Fish School – 123 ABC for Kids

My 2 year old son really enjoys this app. It doesn’t keep his attention quite as long as some others but my favorite part is he’s begun to sing along with the ABC song! It’s a sweet, easy, app that I don’t have to worry about where he’ll click or tap. Good for toddlers.

My 20 month old will play with this app for an hour. She'll wake up and ask "fish? fish? fish?". The app has a few different games which vary from really simple (the alphabet song which plays without any interaction) to games for older kids (memory type matching game). I don't know if my baby is learning anything , but she definitely has fun. The music is relaxing and I don't mind hearing it in the background. My only complaint is the way the letters are formed by the fish gathering together so sometimes the shape of the letter isn't totally clear. Overall, very fun for toddlers!

Very nice app - my two-year old gets absolutely glued to the screen and I appreciate that the counting goes above 10. Would love go be able to set it to go higher than 20 as well. It has a decent variation of learning modes - it's a little odd that there's no main menu, but it's easy enough to cycle through the modes via a button in the bottom left that it's totally fine. (Though, moving that button to the upper right of the screen instead of lower left would help a lot - my son accidentally switches out of activities all the time because that button sits right where a lot of his tapping happens.) My biggest concern with the app is that the child voiceover track inadvertently teaches improper pronunciation - of course it's totally cute, but the lisps and w's instead of r's is a big oversight when this is meant to be a learning tool. Fix that and I'll definitely change the rating. I'll also use it a lot more. I would also prefer the letters not be formed by lined-up fish - they're hard to read (the "W" for example, that just looks like a group of fish) and instant recognizability is what kids learning the alphabet need.

I LOVE the apps I've downloaded from Duck,Duck,Moose they are high quality, beautiful apps, easy to use for my preschooler and beautiful color and music. In my opinion this app is not as good as the others. Most of the apps have menus so that you can easily navigate through the activities and levels of difficulty. This app has neither of those features. no menu means you have to scroll through the games. No levels of difficulty means that unlike the other apps from this developer it does not grow with your child. I didn't care for the letters formed by swimming fish and kids can click through to the next letter way too quickly.

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I would not recommend this app for the classroom. This app doesn’t allow the students to move the fish or trace the numbers, letters or shapes that are shown. If this app is changed so it allows students to trace the letters, numbers and shapes it would be more helpful. With that being said, I think there should be a menu to let the student or teacher choose what activity the student should be working on. Also, this app would be much better if the teacher was able to monitor the students progress. I also didn’t like how this app didn’t allow students to write the numbers, letters or shapes. It lacked interaction. I think these are all good and beneficial concepts for a student to know, however it would be a more affective app if it was more interactive.