TeachMe: Kindergarten
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $2.99 | 24x7digital LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
***** SmartAppsForKids.com 2012 Readers' Choice Top 10!
***** 2010 Best App Ever Awards - 2nd Place in Education!
TeachMe: Kindergarten is known as TeachMe: Reception in the UK.
TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app which teaches six different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction, spelling and now writing letters and numbers. Parents can select which subjects they want, set different difficulty levels, and even choose specific questions. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing.
TeachMe: Kindergarten keeps children engaged with a rather unique reward system where children earn a coin for every three correct answers. Coins can then be used to purchase stickers to place in fun sticker scenes or to purchase items for the new virtual aquarium. Sticker scenes can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends.
The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be child friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. An animated teacher (Mimi Mouse) gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun.
FEATURES:
• Virtual Aquarium reward (4 types of fish and 40+ items)
• 6 different sticker reward scenes: farm, beach, underwater reef, pirate cove, city, playground
• Over 150 different stickers for adding to scenes
• Save learning information for up to 40 students
• Select which subjects are displayed for each student
• Turn on/off specific questions within a subject
• Change the number of correct questions to earn a reward
• Change the number of questions in a row to mark a question learned
• Tracks performance for each subject item (last five)
• Export sticker rewards scenes to Photos, for emailing or using as wallpaper
LEARNING SUBJECTS:
• Sight Words: Dolch (Pre-K), Dolch (K)
• Addition: up to a total of 10
• Subtraction: from 10 down
• Spelling: complete words by choosing the missing letter
• Letter Writing: how to write letters a-z, A-Z
• Number Writing: how to write numbers 0-9.
Email us at [email protected] for help & suggestions as we cannot respond to reviews.
Be sure to try the other apps in the TeachMe series: TeachMe: Toddler, TeachMe: 1st Grade, TeachMe: 2nd Grade, and TeachMe: 3rd Grade!
Reviews
Great app
FireflyRiver
This app is very educational for my kids. I used the second grade level game to teach my child long addition and subtraction before he was old enough to learn it at school. The kindergarten game is great for learning phonics reading skills, sight words, and early addition and math skills. My only complaint would be the writing program. As a parent, you can just select to not use that program if you want in parent controls. I think there are lots of free apps that are better at teaching writing. For math and reading though, I find this app to be exceptional and far superior to other apps out there. For me, this app is an academic necessity.
SpEd Teacher, Parent & Grandma of 6
netkernly
I am a SpEd resource teacher and my students truly love this app. One of my Kindergarten boys prefers it to any game he could choose on the tablet. On top of purchasing it for my own class, it is the only app I have gifted to others multiple times. This app teaches the correct way to form letters. (Kindergarten level) This helps to prevent the common problem with reversals. When kids form their b and d correctly they don't have all the issues with confusing those two letters. It may seem petty to force students to form letters a certain way but there is actually a lot of science behind it. Another great feature is the fact that you can customize it. Almost all settings can be adapted for each individual child. Plus each grade level allows you to enter up to 40 separate students. Each student can have their individual settings customized. So if I feel it would be best for my student to enter answers with a keyboard instead of writing, I can set it up that way. I decide how many correct answers each student needs to have to earn a reward and how many times they must answer correctly to be considered mastery. The app collects ongoing data on each student that I can check any time. There are separate topics for Addition, Subtraction, Spelling, and Sight Words for the 1st-grade level but you can turn off any section in order to have your student focus on the areas you want them to focus on. Second-grade has Spelling, Sight Words, Fast Addition, Fast Subtraction, Long Addition, and Long Subtraction. Again you can customize and remove areas you don't want the student to spend time on. Third-grade has Multiplication, Division, Fast Multiplication, Fast Division, Spelling, and Sight Words. Kindergarten has Addition, Subtraction, Spelling, Sight Words and Letter and Number Writing. Lastly , Pre-School has Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Colors, ABC Phonics, and Counting. In every grade level you can choose to leave all topics on or turn some off. As students move up in levels , support is slowly decreased and tasks become more difficult. Students are rewarded using a 'token economy system' where they earn virtual coins that they exchange for virtual fish which they can feed. My students are very motivated by their virtual fish aquarium and love feeding their virtual pets! In addition to all of this, if you purchase the package with all grades you also get the math pack which you can customize for each studentto focus on the basic math skills they need to practice. This is truly my all-time favorite educational app and I highly recommend it!
Great app to teach kids
Cle1785
All I want to say is this app is great but my only problem with is the writing portion of the lesson. One simple mistake you’ll get you a wrong answer.
Mouse guy
Prtony
Good game for older people but very bad for kids must have adult super vision if you are a kid mouse guys
Good when it is working.
The truth is here now
Right now when I click the settings button it crashes. Poof! Gone. Can’t change the setting to change the curriculum assigned to my child.
Great for all abilities
Mknelle
I cannot say enough good things about this app. I work with special needs children and it is the best app to explain math concepts. Plus I can customize it for each of them to whatever level they are at. Even better, the rewards, teach them even more math. Sneaky, sneaky, I love it! That’s really helpful to give them a basic understanding of how money works in the real world, something that all kids show learn as early as possible.
A must have learning app bundle
Kinder Teacher & Mom
I have used these apps with my now 7th grader and I am currently using them for my 2nd grader. They help reinforce the foundational skills for reading and math. They make it fun by adding rewards and having things kids can buy. I am also a teacher and I recommend this app to all parents when they ask what types of apps they can use for additional support for their child.
Needs a teach me 5th grade
MuckieDee
I HAVE PLAYED THIS APP IN KINDERGARTEN. I AM 10 now. THIS APP ROKS. MY BROTHR IS 5 AND HE HAS BEN ASKING FOR MY FONE TO PLAY THIS AWSOM GAME. HE IS HAVE FUN. HE HAS ALOT OF FUN. 나는이 게임을 좋아한다!!!
Absolutely love it
MaiyasMommy
So I’m a tight-wad and never pay for apps, but my mom gave me an Apple gift card for the app store and I tried this. I love it so much I may buy it for my husband’s tablet for my child to use as well. It teaches math and reading as well as writing. Her writing has improved greatly, and she went from not counting at all to being a math super star within days. She loves the sticker store and it has also helped teach her about saving money and patience- since some items you have to save up for (not real money). A great app that teaches and works
