App Review: ABCmouse

One of the most commonly asked questions I get from parents and friends is about the apps we use at school to help children in literacy and numeracy. There are literally thousands of apps that promote knowledge of letters, sounds, numbers, counting and the list goes on. The fact is, the more practice that you do to promote foundational knowledge, the better. Now that my own daughter Ella is starting school next year, there has never been a more important time to spend time with her. Reading, drawing, playing. There has also been an app that I have come across that has literally propelled her to new levels of knowledge and confidence. If you have Foxtel at home, and your children watch Nick Junior, then you may be familiar with ABCmouse. Being both a parent, and a teacher I approached ABCmouse myself to ask them if I could check it out and review it from the perspective of both. I have been given the chance to try it out for a year with my children. This is something that I searched for myself, it was not something that was offered to me. I genuinely want to find products that help parents help their kids learn. We have been using the program for a month, and I have to say that I’ve never seen anything like it. Ella literally begs me to use ABCmouse. She has developed her knowledge of commonly used words and phonetical strategies. She is able to predict text before she reads is and uses the wonderful visual cues to help her sound out words. Ella is mid way through kindergarten. Her intrinsic motivation to learn to read has literally blown me away. As a teacher, I have to say that the personalised nature of the learning pathway is phenomenal. As a parent, seeing my daughter literally soak up the learning has brought me to tears. If I were another parent, I would literally delete all of the other educational apps and just install this one. It’s that good. I repeat, I have not been paid in any way to write this review. It’s not a sponsored post. It’s just a great educational find to help parents, help their kids.

What’s more is I’ve got a 50% off code to give parents an annual subscription half price. Read below to find out how!

Haven’t heard about ABCmouse?

ABCmouse’s reading curriculum helps children to quickly learn the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, as well as learn to instantly recognize the sight words that are most important for beginning readers. Your students will learn to love to read with our hundreds of fables, fairy tales, nonfiction books, and more.

The Reading Curriculum Includes:

Concepts of Print
Phonemic Awareness
Oral Language
Phonics
Word Families
Sight Words
And more

The Step-by-Step Learning Path™ presents the full ABCmouse curriculum in a carefully designed program of more than 850 lessons on ten levels. As your students complete each lesson, they are guided to the next one and are motivated to continue learning by the ABCmouse Tickets and Rewards System.

ABCmouse teaches numbers, shapes, patterns, and measurements. The site’s games and creative activities make math fun while giving young learners the practice they need to build a strong foundation for success. The Math Curriculum Includes:

Concepts of more and less
Counting to 120
Number Sense
Shapes
Addition and Subtraction Facts
Patterns
Measurement concepts
And more

It also includes Art, puzzles, games, songs and printable to help kids learn in all areas of the Curriculum!

Ella has literally loved it. The best part is you can create accounts for each of your children, for their level of ability. They create their own avatar and earn rewards to spend in the virtual online shop (decorating their bedroom online etc). It is the most well rounded app that I’ve come across for learning. Best of all, you can get 50% off right now by clicking on any of the images in this post. The normal cost for an annual subscription is $70 US. Right now they are holding a Memorial Day sale for $45 US. That is six months free! This offer is only available until May 29.