Little Reader Touch on the Ipad is excellent. We use it all the time. You can still use the whole curriculum.
The only thing one doesn't have is the games and your own lessons.
It is a fantastic app and I would recommend that anyone who has Little Reader to get it on the Ipad too.

@Kerileanne99
Wow, the changing mat is a clever idea. Did you mount them on anything or just put the two together?  Sounds like a simple, quick idea.
I think I'm going to go buy a second changing mat :-)
I'm also interested to see a photo of your alphabet climbing wall!

They look great. Are they available in UK English too? I added them to the cart but couldn't see if there was a UK option though?

Thanks very much.

Hello there

How old is your little one?  I think their age, time of day and number of distractions around affects their level of concentration.
My little girl is almost 5 months old and we have completed 25 lessons over the last month and a half.  In the beginning, I would also whiz through the multi-sensory part because she got distracted.  The word and picture flash seemed to work best.  With regards to the initial curriculum, she didn't seem too interested in the colours.  She preferred animals, body parts etc.

Now, the last 3 weeks or so, she is MUCH better with the multi-sensory part.  I can show her her body parts, make sounds etc and she concentrates and participates nicely.  The only thing now that she is becoming busier, she is very eager to press the keyboard and mouse.  I use my laptop so can't really choose one to lock because she can touch both. 

I think older kids enjoy the multi-sensory part more because it is more interactive.

Good luck and have fun :-)

I think it looks cool :-) Would also like to hear if someone else has used one. Looks like fun for parents too :-)

That is a seriously old video though :-) Quite entertaining!

Hello Oana


Welcome to the forum.  My little girl is a little bit older than your

little one.  She is 4.5 months now and we have been using Little Reader for

about a month now.  We haven't been able to do lessons every day though but

do whenever we can.

It will still be a while before we see any results but in the mean time, we

will just keep having fun.  My little one focuses on the screen and seems

captured for the most of the lesson which is great.


Good luck and most importantly have fun learning with your little one!****

Hello Tanikit

Thinking of you with this difficult decision that you need to make.  If there was no financial issue (You didn't have to work or private schools were reasonably priced), what choice would you make?

What school have you applied for?  With regards to the assessment, perhaps they were just doing minimum assessments that they do for most kids as opposed to assessing how much she knows?

If you do choose to home school for primary school, I suspect that high schools here might change their attitude towards kids that were home schooled just because it is becoming a lot more common that it has been in the years gone by?

What time would you get home if you have to work full day?  Personally for me, I would feel quite a lot of pressure on me if I was working half day and then still have the responsibility to home school when back from work.  I have a lot of admiration for all home schooling parents who are very disciplined to educate different aged children as well as run a household.

If she does go to school, you could still do advanced learning with her when she is home.  I hope that the school she might go to takes her knowledge level into consideration. (Teachers giving her extra or other stimulating tasks) I was able to read before school, so my Grade 1 teacher sent me to the Std 1 teacher to get books to read.  I do know that "they" don't encourage learning to read before school here but I purely think it is for ease for the teacher.  There is no chance of that happening with my little one because she is only 4.5 months and we are already doing Little Reader ;-)

Sorry I don't have any good advice, only a lot of questions.

Hello Krista G

Thanks very much.  I have just read your review.

How many languages are you teaching your children and how are you going about it?  What aids are you using?

Hello there

My situation is similar to veronikasjinkkarenko's.  I speak English to my daughter and my husband speaks Afrikaans to her.  She is 4 months old now, so I am only doing Little Reader in English at the moment.  I will introduce it to her in Afrikaans in the next few months.  Otherwise, my husband may do a few lessons with her in Afrikaans over the weekends.  I haven't had time to translate the whole curriculum, so will most likely use downloaded lessons in Afrikaans for now.  I only speak English to my daughter and my husband probably speaks Afrikaans to her 95% of the time.  Sometimes he may say a few words in English because we speak English to each other.

@veronikasjinkkarenko's.  Seeing as though you mentioned "Please", I thought you may enjoy my friend's little daughter's language use.  "Please" in Afrikaans is similar to Dutch (Asseblief).  Her Mom speaks Afrikaans to her and her Dad English and she thinks it is "AssePLEASE" :-) So cute.

@mom2bee How many languages do you speak and how many would you like to teach your children?

Hello there.

My baby was born in October 2011 & is 4 months old now. We have started with LR & LM but aren't able to do it every day.

I have heard that if you expose your baby to other languages when they are very young, it is easier to learn the language later on in life if they would like to. They should have better pronunciation. The vocabulary is not necessarily important, it is more the sound. If they can learn vocabulary too, it is great but one needs practice to remember. That is where exposure to human interaction would be great.

Enjoy your time with your little one.

Have you tried the books from Little Reader Deluxe? They are great. They have a flap which covers the pictures too.

Thanks for the link to Wishlist. That looks great! I've just joined :-)

Pinterest is fantastic but be warned, it can take up your time! The home ideas are great. It is amazing to see the clever things that some people come up with. I also love the photography and quotes.

Enjoy it!

Thanks for the link.  It looks great.  Do you know if it is Traditional or Simplified Chinese?

Greetings everyone

This is an interesting thread.  I also used similar methods to others when studying at school.  If I couldn't remember something straight away, I would think about where it was in my file and "re-read" the paragraph.  I could often remember the section where the information was and then had to jog my mind to get the exact information out.

Funnily though even though I have better visual memory, Mind maps didn't work for me.  It's also interesting that I have a great "photographic memory" when it comes to reading and studying but something like remembering a movie is not something that I do.  (Perhaps this comes down to interest because I'm more a reader than a TV fan).

I'm keen to follow the feedback on this thread so that I can hopefully "teach" my daughter to learn in a similar way.  Unfortunately I have no idea how I learnt to learn like that.  I also "visualise" numbers when remembering a phone number or something.

Hello MamaOfWill

Wow, I'm impressed at how much work you have managed to do with the Zulu lessons. Well done and thank you.  I'll download a few and have a look at them.  Does your helper speak to your little boy in Zulu all the time?
I try to get our helper to speak Zulu to my little one but she only works two days a week and unfortunately isn't able to read.  So, the help that you are getting is great.

How does your day work?  How many lessons are you covering a day?  I haven't managed to do LR every day unfortunately.

I'm still keen to try introduce my little one to Mandarin because it is so difficult to learn later in life.  Are you considering Chinese too now?