I work as a tutor and purchased this app to use with some of my younger students. One in particular is very into animals right now, so I thought this would be a great little activity for him. I review every app I purchase to help others see if the selections are right for them and their children or not.
From the main menu of the app, users can select one of seven cartoon animal avatars, allowing for some nice personalization. Following avatar selection, users enter a menu with a selection of environments. These environments dictate the types of animals that appear during game play. This is wonderful, as children get to learn about the animals and their appropriate habitats. There is much to be gained from organization-based tasks for young children, and this app offers plenty of opportunities for that through its structure.
The game activity is the same throughout the app, but various environments keep it fresh. The animals vary according to the selected environment. A friendly voice asks the user to drag a specific animal or selection of animals into the train. Correct selections are met with praise, and an incorrect choice simply allows the user to try again. It is always encouraging. The ability to try again encourages learning in a friendly environment. It's perfect as far as this kind of activity is concerned. The app also helps build reading skills, as the animal names are listed at the top of the screen to remind users which animals should be brought to the train. Anything that encourages reading is great in my book, as kids often struggle with it upon entering school and well into the early grades.
You'd think this app would get repetitive for children, but it really doesn't. The children I have had try out this app remain entertained for hours, and this is especially true if they love animals. The app features dozens of animals to learn about, and it's really nice to see an app for younger children that includes some 'off-color' animals. Usually, all you get are dogs, cats, fish, mice, and other typical, common animals. With this app, your little zoologist can truly discover new animals, including the platypus, ostrich, and scorpion. There are also modes for colors, and identifying animals involves shape recognition. This subtle inclusion of various skills is the mark of a truly great learning app. It's no surprise to me that 22Learn has once again beautifully weaved multiple disciplines together.
Each environment and all the images featured in the app are full-color and nicely illustrated. I always enjoy the professional voiceovers, and kids really seem to enjoy the voices as well. Settings include the typical sound toggle and an option to turn off instructions being voiced, and that can become handy if you wish to provide more of a challenge or test reading skills. Each child will vary, but none of the children I tried the app with had problems completing the tasks. The app also tracks high scores, which the older children really enjoy if they are a little competitive. Overall, I found the Animal Train app to be age-appropriate, educational, and fun! I am happy to add this app to my teaching arsenal.
Kids Animal Train: Preschool and Kindegarten Learning Matching and Reading Adventure – ABC First Word Educational Games for T
4.3 | 299 ratings
Price: 1.99
Last update: 12-27-2024
Latest updates
What's new in version 2.13- Minor improvements.
Product Details
Release Date: 2013
Date first listed on Amazon: May 13, 2013
Developed By: 22learn, LLC
ASIN: B00CQ55S22
Customer reviews:
4.3 out of 5 stars297 customer ratings
4.3 out of 5 stars297 customer ratings
Developer info
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Product features
- The ultimate reading and animal recognition challenge!
- More than 60 -- yes, you hear correctly! -- cute animals and their sounds
- RECOMMENDED AGE CATEGORIES: Baby, Toddler, Preschooler, Kindergartener
- 11 wonderful, colorfully illustrated sceneries: Farm, Barnyard, Polar Regions, Savanna, Desert, Under the Sea, Jungle, Colors 1, Colors 2, Shapes 1 and Shapes II – Coming soon!
- Curriculum developed and reviewed by preschool education expert
- Numerous adorable hand-drawn animations and illustrations
- All pronunciation by professional voice-over artists
Product description
The best-selling toddler app, Abby Animal Train – First Words (Farm Animals, Zoo Animals, Colors and More!), arrives on Amazon!Brought to you by 22LEARN, the creator of Abby Basic Skills Preschool – a winner of Recommended Seal by Parents‘ Choice Awards.
The educational matching interactive train game for children by 22learn is an engaging educational preschool basic tool teaching children recognition of the most common animals and kids learn to read their first words.
RECOMMENDED AGE CATEGORIES: Baby, Toddler, Preschooler, Kindergartener
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Let your kids explore an AMAZING WORLD OF ANIMALS while improving their READING SKILLS. Children will love the ADORABLE ILLUSTRATIONS and REALISTIC ANIMALS SOUNDS!
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The option of included spoken animal names makes this app also ideal for toddlers just beginning to recognize animal pictures.
Animal Train Preschool Adventure is a kids train game containing images and sounds of over 60 animals including:
Dog, cat, cow, horse, pig, sheep,duck, goose, rooster, hen, monkey, parrot, lion, elephant, bear, whale, dolphin, mouse, snake, giraffe, zebra, frog, camel, hippo, turtle, squirrel, koala, eagle, bee, seal, goose, penguin and more.
This game takes you on an exciting journey, which ranges from the exotic depths of the jungle and savanna to the more familiar farm animals.
Are you curious about what you will encounter on this challenging trip? Fun assured, your ticket guarantees:
• The entirety of 11 wonderful, colorfully illustrated sceneries:
(1) Farm
(2) Barnyard
(3) Polar Regions
(4) Savanna
(5) Desert
(6) Under the Sea
(7) Jungle animals
(8) Learn Colors 1
(9) Learn Colors 2
(10) Shapes Builder 1 – Coming soon!
(11) Shapes Builder 2 – Coming soon!
• More than 60 -- yes, you hear correctly! -- cute animals and their sounds
• The ultimate reading and animal recognition challenge!
And what are you bound to learn through such experience? Expect to improve in all of the following areas:
• Reading of written animal names!
• Animal recognition!
• Colors recognition!
• Shapes recognition!
• Memory skills
• Fine motor skills
• Increased motivation to read
The game takes place through a game activity, during which children are asked to place the animals to the train in the order their names are written (and possibly pronounced).
There are nine progressively more difficult levels of this activity as the number of the animals to be placed gets longer and the time needed to do so shorter. The motivational component is the constant praise for successful efforts and the possibility of the top score improvement --don't miss the train, answer correctly and get more and more points! The educational interactive game your toddlers will love.
Abby Monkey® Preschool Animal Train is your yummy preschool lunchbox full of fantastic animals and trains!
In the Settings, the game can be modified so that the tasks (the order of the animals to be placed in the train) are read aloud, and therefore the app can be also suitable for very small children, who are just learning the animal names, colors and shapes!
Based on our twenty-year old experience in the development of educational games for kids, we made considerable effort to ensure that the design of this app is easy-to-use for this very special age category and that the whole app is as educational and fun as possible.
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Technical details
Size: 26.7MB
Version: 2.13
Developed By: 22learn, LLC
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Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
Approximate Download Time: Less than 4 minutes
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