Today’s Amazon Free App of the Day is for young learners.
Alphabet Car (4/5 stars, FREE today only) – From Amazon:
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Jump behind the wheel and buckle up for a learning journey you won’t soon forget! Alphabet Car, an innovative educational app that makes remembering letters and words fun, puts you in the driver’s seat. You’ll be fully engaged, using your eyes, ears, and hands. If you’re new to Alphabet Car, you’ll start out driving Baby Bus; as you continue playing, you can unlock other cars. Oh, the places you’ll go in this big-eyed, bouncing yellow school bus…
To start, choose which mode you’d like to try: Preschool, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert. As you progress through each mode, you’ll play with longer words, starting with one and two-letter words in Preschool to six-letter words in Expert. Within each mode there are nine stages, many of which you’ll have to unlock. So let’s get going!
If this is your first time behind the wheel, there is no need to worry — it’s intuitive and easy even for the littlest learners. Just rotate your mobile device like a steering wheel to navigate your way down the scenic road. You can choose to listen to music or just the sound of your wheels. Most importantly, watch out for the letters!
As you roll along, big block letters appear before you on the road. Aim your bus toward these letters and when you make contact with them, you’ll hear the letter pronounced. When you gather all the letters to spell a word, you’ll hear the word pronounced and you are presented with a card showing the word along with an illustration. Track how many words you have gathered as the cards pile up.
Once you unlock a level, you can practice a series of words by replaying a particular stage. For a more challenging experience you can increase the speed of your car. And as you unlock more levels, you can even decorate your car.
Alphabet Car is a fun way to learn letters, words, and spelling. It’s great for little ones and involves visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles and strengthens hand-eye coordination. While you journey and learn, enjoy upbeat music, colorful 3D graphics, and more than 40 different levels.
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Those with preschoolers might also want to consider Monkey Preschool Lunchbox (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents) – From Amazon:
From the encouraging monkey laughing and turning somersaults to the playful music and sound effects, it’s easy to get drawn into this game and smile. With a continuous series of mini-games, kids are repeatedly challenged to identify colors, letters, numbers, and shapes in different and exciting ways.
Match the Fruit
Can you remember which fruit is where as you uncover tiles and look for matches? Can you put the colorful puzzle pieces back into their rightful shape? Can you pick out all the red fruit? There are six varieties of mini-games in total, and they all change with each play. As one ends another begins, providing a nonstop and entertaining learning environment.
Educational and Fun
An animated monkey provides cheerful encouragement with facial expressions and energetic somersaults as you proceed from game to game. Meanwhile, a friendly voice narrates the questions and your choices, all the while accompanied by calypso music. And best of all, every time you win a few in a row, you get to choose a cartoon sticker and place it on your very own sticker board. As you keep winning, the stickers keep building. Lots of fun!