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For Baby, Toddlers or PreSchool Children
Today, August 22, marks the launch of the new educational game app, 5 Little monkeys, by Kid’s Academy, a creator of educational children’s mobile apps. Kid’s Academy has received many positive accolades and were top rated by Children’s Technology and Parent Reviews.
The popular nursery rhyme 5 Little Monkeys will be available as a universal iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iPod so that you can take it with you anywhere you go or your children can enjoy it anytime at home.
Nursery rhymes are a blast for kids, but they also have great educational value.
“Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.” [Fox,M.(2001) Reading Magic, San Diego, CA: Harcourt]
I find it quite amazing that I still remember nursery rhymes my Mom taught me when I was a wee babe. Not just the standard ones, either, but “Dr Foster Went To Gloucester” and “There once were two cats from Kilkenny”. To this day, many years later, I can still recite them perfectly – which astonishes me, because sometimes I can’t remember where I put my keys a half hour ago!
In any event, apparently they did have a very positive effect on me because they contributed to my reading at a very early age. I was asked by the teacher to read “Make Way For Ducklings” to my kindergarten class. It’s funny the things you remember.
Nursery rhymes help with language, cognitive and physical development and this app aims to help parents teach their children counting and language skills while sharing this beloved rhyme with beautiful graphics and pleasing sounds.
The graphics are high resolution, colorful and bright. The song is extremely catchy and easy to learn.
We begin with five adorably dressed monkeys jumping in the lush jungle. Bananas hang overhead and as your child interacts with them, they drop one by one from their bunch. There is a lovely lantern which chimes when touched as fireflies fill the air.
Soon Mama Monkey comes out to “call the doctor” about the “monkeys jumping on the bed”. This Mama has rollers in her hair and a banana for a phone and she’s calling Dr. Rhinoceros. It’s incredibly cute.
The repetitious quality of the nursery rhyme helps kids develop vital cognitive skills including memorization, reasoning and comprehension. Additionally, nursery rhyme singing helps kids to learn pitch control, volume, and voice inflection.
This app combines humor, fun and learning in a simple but brilliant way that will provide a great educational foundation for your younger children. When learning is this enjoyable, don’t be surprised to find your little monkeys entranced with this fun-filled sing-a-long.
Features
- – Interact with characters and objects in the background
- – Professional audio narration
- – Original music designed specifically for this app
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– High-resolution artwork for each scene
This looks cute and fun! I’ve always loved the 5 little monkeys!
Almost everyone knows the 5 little monkeys. this would be great for the kids to learn from as they will like the monkeys inter actions. This would be great for my grandkids .
What a fun way to learn the nursery rhyme!
Oh my goodness, I am going to get this immediately 🙂 My son is going to go bananas, lol.
Ok this looks so adorable!!
Ohh this is interesting!! I have to check this out?
My kids love, love, love the 5 little monkeys nursery rhyme. They also love the iPad… this sounds like a perfect match for them.
I think I read this book to my kids hundreds of times, and app would have been much easier!
How fun. My oldest loves the song so I know she will like this
That looks adorable. I bet Nick would love it.
My son would love this, I need to download it!
This looks so cute and super fun!
this looks really cute! my son loves anything with monkeys!
This is so adorable!
That is really cute!
What a fun app. I recite 5 little monkeys all the time to my kids. I call them my little monkeys.
I bet my sister’s son would love this!
I really like the look of this! I’ll have to give it a whirl!
I love having apps on my phone/iPad that my nephews can play with to keep them busy for an afternoon and $2.99 is a price I can agree with!
This looks and sounds like an adorable app that my nephews would love.
This looks so cute! I’ll have to download it for my daughter!
What a great app for little ones and very affordable!
I love that there’s a little game to go along with that fun ditty!
I love educational games for the kids and this looks like a great one.
So cute! I remember this song from when I was younger! I really do believe that nursery rhyme recitation helps children–I read a lot of them to my son when he was little! Now he is a big…15 years old!
looks like a fun app. love anything that makes learning fun
I’m going to have to look for this one – my daughter would love it!