Ride to Readiness!, 3rd ed.

Title: Ride to Readiness!, 3rd ed.
Subtitle: School Review & Prep - Ages 3-5, Pre-K to K
Release Date: 05/15/24
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Chutes and Ladders,Highlights,Rainbocorns,The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Pre-K, Kindergarten

Launchpad Description: Kids will have fun learning, reading along with books, testing their knowledge, and building a solid foundation for preschool and kindergarten. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including Best Mobile Game, Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award, Children’s Technology Review: Editor’s Choice, and more.

- Practice letter recognition and early literacy skills
- Count, sort, and learn basic math skills
- Discover shapes and colors
- Use imagination to create with music
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Avokiddo ABC Ride (App)
Have you ever seen the letter E hatched from an egg? How about a K popping out of a kangaroo's pouch? Join your favorite characters Beck and Bo in this wonderful A - Z alliteration adventure and experience the alphabet like never before! The inventive letter/word association that is established through active exploration and amusing interactions is directly related to each letter. The G is wrapped in a gift, the H is hidden under a hat, the S swims with the seal, the J is jammed up in the jelly, W is pulled out of a well. The free ride style in a seamless environment provides a unified visual/auditory experience that builds excitement and anticipation as to what comes next. FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS: - 26 engaging and interactive scenes each associated with a word and a letter of the alphabet - Bike through the alphabet seamlessly from letter to letter, or opt out and choose your own path - Play and problem solve in each scene to reveal the hidden letter - Drag letters in place to

Chutes and Ladders: Ups and Downs (App)
The CHUTES AND LADDERS: Ups and Downs app from PlayDate Digital, licensed by Hasbro transforms the beloved CHUTES AND LADDERS board game into an interactive story. It features exciting animations, beautiful illustrations, and learning elements that reinforce the idea of cause and effect and making positive decisions. Help guide a group of friends around the CHUTES AND LADDERS neighborhood by progressing through different “Sidewalk Chapters.” Decisions your early and emerging readers make land the characters on the ‘chutes’ and ‘ladders’ of life, good and bad choices that help us get ahead, or not! From the baseball field to the cookie jar, life is filled with choices and temptations, but it’s all about learning that good choices can lead to some pretty sweet rewards! Make a bad choice and there will be consequences. Mr. Chutes, the app’s friendly guide, will show you the way…or will he? It’s a ‘choose your own’ adventure kind of story that makes every experience in the app diffe

Hidden Pictures™ Puzzle Town (App)
For over 70 years, Highlights has created puzzling fun that nurtures young minds and imaginations. Hidden Pictures™ Puzzle Town is an educational mobile play experience that helps children learn through play. It's quality screen time that parents can feel good about! Kids can explore an interactive town, playing learning puzzles as they go. They can choose from 5 exciting game types, including Highlights’ famous Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, matching games, spot the difference scenes and more! PLUS, bonus mini-games let kids unlock playful characters that they can use to personalize their town and engage in imaginative free-play. Your child can spot, match, solve, and explore, all while building important early literacy, math and problem-solving skills! PUZZLE GAME TYPES - Hidden Pictures® puzzles promote early vocabulary development through spot-it fun. - Look and Look Again scenes encourage critical thinking skills through spot-the-difference play. - MAZES strengt

L.L. and His First Airplane Ride (App)
It’s vacation time! Are you taking your toddler on her first airplane flight? Join Luca Lashes as he bravely boards a plane and learns to enjoy flying. This multilingual, educational, interactive, audio app continues the award-winning Luca Lashes series about children’s first experiences. The stories can be read in Chinese, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Luca Lashes and his First Airplane Ride is the 9th story in the award winning series about Luca Lashes—the brown-eyed boy with the magic eyelashes. Luca is getting ready to board an airplane for the first time. His parents guide him through each step from check-in to landing. Luca’s trusty magic eyelashes help him to brave long lines and turbulence. You and your toddler will have a great time with this story. By touching different areas of the interactive screen, children can experience the sensations of an airplane ride. The story also contains a useful section of suggestions to help parents prepare their children for their

Pixel and Parker (App)
Pixel and Parker is an interactive bedtime storybook app that your children will love. Read along with your children as they follow the story of a boy searching for his lost cat. This adventure storybook app is a great way to spark an interest in books and reading in your children. The story follows a boy named Parker and his curious cat Pixel. When Pixel gets lost chasing butterflies, it becomes Parker's job to find him! Part storybook and part board game, your children will have a blast with 30 interactive surprises as they read through the story. Pixel and Parker lets children choose their own adventure with a game spinner, creating a journey that's never the same adventure twice. This app is fully unlocked with no in-app purchases. Features : • An innovative storybook with a game spinner that makes the story different each time your children read, building an interest in books. • 30 interactive surprises that keep young readers engaged in the story. • 30 T-shirts that your

Puzzle Shapes (App)
Building blocks and puzzles are cool! With this app, young children can solve over 200 tasks and games. The levels have been specially developed for children between 2 and 5 years of age. All levels build on one another. Children can directly apply what they have learned and deepen their knowledge through repetition. SHAPES In a first step, children learn to distinguish simple shapes: triangle, square, circle, ring,... Then it gets harder, as different sizes and trickier shapes are added. COLORS Colors are very important! The levels are complemented by different colors. Learning has never been so much fun! COUNTING Even small children can learn to count! The app encourages this skill in a fun way. RECREATING PATTERNS Building a car out of blocks? Great fun, and a way for children to apply what they have learned: Which building blocks do I need? Does this color fit? Which shape is right? The patterns and the 3D stage can be rotated and moved in order to as

Rainbocorns (Apps)
Big Hair Surprise The restless Pam-Purr, Glam Glam and Mo wait for you in the Rainbocorns spa. Play in the hairdressers with Pam-Purr, choosing a hairstyle, a dye for his hair and the best complements. Make the manicure to Glam Glam, filing his nails and painting them with different nail polishes that match with one of the bracelets that you can choose. Mo is going to need a good bath to make his feathers smooth, so you must choose the right shampoo, the bath salts or the sponges so that his heart can shine more than ever. After the spa, you can play along with Pam-Purr, Glam Glam and Mo in some funny learning games while you solve mazes, jigsaw puzzles and crosswords. Sweet Shakes Surprise The Rainbocorns love cooking and eating many sweets, they’re always hungry. Puppycorn needs you to cuddle him and care of him to grow up and have fun with toys, activity blankets and chew balls that you can choose for him. What would you like to decorate? Doughnuts, ice creams or macar

TableTots Teacher (App)
From counting and basic math to sounding out vowels and phonics, TableTots lets you create your own highly individualized lesson plans and curriculum using elements from the popular Tots Education Series. Teach quantities with base-10 counting blocks, create simple math problems to solve or build a word and tap the screen to hear the phonics and sounds of vowels and consonants. Great for both home schooling and traditional grade school, this all-in-one curriculum kit is the perfect tool for teachers and parents of kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students alike. This app comes fully unlocked, with no in-app purchases necessary. Features • 12 table layouts that let preschool and kindergarten kids match, order and sort objects. • 6 colorful theme combinations. • 11 "Quick Set" scenes that instantly set the table to teach: - Basic math - Base-10 counting - Counting from one to twenty - Coin counting - Domino math - Letter phonics and sounds - Uppercase and lowe

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Play & Explore (App)
* Tech With Kids Best Pick App * The beloved characters of Eric Carle are now available in The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play & Explore, a stunning 3D pop up app featuring fun and educational games and activities. Now includes our new Jigsaw Puzzle, 3D Stickerbook and Spot The Difference for FREE for all users! No further In-App Purchases required. Please note this app features the beautiful artwork of Eric Carle in brand new fun and educational games and activities, and does not feature the original story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. • Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Mister Seahorse, The Very Quiet Cricket and other characters from Eric Carle’s best-selling books Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, The Mixed-Up Chameleon and 10 Little Rubber Ducks • Practice counting, sorting, and memory skills. • Learn about healthy eating, and discover amazing facts about caterpillars, seahorses, chameleons and other animals. • Includes five language version

Toc and Roll (App)
Get your children to learn music while playing, quick and easy. In minutes they will be singing real hits created by themselves, and you could share it online. Toc And Roll has no ads or in-app purchases. No extra charges. This powerful educational tool has been designed to help children start composing songs and cultivate their creativity in a funny and easy way. It contains real instruments sounds to write, in a very easy way, songs of different styles like Rock, Rock and Roll, Pop, Blues, etc. Like a portable studio, Toc And Roll gives children the chance to mix different instruments on a virtual multitrack. They can add effects, record their voices, and then share the results with the world. Toc And Roll has received praise from the press. It is used in schools in different countries, and has received awards like the Digital Ehon Award, from Japan. KEY FEATURES No In-App purchases. No extra costs. No ads. Interface and compelling graphics. Over 1000 differents sounds