Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire
- Price: $.99
- Category: Educational Games
Common Sense Media says
Playful app uses fruit to teach toddlers and preschoolers.
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire
- Price: $.99
- Category: Educational Games
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Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is a cute and simple educational game for young children. The game cycles through a variety of activities such as matching, counting, finding the item that's different, choosing the item that starts with a certain letter, and assembling a small puzzle. If a child successfully completes the tasks, the animated monkey claps his hands or does a flip. If the child makes a mistake, the monkey shakes his head. After each few activities, children can choose a sticker to add to their collection.
What kids can learn
Subjects
Language & Reading
- following directions
- letter or word recognition
Math
- counting
- numbers
- shapes
Skills
Thinking & Reasoning
- memorization
- solving puzzles
Communication
- listening
Engagement, Approach, Support
Kids are engaged by the bright colors and by the silly monkey who shakes his head for wrong answers and does flips for correct ones. There's enough variation to keep things interesting.
Each activity starts with short verbal instructions on puzzles about basic preschool concepts like colors, shapes, fruits, counting, and bigger/smaller. Digital stickers reward perseverance, not correctness. Repetition reinforces concepts.
Parents can't select which activities are available to play; they appear randomly.
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What's it about?
The star of Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is a silly monkey who presents a series of activities to kids, including a memory game, puzzle, and comparison game. He celebrates when they get a correct answer and shakes his head when they don't. The game simply cycles through these activities, stopping every now and then to reward kids with a virtual sticker.
Is it any good?
QUALITY
MONKEY PRESCHOOL LUNCHBOX is an engaging app for toddlers and preschoolers. It teaches and reinforces very basic skills (counting, matching, find the difference, etc) in a fun way and has enough variation to keep things interesting. The activities are presented randomly, which does not allow a parent to select the activities that would be best for their child. The music can become tedious after a few rounds, but that's more likely to bother Mom and Dad than the kids. The only thing missing is an obvious end point in the game, which continues to cycle through indefinitely.
Families can talk about...
Help preschoolers practice counting objects around the house. When possible, make the counting purposeful -- how many forks you'll need for dinner is one idea.
Help reinforce basic colors by planning a "green day" or "yellow day," for example. Kids can wear the color, eat food that color, and look for the color in their environment.
App details
| Devices: | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire |
| Price: | $.99 |
| Release date: | May 11, 2010 |
| Category: | Educational Games |
| Publisher: | THUP Games |
| Version: | 1.3 |
| Minimum software requirements: | iOS 3.0 or later; Android 2.0 and up |
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Nice app for little kids
I downloaded this for my 4 year old. He really enjoys playing the various games. As a parent, I enjoy the fact that there aren't any annoying and repetitive sounds to endure and the graphics are well done. My son enjoys the app quite a bit and it holds his attention span. Of course, he is only 4 so his attention span is only so long, but it's good for a little bit of fun learning.
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Good for 3 and up!!!!!
I think that this app is simple and fun for kids 3 and up. It's very educational if you are a 3 year old and is appropriate for kids of almost all ages to play. DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW!!!!!! JK JK JK JK JK!!!!! I am a moron aren't I ??
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My son LOVES Monkey Preschool Games!
My 3 year old loves this app! It teaches color and letter recognition, it also has puzzles. The 1st time my son played he was breezing through questions, so I downloaded Monkey Math Sunshine. With Monkey Math kids learn number recognition, sequences, basic math skills (most &least) and adding. He loves doing both games and they keep him entertained. We just downloaded our third Monkey Preschool game, When I Grow Up. Very fun & educational games!
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