play, preschoolers are presented with multiple options: learning path, classroom, zoo, map, farm, songs, and featured activities; there are even more choices within each of those categories. Even the rewards are overwhelming, with options to buy items for your avatar, room, hamster, or aquarium plus counting tickets earned that day by 1s, 2s, 5s, or 10s. The curriculum, though, is excellent, and there's a lot of bang for the buck. Parents are also able to customize kids' learning level, time allowed in-app, and more, creating a highly customized learning experience.
Families can talk about...
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Families can talk about the virtual stores and use this kid-safe environment to discuss safe spending and saving.
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Parents can customize the settings to limit time playing the app and to set certain holidays to be excluded from play.
App details
| Devices: | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Fire phone, Kindle Fire |
| Price: | Free - $79.99 |
| Pricing structure: | Free to Try |
| Subscription price: | $7.99 / month - $79.99 / year |
| Release date: | November 19, 2014 |
| Category: | Education |
| Topics: | Numbers and letters, Science and nature |
| Size: | 76.40 MB |
| Publisher: | Age of Learning, Inc. |
| Version: | 1.9.85 |
| Minimum software requirements: | iOS 5.1.1 or later |
