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The Essential Early Learning App For Ages 2 - 8

HOMER grows with your child on every step of their learning journey with a program personalized to their age, interests, and skill level.

Discover HOMER at Every Age

We recognize each child’s learning journey is different. Here’s an example of what your child might explore at each age!

Ages
Toddler
Preschool
Pre-K
Early Learner
Growing Learner

Reading

(FOR 2)

Personalized pathway that builds essential skills on one another—from letters and sounds to sight words, to eventually reading and spelling

Exploring Letters

  • Recognizing letters as special symbols

  • Exposure to the alphabet

  • Identifying uppercase letters

Listening Skills

  • Hearing if words are the same or different

  • Introduction to rhymes

  • Exposure to the first sounds in words

Developing Language

  • Practicing new and familiar vocabulary

  • Stringing words together

  • Exposure to connecting spoken and written words

Engaging with Books

  • Early concepts of print

  • Introduction to different genres

  • Love of reading

Math

(FOR 2)

Building blocks for math confidence: number recognition, counting, shapes, number operations and more

Developing Number Sense

  • Developing early number sense

  • Introduction to numerals

Discovering Shapes

  • Learning simple shape names

  • Identifying simple shapes

  • Creating with shapes

Thinking Mathematically
Practicing Counting

  • Verbal counting up to 10

  • Object counting up to 5

Exploring Spatial Concepts

  • Understanding spatial language (e. g., over, above, next to)

  • Understanding ordinal numbers (e.g., first, second, third)

Social & Emotional Learning

(FOR 2)

Identifying and reacting to emotions in themselves and others

Identifying Feelings

  • Naming common emotions: happy, sad, mad

Learning About Themselves

  • Recognizing themselves as a person with unique traits

  • Identifying likes, dislikes, and interests

Observing Social Skills
Exploring Self-Expression

  • Expressing emotions through face, body, and voice

  • Open-ended and creative play

  • Exploring visual expression through art

Thinking Skills

(FOR 2)

Critical thinking, problem solving, and information processing to form new ideas

Building Memory

  • Matching up to four hidden items of simple images (e. g., four animal cards)

Focusing on Focus
Relating Learning to Life

  • Making connections between images and words

  • Making connections between objects and sounds

Creativity

(FOR 2)

An open space for imagination and expression

Fostering Imagination

  • Pretend play

  • Imitating routines

  • Make-believe play

  • Dress-up

Introducing Storytelling

  • Story creation

Exploring Art

Why ParentsHOMER

“Your child can use it totally on their own. The girls have absolutely loved it!”

Allie Richmond

“I wanted to find an app that had everything so I didn’t have to get multiple subscriptions: HOMER’s my favorite.”

Kristina Chaka

“Whenever I need to get things done, they stay occupied having fun while learning lessons with HOMER.”

Annie Mescall
HOMER LEARN & GROW

The Essential Early Learning Program

HOMER Learn & Grow builds skills for school and life—taking kids on a personalized learning journey that boosts their confidence and grows with them.

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Find activities for your child to jump into independently or play together as a family with the HOMER Blog. Our thoughtfully curated library of activities builds on the skills your child is developing with Learn & Grow.

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Learn & Play by Fisher-Price

Learn & Play by Fisher-Price, powered by HOMER, is a safe, play-based app designed to delight and entertain your little learner. Each ad-free game and activity is designed by academics and researchers, fun-tested by kids, and created to help your child explore, play, and learn!

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Description

HOMER is the essential early learning program. Designed by experts, made for (and loved by) kids 2-8.

Expert-Designed, Kid-Powered, Playful Learning — Explore HOMER’s essential early learning app made to help kids build the confidence they need for school and life. Thoughtfully made educational games for kids aged 2-8. From preschool to kindergarten, HOMER is your child’s education support platform.

Safe, Ad-Free. No cancellation fees.

Did you know just 15 minutes a day with HOMER’s educational games for kids is proven to increase early reading scores by 74%? Help your child learn to read with the Homer kids learning academy!

Learn more about kids learning games and education for kids at LearnWithHOMER.com

Sign up and you'll become a HOMER member giving you full access to HOMER Learn & Grow education for kids which includes:

A kids learning journey personalized to your child’s age, learning level, and unique interests. HOMER’s educational games for kids will help prepare your child for preschool, kindergarten and beyond.

Our education for kids app features thousands of interactive lessons, games, stories, and songs that keep your preschool or kindergarten child learning and engaged so they learn to read faster. Learning games for kids will improve their reading, math and creativity levels in a fun way that keeps them engaged.

Playful education academy of learning games for kids and activities across subjects like reading, math, social-emotional learning, creativity, thinking skills, and more

Hundreds of stories and characters your child will love—from classics like Little Red Riding Hood to favorites like Thomas the Train. Children’s education doesn’t have to be boring. All of these kids learning games will help your child learn to read; and they’ll have fun while they do it!

Easy to use kid-friendly academy design that's perfect for independent play and kids learning games that fit into any and every daily routine

Up to 4 customizable child profiles per family

Additional resources for parents, including printables, learning activities, and expert learning tips so you can help support your child as they learn to read

Learning games for kids encourage your child to learn in a way that’s fun

See Why Kids and Parents Love This App

"By far the greatest. This app is like a vital studying tool for children, helping them learn and play at the same time."

Bridget H.

“HOMER keeps both of my boys entertained for as long as I need. I don’t feel bad letting them play because they are learning!!” - Arnulfo S.

"The HOMER app has helped my students… it follows learning research, praising students’ efforts instead of telling them they're smart." - Parthenia C.

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Version 10.17.0

The HOMER team has been hard at work, cleaning up some bugs and adding new features to make learning faster, easier, and even more fun.

Ratings and Reviews

20. 9K Ratings

Editors’ Notes

Teach young children early literacy skills using a comprehensive program full of interesting activities. Featuring everything from letter tutorials and short books to poems and folk songs, this expertly designed app will engage students with diverse learning styles. To help keep lessons fun and active, kids are prompted to draw pictures and record their thoughts, and they can even exchange virtual postcards with friends and family.

Good app!

We have been using homer for almost a year now and I can say my son has absolutely been learning to read because of it. I love how easy it is to use and how clear the directions are, without a lot of distracting pictures or sounds like others learning apps that are difficult to follow for an early reader. I am thankful for the update as my son was getting bored with the same pictures, etc. My only couple of critiques with new update is that the little reader books on the learning pathway seemed to be timed after you tap the record button, so the recorded voice starts to play back before my son has finished reading the sentence. Prior to update you could tap record and drag your finger to follow the words until the end of the sentence (at your own pace). In addition, the new letter tracing lesson doesn’t offer any directions, which is different in the new update. Sometimes the lessons can be a bit repetitive and my son gets frustrated/bored, but we try to move through those ones faster so I can keep him interested. All in all it’s a good app we will continue using. He would not know what he knows now if we had not began using this app, so for that I am grateful!

Thank you for sharing your experience. We are continuously improving Learn & Grow and we rely on feedback like yours to help us do just that.

What’s more than 5 stars

So I read the reviews and I was won over instantly. I downloaded the game and signed up to pay $8 a month to have my son play it after the free trial. Now my son is super hyper and I never let him have screen time but he’s behind in talking and knowing what he needs to know. So I let my son play this game and at first I’m like is he just coloring but they make it fun with puzzles ,coloring, identify the coloring game with ice cream lava for the kids and at first he skipped them reading the abcs now he stands up and dance and sing the abc in his special talk he does and you can hear him pronounce them better. He loves that he can color with the sticker of the hot dog and burger. If I was to make a suggestion that thing that just have the letters go by and it has what the letter start with as it goes by then it sings the abcs at the end make it into a game because my son was trying to touch the letters and identify them as they go by so maybe like a hide and find with other things not like the game with the balloons but like have a farm background with other things and have them identify the letters as they go by and have it go by fast and see how much they can get as it go by I think that would be fun. Thank you so much for helping my son learn in a fun way I have literally told everybody I talk to with kids about this app.

We are thrilled to hear you and your son are loving HOMER Reading. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience, and for spreading the word about HOMER!

The developer, Homer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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Information

Seller
HomerLearning, Inc.

Size
232.8 MB

Category
Education

Age Rating
4+

Copyright
© 2014-2022 HomerLearning, Inc.

Price
Free

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Games and game-based learning

Quest and web quest

Quest (from English quest - search) is an interactive game with a storyline that consists of solving various puzzles and logical tasks.

There are usually 5 types:

1. Escape room
The classic genre of the game in reality. The bottom line: participants are locked in one or more rooms and given the task of finding a way to get out before time runs out. During the game, the team must find clues, solve riddles, and possibly find an additional room.

2. Reality Quest
This is a type of quest that deviates from the standard game. It does not set the task of getting out of the room, the doors may not be closed. But players are given the opportunity to go through and live an action-packed line in which it is necessary to save a person, and maybe even all of humanity, or find a hidden object, for example, a philosopher's stone.

3. Performance
This is a quest in reality with the addition of actors, that is, there are not only participants in the room, but also professional actors who are involved in the storyline. They can both act out scenes and influence the course of the gameplay.

4. Action game
The only kind of game where you need to use physical force. Here it is supposed not only to work with the head, but also with the rest of the body. Participants are expected to jump on a trampoline, crawl along ventilation pipes, escape from the mafia and so on - in a word, a kind of obstacle course with Hollywood scenery.

5. Morpheus is a quest in unreality
Probably the most unusual type of quest, since everything happens only in the imagination of the participants - after all, they are blindfolded until the end of the game. The presenter and actors will help to plunge into the atmosphere, all that remains is to relax. In this quest, players will only have to hear, feel and feel.

How to use
Here is a rough plan that will help you create quality quests:

  • Determine the purpose: what the game is for.
  • Come up with a story.
  • Set the number and age of participants.
  • Decide on the territory of the quest.
  • Include search activities and puzzle solving, whether mathematical or logical, in the quest.
  • Come up with clues that will allow the participant to reach the final.
  • Diversify stages and tasks: the type of activity and the level of difficulty should change, which makes the participant make an effort and this makes the quest interesting.
  • Think through the process - for time, points or competition.
  • Enter additional tasks: they will come in handy if the participant cannot complete the main ones for various reasons.
  • Test the created quest: you need to make sure that the riddles and puzzles are solvable and correct.

Purposes of the quest
1. Diagnostic — to determine the level of knowledge or skills.
2. Team building - to unite, get a positive experience of team interaction, prepare for new tasks and projects for the team.
3. Educational — to learn something new.

Two different mechanisms can be used when developing tasks and hints in quests:
1. Chained: involves a sequence of actions, i.e. you cannot proceed to the next task without completing the previous one.
2. Assault, where the participants determine the sequence on their own. This mechanism is mainly used when several teams participate in the quest and need to be separated at the very beginning of the game.

Target audience: Wide.

WebQuest
One of the most effective methods of using the Internet in the classroom is the WebQuest method developed in 1995 by B. Dodge and T. March, University of San Diego.

A web quest (eng. webquest) is a problematic task with elements of a role-playing game, for which information resources of the Internet are used. The teacher, when compiling assignments, selects information on the Internet, where you can find the necessary materials, giving students the appropriate hyperlinks.

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