If you have been following my blog and Facebook page, you would've known that I am currently busy with our learning life (unofficially teaching my 3 years old) and that I teach and explain to him whenever the opportunities arises. So the moment I saw this app which states that it help young learners develop early childhood basic skills, I immediately request for the promo code to redeem and review this app. Anyway, my review as below...
* Title: Pocket Charts! Pro
* Price: $4.99
* Category: Education
* Released: Apr 07, 2012
* Version: 1.0
* Size: 72.6 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Good Neighbor Press, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
Description from the product page:
"20 games in one app! Help young learners develop early childhood basic skills! These simple matching games emulate the classic classroom pocket chart learning system. Happy music and cheerful voice prompts encourage learning fun. Here’s what’s included:
* Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching
* Beginning Letter Sounds
* Colors and Color Words
* Counting
* Shape Matching
* Long and Short Vowel Sounds
* Rhyming Words
* Consonant Blends and Digraphs
* Ending Letter Sounds
* Position Words
* Numbers and Number Words
* Pre-Number Category Sorting
* Compound Words
* Spelling 3-Letter Words
* Word Families
* Fractions
* Single-digit Addition and Subtraction
* Halloween Match
* Thanksgiving Match
* Christmas/Hanukkah Match
Developed for your iPad, these clear and easy matching games will teach and reinforce basic skills. Each game requires 3-5 minutes for a young learner to complete, making this iPad app ideal for students with limited attention spans or those requiring highly visual or tactile learning experiences. Additionally, these activities have been uniquely designed to lock and play only in the portrait mode in order to simplify game play and eliminate an orientation switch if young learners jostle the iPad while playing."
What's good?
* Who does not love 20 activities in 1 app? The fact that this app came jam packed with 20 games to play and learn at the same thing sounds awesome enough!
* There are currently a few games in this app that I can try on with my 3 years old boy as we have not started with alphabets recognition yet though I am thrilled to be able to review this app as I believe it will help in our learning activities one day!
* I am amazed at how well my boy did in the "Shape Matching" game as I see him slowly and steadily finding and matching the shapes of the objects.
Room for Improvement?
* Nothing that I can think of for now! I will definitely revisit this app in future when my boy is ready with his alphabet skills!
You can purchase the "Pocket Charts! Pro" app from the iTunes App Store.
I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"
