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Friendship Friday-{Vacation} and other Friday Memes

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It has been a great vacation here in Seoul.  We have been here for a week and will be flying back tomorrow.

Here are some highlights of the first day we had in Seoul  starting with our first meal after touch down.

Korean fried rice

Fried rice on a hot plate. This is the first time I am seeing fried rice served this way. It was rather unusual as fried rice is normally served on a plate.

our hotel room

The room was really huge as we booked a residence instead of a typical hotel room. There was a queen, single and sofa bed for the five of us.

tiger girl in bed

You can guess who immediately made a beeline for the most comfortable bed in the room.

washing area

I love the fact that there is a washing machine within the room so that we can wash our own clothes and I don’t need to lug back a week of dirty clothes to wash over the weekend.I can also cook simple meals if the kids do not fancy Korean food. The kids are not that fussy eaters so I didn’t need to touch the stove.

I’ll be uploading more photos over the weekend of our trip. I can’t wait to share with you the fun we had during our time here in Korea.

How was your week?

 

 

 

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The Singing Alphabet- An IPAD App Review

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The Singing alphabet

The Singing Alphabet is the latest IPAD App which I had tested out  with the kids.  This App is unlike any other apps which we have come across.

The Ministry of Letters developed this app to engage children with the world of letters. Their letters are made to look like fun and friendly characters which the children would love playing it.

Each time a letter is pressed it would sing its phonetic sound. You can press more then one letter at a time and the tune sounds like a well coordinated chorus .

We explored making our own words by pressing the pen at the  bottom of the screen to show the letters that we have chosen.

My thoughts

My kids love how each alphabet starts rapping and sounding out phonetically when pressed.  I like the fact that you can put any two or more alphabets together to sound out the word. Both simple and complex words /vowel sounds can be addressed using this App.

There is also potential using this app for teaching blending of sounds as a follow up to an introduction to the 26 letters of the alphabet.

Some Areas of Improvement

The App took an extremely long time to load up. It took nearly 10 minutes before it could be fully functional.It would be great if the App could be booted up in a jiffy and be up and running.

It would be great if the alphabets also came in upper case letters and not just lower case so that the child would know how the word is emphasized when it is put together.

 

You can purchase the “The Singing Alphabet” app from the iTunes App Store for $0.99.

 

Disclaimer: I  was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

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