Superhero Sheep
PlaySquare, LLC
Billing itself as "touchable television", this innovative new app mixes interactive play with TV-quality video, from the PBS show Word World. The result is a solid language experience, with a chance to play with letters and words to apply some of the concepts. This is the fourth "appisode" we've reviewed and all are good quality. This can be a noisy app (like TV), perhaps making it better suited for home rather than classroom use. In this interactive appisode of PBS Kids’ WordWorld, Superhero Sheep, Sheep saves WordWorld with the letter S. The app features eight interactive scenes that let your child become part of the story by completing activities that help propel the video narrative along. Activities include: flying Duck to the rescue with his Superduper Slingshot; dressing Sheep in her superhero costume; driving a submarine to collect the letters in Frog’s lost K-E-Y; building a S-L-I-D-E to rescue Sheep from the top of a tall building; finding missing S’s so Ant can plant his S-E-E-D-S in the garden; and building a P-O-T for Duck’s sidekick costume.
$2.99, iPad
Teaches: Letter recognition, letter sounds, vocabulary, word recognition
CTR Rating: 90%