App Review: First Words: Vehicles
First Words: Vehicles is an all-around great app! This is a genuine learning tool for kids that are alphabet-functional, or just enjoy fun images and piecing together puzzles.
Once you fire up the app, you see a cartoon drawing of a vehicle, along with the vehicle name spelled out in empty squares. Below the empty squares are letters, waiting to be placed. It’s almost like Scrabble, without the irritating friend that majored in dictionaries.
Fun? Check. Cartoon images my kids and I like to look at? Check. Easy functionality? Check. Ability to up the ante and make it more difficult? When you remove the hinting, the empty boxes no longer show the letters to be placed, which requires your child to be able to spell the words…check!
When I saw the $1.99 pricetag on this app, I definitely upped my expectations, and First Words: Vehicles delivered the goods.
Easily worthy of the pricetag and a great way to teach kids their vehicles!
I normally write more but in this case the app speaks…err spells for itself. Kudos to Learning Touch for building it!
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Nice app…my Japanese nephew (9) enjoyed this on our California roadtrip. The twirling images were a little strange, however…more realistic animations would be nice – take a look at Play ‘n’ Say Vehicles for impressive animation… it also features speech recognition, which I haven’t seen in any kids’ apps!
Great blog, by the way!