ParrotFish Studios

Our new typing app has just been released in beta - it is pretty awesome and will be great for 7 to 70 year olds. We see some family challenges coming up.
Won't be long now.

This is worth a read - it discusses why schools say they teach cursive writing and the outcomes of different approaches? Does research support the theories?

Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths - Issue 40: Learning - Nautilus A recent newcomer at one of the home-education groups my family attends explained that one of the frustrations that led her to take…

We love feedback:
"Sounds to Words" is a great app. I'm using it to work with almost non-verbal children with autism, and they love it. I have the impression that they are making progress with letter recognition and formulation as a result of your app. Congratulations!"

Our Maths App for the first years of school is now available on IOS. It concentrates on number, starting with counting to 5 and then uses those numbers to teach addition and subtraction, counting on, decomposition, friends of 5. In fact all of the concepts needed for the higher order numbers are covered with just the numbers 0 to 5. We are really concentrating on developing concepts in small doses. The first levels are free, the rest of the levels are available with in app purchase.
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Fractions as a topic can be so difficult to teach but if the child really gets the basics early on then everything is much easier. Look at this method of using LEGO as an aid.
http://www.lifehack.org/345555/an-amazingly-effective-way-to-help-your-child-master-math-skills-with-lego-blocks

Kids learn better when they can connect previous learning to the new, they know what skills and content they are going to learn, and they can monitor their own progress.
The content in our apps is arranged in levels or stages with each building on the skills learned previously. We give lots of practice with different games at each level, each emphasising different teaching and learning styles.
Kids (and parents) can monitor progress through our star system, and they can't progress until a level of mastery has been achieved.
Our system motivates, and sometimes frustrates, but it does work.

The ParrotFish Apps are different to most other apps that say they are educational. Our apps are engaging, entertaining and fun but their prime purpose is to teach. We present content in a systematic order, in small chunks and cover the same content in a variety of ways. We generally have 6 games for each level, each of which emphasises a different learning style because we believe that children learn the best when the same material is presented in multiple ways.
Follow the links in this article to see why we do it. https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/11/30/learning-styles-is-visual-learning-really-a-thing/

Learning Styles: Is Visual Learning Really A Thing? Many students confuse a learning preference with inherent trait when really most learners benefit when new information is presented in multiple ways.

This has to be shared, I love Maths jokes. Just a reminder that our Maths App for the first years of school is still happening. From talking to a lot of young children I am aware that we really need to do a fractions App. I come across so many young kids who just "don't get it". Understanding fractions should begin early and then, like reading, it's easy to build on sound understanding.
https://www.facebook.com/WowSoPunny/photos/a.985057168177019.1073741829.984774068205329/1354987821183950/?type=3

Math pun 😂😂

We have updated the video for our Our Sight Words App.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZoSjKnuCsM

Sight Words App by Parrotfish Studios THE BEST WAY TO LEARN SIGHT WORDS Instant recognition of these high frequency sight words improves confidence in reading and writing. *** ideal for early rea...