Read In Color!, 2nd ed.

Title: Read In Color!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Art: Summer Reading - Ages 5+
Release Date: 03/15/25
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,Arty Mouse,Crayola,Highlights,Littlest Pet Shop,My Little Pony
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:

Arty Mouse Tracing (App)
Arty Mouse loves to get stuck into fun creative activities, which is why he is always smiling! He is the perfect enthusiastic mentor for young children just getting to grips with early learning concepts. In Arty Mouse Tracing, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them by developing their motor skills and confidence. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive tracing activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of tracing-related skills including tracing vertical, horizontal and curved lines to create pictures, this app helps to develop important motor skills for learning to write. Part of the award-winning Arty Mouse Early Learning Through Art product family. Get into tracing and create with Arty Mouse! Over 1 million Arty Mouse books sold worldwide. KEY FEATURES • Animation • Available in 7 languages: English, Spa

Case of the Missing Painting, The (app)
Detective Paw solves an art heist in this police-procedural early reader.

First 100 Sight Words (App)
Embark on a word journey to learn the first 100 most recognized sight words! Enjoy lessons which include pronunciation and play a cloze passage activity. Successful readers use a number of tools to help them understand texts.  One of the most effective and powerful reading tools that parents and teachers can help children develop is sight word recognition. When a child is able to grasp and identify sight words he/she is well on his way to becoming a thriving reader. Benefits of Learning Site Words: -Sight words are confidence builders. -Sight words free up a child's energy to tackle more challenging words. -Sight words provides clues to the meaning of the sentence. -Sight words sometimes defies decoding strageies. -Sight words instruction builds a foundation for reading new, more complex words.

Frosby Species Creature Lab (App)
Become a genetic scientist in this fun app that lets you design your own custom creature in seconds. Mix the DNA from all kinds of animals, plants and fungi to make your own bizarre lifeforms. Is your new species cute or hideous? You decide! Pick from a collection of animal skins, noses, tails and headgear, then dress up your creature with all kinds of accessories - add hats, sunglasses and then take a picture! Now make some mini clones - randomise them for bizarre creature combinations and see a miniature version of your species! SAVING IMAGES TO YOUR DEVICE The Photo button saves a high-resolution PNG screenshot to your device's 'Pictures' folder in the photo gallery. Please Note: The first time you use the photo button you might need to save the image TWICE.

Littlest Pet Shop: Pet Style (App)
Are you ready to save the LITTLEST PET SHOP by putting on a fabulous, fur-tastic fashion show? You can do just that in the first-ever LITTLEST PET SHOP interactive storybook app, starring Blythe Baxter and your favorite pets from the hit animated TV series! Meet Blythe! She’s a small-town girl who just moved to the big city, and if that isn’t enough excitement for one girl to handle, Blythe just discovered that she can talk to animals AND understand them. When Blythe stumbles upon a group of pets chattering away in Day Camp below her apartment in the LITTLEST PET SHOP, she has no idea what fun is in store for her, but first she must save the LITTLEST PET SHOP from going out of business! It’s going to take Blythe’s eye for style, a bunch of talented pets, and the reader’s help to save the day with a pet fashion show! Based on the episode BLYTHE’S BIG ADVENTURE, this app allows readers to peek into Blythe’s journal during her first days in Downtown City but also BE part of her adv

My Little Pony: Story Creator (App)
Go behind the camera and place your favorite MY LITTLE PONY characters in the center of the action in this brand-new app filled with exciting stories—created by YOU—and powered by the Magic of Friendship! Create your own animated story starring Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack! Choose your favorite characters, props, and locations in Equestria and then add your own voice to narrate the tale. Of course, it can’t be a MY LITTLE PONY tele-tale without some drama and friendship problems to solve. This app also features key foes, including the mighty Tirek, the redeemed Discord, and “The Great and Powerful” Trixie. Simple animation tools make it easy to turn your best ideas into pulsing MY LITTLE PONY fun: Pick a pony!? Pick their co-star!? Pick a background and some props… And you’re ready to yell “ACTION!” FEATURES: * A robust cast of characters, including the Mane 6 and more! * Numerous storytelling opportunities, as each pony comes w

Qixel Animate (App)
Make stylish animated pixel art loops in 2 or 3 frames! Choose from 3 frame speeds, add music and create your own designs and characters while watching them come to life with animation!

Storybook Animations: Bert & Beth and the Snowflakes (App)
After Bert and Beth discover that they can't keep snowflakes Grandpa teaches them how to make snowflakes from paper.

Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Colorful Ways and Colorful Days (app)
Looking at illustrations before reading the words in picture books helps us see that there are many different ways of telling stories. In this activity, you will look at the pictures in a book, then retell the story as a puppet play.

Writing Art-Inspired Stories | How Can Details Energize Stories? (app)
When you look and listen carefully, details inform what you see and hear. In this activity, you will write a story using adjectives and adverbs, then create an illustration that shows what happened next.