When I was browsing the South African app center the other day, "LeapSchool: In the Kitchen with Hap!" caught my eye. This game teaches :
Counting
Measurement
Health & nutrition
Food facts
But just before I was about to download this game something occurred to me; nowhere does it state whether this game uses metric or imperial measurements.
A very important issue as I do not want to confuse my kids by teaching them the wrong system.
I have subsequently contacted the powers that be and below is their response
" We use metric for non-US lines"
An example:
“Fill the bowl with strawberries until the needle of the scale points to 3 kilograms.”
Help Tiana pursue her dreams by using your mathematics and word skills in the kitchen, on the bayou and more! • Cartridge game works with the Leapster Explorer™ and LeapPad™ Explorer systems (sold separately). • Help Tiana make dinner by choosing the correct amount of each ingredient. • Explore addition and subtraction as Naveen hops through the bayou to rescue Tiana. • Choose the correct letter so Ray can lead the way to Mama Odie's house. • Teaches number and letter recognition, counting, logic and reasoning skills and music. Appropriate for children ages 4 to 7 years (grades pre-K to 1).
Teaches
Music
Making and listening to music can increase a child's creativity as well as support language, math, and physical development.
Logic and reasoning
Logic and reasoning skills begin to develop at an early age and are used to solve problems and draw conclusions.
Counting
Children learn to count and compare sets of objects.
Best Price i have found this game is at takealot.com for R263
Go to the taxi stand to access 4 new locations for more artistic activities, including a 15-page coloring book! Use your creativity skills to explore 4 new locations in Doodleburg. Show your artistic side in 5 new coloring books.
Star in a story you choose! Create an enchanting tale by using the story structure or rewriting it to fit your imagination, then share it with loved ones! Choose from 3 different stories, then personalize the tale with your photos, narration and art. Share your creation with family and friends.
About Star in a story you choose! Create an exciting tale by using the story structure or rewriting it to fit your imagination, then share it with loved ones! Choose from 3 different stories, then personalize the tale with your photos, narration and art. Share your creation with family and friends.
Join Og, Al, Gus, Izzy and Meg, as they use rhythm, rhyme and repetition to build reading skills! Laugh, sing and read along with 12 animated learning stories! Watch fun skits that introduce vowel sounds, followed by animated stories with music and sing-along words highlighted on the screen. Watch this 35-minute video on your handheld or tablet for on-the-go fun.
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(Running time Approx 50 minutes)
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WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
(Running time Approx 50 minutes)
Join the WordFriends as they search for lost letters, go on a wild V chase, hunt for rhyming words and discover a word combination to stop a fear of the dark!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
(Running time Approx 50 minutes)
Join the inhabitants of WorldWorld for a sleepover party, a marvelous magic show, a concert and a special moonlight feast!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
(Running time Approx 50 minutes)
Help the critters of WorldWorld write song lyrics, shuffle words, hunt for a missing W and play the part of a princess!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
(Running time Approx 50 minutes)
Team up with the WordFriends for a tongue-tied read-a-thon, a mad-scientist experiment, crazy jungle adventures and a haywire day delivering mail!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
(Running time Approx 50 minutes)
Join the WordFriends as they make a secret gift, track down an out-of-this-world clock, solve a puzzle that’s awash in mystery and get to the root of a misunderstanding!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
Meet WordWorld’s first superhero! Then help the friends solve a bottled-up mystery, make a big discovery and rescue a baby whale!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
Accompany WordWorld friends to Mystery Island, help pig overcome stage fright, stop the mail train from derailing and create a rainbow cake!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
Enter WordWorld as the friends rebuild a birthday banana, learn some rootin’ tootin’ rope tricks, play baseball and traipse off on a jungle misadventure!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
Travel high and low with the WordWorld gang as they attend an insect air show and a fishy dance performance. Watch what happens when things spiral out of control!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
Dress up for Halloween with the WordFriends and learn about sharing. Then discover the spirit of Christmas and build words that make everyone merry!
WordWorld helps children get excited about word building and reading by turning words into lively learning friends.
Join Jeff Corwin on a quest to learn about the biggest animals on our planet—from primates and pythons to blue whales!
Find the massive mountain gorilla in Uganda and search for the blue whale off the coast of California.
Travel to Borneo to see how Jeff rescues a python - the longest snake in the world!
Join Jeff Corwin’s quest to find the largest sardine run! Along the way, see how big numbers, big disguises and big sizes help different animals defend themselves!
Meet the “king of camouflage” off the coast of Australia and see how this crafty decorator crab mimics its surroundings.
Learn how its incredible size is just one of several tools the black rhino uses to keep itself safe.
(28 mins)
From the highlands of Scotland to the lowlands of Florida and the grasslands of Africa, join Jeff Corwin to learn about the power of sight in the animal kingdom!
Watch how a golden eagle’s sight helps it complete an incredible challenge and see the wandering eyes of a chameleon spot food with 360° vision.
Meet 2 different snakes and learn how the spitting cobra blinds would-be predators and how the canebrake rattlesnake can “see” heat in order to hunt.
The United States is full of diverse climates and wildlife. Take a trip to learn more about natural resources, habitats, animal classifications and other fun facts!
See how animals adapt to their different environments in order to survive.
Learn about the impact of human beings on wild animal habitats.
Learn about animals from the familiar to the exotic as you travel through all 26 letters of the alphabet!
See how animals look, discover where they live, what they eat and more!
Alliterative text helps children make letter-sound associations.
(24 mins)
Get word-building skills in gear on a trip to the Talking Words Factory with Leap, Lily and Tad. Learn how sounds combine to make words, how to make rhymes and more! Amazing machines like the Word Whammer and Sticky-Ick-O-Rama take letters and make them into words. Watch this 35-minute video on your handheld or tablet for on-the-go fun.
Join Leap, Lily and Tad on a wild adventure in the Letter Factory, where Professor Quigley shows them how each letter learns its sound! Watch as Tad practices karate kicks with the k's and snores peacefully with the z's, then sing along to fun letter-learning songs. Watch this 35-minute video on your handheld or tablet for on-the-go fun.
Step right up to number fun with Leap, Lily, Tad and Professor Quigley!
Watch Subtractobats and Quidgets fly from trapezes and sing along to fun learning songs. Watch Subtractobats and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons and sing along to fun learning songs. Watch this 35-minute video on your handheld or tablet for on-the-go fun.
Join Tad and Lily on an undersea adventure and use counting skills to help rescue their puppy pal, Scout, from pirates! Show off your skills by counting shark teeth. Count crabs and fish in sing-along songs.
When Mr. Websley is silenced by the Silent E Machine, Leap, Lily, and Tad must journey through the Complex Word Complex to build code words to restore his voice! Watch as Leap, Lily and Tad seek guidance from the "Absent Professor Device," and sing along to funny word-building songs. Watch this 35-minute video on your handheld or tablet for on-the-go fun.
Join Tad, Lily, Scout and Edison on an alphabet adventure to restore the rides at the amusement park! Learn letters to help Edison get down from the Ferris Wheel. Get ready to rhyme with Alistair Alphabelly.
Ride along with Leo and Bug on this fantastic rainforest photo safari and learn about animals and their habitats!
Look for amazing animals as they come out of hiding.
Use your knowledge about what animals eat and how they behave to capture photos and save them in your journal.
Hap needs help to prepare food for the LeapSchool International Fair. Lend a hand and learn about food and nutrition, measurement and time management!
Measure, count, slice and weigh ingredients, and learn food facts.
use your time management skills and nutrition knowledge to prep delicious dishes.
Team up with the Monkeys or Robot Monkeys and compete to win the Coconut Cup!
Solve math problems and score goals to build up your team for bigger challenges!
Choose your team and solve equations to change the number or position of players on the field.
Get your team ready for the soccer match--you're playing for all the bananas!
Roll, spin, tilt and shake your Roly Poly through 36 levels of mazes and spelling challenges to gather food for the picnic!
Practice letter and phonics skills to keep rolling toward your destination.
Tilt your tablet to navigate around obstacles and shake it to get unstuck.
Help Stretchy Monkey bring food to his family by flinging him through 20 game levels while completing pattern sequences with shapes and pictures!
Solve pattern and sorting challenges to help Stretchy Monkey find bananas and collectibles.
Some animals help and some animals hinder—watch out for hazards on your journey.
Help Gig build a musical habitat for his singing hamsters while learning about pitch, duration, melody and basic music composition!
Tap hamsters to determine whether the notes they sing are higher or lower than each other.
Match notes to complete a melody or move hamster “notes” around to make your own tune.
Use your mathematics skills to help the toy robots defeat alien invaders in Number Bash!
There are nine fun levels to master!
Avoid alien attacks while bashing blocks to destroy their buildings.
Use the numbers you find to solve mathematics problems and lead you to victory.
Play games to cook up more than 500 3- and 4-letter words.
Touch the letters to spell words on the lists, or stir up as many words as you can find in free search!
Discover endless challenges when you play without the word list.
Challenge a friend to an alphabet showdown in 2-player mode.
Learn math basics from place value to addition and more in 2 games of chance!
Roll the dice and count the dots. Fill your treasure chest with loads of pirate loot!
Arrange the dice to create the largest possible number or use addition and probability skills to play a game of chance.
Challenge a friend's number know-how in 2-player mode.
Hop on the Jewel Train!
Use logic and reasoning skills to solve interactive puzzles and keep your train chugging along so you can earn jewels along the way!
Use problem-solving skills to place and adjust railroad pieces.
Prepare for more complex puzzles as you move through 25 levels.
All aboard for 30 new levels of interactive puzzles!
Use logic and reasoning skills to keep your train chugging all the way to the station.
Arrange the tracks to help the train reach the station.
Collect valuable jewels as you master the challenges!
The battle against the Sugar Bugs has begun!
Brush the cavities away as you learn about dental health and hygiene.
Use a toothbrush, floss and other dental tools to fight the Sugar Bugs.
Play the Sugar Bug song as you brush your teeth for the recommended 2 minutes.
Learn about good oral hygiene and fun dental
facts as you take cavity-fighting skills to a whole new level with trickier Sugar Bugs!
Battle your way through 10 more challenging levels.
Use your fluoride, floss, toothpicks and toothbrush to conquer the Sugar Bugs before the music stops.
Adjust ramp angles and speed to keep your wheel moving as it rolls, hops and flies to hit your target. Big challenges await—keep the fun rolling through 10+ levels!
Adjust ramp angles and speed to keep your wheel rolling.
Prepare for greater challenges as you move through more than 10 levels.
LeapSchool Reading (Important this is the same as the cartridge game)
Recommended age : 4 to 7 years
Description:
Meet the kids from the coolest school in the world in this fun reading adventure!
Complete quests and treasure hunts while building reading skills in 26 games.
Guide characters to the word with the correct spelling.
Help each of your friends build a yearbook page.
Teaches early reading skills, spelling and logic skills.
Teaches:
Reading skills
Reading is a process that involves decoding series of letters into words to understand meaning.
Spelling
As understanding of the spelling system grows, children move from using 1-2 letter spellings (D for dog, or CT for cat), to adding vowel sounds, and eventually spelling words with less predictable patterns.
Logic
Logic and reasoning skills begin to develop at an early age and are used to solve problems and draw
Mr. Pencil Saves Doodleburg (Important this is the same as the cartridge game)
Recommended age : 4 to 7 years
Description:
Learn how to write letters and numbers and create art as you help Mr. Pencil and his friends save the town!
Help save the town by writing letters and drawing lines, shapes and objects.
Create your own art using cool tools, colors, filters, stamps and effects.
Become an animator by creating your own flip book.
Teaches letter writing, number writing, shapes and art and drawing.
Teaches:
Number writing
Children learn to write numbers using proper stroke order.
Letter writing
Children use knowledge of letter names and shapes to write both uppercase and lowercase letters.
Shapes
Children learn to recognize the defining properties of shapes (such as a square having four sides of equal length and a triangle having three sides) and identify them in different rotations.
Art and drawing
As they draw, children develop spatial reasoning, visual acuity, and hand control, which later helps them write letters.
Globe: Earth Adventures (Important this is the same as the cartridge game)
Recommended age : 4 to 7 years
Description:
Get ready for an interactive adventure as you take your airplane around the globe to complete missions, find treasure and learn about geography, cultures and more!
Expand your knowledge of animals, geography, cultural facts, map skills and more.
Play games that use actual photos of locations, animals and landmarks around the world.
Collect Adventure Cards to unlock new, more difficult missions.
Teaches geography, world culture, map skills and animal facts.
Teaches:
Geography
Children may begin by learning about people and animals from different regions and eventually use geography as a tool to understand places, cultures, and the world in spatial terms.
Map skills
Children develop map skills by reading and drawing maps of familiar places and then using maps to locate places, measure distances, and compare regions.
World culture
Learning about the people and places in our world helps children to become global citizens.
Animal facts
Even very young children can begin to categorize animals by species, imitate their sounds and learn interesting facts about them.
