Monkey Word School Adventure

[Cool Game! (But It Needs Update...)]How To Play: {If You Get A Game Correct. You Can Choose A Bug and/or Plant! The More You Get Correct. The Higher The Chance You Can Choose A Bug and/or Plant! Then, The Bug and/or Plant You Chosen Goes Into Your Terrarium! The Tray Below Your Terrarium Is Where You Can Store Your Bugs and/or Plants! (Even New Bugs and/or Plants!)The More Bugs and/or Plants You Have, The Higher The Chance You’ll Get A Duplicate Of One Of Your Bugs and/or Plants! There’s Only 3 Player Spaces... Each First Launch Of An Player, Starts The Player Without A Bug and/or Plant! Remember This Phrase?(The More Bugs and/or Plants You Have, The Higher The Chance You’ll Get A Duplicate Of One Of Your Bugs and/or Plants!)Yeah! That!}Why It Needs Updates: {[Reason 1(Multiple iPad Play)] There Should Be An Option To Play With The Same Player On Multiple iPads!(Only When Multiple iPads Have This App)[Reason 2(Losing The Entirety (Or Part) Of Your Terrarium)]You Can Actually Lose The Entirety (Or Part) Of Your Terrarium... (Usually When It Crashes)That Shall Be Fixed![Reason 3(More Collectibles)]There Should Be New Bugs and/or Plants To Collect![And Reason 4(Big Fixes)]Fix The Bugs!

My kids are 6, 4, and 2 so being able to customize different profiles for each of them is really great. It's easy to navigate, which I always love in a kid app. One of the things I like most about this app is the section that they need to place the right letter to make the word, even when the wrong letter is placed in the spot the narrator of the game sound out the all of the letters so my kids can hear the sounds that are in the word, example they want them to place the letter u to make the word cup, c and p are already in place, the letters u, t, and g are available to place. If my child places the g the narrator then sounds out c-g-p and the monkey shakes his head and then they get to place another letter, this is really great for young children, they get to solve the problem and see why cgp doesn't make a word that anybody understands. There aren't any ads for them to touch and navigate out of the game they are in. I recommend this app for all young children, it's really a great app.

1. My daughter is learning to read from this app. It is OUTSTANDING. Well designed, tracks her progress, fun. So much fun the little brother wants to watch, which greatly increases its value in her eyes. 2. It needs an update to allow a backup of progress per child. This is important because a) it can currently only be played on one ipad, and b) it crashed the other day and lost all her progress. She didn't care about getting the easy words again, but she was unspeakably upset when it gave her a reward for her terrarium and it turned out all the previous rewards had gone and her terrarium was empty. It was devastating.

There are a bunch of apps out there that are 'educational' but they don't really follow education theory. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. This is pre-reading and beginning reading the way you'd get it in elementary school. The games are short and varied, the concepts are the same ones you get in school -- from rhyming to identifying vowel sounds, to letter identification of both capital and lower-case letters. Builds sounding-out skills as well as site word skills in a fun, encouraging and VARIED way. Great to play WITH your child, too...keeps parents from getting bored. This is a winner, we recommend this one very much.

I've bought all 3 of the monkey apps for my kids, they love them and really have learned (still are) from them, they are fun and have them both laughing while learning, great stuff! Only one thing; On this new game I would like the 'trace the letter' to be a bit better, my son hates the way it asks him to write and 'M' , it's not fluid, having to draw the two vertical lines them the 'v' in the middle, can you do it as you would if handwritten? Other than that, can't fault it, great price too and love that it can go on iPhone as well as iPad :)