Hungry Cloud by Reading.com vs Morse Code Toolkit

Hungry Cloud is a fun game designed for toddlers and preschool kids to gain mastery with letter sounds—based on research and designed by parents! Looking for a delightful, free, and simple education app to help your little one learn the basics of letter sounds and expand their vocabulary? Meet Hungry Cloud. Hungry Cloud is a free alphabet game that makes learning fun! Teach your child how to associate letters with their sounds as you play with them and feed them to the hungry cloud. Your children will be delighted as letters transform into objects they know and stickers they can collect! As they pass levels, they will learn to recognize letter shapes, which sounds they represent, and what words begin with those letters and letter sounds as they move through an educational, interactive playground adventure. Simple, fun, and effective app for pre-readers and preschoolers Recognize ABC letter shapes Learn the difference between upper and lowercase letters Read letters and reinforce letter sounds with interactive characters Just like Reading.com, Hungry Cloud is more than just a kid-friendly education tool. Children of any age can enjoy distraction-free, expertly-designed play to support real learning. Key Features: Hungry Cloud is part of the first digital platform backed by decades of science to help you teach your child to read. Perfect for preschoolers to play as they learn letter sounds on their journey to reading confidence. Here’s why Hungry Cloud is great for your preschooler: - An exciting early education app that helps your toddler learn the alphabet - Great repetition of uppercase and lowercase letters to play with, listen to, and transform - Develops phonemic awareness skills - Expands vocabulary by introducing a variety of word objects associated with each letter sound - Collect stickers as your preschooler associates letters with familiar objects - Be amazed and proud when they start to pronounce letters and words as they move through the game Special Note to Parents: We know how important it is to start your child off on the path to reading success because we’re parents, too. This app is only a very small sample of an entire digital platform designed to make it as easy as possible to prepare your child with this vital life skill—reading! Download our full program, Reading.com, to access lessons, books, videos, and more games like Hungry Cloud. 4.8/5 Rating in the App Store About Us Reading.com is another great product from Teaching.com. Our mission is to create delightful learning experiences that make it easy and fun for parents to be the most important part of their child’s education. We strive to make tools using the latest technologies that motivate and inspire children to learn, play, and progress. Contact us: support@reading.com

Learning to use the Morse Code is an fun way to send secret messages to your friends. It is also a way for teachers to introduce the history of how electricity was first used to send messages. Learning about the Morse Code is important because it encourages them to experiment and gives them confidence to be creative. It also provides a historical perspective on a communication that was an important that helped in the expansion and settlement of the western parts of the United States. The Morse Code Toolkit is an interactive learning tool for introducing the signalling system used in the middle part of the 19th century. Invented by Samuel Morse, the coding system is made up of sequences of dots and dashes. It is still used today by ham radio operators and others. When using the app In the exploration mode users can press any key and see the how to represent the associated letter in dots and dashes. Using the keyboard students can see how to spell a word using Morse Code. Switch to the number mode to learn how to represent numbers from zero to ten. Press any key in this mode and see how to represent the number using a series of dots and dashes. Students who are learning Morse Code will find the quiz feature helpful. After pressing the question mark to start the quiz a word is randomly selected from the word list. The way to spell the word using Morse Code is shown. The object is for the student to recognize the dots and dashes for the letters in the word and to type them on the keyboard. Speech effects are provided so that when a letter is pressed on the keyboard it is pronounced aloud and also played as an audible series of dots and dashes. This feature can optionally be turned on or off.