Barn Door Four: Home Edition App Review

Mar 27, 13 Barn Door Four: Home Edition App Review

Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Colors, Early Learning, Featured, Fine Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Development, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Puzzles, Sequencing, Shapes, Social Skills, Sorting/Categorizing, Special Needs, Thinking Skills, Visual Perception

Barn Door Four: Home Edition includes a wealth of economically priced, well-designed exercises (29 in all) targeting fine motor skills, visual performance, communication, and sequencing designed to support children with autism and other developmental delays.  Parents will appreciate the ability to engage their child with a large collection of activities, create customized lesson plans, and to generate a wide range of reports (full version only).

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Chalk Walk App Review

Jun 19, 12 Chalk Walk App Review

Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Fine Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills, iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4)

Chalk Walk is a captivating and incredibly motivating way to practice the fine motor skills so necessary for successful printing and handwriting. It's colorful, playful map-like journey naturally engages children's desire for completion and moves them along in their pincer grip development painlessly, making it easy for parents to reinforce the hand position needed for holding a pencil.

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Oolly App – App Review

Feb 19, 12 Oolly App – App Review

Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Fine Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills, First Words, Foreign Language, French, German, iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Life Skills, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Sorting/Categorizing, Spanish, Special Needs, Thinking Skills

Oolly’s winning combination of pre-writing motor skill practice, sorting and categorization thinking skills are presented in an adorable, engaging educational game. I’ve never seen such a fun way of developing and strengthening the pincer grip – Oolly both encourages the correct grip and keeps children coming back for more! Irresistibly fun.

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