You need to get to know Tiggly, as they are developing fun learning apps for preschool and up. Two PAL Award winners, “Tiggly Cardtoons” and “Tiggly Shapes” which interact with the toy counting rods and shapes, “Tiggly Counts” and “Tiggly Shapes” respectively are full of language learning fun. Their latest app, Tiggly Cardtoons, has 25 mini -stories related to the number of dots counted out from 1-5 in each activity.
“Tiggly Counts” is an incredibly creative, yet simple beginning counting game that rewards counting 1-5 with the corresponding number of digital cardboard scraps that band together to form the characters and props for a story. Kids have the option to use the cool “Tiggly Counts”–rubberized counting rods, representing digits 1-5, to place on the iPad for interaction, or their fingers to drag and drop dots that count out and display the number. No prizes needed here. The reward is in the learning as the colored cardboard scraps move to form a dinosaur eating 4 leaves, 5 cute kittens rescued by a firetruck from the top of a building, or 4 flies atop a garbage truck that help the stuck load to dump–”Home smelly home,” as they disappear into a hole in the pile. Kids couldn’t get enough of this app and Tiggly has integrated the hands-on builds as well as a cute story to encourage fun learning. As kids get older they are increasingly required to tell the “how” and “why” of how they got their math answers so why not add the language learning starting at the preschool level? Best yet, the app is free or buy the counting toys to solidify number concepts. Note that Tiggly Cardtoons is the youngest in a series of 3 apps whose siblings,Tiggly Chef and Tiggly Addventure, combine numbers while cooking recipes and crossing bridges!
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