Starfall has been teaching children to read with phonics for over a decade. With Starfall’s Kindergarten curriculum, she’ll be ready to jump into Grade 1 next year. That makes it hard to sit down with Jade every day to do an educational activity. Joey has been a pretty good baby, but he’s also had fussy moments or just needs my attention with diaper changes and feeds. Sometimes I feel guilty that I’m not coming up with alphabet activities for Jade like I did for Sunshine and Lily. In the sums of 10 game, I encouraged her to slow down and think about the answers, because she knew them, instead of just guessing until she got it right.Īt home, Starfall helps Jade keep learning even when I’m busy with her baby brother or big sisters. I also give her hints for the games that are a bit too hard for her, so she’s learning from them. If Joey is napping too, I can suggest games for Jade, based on what I know she needs to practice (instead of what’s easiest for her). Starfall does require an Internet connection, so I create a hotspot for the tablet using my phone. This is a good chance for Jade to do Kindergarten with the tablet. On Tuesday afternoons, Sunshine and Lily have music lessons, which Pearl usually sleeps through. Having an educational app for preschoolers has let me take our learning on the go. She can explore a ton of different activities within the app with just the tap or swipe of a finger. I love the fact that Starfall offers a variety of play based preschool learning activities for her. She also likes the catchy math and phonics songs.Įven Pearl (age two) has been singing her alphabet along with the app. I was happy to see several of her favourite Starfall games involved this skill, along with matching the right letter to the right word. I’ve been working on letter recognition with Jade for the past year. Right now, it’s just matching for her later, it will be a useful math skill. And as the app repeats, “Five plus five is ten,” she’s learning that. Jade (doing Kindergarten this year) hasn’t done much adding yet, but just by guessing, she completed most of the game. This is something my older girls learned in Grade 1. I’ve been impressed by what she’s tried, and what games she’s managed to play just by guessing.įor example, I watched her play a matching game for sums of 10. Jade can pick and choose her games, based on how she’s feeling that day. The learning games range in level from letter identification to multiplication (preschool to Grade 2). With Starfall, I don’t have these problems. Other times, I’ve printed tracing sheets or activity pages, only to find her bored by them and leaving them also unfinished in her drawer.

We have a big pile of half-finished books in her drawer. Many of the workbooks I’ve tried get too hard too quickly, frustrating her.

However, it isn’t easy to find resources at the right level for her. She wants to do school like her big sisters. I’m always watching for educational activities to keep Jade, who turns five next month, busy. Early in the novel, Louisa May Alcott revers to Jo as an “Atalanta.” I thought, “Yay! I know what she means-thanks to the story in Starfall that Pearl has listened to many times!”ĭo your children love reading stories with you? Enter to win a plush Backpack Bear (star of many stories in the Starfall app!) with two fun books! Just click the prize image below and scroll down for the Rafflecopter form: Funny anecdote: I reread Little Women this year. These days, it’s four-year-old Pearl and two-year-old Joey listening to the stories and playing the games. Updated 2020: Starfall is still our favourite educational app for preschoolers. They’ve been more than happy to help me review this educational app for preschoolers! I love seeing their heads bent together as they listen to the alphabet song or match shapes together. Multiple times a day, either my four-year-old or my two-year-old asks to play on our tablet with The Starfall Home Membership from Starfall Education Foundation. North American Martyrs Kids Activity Book.

Starfall months of the year song