shedlings Apps

Three activities for kids to practise anddevelop their addition skills. All the games have different levels,starting with adding to make totals up to 10 and progressing tototals up to 20. They are designed for children who are alreadyfamiliar with written numerals.Parachute the right number of shedlings to make a target total.Watch them land on a number track and work out how many more areneeded to make the target number. Get it right 5 times and you'llbe rewarded with a bonus game that exercises your memory andcounting as you copy the shedlings' jumping patterns.Add pairs of numbers and control a robot hand to catch a ballshowing their total. See the written sum and hear it being spoken.Show counters if needed to help find the answer. Get the correcttotal 5 times to play the bonus game.Test your addition skills in four different timed challenges -two for totals up to 10 and two for totals between 11 and 20. Theseinclude 'missing number' questions such as 3 + ? = 9 and all fourgames save high scores so you can come back and try to beat yourbest.Although the games are designed to be used independently by achild, the parachute game also lends itself to an adult playingwith the child and setting various challenges. For example, theadult and child could take turns, with one selecting the firstnumber of shedlings to launch and the second working out how manymore are needed, swapping who goes first. Also, by tapping thewindsock rather than the next button, the same target number willbe repeated which gives opportunity for questions such as 'Can youmake that number a different way?' or 'Can you make that using twolots of the same number?'.Keywords: math, maths, arithmetic, adding, addition, numberbonds, total, sum, sums, number track, kid, kids, child, children,preschool, nursery, kindergarten, educational

Let the shedlings help your child learn thenumber names and numerals from 1 to 10 (and zero is in there too!)and practise number order in four fun activities in this preschoolmath app for toddlers and under fives.Hear the shedlings giggle and count along with them as they comeout of their home in the shed, learning the number names andnumerals as you play.Scroll through the flash cards, seeing the numeral, hearing itsname and counting the shedlings one by one to get a feel for thesize of each number.Go on safari or to the farm with the shedlings. Tap the numbersin the correct order to see the animals and hear their sounds. Asyou tap the correct numbers, the animals' names build up letter byletter until they are spoken when the names are complete.The maths games in this app give plenty of experience ofcounting numbers, linking the numerals to their matching quantitiesand names which is what preschool kids need to get a securefoundation for their maths.Keywords: math, maths, number, numbers, numerals, number names,10, ten, kid, kids, child, children, preschool, nursery,kindergarten, educational

An educational and entertaining app foryoungkids to learn about shapes while playing with the shedlings.Five activities help kids become familiar with a number ofcommonshapes and their names. All shape names that appear onscreen can bespoken. Settings allow this to happen automaticallyor only when thechild taps the shape's name - so a child cansimply listen and learnthe names of the shapes or they can saywhat they think a shape isbefore hearing its name.The five activities are:Watch and hear a shedling as it draws out a shape line byline.Can you guess what the shape is before it is complete? Thesides ofthe shape play sounds that are related to their lengths andtheshedling giggles at each corner, so you can play an eyesclosedgame and try to guess the shape by sound alone.Play with differently shaped fishes and see theirdifferentlyshaped bubbles. The bubbles grow and rotate as theyfloat upthrough the water. Can you still say what the shapes areeven whenthey are different sizes and at different angles? Have funmakingand popping bubbles. An option allows bubbles to say theirshapesas they are popped.Pick the shape that is the same type as the shedling. Canyourecognise the shapes even when they don't match theshedlingexactly? What about when they are at an angle? Each set ofshapescontains a range of sizes and proportions where possible -forexample, there are differently proportioned rectanglesandtriangles.Use the picture maker to play with shapes and exploretheirrelationships with each other. What pictures, patterns anddesignscan you make? Snapping to position helps little hands lineup theshapes.Put the cut up pieces of a shape together to see what youget.Can you tell what the shape is before it is completed? Can youtelljust by looking at the pieces?All activities in this app need a long press on the buttonthatreturns the app to the menu screen. This is so that childrenwhobump into the button accidentally don't shoot straight out oftheactivity, which could be particularly upsetting when usingthepicture maker. Please let me know at [email protected] is useful or annoying!Keywords: math, maths, shape, shapes, square, circle,triangle,rectangle, kid, kids, child, children, preschool,nursery,kindergarten, educational

The shedlings are getting ready fortheirbirthday party in three fun, preschool math activities foryoungkids. All the activities are focussed on counting up to 10.Help the baker put the right number of candles on the birthdaycake.Get it right and a boingy balloon is yours to play with. Howmanyballoons can you get boinging around the screen?Help the postman deliver the cards to the correct shedlingbyknocking on the shed the right number of times. Get it rightandyour garden will grow. Get it wrong and the shedlings willbesad.Choose the birthday card that matches the number of candlesonthe birthday cake. Do it enough times and you will have aballoonpiano to play on.The maths games are carefully designed with important earlymathfocuses in mind and, between them, offer a variety ofcountingsituations that are necessary for under fives toexperience.In the baker and postman activities, children have to count outthecorrect number of things to match a given numeral. As itispossible to count out too many or too few things, theseactivitieschallenge children to decide for themselves when theyhave reachedthe correct number - an important skill in reallife.The baker game uses items that remain on screen and canthereforebe recounted at any time. The postman game uses soundsand actionsas the child knocks the shed door, so they have toremember thenumber they have reached.In the third game, children have to count the candles on acakeand then pick the correctly numbered birthday card from achoice offour, practising both their counting skills and theirrecognitionof numerals.Keywords: math, maths, count, counting, number, numbers, 10,ten,kid, kids, child, children, preschool, nursery,kindergarten,educational