Fun and rewarding app for young learners to practice basic literacy and math skills
Community Review for Alien Buddies
My Take
Alien Buddies has great audio instructions to help pre or early readers use the app to practice numbers, letters, shapes, and colors. When practicing letters, teachers and students can choose between all lower-case, all upper-case or mixed. I like that if students touch a letter/number/etc, it is said aloud but unfortunately, when a child make a correct match (i.e., letter "G" to letter "G") the only response is something like "hooray" and nothing is said to reinforce the content. The app is fun for students but fairly standard skill and drill work that does not allow for a lot of student-directed learning or open-ended creativity. The Sticker activities is the only creation-based part of the app.
How I Use It
I have used this with my youngest students who are still learning their numbers and shapes and sometimes need another tool/activity to practice. The game helps reinforce new knowledge and supports the development of basic skills like matching, letter recognition, and counting.