Growing Learners · Ages 6–8

BugsCamp

Ages 5–8 · Gr K–3 Level 1

Look slow, spot bugs, sort leaves, and watch the weather with Beetle — a gentle nature camp for the youngest explorers.

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Coding & Computational Thinking

FeelingFriends

Ages 5–8 · Gr K–3 Level 1

Name feelings, read faces, sense how a friend feels, and choose a kind thing to do — the reading-free foundations of emotional literacy with Momo and friends, made for the youngest learners.

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PathPals

Ages 5–8 · Gr K–3 Level 1

Choose the moves that guide a friend along the path to the goal — early sequencing, directions, loops, and debugging (pre-reader computational thinking) with Roami and friends, made for the youngest learners.

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ShapePals

Ages 5–8 · Gr K–3 Level 1

Spot shapes, match colors, finish patterns, and turn pieces to fit — early geometry & spatial reasoning with Poly and friends, made for the youngest learners.

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TaleTrail

Ages 5–8 · Gr K–3 Level 1

Make your own picture-book with Page — put a story in order, build a friend, and tell your tale out loud.

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AgoPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Long ago, people wrote on clay tablets and rode horses. A while ago, your grandparents wrote letters. Now, you video-call a cousin. AgoPals is a first, gentle idea of history: everyday things change over time, and events have an order. Sort them long ago / a while ago / now — then build the timeline. A tiny, deterministic history game, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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BeePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A friendly spelling bee for ages 6–8: hear a word, see its picture, and spell it by tapping the letters in order. Three helper buttons let you hear it again, hear what it means, or hear it in a sentence — the way a real spelling bee works. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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CalmCubs

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 1

When a feeling gets big, here’s what you can do — gentle calm-down tools (breathe, squeeze, pause) with Cozy the bear cub and friends, for grades 1–2.

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Music & Performing Arts · Singing

ChainPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Change one sound to make a new word — sounding-out practice for ages 6–8. Turn cat into cot into cog into dog, one little sound at a time, while Snuffle the mole tunnels along your word chain. Every word is one you can sound out. No memorising, no score, no rush. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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ChorusPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Sing along with the chorus — every song is sung in YOUR key, so you can always reach the notes. Read the words as you go, and pass the mic to a grown-up or a friend: the same song moves into their voice too. A buddy voice sings with you and gently fades as you get steady.

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Music · Rhythm

ClapPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Ta is one clap. Ti-ti is two quick claps — but still one beat. Shh is a rest, a beat of silence. ClapPals is first music-reading the Kodály way: read the rhythm before the pitch. Guess how many beats and claps, then build your own bar and clap it out loud. It all works with the sound off. A tiny, deterministic rhythm game, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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Science · Physics (bumping carts & momentum)

CluePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A clue game for ages 6–8: three picture clues point to one mystery word. Hear the clues, look at the pictures, and tap the word they all point to — figuring out a word from what it means. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Puzzles & Review Games

CornersForge

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A device-free review game: the grown-up reads a question, the four answers live at the four corners of the room, and everyone answers with their feet. Reveal the corner, earn a class brick — no timer, no scores, just playing together.

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CrashPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A crash lab for ages 6–8: two carts roll toward each other and clink together. Guess which way they roll after they bump — left, stop, or right — then watch! Chug the marmot shows the big idea: the cart with more oomph (how big × how fast) decides which way. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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CratePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A crate lab for ages 6–8: open a crate whose chances are printed right on the lid, watch your pile grow toward those odds, and see how rarely the rare prize really comes. Then make your own crate and guess the odds. Opens are free forever — nothing to buy, nothing runs out. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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DeckPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A build-your-own-bag game for ages 6–8: your jar of tokens is see-through, so you always know what’s inside. Draw a handful, then make the jar better — buy a shiny token (you’ll draw it later!) or send a pebble back to the river. Watch the odds change as you build. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Visual Arts · Drawing from shapes (draw-along)

DecodePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Learn, blend, read, and TEACH — sounding-out practice for ages 6–8. Meet a few sounds, blend a word, read a little sentence made only of sounds you know, then teach a reading pup how one word works. Teaching it is how you remember it. No memorising, no score, no rush. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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DoodlePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Draw-along for ages 6–8: every picture is a few shapes wearing a costume. Ovo, Zig and Boxy show a cat, a house or an owl one shape at a time, and Scribble draws the guide wobbly first, so your wobbly lines are just right. Nothing to score. On-device.

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English & Language Arts / decoding × spatial reasoning

FlipPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

The first word game where your friend can flip a letter back! Tap a cell to claim it — and if you flank a real word (your ends, their middle), the middle flips to you and the picture pops up: CAT! The vowel sits in the middle of every word, so it is the risky one to leave open. Read, flip, and make the most words. On-device, no accounts, no ads.

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Logic

FoxPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Trap the fox! You are the geese — move together and box the fox in so it cannot move. A gentle thinking game of the hunt for the youngest players, with read-it-to-me help. On-device.

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GalleryPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Make your own museum, ages 6–8: pick things that matter to you, write a label for each (what it is, where it came from, why it matters), arrange your shelf, and give a tour to a visitor who asks great questions. On-device.

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Social & Emotional Learning · study skills — a little book you keep in your own words (hear an idea + where it comes from, say it your way, and it comes back)

GardenPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A build-a-garden game for ages 6–8: Sorrel plants a garden and waters it for blooms — the more she grows, and the more Suns she plants, the more each watering gives. Draw three plants, pick one to grow, then watch where every bloom comes from. No losing. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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GemPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A little book of ideas you keep in your own words. Hear or read a short idea and where it comes from, then — to keep it — say it your own way (you cannot keep an idea just by tapping). Your ideas live on this device and come back another day so you remember them. No feed to scroll forever, no streak, no real brands, no account. Ages 6–8, made to hear out loud.

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Social Studies · Geography — the globe, distance and direction

GlobePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A globe you can spin. Which is farther from home — Paris or Tokyo? Guess first, then the globe draws the path and tells you about how far. Every city you visit gets a stamp in your printable passport. A grown-up picks “home” from a list — no location is ever used. Ages 6–8.

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HeartPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Meet the tricky little words, for ages 6–8. Most tricky words — said, to, he — have one part that makes a surprise sound (a few have two); the rest you can sound out. HeartPals shows you the word, lets you hear it, and asks you to mark the surprise part — then tells you the friendly reason why. No memorising whole shapes, no score, no rush. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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English & Language Arts · a first keep-a-note notebook (early writing, speak-to-write, read-back)

InkPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Good handwriting is mostly two habits: start in the right place, and go the right way. InkPals teaches letters one stroke at a time — a green dot shows where to start, an arrow shows which way to go, and you trace the dotted line with a finger, a stylus, or a mouse. Each stroke is checked for its start and direction, never for neatness, and if dragging is hard you can tap numbered dots instead. Nothing is saved as a picture. On-device, no account. Ages 6–8.

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Math · Estimation

JarPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

How many beans in the jar? Guess first — a good guess isn’t luck, it uses a benchmark (about ten fit in a scoop, the jar looks like about four scoops, so… about forty). Then COUNT to check: line the beans up in tens (four tens and two more is forty-two) and see how close your guess was on a number line. A tiny, gentle estimation game, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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JotPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A little notebook for ages 6–8: write a short note — or tap 🎤 to say it — then keep it on your shelf and read it back. No score, no streak. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Kitchen Science & Experiments

KitchenLab

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Real science at your kitchen table, for ages 6–8. Guess what will happen, then TRY it for real with things you already have — fizzy volcanoes, dancing raisins, colors that spread. Cricket the curious cousin never tells you the answer; she just asks great questions. Print a lab card, draw what you saw, and find out WHY. No score, no rush. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Social & Emotional Learning · a first plan-and-check-off list (study skills, get-ready-for-the-day habits)

ListPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A tiny to-do list for ages 6–8: tap a picture to add it, check it off, and tap 🔊 to hear it read out loud. No score, no streak — the list just holds what to do. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Reading & Math Readiness — comfortable start & how-school-teaches-it

MapPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Find a comfy place to start — a few quick games with Cardi the cardinal, no test and no score, that end with a friendly "here’s where we start" kit. Then, for grown-ups: how school teaches reading and math NOW (blending, number bonds, magic-e) so you can help without saying "that’s not how I learned it." On-device: no accounts, no grades, nothing sent.

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Visual Arts & Design · looking closely and marking what you notice in a picture (visual literacy, observation)

MarkPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Look closely, for ages 6–8: pick a picture, then tap squares to mark what you notice — circle it, point at it, star it, or wonder about it — and keep it on your shelf. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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MaskPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Faces can fib! Meet Dapple the chameleon and learn that a smile is not always a happy feeling. Read the real clues — what a friend’s body did, what they said, and what just happened — then guess the true feeling and check by asking. For ages 6–8: big buttons, read-aloud help, nothing to lose, and nothing is ever saved.

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MoonPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A real-clock night-sky journal for ages 6–8. MoonPals works out tonight's Moon phase right on this device (from the date only — no location, no accounts), you PREDICT what Luna will look like tomorrow, then check by looking up at the real sky. A month grid fills in as you watch, and Sol and Pip the owl explain why the Moon changes shape. Grade-1 patterns in the sky (NGSS 1-ESS1).

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Computer Science

MotionPals

Age 6 · Gr 1 Level 1

A ScratchJr-style block-animation studio for ages 6–8: snap Move, Look, Say and Repeat blocks onto Zip the robot to make it walk, spin, grow and speak — then press Run and watch your program go. Copy your dance as a little cartridge code to share with a friend, or paste theirs to remix it. No accounts, no server, nothing to buy; everything stays on your device.

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Social & Emotional Learning · Making Up

NudgePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Feelings can move! When a feeling is stormy or heavy, meet Dart the dragonfly and try a nudge — breathe, get a grown-up, change what you look at, or just wait — and watch which way your sky moves. Never “get back to happy”; a calmer sky is a real win, and the feeling can still be there. For ages 6–8: big buttons, read-aloud help, and nothing is ever saved.

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OopsPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Everyone slips up — the skill is putting it right. When you bump a friend’s tower or say an unkind word, a repair is three small steps: NOTICE what happened, SAY a real sorry (one that names it, not a mumbled “sorry”), and MEND the hurt — and the mend has to fix THIS hurt (a snack won’t rebuild a tower). Pick the mend that puts it right, then walk the three steps yourself. A tiny, gentle making-up game, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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Mathematics — Measurement, Counting & Maps

PacePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Walk your town at child height. Pick a neighbour and a place, and the app counts the steps in tens, out loud, as they walk the shortest way. A bench waits every ten steps. Then move the bakery, add a footbridge or paint a crossing, and walk it again. No score, no timer; your street is kept on this device.

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PactPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Make a family feelings pact together! Meet Ribbon and the pact-friends, choose your promises — we ask before we guess, every feeling is okay, we breathe when it’s big — then print it out and sign it by hand. The signed paper is the only record; nothing is ever saved on the device. For ages 6–8 and grown-ups, together.

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Logic / Chess for little ones

PassportPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A visit passport for ages 6–8: earn a stamp for every quest you DO — find something older than the oldest person you know, ask a staff member a question, find the quietest room. Works at any museum, zoo, park, or right at home. On-device.

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PawnPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Learn how the six chess friends move — Poppy the pawn, Rooky the tower, the bishop twins Bo & Bay, Hoppy the hopping pony, Queen Quill, and gentle King Cozy. Warm, audio-first movement games on a real board, with a “say it out loud” rhyme for every piece. No reading needed, nothing to get wrong.

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Media Literacy

PitchPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

For ages 6–8: hear a made-up ad and tap which trick it is doing to make you WANT it — "everybody has one", "hurry, only 3 left!", a "free" gift. Two big picture choices, read aloud, no reading needed. Then hear the ad said again in plain, honest words. No real brands, no timer, no score to chase — just you, learning to spot the pitch. On-device; no account.

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Math · Data & Graphs

PollPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Ask the class a question, tap in the answers, and a bar graph draws itself. The tallest bar is the favourite — but before you asked, you didn’t know. That’s the big idea: data is MADE, not given. Read the graph (which won? how many more?), then make your own in the Bar-graph lab. A tiny, deterministic data game, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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Computer Science · Keyboarding

QwertyPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Learn to touch-type the friendly way — QwertyPals starts you on the home row, where 8 little house-characters live on 8 keys (one per finger). Get every letter right first, then a little faster. No ads, no account, no AI — just you and the keyboard, right here in the browser.

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Mathematics · An audio car game — the phone stays face down

ReadPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Sound out first words to a whole page with Blip the frog — blend, digraphs, magic-e, and decodable readers for grade 1–2.

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RoadPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A car game with no screen. Put the phone face down and a warm voice asks one question at a time — "I see eight red cars. If we see two more, how many?" — then waits while the family talks it over. It can't hear you, on purpose. Up to ten minutes, then goodbye. Ages 6–8, with a Wee version for 3–5.

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Computer Science

RobotPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

You are the Coder: give the Robot steps — Forward, turn Left, turn Right — then press Run and watch it walk the grid to the flag. RobotPals teaches the first idea of coding — an exact list of steps, run in order — with big buttons, sounds, and no way to lose (a bump just says "fix your steps and try again"). Play it with a friend: one codes, one is the Robot. On-device, no account. Ages 6–8.

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SensePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Survey a place, ages 6–8: tag each room with how it feels — loud, dark, changing lights, touch things, a quiet break spot — plus your own two icons. Then see your sensory map in your own words. On-device, private.

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ShelfPals

Age 6 · Gr 1 Level 1

A leveled reading library for ages 6–8 — read up from Sprout (sound-it-out) to Grower (little stories) to Reader (bigger stories), with read-to-me and tap-a-word. Earn a Reading Passport stamp for every book you finish AND tell back — never for minutes on a clock. The next shelf opens when you are ready. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Music & Performing Arts · Singing

SkyPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Meet the four sky birds — Kite, Nestle, Gust, and Drizzle — and learn to read feelings the way you read the weather. Whose sky is a friend under? A calm two-way map (never a grid, never a colour), for ages 6–8. Big buttons, read-aloud help, nothing to lose, and nothing is ever saved.

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SolfaPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Sing do-re-mi with Octavia the octopus — sing a solfa step and Octavia floats to your note, then a limb lights up when you hold it. Every little song is sung in YOUR key, and the music staff peels back from dots to real notes as you learn to sing by ear first.

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SoundTales

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Climb the sound ladder — a decodable chapter-book series where every spelling pattern is a character who does its trick in every story (the Twins, the Digraph Duo, Silent Ellie, Bossy R, the Vowel-Team Captain). Read one rung at a time, tap any word to hear it, and teach the pattern to Dodo. Structured-literacy decodable reading for ages 6–8.

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Health & Safety

SplashPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Learn to stay safe near water with Bob the buoy and the SplashPals crew — reach or throw, never go; build the layers of protection; and make your family’s Water Watcher plan. Calm, gentle, made for ages 6–8.

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Study Skills

SprintPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A calm study loop for ages 6–8: choose a few tiny things, do an honest sprint, say each one back in your own words, and see the free time you earned today. Stop whenever you like — you lose nothing. On-device, no scores, no streaks.

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SproutLab

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 1

Guess what happens, then find out — hands-on science with Hatch the chick: light, sound, and melting-and-freezing, for grades 1–2.

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Mathematics · One family question in three registers

SumPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Count on to add all the way to fluent facts with Sumi the squirrel — ten-frames, number bonds, place value, and fact fluency for grade 1–2.

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The Table

Ages 6–10 · Gr 1–5 Level 1

One question for the whole family, in three ways of asking: a child's, a teen's and a grown-up's. Pick a side, say why, and say the last person's reason back before you answer. Print the page or save it as a file. Join from other devices with five spoken words — no accounts, no chat, nothing stored.

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TonguePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Teach Mai your family’s words! TonguePals is for children who hear another language at home. Mai the myna tries to say each family word — and sometimes gets it wrong. Your child is the teacher: spot Mai’s slips, pick the right spelling, then say the word out loud to a grown-up. A grown-up types up to ten family words once (any language); nothing is recorded and nothing leaves your device. Ages 6–8.

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Logic & Puzzles · Cooperative Trick-Taking Strategy (follow the suit, plan who wins, together)

TrekPals

Age 6 · Gr 1 Level 1

A calm number-fact journey for ages 6–8 — the friendly opposite of the battle-and-paywall math apps. Trek's caravan walks one oasis forward each time you know a fact by heart; Dot the fennec SHOWS every new fact as a ten-frame or an array first, so it means something before you memorize it. Adaptive on-device practice that never rushes, never fails you, and never takes a step back — no battles, no timers, no limits. Meet a desert friend at every third oasis.

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TrickPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

A play-together card game for ages 6–8: help Otto the otter deliver the moonlit mail before the Storm rolls in. Lead a card, Pip the owl follows — the higher card of the led suit wins the trick (a night 🌙 card beats any suit). Win the tricks that carry your parcels ⭐ to deliver them. Pip flies at night to fight the Storm but never grabs your parcels — you win together. No chat, no losing to a friend. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Social & Emotional Learning · a first weekly planner (study skills, time awareness, get-ready habits)

VotePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

The class votes on a recess game. Football wins the most votes — but the friends who use wheelchairs can’t play it. The parachute game got the fewest votes, and everyone can join. Which one is the fair rule? Counting hands is easy; the big idea is one step further — a fair rule looks after the kids who’d be left out. A tiny, deterministic voting game, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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WeekPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

See your whole week, for ages 6–8: pick a day, tap a picture to plan it, and tap 🔊 to hear it. No score, no streak — it just shows what is on. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Music · Instruments of the world and how their sounds are made

BandPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

One tune, many instruments. Hear a mystery sound and guess how it is made — hit, pluck, blow, bow or shake — then meet the kora, the erhu, the gamelan, the đàn tranh and more. Play “Frère Jacques” on each one in your own comfortable key. Ages 6–8.

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Mathematics · Bar models for word problems (Singapore model method)

BarPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Draw the story. Cubes fuse into a bar, you draw the bar yourself, and the number sentence builds beside it. Then Muddle the dodo trusts the word “more” and gets it wrong — and you fix it. Part and whole within 20, ages 6–8.

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Math · Probability & Likelihood (push-your-luck)

BasketPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A push-your-luck dice game for ages 6–8: Pika the beaver stacks hay for winter! Roll the two dice and gather hay into your basket — but a 7 tips it over. Bank when you feel lucky enough; the biggest haypile wins. Spilled hay never wastes — it lands in the meadow for the next friend to scoop. Discover, by playing, that 7 comes up most.

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Science · Shapes that do jobs

BothPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

You can feel two things at once! Meet Teasel the jay and learn about mixed feelings — excited AND nervous, happy AND sad (bittersweet), and proud in a tired body. Read a moment, then pick one or two feelings on the map. There’s no single right feeling; both are real, and that’s okay. For ages 6–8: big buttons, read-aloud help, and nothing is ever saved.

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BraidPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Braid three strands of wool into a rope and pull: three together are strong. Then match six everyday shapes to their jobs: rope, tunnel, grabber, stepper, scissors, carrier. Shapes do jobs, inside you too. Ages 6–8.

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Logic · Deduction Puzzles

Bug Hunt

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A garden full of leaves — and some sleeping bugs hiding under them. Each number tells you how many bugs are touching that square. Use the numbers to open every safe leaf without waking a bug. Every garden can be solved by thinking, never guessing, and the Why-Coach shows you the clue when you’re stuck. A daily garden, no internet. Ages 6–8.

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Mathematics · Place value and regrouping, played as a pair

CarryPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Ten is strong. One is small. Neither can cross alone. Two players share one keyboard: Bop is a bouncy bean worth one, Loaf is a soft heavy loaf worth ten. Doors want exact numbers, and at the trade machine ten ones squish into a ten only Loaf can carry. Five rooms, no falls, no timer. Ages 6–8, two players.

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Music & Performing Arts · Writing a tune as holes on a paper strip

CrankPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A paper music box. Punch holes on a strip to write a tune, crank it and hear it play. Copy eight old tunes like Twinkle, Twinkle, or write your own, then print the strip for a real hand-crank music box. Some of the very first computer programs were punched paper too. Ages 6–8.

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Mathematics · geometry: reading diagrams, halves and symmetry

CreasePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Learn to read a folding diagram. A dashed line means fold toward you; dash-dot-dot means fold away. Look at the picture, make one fold, then pick which picture looks like yours. Fold a cup, a puppy, a paper hat and a fortune teller.

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Social & Emotional Learning · feelings and fairness come in sizes — finding the middle

CrossPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A first crossword-tile game for ages 6–8: two picture-words cross, some squares are blank, and you place letter tiles to finish both words. Hear the words, look at the pictures, and build the crossword. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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DialPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

“Nobody EVER lets me go first!” Dinah the dormouse turns ALWAYS and NEVER into sizes — how much, really? Then two people with one swing, one cookie or one TV find the middle: you first then me, half and half, trade, or wait and both. Big buttons, read-aloud help. For ages 6–8. On-device, nothing saved.

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English Language Arts · Parts of a sentence

FairPlayPals

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 2

How to win, lose, and wait like a good sport — for grades 1–2. Play the tricky game-night moments (a loss, a lucky roll against you, a slow player, “one more game?”), do the Good-Game ritual, and make your own printable Fair-Play Charter. Big buttons, read-aloud, no losing at being a good sport. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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FoldoverPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

The old fold-over story game, played on one screen. Each player picks one part of a sentence — who, did what, where, with what, and then — from word tiles, then folds it away so nobody sees. When every part is in, Odo opens the fold and reads the whole silly sentence out loud. It always makes sense, because each part is the right kind of word. Ages 6–8, two to five players.

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Science · Light: mixing coloured lights

GlowPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Red light and green light make… yellow! Guess what two coloured lights make, then slide the glowing lights together on a light table and see. Light adds up, paint takes away. Then make your phone a steady red or green light and make coloured shadows in a dark room. Ages 6–8.

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Logic & Puzzles

GlyphPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Codes and secret writing for ages 6–8: a message lands on the table written in a real code — Braille, Morse, or Maya numbers — and you decode it, sign by sign, with its key. Every code is real, with a real story. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Logic & Puzzles · spatial hide-and-seek (a warm/cold heat trail + design-a-hide)

HidePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Hide-and-seek for ages 6–8: hide a little figure (and three sneaky decoys!) in a room, then follow the warm/cold heat trail to find it — 🔥 hot means close, 🧊 freezing means far. Play by yourself or take turns on one device. On-device; nothing that names you leaves your device.

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Logic & Strategy · Hidden information, deduction & memory

HollowPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Hide your eight animals and your Moonstone, then go looking for theirs. You can’t see their pieces until two meet — so you work out what each one might be from how it moves. Bigger tags smaller, Puck the mouse can tickle Ursa the bear home, and only Burdock the badger can clear a bramble. Play the cast, play together, or play a friend on one device. Ages 6–8.

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Math / first trade-and-build game

IslePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A first trade-and-build game for ages 6–8: build cottages on little Gullwick, roll two dice for wood, stone, and grain, and make a FAIR SWAP for what you're missing — first to 5 cottages wins. Play with two friendly island pals or pass the tablet. On-device, no accounts, no robber (the Commons shares instead of stealing).

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Math · Number Bonds & Addition

Make-Ten Pyramid

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A pyramid of number cards. Tap two cards that add up to 10 and they vanish — 7 and 3, 6 and 4, 5 and 5. A 10 can go all by itself. Clear the whole pyramid! Start with Make 5, then Make 10, then a bigger pyramid. Every pyramid can be cleared, and a helper shows you a pair when you’re stuck. No internet. Ages 6–8.

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English & Language Arts · Folktales of the world and their story moves

MeasurePals

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 2

The everyday math of rulers, clocks, coins, and graphs — measure, tell time, count money, and read charts with Inchy the inchworm, for grades 1–2.

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MythPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Tricksters and helpers from folktales around the world — Anansi, the Mouse who freed the Lion, the Monkey King, Vasilisa, Tấm. Listen to a story, spot its story move (the trick, the test, the helper, three tries, the change), then find the same move in a story from your own family. Ages 6–8.

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Engineering & Design · Level Design & Fairness (build a course a learner can run)

ObbyPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A make-an-obstacle-course game for ages 6–8: bridge the pits so Nims the goat — who can only climb up one step at a time — can run your course. Send Nims to test it, fix the spots he gets stuck, then share your fair course. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Daily Math & Reading Practice (paper packet)

PacketPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A short daily practice packet — a little math and reading each day, done on paper, checked together with Sumi the squirrel. Mastery before you move on, and a Friday note from Stamp the tortoise about what you WORKED ON — never how fast, never a score. Kumon’s daily sheet at $0, with none of the anxiety. On-device: no photo is ever taken, saved, or sent.

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English Language Arts · Reading Fluency (read aloud with a listener)

PagePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Read a story aloud while a grown-up listens and taps any tricky word — no microphone, ever. Your grown-up sees the words-per-minute; you hear your reading grow smoother every time you read it again. With Patience the heron, who coaches the grown-up. On-device, no mic, no account, no AI.

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Science · Life Science (heredity predict-then-reveal + a persistent garden)

PilePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A word-pile game for ages 6–8: you get a little pile of letters and make as many words as you can. Tap the letters to build a word — when it’s a real word, its picture pops up. Find them all! On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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PlotPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A garden game for ages 6–8: breed pretty flowers (cross two blooms and predict the baby colours — sometimes two red parents make a white surprise!), then grow a garden on a real clock where nothing ever wilts, even while you’re away. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Logic · Turn-taking & Distance

PorePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A tilt-the-tray diffusion toy for ages 6–8: only the shapes that fit the pore can squeeze through — then guess where they end up. Jostle and watch them spread out evenly. No-fail, on-device.

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PostPals

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 2

Play a game across the room or across the country — one turn at a time! Take your turn, then pass the tablet or send a link that carries the whole game. Big buttons, read-aloud, for grades 1–2. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Science · Your body: your heartbeat before and after jumping

PulsePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Find your pulse with a grown-up and tap the big heart for every beat. Guess what jumping will do, jump for thirty seconds, tap again, and compare. Your heart works harder when you move. Tap-only: no camera, no sensor, nothing kept. A body experiment, not a medical test. Ages 6–8.

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Mathematics · Would-you-rather math cards — reasons are the win

RatherPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Would you rather have 3 bags of 4 cookies or 4 bags of 3? Pick a side, give a reason, and say your friend's reason back before you answer. Reasons first; then the Fair-o-meter shows what the card’s check supports — and some cards have no right answer at all. Pass-and-play for two to four. Ages 6–8.

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Social & Emotional Learning · friendship problems at recess — more than one reason why

RecessPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Someone wouldn’t play with you today? Rocco the recess raccoon helps you be a detective: find THREE reasons why (there’s almost always more than one!), size how big it felt, pick one thing to try tomorrow — and unlock a bedtime card with two questions and a floor-time idea for your grown-up. Big buttons, read-aloud help, nothing saved.

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Visual Arts & Design · Stop-motion film with real toys

RecipeForge

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A fold-a-recipe toy for ages 6–8: a string of coloured beads folds into a shape. Change a bead and predict — will the shape change, or is it just filler? Only the ends and the hinge matter. Save your recipe as a code. On-device.

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ReelPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Make a tiny film with real toys. Take a picture, move the toy a little, take another — the last picture shows faintly so you know where it was. Eight frames, press play, and the toy walks. Then: what did we make the viewer believe? No camera? Draw your frames instead. Ages 6–8.

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English Language Arts · Words with two meanings

RiddlePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Riddles that work because one word means two things. Hear one, pick the answer, then flip the card to see the meaning you missed. Then make your own riddle from set pieces and try it on a grown-up. Ages 6–8.

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Science — Materials & Engineering Design

RoofPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A neighbour arrives needing a home that is dry, warm and light. Build it from wood, stone, mud brick, glass and thatch, each with a few true properties. Then ring the bell for rain, wind or night and watch what your house does. Fix it and ring again. No score, no timer.

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Reading · Procedural Text

RulebookPals

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 2

Read a real one-page rulebook, then prove you understood it — catch the sneaky rule-mistakes when a friend plays, and write the rule card yourself. Big buttons, read-aloud, gentle checking, for grades 1–2. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Mathematics · the number line: placing numbers in order

RungPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Same call, your choice. A number comes out of the see-through bag — which rung of your ladder does it go on? Everyone gets the same numbers, so your ladder is your own thinking. Build a ladder that climbs all the way.

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Math · Scorekeeping & Data

ScorePals

Ages 6–7 · Gr 1–2 Level 2

Be the family’s official scorekeeper! Add up each round, carry when a column fills, see who’s ahead — and the app draws the game as a bar graph. Big buttons, read-aloud, gentle checking, for grades 1–2. On-device; nothing leaves your device.

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Logic & Puzzles

SecondLookForge

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A look-again reflex trainer for ages 6–8: a maze you’d given up on, a second way to make ten, a king that looks trapped — each one LOOKS impossible, but there’s always a way. Find the second look before you say "no way out." Calm, anti-shame, on-device.

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Math / probability & number sense

SevenPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A first probability game for ages 6–8: place your ladybirds on the flower patches (2–12) you think will bloom most, roll two dice, count the dots — and find out why 7 comes up most of all. Play 5 rounds with Lucky the ladybird, or pass the tablet. On-device, no accounts, no clock — a wrong guess is part of the fun.

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Mathematics · Finding the bug in column sums

SlatePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Smudge is learning to add and take away in columns, and writes in wobbly chalk. One line of Smudge's working goes wrong. Find the line, pick the fix, and tell Smudge the rule. Then work your own sum: the margin only ever says "follows" or "doesn't follow yet". No answers given, nothing leaves your device.

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Science · Patterns and rules

SnipPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Scissors that cut a paper chain only after one colour. Guess how many pieces, then cut. Then the chain comes already cut, and you work out which colour the scissors were looking for. Ages 6–8.

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Computer Science · Sorting networks: steps that sort any order

SortWalkPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Six toys walk down six chalk lanes. In each chalk box, two toys meet and the smaller steps up. Guess: will they swap? Box by box, they walk out smallest to biggest, every time. Rub out one box and find the mix it can't sort, then chalk it on the pavement and walk it for real. Ages 6–8.

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English Language Arts · Writing (real letters by post)

StampPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Write a REAL letter to a grandparent or a pen-friend — the friendly template shows you the four parts (a greeting, your news, a question, a warm closing), you print it and pop it in a postbox, and the reply comes back by mail. No addresses in the app, ever. On-device, no account, no AI.

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Social studies / fair trade & economics

TradePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

A first deal-making game for ages 6–8: build a FAIR swap from chips — give a good you have to spare, get the good you're missing, and say what it's for. Barter the badger's Fair-o-meter shows if it helps BOTH islanders. Make all 5 deals! On-device, no accounts, no clock — the game rewards fair, not greedy.

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Mathematics · Two strategies for one sum

TwoWaysPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Same answer, two ways. Show 8 + 5 your way with jumps on a rope number line, then Ropeling shows a different way. Which felt easier, and why? Then the grown-up shows their way, and the strip names the school's strategies — making ten, doubles, counting on. Pass-and-play with a grown-up. Ages 6–8.

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Logic · Rules, fairness and saying the rule aloud

WhistlePals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Catch the grown-up breaking the rule. Play a short game with a grown-up who holds three secret “oops” tickets. Blow the whistle when you spot one — and win the ticket only by saying the rule in your own words. An oops never changes who wins. Ages 6–8.

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Mathematics · Choosing how to measure

Who Steps Up?

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Today's Call: five mixed problems, each with no label. Before you solve one, choose who to call: Tock for a steady beat, Inchy for the same unit end to end, Stax to stack and compare. Choosing the method is part of the answer. Ages 6–8.

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English & Language Arts · reading comprehension — cause and effect in stories

WhyPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

Every story event has more than one WHY. Whyatt, Whynn and Whyla each find a different reason — you pick the ones that could be true, add a picture-reason of your own, then rank them: which is MOSTLY why? Then check the story’s biggest clue. Five short stories, read-aloud help, no typing. For ages 6–8. On-device, nothing saved.

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Critical Thinking · Philosophy for children — reasons and kind disagreement

WonderPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 2

The thinking circle. Ollo the owl and Fennick the fox disagree kindly about big questions — is a robot alive? Is it fair if everyone gets the same? Pick a side and a reason, then hear the other side’s best reason. Changing your mind is allowed. Each wonder ends as a dinner question. Ages 6–8.

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Music & Performing Arts · Recorder

RecorderPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Play a real recorder with Piper the sandpiper — play a note and Piper flies to it, shows you exactly which holes to cover, and tells you why it squeaked. Learn Hot Cross Buns and more, and watch the music score peel back from dots to real notes as you play by ear first.

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Music & Performing Arts · Ukulele

StrumPals

Ages 6–8 · Gr 1–3 Level 1

Play a real ukulele with Strummer the sea otter — strum a chord and Strummer tells you the chord you played (C, F, G7, Am), shows you the shape, and helps you tune for free. Learn two-chord songs and strum along, in a key that fits your own voice.

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Math · Money & Change (real-transaction arithmetic)

StandPals

Ages 7–8 · Gr 2–3 Level 2

Run a lemonade stand and use the friendly till — take an order, make change, add up the day, take away the supplies, and see your profit on a bar chart. Real money math with 4 little stand-keeper friends. No ads, no account, no AI, and no money ever touches the app.

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CompassQuest

Age 8 · Gr 3 Level 1

Explore social studies with Cardi the cardinal — read a map with a compass, sort wants from needs, put events in time order, and check if a source is fact or opinion. C3, non-partisan, everything read aloud. Made for grade 3.

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SciQuest

Age 8 · Gr 3 Level 1

Do grade-3 science with Sage — predict what will happen, watch what really does, and figure out WHY. Force labs, camouflage, weather vs climate. Predict-Observe-Explain, everything read aloud. Made for grade 3.

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TimesQuest

Age 8 · Gr 3 Level 1

Grow into multiplication, division and first fractions with Arlo — build arrays with your hands, share things out fairly, break big facts into easy ones, and place fractions on a number line. Read aloud on every step. Made for grade 3.

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ArrayPals

Age 8 · Gr 3 Level 2

Build the block, find the lots — multiplication as rows × columns, then city blocks split into lots.

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ReadRise

Age 8 · Gr 3 Level 2

Rise into reading with Sonny — chunk long words into beats, build words from their parts, and read for meaning. Structured Literacy, never guess-from-the-picture. Everything read aloud. Made for grade 3.

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