Bluebee Pals were created to become a child’s best friend. Once connected to a Bluetooth® enabled laptop, smart phone or tablet, they are ready to sing songs, play music, and tell stories that engage children by making the learning process a fun experience and provide endless entertainment.
Bluebee Pals supports both expressive and receptive language skills and is amazingly successful for children on the autism spectrum and other children with special needs. Their soft huggable appeal and abilty to act as the voice of any narrated Storybook, Educational or AAC App opens a dynamic world of creative communication and opportunity connect to all children.
Try one of the following recommended Apps with your Bluebee Pal:
ABC Mouse
The Step-by-Step Learning Path presents the full ABCmouse.com curriculum in a carefully designed program of more than 450 lessons in six levels. As your child completes each lesson, he or she is guided to the next one and is motivated to continue learning by ABCmouse.com’s Tickets and Rewards System
Speakaboos
Speakaboos helps children read, explore and discover books they love based on their interests. Developed by the expert team that brought you Blue’s Clues, SuperWHY! and NickJr.com, and based on the decades of research and testing of Dr. Alice Wilder, Speakaboos mobile education platform cultivates literacy and language learning skills for children from preschool to second grade. Our storybooks features rich illustrations, animated characters, story-driven games, and touch-screen interactions that bring favorite stories to life and keeps children engaged while learning. Speakaboos can be enjoyed on computers, tablets or mobile devices at home and in schools.
Starfall ABCs
Starfall ABCs brings each letter to life with pictures, animation, games, songs, and stories! Using a clear and articulate voice, each letter is identified by name, sounds, and words. Children interact with each letter by tapping, sliding, sorting, and dragging objects through five or more screens of engaging phonics learning. Many of the letters include real pictures as well as animations. The most exciting part of this app may be the sign language animations from the bottom menu! Starfall ABCs is a must-have app for children learning their letters, letter sounds, and beginning to read.
Gappy Learns Reading
Gappy Learns Reading supports young kids by building words letter by letter and sound by sound. Gappy gets lost from his home and your child needs to build 10 words to get him to his house. After building 10 words, prizes can be earned to customize the house. There are four levels in the app to accommodate a wide variety of abilities, from early learners who are beginning to work on letter identification, to early readers who have greater knowledge of how words are formed. Customization in the app includes turning on and off word sets and letter formation. This is a well-designed app for learning about letters and sounds while building words.
Freefall Money – Coin Math for Kids
Freefall Money tackles the concept of counting money. This app does not include instruction on how to count coins, so your child should have a basic understanding of this concept before they use this app. Activities include sorting coins, matching groups of coins to a total amount, and adding coin values to find the total amount. Instructors can set the number of coins that are presented to students in each activity, ranging from 3 coins to 10. The coins can be moved around in order from least to greatest to assist students in counting the total value of the coins.
Motion Math
Motion Math: Hungry Fish helps students learn how to build quantities. Children discover how to create different quantities through free play. Successful combination of numbers to equal a given quantity results in the fish growing and earning rewards within the game. Addition practice is provided in this version, with options to buy activities related to subtraction and negatives. As always, Motion Math does a great job of introducing how to play the game through thoughtfully scaffolding strategies on familiar counting techniques. Multiple children can use this app to save their progress and easily navigate between easier and harder levels.
StoryToys
Our digital books and games combine wonderful storytelling, rich illustration and beautiful design with magical games and activities. From early-learning to classic fairy tales and favourite characters such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Chuggington and Poppy Cat, we have something for children of all ages and to suit every interest.
We’re passionate about building innovative children’s apps of the highest quality that kids will love and parents can trust. Each of our apps is designed to help children learn, be that through reading, sequencing, task coordination or other pedagogical activities.
Wikids
Wikids – the Encyclopedia that talks to kids! Nearly anything can be explained to kids in 80 words (30 seconds in a friendly voice). Wikids apps feature text, narration, images, and sounds, present knowledge in context and are designed for independent discovery. Wikids apps offer a wealth of fascinating knowledge for curious kids, written just for them!
Omazing Kids
OMazing Kids LLC is an organization that promotes inclusive wellness activities, educational, play & apps for kids of all abilities.
Oceanhouse Media
Oceanhouse Media, Inc. is a leading publisher of more than 400 apps. The company’s mantra is “Creativity with Purpose,” developing apps that uplift, educate and inspire.
Book App Alliance
The Book App Alliance is a new organization of industry leading authors creating interactive books for kids. It was formed by a group of authors who found that parents and teachers were confused about digital books (ebook vs. book app), how to use them, and how to find the hidden gems in the App Store.
Tikatok StorySpark
From book behemoth Barnes & Noble, Tikatok StorySpark is aimed at your family’s pint-sized publisher. Kids write and illustrate their own books, using a catalog of art or their own photos or digital drawings for the backgrounds. When it’s ready, books are “published” under a chosen pen name and posted online at Tikatok.com.
Tales2Go
A Parents’ Choice Gold Award-winner that streams on-demand, unlimited access to more than 1,000 stories. Scroll through and sort by reader age, genre, and more. Bookmark and build a favorites list for easy return visits!
A Story Before Bed
More than 300 stories in this app’s library for an interactive read-along experience with your child. Record video of storytime so that your little one can watch it again in the morning, while paging through and following along!
PlayTales
Quirky sounds, animation, and flip-book usability offer a realistic experience and a touch of magic for toddlers and tweens. Use the easy star voting system to rate your favorites on this multilingual platform.
Twinkle Twinkle Books
Alexis Purcell is the award winning author of two popular children’s books and interactive book apps: “The Turkey Who Forgot How To Gobble” and, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Nighty Night”.
Toca Boca is an award-winning play studio that makes digital apps for kids. Our apps encourage creativity without in-app purchases or third-party ads.
Tiggly
Tiggly is a New York-based company that develops interactive toys and apps for the digital generation. Toddlers and preschoolers love the iPad as much as Mom and Dad, but 70 years of academic research has demonstrated that manipulating physical objects is essential to early childhood development. Tiggly enables parents to bring this critical component of early learning to the “digital sandbox” today’s kids inhabit.
Polka Dots Publishing
Home of Penelope the Purple Pirate. “Penelope the Purple Pirate is a fun interactive romp with Penelope and her charming friends…wonderful read and discover app with great visuals and sounds!
Istory App
The iStoryTime library app includes a wide selection of narrated children’s storybooks from your kids favorite films, TV shows and classic stories.
Cubic Frog App
At Cubic Frog Apps, creating fun learning games for preschoolers and toddlers designed to empower them with knowledge while awakening their childlike sense of wonder is simply a way of life.
Spelling City
Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with Vocabulary SpellingCity!
Disney Stories
Disney Storytime features the largest collection of Disney stories right at your fingertips! Read at your own pace, follow along as each story is read to you, or record your own voice! And don’t forget to visit the “Me” section to create and personalize your very own Storytime avatar.
22 Learn
22 learn is a small family business that makes endearing mobile apps for playful young minds. Their apps inspire children’s creativity, spark imagination, and encourage learning.
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