Happy, Healthy, Earth!

Title: Happy, Healthy, Earth!
Subtitle: Read, Renew, Repeat: Summer Reading - Ages 5+
Release Date: 01/01/24
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: FarFaria,Highlights,Miss Linky,eKidz.eu
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks.


This Launchpad contains the following apps:

12 Huia Birds (App)
Do you know the story of the majestic vanished huia bird? The largest of the New Zealand forest birds, the huia were very special and their loss is one of the great tragedies of New Zealand conservation history. The story of this sacred bird with the curved beak and white-tipped tail feathers is one we can all learn from as we look to care for our environment today and in the years to come. Learn more about this special bird through the discovery of interactive elements on each page of the richly illustrated story. Through tapping and dragging, you can move the story along by yourself and see what happens with the arrival of strange creatures to the huia’s land of forest green. “12 Huia Birds” is filled with animation, music and sound on every page to bring the magical huia back to life. As told by George Henare, the story can be read in English or te reo M?ori. Or select the option to read the story for yourself. STORY HIGHLIGHTS • Uncover stuff to tap and swipe on every p

Earth Day Daniela's Way (App)
Daniela knows there are many things we can do to keep Earth happy and healthy. Read about them! FarFaria's "Earth Day Daniela's Way" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.

Learn to Read: Sight Words (App)
Help build your child's vocabulary with common sight words, beginning consonants blends (dr-ag, dr-um, dr-aw), ending consonants blends (so-ft, lo-ft, gi-ft), and various word families (am, Sam, jam). The app contains more than 500 words! It has also been proven to increase a child's understanding of rhymes and word families. FEATURES • Sight words – Common sight words • Beginning consonants - (dr-ag, dr-um, dr-aw), 20 word groups and the beginning blends are highlighted in green • Ending consonants blends - (so-ft, lo-ft, gi-ft), 13 word groups and the ending blends are highlighted in green • Word families – Contains 22 word families (am, Sam, jam / b-ad, p-ad, s-ad) • Track Progress - You can track the progress of the words viewed •Automatic mode - Words appear every 4 seconds • Swipe mode - The user controls the frequency of the words and can swipe to see the next word • Text-to-Speech - The word is spoken as it appears on the screen. BENEFITS • Recognition of sight w

Little Spot Learns to Read, A (app)
KidTime StoryTime is meeting word families, clapping to syllables, getting context clues, stretching words & learning about dyslexia.

MeteoHeroes! Saving Planet Earth! (App)
The MeteoHeroes project was born from an idea of Meteo Expert, the Italian center famous for its studies about meteorology and its meteorologic forecasts. In the face of global problems related to climate and environmental changes, the solution is potentially in the hands of today’s children, the women and men of tomorrow that will have to live in a more and more crowded and hard-pressed planet that they will have to learn to care for. THE PLANET’S SUPERHEROES Fulmen, Nix, Nubess, Pluvia, Thermo and Ventum are six children that one day find out that they have superpowers: they can call for atmospheric phenomena and use them to intervene for a better nature! With the help of the Meteo Expert Center, located in the Great Sasso mountains, Italy, they will learn how to take the most of their superpowers and use them to solve the challenges that our planet faces every day. In this App, our superheroes will train in the gym to strengthen their skills with 6 action games and will solv

Save the Planet Song for Kids (apps)
Learn how to take care of Planet Earth in this action song. This is the perfect song for Earth Day.

Storybook Animations: Time to Plant (App)
Grandma Hen and Chicka Chick plant vegetable seeds in their garden. Chicka Chick can't locate the hose. April showers come just in time.

The Rainforest Musical Kakamega (App)
From award winning composer Shirley Choi comes The Rainforest Musical Kakamega, an exciting 90 minutes adventure application for iOS. Children ages 5-12 will enjoy this colorful, fun app’s nine chapters featuring twelve original songs. Children will enjoy learning fun facts about the rainforest, meeting new animal friends, and playing along with Kakamega’s rich musical score! Kakamega follows the story of Kaka and Yano, young twins who live in the lush, diverse -- but endangered -- rainforest. When Henry, a sick boy from the city, runs away into the forest, Kaka and Yano decide to help him by finding a mythical, magical, healing flower. Joined by singing animals and talking trees, the children make their way through the rainforest. On their journey they discover the dangers of the logging industry, and make it their mission to convince the loggers or the importance of preserving their forest home. Children ages 5-12 will enjoy this colorful, fun app’s nine chapters featuring twelve

The Turtle with the Sunglasses (app)
Independent; fiction, with an environmental theme, reinforcing the "don't litter" message. Uses past tense as well as progressive and perfect tense. Incorporates a full range of sentence structures from simple to complex sentences as well as adverbial phrases. Uses complex vowel sounds and polysyllabic words. Punctuation incorporates the full range of direct speech, apostrophes of possession and compression, question and exclamation marks, parenthetic commas and of course full stops.

Trash Toss: Paper Flings (App)
Ever found that trash can far enough to flick / fling the trash paper ball? Download Trash Toss Paper Flings and keep the bin always near to you for the next time you need it! Bored with regular office environment? Trash Toss Paper Flings lets you choose and play through different themes like restaurant, classroom, and scenic garden. This paper throw in the trash bin game is oddly satisfying . . . much like tossing a real ball of crumpled paper into a metal trash basket. So realistic, you will think you are stuck in an office killing time. Game Modes: - Kids Mode: Having tough times flicking paper ball into the small can? This mode offers wide mouth trash cans, making it easy shoot! - Crazy mode: A challenging mode where the wind direction keeps on changing. Features: - Different environments to choose from - Varying wind speed to impacts paper flight - Realistic graphics & sound effects Liked the Trash Toss Paper Flings game? Show us some love by leaving us a review!