App Detail » Preschoolers ABC Playground AD

Published by: Jan Essig

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 5.0.4
Released: December 09, 2013

What's New

- Bugfix in exercise 3: Write

+++ GREATEST UPDATE EVER +++
- Complete re-Design of the entire App
- Optimized all graphics, font types & illustrations
- All 10 languages / accents with phonic sounds & letter sounds are now available & selectable in all exercises
• American English (male & female speaker)
• British English
• Australian English
• German
• Swedish
• Italian
• Spanish
• French
• Dutch
- Two additional fonts were added - now a total of 8 fonts are available:
• NEW: Sütterlin
• NEW: Kurrent
• Block letters 1: Druckschrift
• Block letters 2: Grundschrift
• Cursive Handwriting 1: Schulausgangsschrift
• Cursive Handwriting 2: Lateinische Ausgangsschrift
• Cursive Handwriting 3: Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift
• US Cursive Handwriting
- All 8 fonts are available in upper & lowercase letters + letter tracing
- All 8 fonts can now be selected in the first FLASHCARDS exercise
- All 8 fonts can be selected in the 3rd WRITE exercise
- Optimized for iPhones with 5,5“ and 6,5“ Displays
- An overview of the whole alphabet is now also available for iPhones in exercise 4: ALPHABET
- The german ANLAUT-TABELLE is now also available for iPhones
- In German the DOPPELLAUTE were optimized in exercises 2 and 6
- The REWARD SYSTEM game: Yeti and his apple core“ has been optimized
- Options to show or hide Yeti & Pairs Game and to reset all stars and apples optimized
- Optimized Timer to set playing time for children
- Lots of small improvements
- Reduced file size

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App Description

A Read and Write ABC Learning App for Kids: A-D

This is the FREE-TO-TRY version of the highly acclaimed Preschoolers ABC Playground.
• Designed for children aged 4-7 years
• Perfect to help preschool kids learn through play

You’re looking for something to help your animal-loving preschooler develop the solid foundation they need for literacy success and you love the idea of putting basic skills in context rather than teaching them in isolation.

Preschoolers ABC Playground FREE is the app for you. Designed to engage preschoolers and help them learn the basics, the app also grows with your child. As your little ones are learning their letters you can show them how they are written and how they fit together to make words. As your child’s confidence increases, Preschoolers ABC Playground FREE gives them a way to both learn and practice writing and reading - all in just one app. For breaks, rewards or just fun, the app also includes a simple but addictive physics game - the more your kids learn and practice, the more they get to play!

While playing the games in Preschoolers ABC Playground your child will be learning:

• Letter sounds and names
• Upper and lower case letters
• Alphabetical order
• How to put letters together to create basic words
• How to write both upper and lower case letters
• 8 different fonts are available
• 7 different languages are supported, plus options for either American, Australian or British English.

The sections in this FREE VERSION [ letters A - D ONLY! ] are:
• FLASHCARDS. Introduce each upper case letter by both name and sound, together with a different animal to associate with every letter. You can also choose to trace each letter to demonstrate how it’s written.
• PRACTICE. Gives your kid lots of practice tracing upper and lower case letters.
• WRITE. A drawing board where children can practice on either a blank page or one with ruled lines.

You can unlock the Full Version of this App with one single In-App-Purchase inside a protected parents area.

The 7 different sections in the FULL VERSION are:
• FLASHCARDS. Introduce each upper case letter by both name and sound, together with a different animal to associate with every letter. You can also choose to trace each letter to demonstrate how it’s written.

• ALPHABET. The first exercise in this section shows upper and lower case letters in alphabetical order, together with their animal partners. A matching game then gets your kids dragging and dropping upper case tiles onto their lower case counterparts or vice versa. A third exercise asks your child to pair together upper case letters with the correct animals.

• PAIRS. There are three versions of the classic memory card game in this section. Match upper case letters, upper and lower case letters or upper case letters and animal pairs.

• WORDS. Unscramble letters to spell animal names. There are three different levels of difficulty - beginner, advanced and Pro.

• PRACTICE. Gives your kid lots of practice tracing upper and lower case letters.

• WRITE. A drawing board where children can practice on either a blank page or one with ruled lines. If they want to copy letters then there are tiles available that they can drag and drop onto the board.

• YETI and his flying apple(core) - as a break, a reward or just for fun! If your child is spending too long playing this game then you can either limit their playtime in settings or hide the game completely.

This app was developed by me together with my children, incorporating feedback from parents and educators. It won the Editor’s Choice Award from Children’s Technology Review and ipadeducators.com gave it 5/5 stars, saying:

“Simply put, this is the best app we have yet seen for early letter learning. The attention to detail and range of options is outstanding and we highly recommend it for Early Years teachers.”