Smarter Than Ever!, 3rd ed.

Title: Smarter Than Ever!, 3rd ed.
Subtitle: School Review & Prep - Ages 5+
Release Date: 01/27/20
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: HOMER,Highlights
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: These award-winning stories, games, and challenges focused on early education make it simple for children to keep their skills sharp and prepare for the upcoming school year. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including Children's Technology Review: Editor's Choice, Parents' Choice, and TeachersWithApps.

- Test basic addition skills
- Improve spelling and vocabulary
- Strengthen reading and writing skills
- Develop memory and attention span
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Addition Blocks for Education (App)
Play the Game. Build your Brain. Addition Blocks is an award-winning, fast-paced, addictive puzzler that will test your addition speed and skills. Simply tap on connected digit blocks to sum to the falling target block. Add quickly, or the target blocks will stack up! Can you earn enough medals to unlock the hidden level? Addition Blocks is a true puzzle game that forces students to add quickly and accurately; that is, build mathematical fluency in adding single digit numbers-- creating neural pathways in the brain that lead to instant recall. Simple in design and play, the game can be used with single players or multiple students at one time as a warm up or in stations. Features: * Multiple speed settings * Multiple difficulty levels * Five Game Modes - Normal, Timed, Practice, Challenge, and Continuous * Over 25 achievements * Unlockable Special Blocks * Hidden levels Common Core Standards: CCSS.1.NBT.C.4; CCSS.1.OA.C.6; CCSS.2.NBT.B.5; CCSS.2.OA.B.2; CCSS.3.NBT.

Cursive Writing Wizard (App)
Choice Award (96/100) - Children's Technology Review -- Cursive Writing Wizard is the perfect app to help every child learn how to trace their ABC's, 123's and custom words (such as their names) through a fun system carefully designed to maintain motivation. -> if you want to test the app first, try our free demo ! Features: • Show and enforce how to trace letters and words correctly • Fun tracing using 26 animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing • Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers and words • Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) • 3 Fonts available (ZB, DN & French) • Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...) • Check progress thanks to reports that display what the child has traced • Shapes tracing activity for toddlers Suitable for kindergarten, toddlers, early learners, preschool and 1st grade kids, Writing Wizard is an award-winning

Dog Rescue Mission - Honesty (App)
The Neon Tiki Tribe helps a neighborhood boy, upset that he lost his dog, and even more upset that he lied to his parents about how the dog went missing. What they find isn’t just the dog – but some trouble – in the evil Ku Tiki Tribe! Dog Rescue Mission teaches children about the importance of honesty and the courage of telling the truth.

HangArt (App)
Your favorite spelling game with a creative twist! Play hangman by yourself or with a friend. Draw pictures that animate and playback. Then, record digital stories with your winning words. The illustrations are multicultural and allow all kids to feel included. The letter-tracing feature is a great way to practice penmanship and letter recognition. It’s great for older kids too, giving them the freedom to draw and create stories as well. HangArt is perfect for individual play, entire family fun, and the classroom. As seen in The New York Times’ "10 Children's Apps for Summer Road Trips." "Culturally diverse drawings and a specially constructed, easy-to-read font welcome kids from a variety of backgrounds and abilities. A jewel of a game … HangArt is a fun challenge, and the open-ended drawing board and storytelling sections let kids take the lead.” ~ Common Sense Media --- UNIQUE FEATURES • Play Hangman with 200 K-3 sight words and original, diverse animated illustrations •

Highlights Monster Day (App)
Welcome to the day in the life of a lovable monster! Choose your favorite friend and care for him from morning till night! Children will learn about independence, friendship, kindness and compassion while exploring the world around them and developing decision making and motor skills.

Highlights Shapes (App)
Accompanied by a friendly fox — and other animal buddies along the way — young children will learn and practice matching, sorting and categorizing both shapes and colors through imaginative activity-filled worlds. Visit an ancient jungle, the magical deep sea, mysterious outer space and the sweet Arctic! The puzzle games are woven into engaging stories, and the games increase in challenge as you go.

Learn & Spell English Words (App)
Learn the English language through fun and play! Learn and Spell English Words is both a fun spelling game and an English language course in one free app. Learn and Spell English Words is a fun spelling game for learning English vocabulary easily and quickly. Learn and Spell won a major award in the Tizen App Challenge competition, beating all other English learning apps. https://youtu.be/WSH8lEV8dDY?t=58 With Learn and Spell English Words you will learn common English words in 6 categories of the English language. This version of the game teaches basic nouns. This free starter level course is designed for beginners of the English language or anyone who wants to practice their English vocabulary spelling. The game is designed for children, students and adults. The game includes sound recordings of every word. The words are spoken by native speakers of the English language in British English. In this English course you will play different English games: - Learn En

Marble Math (App)
Award-winning game motivates kids to practice math at home or in the classroom “One of the most fun, customizable, and effective math games available for older elementary school-age kids” - 5 stars, Common Sense Media “It requires both game skill to be able to roll the marble and math skill to understand and come up with the solution of where to roll it” - Wired.com Children's Technology Review Editor’s Choice ________________________________ FUN MATH PRACTICE: Drag your marble with your finger, or roll it by tilting your device, to collect answers and earn new marbles in a series of ever-changing math mazes. Watch out math whizzes! You’ll need to be focused and nimble to avoid the surprising and silly obstacles in your path. MARBLE MATH CONCEPTS INCLUDE: • addition, subtraction, multiplication and division • adding and sequencing fractions with different denominators • factoring • sequencing decimals • adding and subtracting negative integers • counting

Opposite! (App)
Yes? No! High? Low! Fast? Slow! Get ready to play a game called Opposite! When kids are asked to do the opposite of freeze, don't be surprised if they join the animated cast of characters for a dance party! Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!

ZyroMath City Count (App)
A fun, interactive, math game for young children and children with special needs. ZyroMath City Count is an integrated runner-game for children that keeps kids math motivated. Test your reflexes as your robot Zyro races through the city, collecting stars and power-ups that give you special powers. Touch to jump and avoid obstacles, and use your math points to buy super-power characters and prizes in the ZyroStore. See how far you can run! Key Features of ZyroMath: 1. Learn to count up to 100 by ones and tens 2. One-touch input for help in improving hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills for children 3. Graphics and music can be graded to make this game suitable for sensory sensitive kids 4. Beginner, Advanced, and Expert mode to to provide easy-selectable options based on the motor skill level or cognitive skill level of the child 5. A customizable learning mode than can learn optimal game settings to personalize settings to the needs of the child 6. Customizable settings,