What's New

now available on iPhone, iPod and iPad.

App Description

"Excellent vocabulary building app. As a teacher of children with disabilities, I see a ton of potential with this app." - Leslie Moore

"Great app! Both my school age kids and even my 2 yr old love and use this app more and more everyday. They have all grown more confident in reading and comprehending everyday words" - Nic Avila

"Good speech app We use this for our 3.5 year old daughters speech therapy and her SLP thinks it's a wonderful app as do I!" - Tanya Oick

Nimble Minds' best seller 'Bud's First Words' is now available on App Store. It is a beautifully illustrated word learning and reading game, loved by kids, parents and teachers all over the world.

Join Bud on a journey through his house, school, city, park and around as he and his friends go from place to place to learn new words. Children will come across a wide range of words spoken and heard by all toddlers as they are growing up.

In 'Bud's First Words', toddlers and preschool kids will start learning by listening and reading nouns, the names of things found around them in everyday places like bedroom, bathroom, classroom, playground, park, etc. Then in Play mode children will read questions and they will be asked to identify the same objects and recognize their words, this will reinforce their learning. In no time you will see kids spotting and naming things around the house and increasing their vocabulary every time they play.

'Bud's First Words' is designed to:
- build children's everyday vocabulary
- improve reading skills by practicing words children hear at home and school
- improve reading fluency
- boost kids confidence and self esteem
- help children with difficulties like autism, add, adhd, speech delay, non-verbal in reading and learning English language and communication in a positive and stimulating way.

FEATURES:
- 24 locations to explore - Bedroom, Bathroom, Breakfast, Classroom, Playground, Park, Street, Store, Grocery, Kitchen, Party, Garden, Family Room, Restaurant, City, Airport, Beach, Carnival, Camping, Under the Sea, Workshop, Clinic, Farm, Fitness Room.
- 350 plus words to learn
- Kid-friendly interface
- No third-party advertising
- No in-app purchases

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'Bud's First Words' is the first app from our series of English language learning apps.

Stay tuned on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/nimblemindsinc) or sign up on our website (www.nimble-minds.com) for updates on our next release: "Bud's Rhyming Words" which focuses on cvc words, word families, rhymes and vocabulary through 3 amazingly adventurous games. This app will be based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) guidelines for ELA (English Language and Arts).

iPhone Screenshots

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Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 1 Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 2 Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 3 Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 4

iPad Screenshots

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Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 5 Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 6 Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 7 Bud’s First English Words - Vocabulary Builder, Reading Game, Picture Dictionary & Learning activities for Preschool Toddlers screenshot 8

App Changes

  • May 08, 2014 Initial release
  • July 17, 2014 New version 1.1
  • August 30, 2014 Price decrease: $3.99 -> FREE!
  • August 31, 2014 Price increase: FREE! -> $3.99

Other Apps From Nimble Minds LLC

Bud's Rhyming Words - Kids learn word families, CVC, short & long vowel words Bud's First Korean Words - Vocabulary Builder, Learning and Reading Game for Preschool Toddlers Bud's First Japanese Words - Vocabulary Builder, Learning and Reading Game for Preschool Toddlers Bud's First Spanish Words - Spanish for Kids (Vocabulary, Spelling, Reading and Grammar) Word Morph! - Endless Word Puzzle Game