Beige Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Beige Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Path C: Language & Literacy
Release Date: 05/15/24
Type: Pre-K Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,FarFaria,HOMER,Highlights,Mister Clay,StoryToys
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Pre-K, Kindergarten

Launchpad Description: Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using the Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence.

- Build vocabulary
- Listen and follow directions
- Identify and recite letters
- Develop an interest in stories
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Alphabet War, The (app)
When Adam started kindergarten, the teacher wanted him to learn about letters. But "p" looked like "q," and "b" looked like "d." In first grade, he had to put the letters into words so he could read. That was the beginning of the Alphabet War.

Multiple Meaning Words (App)
"Early readers learn new words for their reading adventure! Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework."

On the Farm - Touch, Look, Listen (App)
Touch, Look, Listen is a series of preschool learning apps for tablets and mobile phones that will delight and encourage young children as they learn their first words. On the Farm introduces early learners to over 85 animals and objects from tractors and hay to cows, sheep and pigs. It’s also the perfect app for parents and little ones to share, combining superb photographs, simple word labels and friendly narration. In addition, you can turn the app into a language-learning tool for students of all ages, simply by choosing a second language in the menu. On the Farm is just like a real book, so it’s easy to find your way around. Each page is introduced by a playful rhyme, while bright and colorful images pop-up magically as each 3D scene opens. When your child taps a picture, they see and hear the associated word, making this a powerful tool for learning new words as well as reinforcing those they already know. With the second language option, they can explore other languages too,

Phonics Fever (App)
Phonics Fever is a rewarding game designed with both parents and kids in mind! For parents: It features a calm, quiet sound design carefully balanced at a volume that's not loud enough to disrupt, but has enough sound to be engaging for the child. Furthermore, The game features NO ads, and it requires no special permissions to install! This ensures that the app is incapable of connecting to the internet in any way so that it doesn't use up your data! Note: The game still allows pairing of bluetooth devices so you can still utilize wireless headsets! Lastly, the size of the game has been kept at the tiny size of just over 13Mb so that you've plenty of room for all those photos and videos of your child!

Phonics Island - Reading Train (App)
Hello everyone! Are you up to an adventure? I am Abby the Monkey, the friend you know from a highly-successful application series by 22learn, and I have prepared one for you! If you want to EXPLORE a strange animal island and LEARN PHONETIC LETTER SOUNDS, you shouldn’t wait a minute, and come with me!!! But first let me tell you a story…. ****************************************** Once upon a time, there was an island, an island of indescribable beauty and magnificence. There found a shelter the animals small and large, slimy and furry, savage and tame—all protected from evil hunters and curious eyes, supplied with food from the bountiful earth. Each year, a special event was held, when one, and only one, person from the whole humankind was selected and transported to the island (blinded, to preserve the island’s secrecy) to appreciate its beauty and spread the word about it, so that the island would never be forgotten. The legend has it, that deep inside the rocky hill on th

Sticky Situation (App)
In the heart of Suburb City lies Superhero School, where all SuperKids go to learn to be superheroes. Noodle Boy has noodle power! And he thinks the other SuperKids have better superpowers than he does since all he can do is make noodles! But when Dr. Goo goos up their playground, it’s up to the SuperKids to stop him. Read this interactive story to find out if the SuperKids can save their playground, how you can help them, why Dr. Goo goos everything up, and if noodle power is a more powerful superpower than Noodle Boy thinks!

Storybook Animations: Bert and Beth Go Flying (App)
Beth takes Bert and Grandfather on a plane ride right in their backyard.

Storybook Animations: Bert and Beth Open Sea (App)
Bert and Beth pretend their bathwater is the ocean with sharks storms and pirate ships.

Storybook Animations: Wibble Wobble Bike (App)
Ginger Paws has a new bike with no training wheels. He has trouble riding until Daddy Paws comes to help.

Toddler Aquarium School (App)
Explore the shapes and names of letters with this new fun app developed by an award-winning educational publisher, 22learn, and a producer of the best-selling Abby Basic Skills app. Toddler Aquarium presents the wonderful world of letters in four great games that besides knowledge of letter shapes and names also help toddlers in the areas of matching and learning several representative words of certain initial letter for each letter of the alphabet. The super ABC alphabet adventure features a beautiful, bright, colorful design and a child-friendly interface. All the items to be manipulated are large enough to be easily grasped by children's fingers and no complicated menus have to be accessed by a child in order to play the game on his or her own. All the letters of the alphabet are presented in a series of 4 game modes that add variety and target different skills. INCLUDES 4 GREAT PUZZLE GAMES: * LETTERS PUZZLE: Help the crabs assemble a letter! Targets memorization o

Virtual Story with Mister Clay: Little Robot and the Bouncing Ball (app)
Who doesn't love a good story? Join Mister Clay as he reads you a story about Little Robot and his new red ball. This book teaches about animals and colors with playful visuals and an animated story teller.

Whose Tail? (app)
Who has a thumping tail, who has a swishing tail, who has no tail at all? Who am I?