watch your kids advance with evance games :: review

When we started our home-education journey, I had no idea just how many apps I would end up buying. Children learn in so many different ways and though we are fairly strict about screen time, I’m a sucker for a good, fun educational app. If they’re laughing and learning, I’m a happy girl! I was recently introduced to Evanced Games, which has been a great addition to our learning tools. Today I’m going to tell you about 3 different apps. The first two are targeted at children ages 4-8 and really work with letters and sounds and blends. The last one can be customized so that a variety of players can play, but you must at least know how to add.

Froggy Phonics is a game for younger children who are learning letters and sounds and basic spelling. At the bottom of the screen, the player will see a letter or a letter blend. They will then have to hop from lily pad to lily pad to find a word that begins with that same letter/letter blend. When they get it correct, the froggy gets a firefly and stores it in the points jar. There are several levels of this game which kept my kids hopping around for quite away. Froggy Phonics is based on an award-winning board game by Edupress.

Tic Tac Bananas is another letter/word game for early readers. You can play a practice round in which you’ll see the silly monkey doing or wearing something and the partial descriptive word below. The player has to choose which letter or letters go in front of the word. When you play the 2 Player way, each Player gets to choose a spot on the Tic-Tac-Toe board and if they answer correctly their symbol shows up. Player One is a banana peel X and Player Two is a coconut O. To win this game you’ll have to know how to play Tic-Tac-Toe and know about letters and their sounds. My little guy and I had quite a few laughs at what that silly monkey was doing in some of his pictures.

Champs of Numeria is a math game for up to four players – real people or computerized! The connect-four style game requires you to answer a mathematical question correctly in order to claim your spot. You will, obviously, be trying to get four of your marks in a row. (Click the image below for details on how to play).
When you set up your character, you can choose to play with count dots (for the youngest players), addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, or a combination of the four. When you set up the computerized characters you still get to choose what types of math they’ll be doing but you also get to set what type of player they will be.
I love that this game can be played independently but also as a group. When you play as a group, you can easily adjust the level of difficulty so that the players are all on a level playing field. 5 year old can understand the counting dots. My 7 year old does really well with addition and subtraction but hasn’t fully mastered quick division. My 9 year old is fairly fluent in quick multiplication and division. And for adults you can even change the difficulty level after you’ve chosen to do all four types of math.

Froggy Phonics :: $4.99
Tic Tac Bananas :: $1.99
Champs of Numeria :: $0.99

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