Fantastic App!!!
This is another engaging app in the Bo the Giraffe series! In this app, Bo teaches your child about activities related to dinnertime! It has 10 engaging and fun scenes, encourages good dinnertime habits, a great song in the final scene, fun music and sounds, hidden sounds and animation effects, is very child-friendly, and has a fun snack game! This app is great for skills development like listening, matching, sorting, counting and coordination!
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Great for following directions
My little one likes apps about food. This app is great because it asks her to follow directions: put groceries in the cart, put them away in the right spot, put the right items in the pot, etc. Nice app!
Fun and Educational
This is an app that has applicability for both regularly developing children and those with special needs. It teaches children how to prepare a meal from shopping for the needed ingredients all the way through cleaning up after dinner. This app also teaches following directions. It could be improved by allowing more interactivity.
Overall, a great app that I would definitely recommend.
Overall, a great app that I would definitely recommend.
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Fun and inviting
This app is great for learning and reinforcing the dinner time routine. It goes through the steps of buying food, preparing, eating and clean up with fun activities that wok on different skills such as, matching, putting together a puzzle and following two-step directions.
Cute app
This is a cute app. It is very creative and engaging. My 3 year old loves it.
Colorful and engaging app
In general it is a nice app for the price. I like that it's in a story format. It's brief enough to hold my students attention. It's bright, cheerful and engaging. Any longer and I think that they wouldn't be as motivated to go through the entire sequence. I think that it is a good learning app. It definately focuses on the type of functional vocabulary that is beneficial for my students and would be beneficial for younger children as well.
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Great for sequencing dinnertime tasks, following directions.
I introduced my preschoolers to Bo's Dinnertime this week. My students and I have really been enjoying Bo's Dinnertime! Bo is adorable, and the app is set up to make the child successful- The narrator gives clear verbal instructions on what to do, followed by a visual cue- for example the objects will flash to show what the child should touch. Re: a previous reviewer's comment- I actually like that the child can't start the task until the narrator has finished talking- this way the child has to focus on the verbal instructions; perhaps this is something the dev could address through a settings option though. I like that Bo's Dinnertime breaks down an activity (dinnertime) into a sequence of events, and has the child go through the sequence from start to finish. The kids have discovered the radio in the dinner scenes turns on- it actually plays a Bo song, very sweet! I'd love to see some options for more food, colors of plates, or size of plates to work on more skills. I am also wondering why chicken gets stored in a drawer and not the fridge, but the kids are thoroughly enjoying this app as it is. I look forward to more sequencing apps featuring Bo in the near future!
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cute app to proactice visual discrimination and healthy eating
This is cute app that helps kids practice visual discrimination while working on learning to eat healthy food and learning healthy habits in the kitchen. My 3 and 5 year old boys love playing it. I did need to walk my 3 year old through it the first time, but he quickly caught on.
Fun and engaging - great for language expansion for young children!
A great app for young children but also for somewhat older children who have language delays. It gives the child practice with a lot of basic concepts in a fun and engaging way. The app is easy to figure out and graphics and sounds are pleasant. I would like to see them add a "click' sound or change the image on the button that allows you to save an image to your photo gallery, but that is not a deal breaker on this great app.
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Fun and engaging way to teach kids about dinner time preparation and chores
Great app that will help teach kids about what activities are involved in preparing for dinner and cleaning up after dinner in a fun and engaging way. Kids will not realize that they are learning while playing the game. All the activities are fun and engaging Highly recommended.
Enjoyable App
This app can be played over and over again. My children had a really good time with it and want to go back to it again and again. Their favorite parts are when Bo eats dinner and dessert. Bo is a very memorable character, and the kids recognized him right away. My children and I are already looking forward to the next app.
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Colorful and interactive
This is a really cute and colorful app. My kids (2 and 5) really enjoy playing through it and have played it through multiple times. While its the same story line each time, the recipe does change. It is very interactive and has positive food and clean up associations.
Vocabulary, Sequencing, and Following Directions - all in one!
This is an interactive story that has a great idea portrayed. I do not believe it is suitable for 4+, which was stated in the link to the app store. It might be too easy for typical developing preschool users. Those with special needs, or language delay, would benefit from this app because of it's nature in working on multiple skill areas; however, I think it is geared for younger kids with the simplicity of the graphics and ease of interactive pieces. This app is a fairly accurate portrayal of a dinnertime routine. Items are labeled for vocabulary growth, following direction skills are tapped into, and fine motor movement is necessary.
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Perfect for little ones and preschoolers!
This is a great app for little ones and preschoolers to learn a dinner time sequence or routine. It takes the child through shopping, putting groceries away, cooking, setting the table, serving the meal, eating, dessert, and cleaning the table/dishes! Each step includes mini-tasks for the child to complete that encourages vocabulary building and listening skills. There is a bonus game where you get to feed little characters and munch the food with your fingers! Very cute!
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Good app
My preschool and kindergarten children liked this app. The different activities were engaging and fun. The only draw back is that you have to wait for the narrator to stop speaking before you can complete the task - sometimes this is hard for impulsive children. It was worth the purchase price! My students ask to play it again and again!
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Great introduction to the process of mealtime!
Bo's Dinnertime is a great app for young children and introducing them to the full process of mealtime - preparing, eating, and cleaning up after a meal. Many healthy foods are included, as well as a variety of treats. There is a mini-game where you select different foods and "eat" them by tapping on them. This is a good first step for kids with an aversion to certain foods. The music and artwork are bright and appealing to young kids! Fun!
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very cute well made app :)
This app is very cute and well made. My children really seemed to enjoy the app and found it fun to go shopping and cook with the giraffe. The sound is very well done and easy to understand. I really like the giraffe character and so do my children. This is a fun, easy to use, and educational app. I would highly highly highly recommend this app to others :)
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HELPFUL for STEP BY STEP Directions
This app helps with Step by Step Routine, Counting, Matching and Recognition of items. It works all Fine motor skills. I found it very easy to navigate and the Voice was clear and fun. Added bonus was the burping ( something all children find funny even adults). I love the idea behind this app. When a child is involved in a process, they see for themselves and want to then try it. Feeding has become a huge issue for children today and Bo’s Dinnertime helps to explain the process in a way a child gets. Hidden sounds are there, very fun when the kids find them.
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Making a sequencing game from preparing and eating dinner
This app works on basic concepts for younger children in a dinnertime setting. A toddler may struggle to complete the tasks without adult assistance, particularly the puzzle type activities that require exact matching instead of close or "magnetized" proximity to the desired space. It would be fun to have an option to allows the child to pick what food to buy from the grocery store. Overall has a good concepts, fun music, and is brightly colored.
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Great for Learning to Sequence Through a Meal
Bo's Dinnertime follows a giraffe named Bo step by step through dinnertime. This involves not only purchasing ingredients, preparing a meal, serving a meal, and cleaning up after dinner. The application is great for children to learn the steps to prepare a meal. The narration, animation, and flashing of the icons are also great for children with special needs to learn how to sequence through mealtime and learn how to follow directions. The app would be perfect with a little more interactivity in the fact that all of the icons available for dinner should be movable and the application should allow for children to make mistakes. That way, they can learn to go back and fix the directions they did not follow correctly. In addition, some of the flashing is distracting, but it is also important because it helps cue children as to what to do next.
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