SukuSuku Plus: A Fun and Free Educational App for Toddlers and Kids
SukuSuku Plus is a free educational app designed for children aged 2-6. It helps kids learn and practice essential skills like hiragana, katakana, basic kanji (for first graders), numbers, and shapes through engaging games. The app features a variety of activities, including tracing exercises, counting games, and vocabulary building.
Key Features:
- Comprehensive Curriculum: Covers hiragana, katakana, basic kanji, numbers, and shapes. Future updates will include more advanced kanji, reading, and arithmetic.
- Engaging Gameplay: Utilizes a drill-based format to make learning fun. Features cute illustrations of animals, food, and vehicles to keep children entertained.
- Adaptive Difficulty: Offers adjustable difficulty levels to cater to different learning paces. Children are rewarded with stickers upon completion of tasks, fostering motivation.
- Game Variety: Includes numerous mini-games focusing on number recognition, counting, tracing characters, and vocabulary building. Examples include number connecting, counting games, hiragana and katakana tracing, and word association games.
- Parental Controls: Parents can monitor their child's progress and set time limits.
- Multi-User Support: Allows up to 5 users to create individual accounts, enabling use across multiple devices.
- Free to Use: The app is currently free, with all content accessible via a paid subscription plan (SukuSuku Plan).
Difficulty Levels:
The app offers progressive difficulty levels, categorized as:
- Chick: Hiragana (reading), numbers (up to 10), colors, and shapes.
- Rabbit: Hiragana (writing), numbers (up to 100), and grouping.
- Kitsune: Katakana, particles, single-digit addition, and ordering.
- Kuma: Katakana, sentence reading, single-digit subtraction, and pattern recognition.
- Lion: Kanji, sentence writing, two-digit addition and subtraction, and reasoning.
Educational Focus:
SukuSuku Plus focuses on three key areas:
- Moji (文字): Japanese language, focusing on reading and writing hiragana and katakana.
- Kazu (数): Arithmetic, including number recognition, counting, addition, and subtraction.
- Chie (知恵): Development of general common sense, including time, seasons, and thinking skills like drawing and reasoning.
Developed by Piyolog: Created by the makers of the Piyolog childcare record app, SukuSuku Plus aims to support children's intellectual development through playful learning. The app encourages natural learning through fun games, helping children master fundamental skills while having fun.
