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Jake’s Never Land Shapes And Patterns App Review – Shape Up And Ship Out

By Emily On October 29, 2013 · Add Comment

Shape recognition is an integral part of building an early learning math skill foundation.Yesterday my 5-year-old and I were having a contest to see how many shapes we could make by arranging our fingers together. Diamonds, squares, and circles were easy – it was the hexagon and isosceles triangle that proved to be tricky. Luckily for us – and other families that have been confronted with the menace of complicated finger shapes – there’s Jake’s Never Land Shapes and Patterns. Now fingers are used for tapping and swapping, eliminating the need to contort digits into impossibly geometric configurations. I write this all tongue-in-cheek, but this particular app goes back to my original statement about shape recognition and its importance in building early math skills. Using popular animated characters from a Disney franchise, Shapes and Patterns offer young players three different minigames to keep little ones [...]

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Longlegs and the Pirate With No-Nose Review

By Emily On February 6, 2013 · Add Comment

I have regularly read to my children since they were young infants, and it has instilled in them a love of books. Especially weird, silly, funny, and visually stunning books. (We recently checked a book out of the library entitled “Fartiste”.) One of the perks of having a family iPad is the vast array of digital books available for download; books that we wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Longlegs and the Pirate With No-Nose is one such book that we may never have read had it not been for iTunes. As an Italian import it most likely will never be available at our small-town public library, but as a digital version it crossed the ocean and landed with a bounty on its head, right in our iPad. A basic synopsis of the story includes Rakam, aka The Pirate With No-Nose, and his evil plundering ways. He happens upon a baby [...]

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Jake’s Never Land Shapes And Patterns App Review – Shape Up And Ship Out

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