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My Firefighter – An iPhone action packed playground!

Nov 5

Posted by Ted Moroz in Educational Games, What's New, iTunes App Store | Comments off

My Firefighter – Now Available on iTunes!

Joining our line of educational apps is My Firefighter. This action packed interactive playground lets you be the firefighter and is our first work with Illustrator Robert Salanitro.

You can explore the fire engine as it heads to the fire and see if you can make the ladder go up, the wheels turn and many other hidden surprises. Touch the siren and hear it roar. Push the horn and listen as it blasts out its warning.

Then you can try to put out the house fire by positioning the Firefighter’s hose up or down and spraying water. But wait, it starts back up again keeping the action going.

Be sure to check out the bucket truck and use the controls to guide the Firefighter up towards the roof. Then position the hose to spray water on the roof fire and side windows.

As an added bonus your child can read along with the words that are displayed as each item is reveled, with settings to display in English, French, German and Spanish.

Download your copy today!

Download from iTunes.

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Adding to the collection of vocabulary building apps

Oct 15

Posted by Ted Moroz in Educational Games, What's New, iTunes App Store | Comments off

Today we uploaded our latest vocabulary building app to Apple for approval to be entered into the iTunes App store. If all goes as planned, the app should be available in about 10 to 15 days, sometime after October 25 th. We started off with a first grade edition, but plan to quickly add preschool, kindergarten, second and third grade editions.

Meghan’s Spelling Quiz is an interactive app that helps your child learn to spell basic grade level specific words. The quiz utilizes the same word lists as Meghan’s Word Flash and Matching Games providing continuity in developing your child’s vocabulary.

There are two types of quizzes available; Random and Alphabetical and the quiz length is configurable from 10 to 50 words. At the end of the quiz, the percent number correct is displayed, along with the option to retry the same quiz or to start a new one.

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Latest Apps hit the iTunes Store

Sep 22

Posted by Ted Moroz in Educational Games, What's New, iTunes App Store | Comments off

Meghan's WordFlashMeghan's WordFlash

Introducing Meghan’s WordFlash!

Meghan’s WordFlash is designed to build your child’s vocabulary utilizing sight, sound and repetition.  Each version of the game contains age appropriate words along with grade level specific sight words. As an added feature, the app uses the same word lists as Meghan’s Matching Games giving you another option for developing your child’s vocabulary.

Features:

- Develops reading and word recognition
- Contains all grade level sight words
- Real Voice Spoken words – with replay button
- Automatically advances through the word list
- Track number of words viewed in session
- Tracks overall number of words viewed

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Sight Words are in Meghan’s Memory Games

Jul 23

Posted by Ted Moroz in Educational Games, Meghan's Matching Games | Comments off

Meghan's Memory GameSight words (also known as Dolch words) do not follow the basic phonics so they cannot be “sounded out” as they are read. They need to be learned by sight! That’s where Meghan’s Memory games come in. Each grade/age specific game contains the sight words for that group. Meghan’s Memory Games will help your child to recognize and identify sight words by utilizing them as the game pieces that are matched together in a memory game. So, not only is your child’s concentration and attention skills being developed, but they are learning sight words at the same time.

To learn more about Meghan’s Memory Game view the product page.

To view a complete list of the words used in Meghans Memory Games view the word lists.

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Updated Meghan’s Memory Games now available

Jun 26

Posted by Ted Moroz in Educational Games, Meghan's Matching Games | 1 Comment

Meghan's Memory Game Preschool

Meghan's Memory Game Kindergarten

Meghan's Memory Game First Grade

RatCat Software is excited to announce that the latest version of Meghan’s Memory Games for the iPhone and iPod touch is available in the iTunes Apps store. This version currently available in Preschool, Kindergarten and First Grade edtions is certified for use with iPhone OS 3 and backwards compatible with OS 2. In this version we added an optional timed display of words prior to the start of the game. This new feature, as covered in a previous blog post, provides your child an opportunity to memorize locations prior to match play. The goal is to enhance memory, increase awareness and concentration skills.

Interesting observations for iPhone developers: these apps were uploaded on June 10th and took fifteen days for approval. Prior updates had only taken six days.  It would appear that apple is doing some new OS 3 compatibility checks or that there is some lag time with a rush of new apps that had been waiting for the new OS to be released.  Something else to note is that iTunes now indicates (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested) alongside of the version listing . I wonder if that indication will have a negative affect on two other editions of Meghan’s Memory Game (2nd and 3rd grade) which have been in-house tested for OS 3 compatibility but have not been released since the OS 3 hit the store.

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