Time for Me!, 2nd ed.

Title: Time for Me!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Life Skills - Ages 5+
Release Date: 09/15/24
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Chutes and Ladders,FarFaria,Sesame Street
Type: Theme-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: These interactive books, games, and activities will help kids build a solid foundation of skills they can use in the classroom and beyond. The apps on this pack explore diverse characters and cultures.

- Build literacy and language skills
- Learn to manage emotions
- Discover the power of positive choices
- Improve reasoning and problem-solving skills
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Anytime Foods - The Feelingwells (App)
Bebe and her dad are going on a picnic and Bebe has overpacked their picnic basket! With her dad's help, Bebe takes out the unhealthy snacks and leaves only anytime foods - or healthy snacks you can eat at any time. Tune in to learn more about healthy eating!

Balafon- Joko's World (App)
Joko’s Balafon is an app that celebrates beautiful wooden tune percussion. Featuring 3 instruments; the Balafon and Gyil of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Marimba, the national musical instrument of Guatemala. Through game based challenges you can learn to play songs that stretch across Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Ghana and over to Guatemala. Retrace a musical journey across Africa and on to the Americas. The Balafon is one of the instruments of the Mande Jeli, otherwise known as Griots. Through our unique guidebook let us introduce you to the descendants of a tradition of bards dating back to the ancient advanced empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhay. These master artists record and recite histories and retell them through song.

Bayani and the Coconuts (App)
A Filipino Folktale! FarFaria's "Bayani and the Coconuts" 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.

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

Grandma's Great Gourd (App)
Go on an adventure with one gutsy Grandma as she tricks some hungry forest animals in the jungle of South Asia! Our storybook app has built in gameplay, a STEM-inspired mini-game, and interactive activities for family fun. You will get 4 rich experiences in your one-time download: READ: An animated, interactive adventure story based on a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, "Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale," by best-selling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. ROLL: Play a rollicking, physics-inspired mini-game as you roll Grandma through the forest & unlock powerful gourds of different shapes and sizes! Created with input from science & STEM educators from the NY Hall of Science and the American Museum of Natural History. RECORD: Discover a recording studio where you can create sound effects and record custom narrations of the story in your own voice. Your child will love hearing his/her voice in the story and game. Parents, teachers, and grandparents can al

Hey AJ! It's Saturday! (App) (Imagination Agency)
An imaginative, interactive children’s picture book that comes to life at your touch! Burst through the screen with your imagination and into A.J.'s strange, wacky, kooky kitchen as she tries to make breakfast for herself on an ordinary Saturday morning. But she's not the only one that's hungry in the house. In fact the kitchen is filled with bacon frying pandas, swimming pancakes, a slippery strawberry banana stream, monkeys and even a horse all trying to make a delicious dish to fill their tummies. But nothing ever goes as planned, the kitchen's a strange place! Learn. Laugh. Play. And Enjoy. Join in on the fun with your fingers. Let's make a mess.....with our imaginations!SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO - Read along with A.J. - Story time with Martellus Bennett as he narrates the story himself - Interact with the characters - Unlock the bonus game A.J.'s Bizarre Breakfast - Practice Kung Fu with a Waffle Ninja. - Fry Bacon. Scramble eggs. - Dance with the panda. - Laugh out

Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories (App)
Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories contain six fun, interactive, and engaging early learning stories that improve literacy skills, phonics, and fluency. Parents, teachers, and children all love the stories for their rhythm, rhyming, engaging characters, and vibrant illustrations. Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories was developed and vetted by fully credentialed teachers and aims to improve reading skills, build confidence, and the recognition of sight words and vowel sounds. Rhyming is a key part of building early literacy skills so get started today and start your child on a path to reading success by downloading Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories? The stories include: • Kim Likes to Swim • Pete Has Big Feet • Joe Has a Sore Toe • Jenny Found a Penny • Mike has a Bike • Paul is Tall Children will learn rhyming, long and short vowel sounds, sight words, and social-emotional skills including compassion, friendship, value, saving, money, exercise, self-acceptance, and more! Throughout the ye

Migalolo (App)
Have you ever wanted to swim with a dolphin or sing with a starfish? Now you can! Jump into Migalolo: The Ocean Musical! This new app from award-winning composer Shirley Choi invites children of all ages to experience and learn about the ocean in a fun, interactive way. Migalolo features nine chapters which supplies over ninety minutes of educational, musical fun! Sing along with original songs as you watch rich graphics that show off scores of diverse sea creatures in their colourful undersea environment. Kids will learn about important conservation topics, the science of the seas, and what they can do to help protect the Earth’s oceans. They will meet new friends like Henry a boy who is turned into a dolphin, his pet cat Iko, a wise turtled named Yai, and tons more. Swim along with Henry and Iko as they explore and meet all kinds of characters from rapping trout to sassy seabirds! This app explores many important ocean topics, but does so in a fun and engaging way. The catchy tune

Mystery Word Town (App)
Use your spelling skills to find the gold and capture the outlaws in Mystery Word Town. Play with the supplied word lists, or record your own words. ________________________________ Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner Artgig Apps have always produced the highest quality apps that engage through cleverly designed gameplay, and Mystery Word Town does not disappoint. It’s a mix of western style fun and silliness, but also has serious educational chops. - Teachers With Apps ________________________________ Build spelling confidence with a mystery... News Bulletin: The Huevos Rancheros Gang stole the gold and they are hiding out amongst the good citizens of Word Town. Your Mission: Help the sheriff, a friendly and curious little ghost, recover the missing gold and catch the outlaws. Find the letters you need to solve the word puzzles... - Spelling practice integrated with a rich, immersive game experience - Unlimited user

Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens (App)
? Google Play Editors' Choice ? Winner Google Play "Best Families Apps 2016" ? Editor's Choice by Children's Technology Review (score 100/100) ? Top Pick by Common Sense Media (rating 5/5) ? Best Pick by TechWithKids (rating 5/5) * This app does not contain in-app purchases or 3rd party ads * Thinkrolls Kings & Queens is an epic adventure of logic, physics and fun! Practice reasoning, memory and problem solving skills in this challenging puzzle game that is loved by kids and parents alike! 228 physics puzzles, 12 fairytale castles, toothy crocodiles, goofy ghosts and a friendly dragon, provide hours of fun-filled play and brain training for the whole family! So, unlock the fun, unleash the magic, and let your young knight or princess embark on an epic quest of twists and turns. HOW TO PLAY The goal is simple: Move, handle and combine objects to clear a path, obtain the key, and open the gate to the next level. Collect treasure for the dragon so he'll let you through