Starfall Education Foundation ~ Review

My youngest daughter has been having a more difficult time with learning to read than my three older children. We go through a phonics program every day and she has been catching on, but I felt she needed something more that could help her learn to read. I also look for educational programs and apps that have more to offer than just one subject. I love when I find out about fun products that will allow her to have fun while learning. Over the past several weeks, my six year old daughter has been using The Starfall Home Membership that is offered by the Starfall Education Foundation.

The Home Membership is a single account that uses the same email address and password for multiple computers and apps for your immediate family. Starfall is available to use on a computer or it is available to download onto a tablet through an app. Starfall covers many different subject areas that help children learn. Kids can learn math, music, calendar, and reading. There are also activities to go with the different holidays and seasons. Most of the activities children can play are on a first and second grade level.
The activities are fun and children are also learning at the same time. There are also several activities that can be spread out over several days so if you only want your child to play for a certain amount of time, you can have them go through one or two activities a day.

Math ~ Children can learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and even listen to math and number songs. They can also learn about shapes, patterns, and weights.
Phonics/Reading ~ Children can learn short vowel sounds, alphabet sounds, put the vowel into words, and have stories read to them or read the stories themselves.

The parent-teacher center part of Starfall has different supplemental resources that you are able to use to help your child learn. There are different pages that you are able to print off and there is also a worksheet generator. There are many printable downloads available ranging in topics from handwriting to short vowels to grammar and journal writing. There are also math printable downloads available that help children learn greater than and less than and money.

Since my daughter was more familiar with using a tablet than the computer, I downloaded the app onto her Kindle Fire for her to use the program that way. She played through many of the games every day. I did not realize that the app was a little different from the computer until I was looking at Starfall on the computer and my daughter mentioned she didn’t have some of the games/ activities. There were only a few games on the computer version that were not on the app.

My daughter did mention that some of the activities were boring to her, but I think it is because she already knew the material. Overall, she has enjoyed playing on the app and going through the different areas and learning some new things.  There is a lot of reading and phonics activities and that is where I felt my daughter needed the most help, so I had her spend most f time on the phonics and reading. She has been doing a lot better with her reading and has become more confident with her reading.

We give The Starfall Home Membership 4 stars!