![]() Appropriately called Khan Academy Kids, the free mobile app contains thousands of activities for kids aged 2-5, including content from Super Simple Songs, Bellwether Media, and National Geographic Young Explorer magazine. ![]() The original Khan Academy app can be used by both kids and adults, but as Cool Mom Tech reported, a new Khan Academy app was designed especially for young children. Videos in the Library area include Super Simple Songs (with such faves as Old MacDonald, If You’re Happy and Apples and Bananas) Counting, Shapes, and Measurement Reading and Language and Letters.Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization with the goal of providing a “free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.” The organization’s Khan Academy app contains over 10,000 videos and 150,000 interactive exercises designed to help users learn about math, science, economics, and other topics. Mathematical concepts introduced include counting, comparing numbers and shapes and measurement. Among the logic activities are Focus, Memory and Flexible Thinking, Patterns and Shapes. Children may choose to have the app read them books or to read selected books independently. The Nonfiction section includes animals and vehicles and leveled readers and there are also Young Explorer titles from National Geographic. Additional titles introduce concepts in writing and language. Individual books introduce letters and their sounds. The Library is packed with content, offering books focused on Reading Foundational Skills–including rhyming, syllables, sounds, word families, book structure, and words in signs. And as they interact, children collect bugs, hats, and toys for their new animal buddies. Available free in the App Store, and in beta for Google Play and the Amazon Appstore, Kahn Academy Kids, offers thousands of opportunities for learning as animated animals guide children to original, leveled and adaptive activities, books, video, and lessons.
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