App Thursday: Madera & Figaro Save The Day HD & ABA Receptive Identification

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 Madera & Figaro Save The Day-HD

 

This is an exciting Interactive App based on a popular children's book in the UK.

 

FEATURES:
★ mini paint program to decorate a cake
★ a matching game of hats to teach sizes
★ a matching game to fix the stage to teach shapes
★ interactive blimps that recite the whole alphabet
★ interactive hot air balloons that recite numbers 1-4
★ pictures in the tree house that recite numbers 1-9
★ a game to catch animated fireflies
★ a game to collect eggs to teach counting
★ a game to fetch canisters to teach colors
★ trucks, a tractor, and a helicopter that move when you drag them
★ a wipe-the-screen-reveal game to find a hidden turtle
★ interactive instruments that play sounds when you click on them
★ interactive animated characters that tell the story
★ original music and hand drawn artwork
★ randomization so questions are different each time your child plays
★ universal app that runs HD on your iPad (no need to buy a separate app!)
★ and lots of silly animated mice!

ABOUT:
Save The Day tells the story of 2 best friends who are eager to jump in and help their town clean up after a storm causes some trouble and threatens to ruin the big party planned for that evening. With pages of interactive games, hand drawn artwork, and original music and sound effects, this storybook has it all -- a sweet story, fun superhero characters, and silly, fun, hidden animations.

This is a universal app that will run beautiful HD images if you load it on an iPad.

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 ABA Receptive Identification - By Function

 Many children with emerging language skills do not think of things as having parts, attributes or fitting into categories but these are necessary for developing appropriate, functional conversation skills. Once a child can ask for, label and receptively identify a great many items, it’s a good time to start teaching the FFC’s or rather features, function and class of items, people and places. These lessons teach a child to talk about things rather than just labeling them.

Features may be: doors, wheels, tails, ears, etc.
Functions may be: cutting, driving, eating, sleeping, etc.
Classes may be: zoo animals, vehicles, foods, clothing, etc.

This “receptive by function” application was seamlessly created using 66 superb, concrete, colorful images that are of high interest to both visual and auditory learners. By adding clearly pronounced real audio we hope to encourage vocal imitation. Classical music is randomly played along with visual reinforcement to maintain your child’s interested while introducing them to the world’s most popular composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

Top features of our applications:
 -Clear, Colorful, Concrete Images
 -Benefits to both Visual and Auditory Learners
- Classical Music with Visual Reinforcement
- Sound can be turned “on” or “off”
- Concisely Pronounced Audio

Our “Receptive by Function” application targets the following functions:
Find the one that: Bakes, Cleans Carpet, Cuts Paper, Keeps you Dry, Keeps you Safe, Plays Music, Puts out Fires, Reaches High, Takes Care of Your Body, Takes Pictures, Tells Time, The Dog Eats, Washes Clothes. Find the one that you: Carve, Eat, Play With, Read, Ride, Sit On, Sleep On, Wear.

Photos in this application include:
American Flag, Asparagus, Baby, Backpack, Banana, Baseball, BBQ, Bear, Bed, Beetle, Blender, Boots, Builder, Camera, Chair, Chef, Clown, Coffee, Crane, Daisy, Digger, Doctor, Dog Bone, Dog House, Dog, Fire Extinguisher, Firefighter, Flamingo, Flippers, Frog, Hamburger, Harp, Hot Air Balloon, Jack-o-Lantern, Kitchen Scale, Ladder, Mailbox, Marshmallows, Microphone, Monkey, Newspaper, Paperclip, Pepper Grinder, Phone Booth, Piano, Ping Pong, Police Officer, Raccoon, Radio, Ringmaster, Sandcastle, Scissors, Shovel, Space Ship, Statue of Liberty, Tape Measure, Tie, Tricycle, Truck, Umbrella, Vaccuum Cleaner, Veterinarian, Walkie Talkie, Washing Machine, Watch, Woman.

(Source: http://babieswithipads.blogspot.com/ & http://www.apple.com/itunes/whats-on/)