Big Star, Little Star

Screen time that teaches. Big Star, Little Star is a calm, read aloud learning app for children aged 3 to 10, made in Ghana. Grown ups set each child's age, from 3 to 10, and the lessons follow: from Early Years up to Primary Stage 5. Questions get harder as children get them right. BIG STAR Maths: adding, taking away, times tables, sharing, missing numbers, place value, fractions, time, money in cedis and pesewas, shapes, patterns, word problems, charts and measuring. English: phonics, spelling, word types, sentences, plurals, opposites, rhymes, syllables and ABC order. Science, our world, computers and coding: children write steps with arrows, repeat them and fix the bugs, then watch Kobi the robot follow their code. Music: notes, beats and chords on a piano. Story time: 8 stories set in Ghana, read aloud sentence by sentence, with questions after each one. LITTLE STAR (ages 3 and 4) Letters, numbers, colours, shapes, animals, big and small, what comes next, odd one out, my body and feelings, all spoken aloud. Plus an ABC board, an animal sounds board and a piano to tap and hear. EVERY DAY Today's lesson mixes the subjects in one short go, then homework from the questions your child found hard, plus one job at home a grown up ticks. Play time is earned with stars: car racing, skating, Ghana playground games and a ring song. Grown ups set the limits. Clubs for dance, swimming safety, football and art. TREASURE AND STICKERS Stars add up to treasure chests: the first opens at 100 stars, then one every 50 stars. Each chest holds a new sticker for the sticker book. Grown ups can hide a real prize in the next chest. READ ALOUD Stories, explanations and questions are read aloud by a warm recorded voice, British or American. Sums with changing numbers are shown big on screen, and the voice cheers when they are right. A wrong answer gets kind help and another try. FOR GROWN UPS Tap Grown ups and answer a grown ups question to add names, pick a picture, set each child's age, choose the voice, turn reading out loud on or off for lessons and for stories, turn sounds on or off, set play time, add a real prize and see the stars earned. SAFE BY DESIGN No logins. No email. No ads. No tracking. The lessons never use the internet, so they work anywhere, even with no signal. Names and stars stay on your device. We never see them. SUBSCRIPTION One monthly subscription opens every lesson, story and game, with new stories and lessons as they are made. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews every month unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel any time in Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions. Buying sits behind a grown ups question, so small hands cannot subscribe. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://blakknoters.com/bigstar/privacy