Who can say “no” to these monsters? Today’s freebie is full of monsters! Children have to find monsters, connect monsters, recognize clippings and find monster shadows. These exercises train attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.
Tracing, recognizing mirrored images, counting pictures, finding differences – all these exercises are included in today’s freebie. These exercises combine different skills necessary for good reading, writing and calculating. Use these exercises when training dyslexic and dyscalculic children. Of course, you can also use them for homeschooling, tutoring, extra training.
It is soon Mardi Gras and we thought this is a good time to offer some exercises with clowns: tracing, finding differences, seriality and left-right-exercises. These exercises train attention, hand-eye-coordination, visual and spatial perception – very important skills for reading, writing and calculating.
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Today’s freebie consists of some math puzzles with calculations until 10. Children have to cut out the pictures and glue them onto the correct calculation. This trains not only math skills, but also fine motor skills, attention, visual and spatial perception.
The app “Learning to draw is fun” will teach your child to draw easily 24 different pictures like a butterfly, a snowman, a flower, a birthday cake… Each drawing is split into 4 easy steps that your child can easily reproduce below the drawing templates. When the drawing is finished, your child can color it. All the drawings made by your child are saved and can be printed (needs an AirPrint compatible printer).
The app is available for ipad and costs $ 1,99 in the app store.
With a sheet of paper, a grid and a template, children learn to draw 32 drawings on iPad, 16 on the iPhone in the Lite version, more than 120 (60 on iPhone) in the full version. Copying a drawing is not as easy as you think, it takes a lot of concentration and attention of the children. While copying the templates, children will exercise their observation and their logical skills with the game modes “copy”, “move” and “symmetries”, with 2 levels of difficulty (only one for iPhone) in the Lite version.
Grid drawing for kids lite is for iphone, ipod touch and ipad available on the app store. The full version costs $ 1,99.
Tracing is a very good exercise for dyslexic and dyscalculic children. Tracing trains attention, fine motor skills and visual and spatial perception. Today’s freebie offers a mini-book with different abstract forms to trace and to draw. First, children have to trace the form, then they have to draw the form into the box.
Con-nect is a simple and addictive puzzle game based on Arukone.
The difference is that Con-nect is three-dimensional! 3D is not only more fun, but it also helps you to develop good spatial and visual perception.
Like Arukone, there are only two rules
1.Connect all pairs.
2.Fill the whole cube.
Con-nect is available for free for iphone, ipod touch and ipad. You can buy more levels within the app.
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