AlphaTots App Review

AlphaTots by Spinlight Studio

Price: $2.99

This is one of Yellow and Reds favorite apps! They can easily navigate through it without adult help, which I am finding out is a very good quality. Once the child picks a letter, the letter is shown in upper and lowercase and the narrator repeats the letter name and sound. Then there is an activity associated with it using the chosen letter. The activities are interesting enough to keep the child's attention and keeps them coming back for more. There is also an alphabet song that shows the upper and lower case letters as it is sung. I was surprised how much my kids like the song and will listen to it over and over again. Graphics are very cute and child appropriate. This is definitely worth $2.99. 

Skills Reviewed: A-Z letters and sounds, upper and lower case letters, alphabet song.

Endless ABC App Review

 Endless ABC by Callaway Digital Arts Inc.

Price: Free for limited time 

This is a ridiculously adorable app the kids and I both enjoy! Each letter of the alphabet has a vocabulary word starting with that letter the child can choose from. Once the child chooses a letter the monsters bring in the letters and scatter them across the page. In the center is an outline of the word and the child moves the letter into it's proper position. As they are moving the letter it wiggles and makes a monstery letter sound. Once they place the letter in the correct position a woman's voice names the letter. Once the word is completed, the word is repeated and the monsters act out the word as the definition is read by the narrator.

Skills reviewed: Letter sounds, letter names, vocabulary (more advanced then most ABC apps)