Counting Kingdom: A Reading Kingdom Review
DISCLOSURE: I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY PRODUCT THROUGH THE HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW.
With the online educational world exploding with all kinds of programs, it can be so hard to know what is going to be a good fit for your child. The value of reviews like this is that you get a feel for what things look like from a real student and parent’s point of view to help better educate your decision. For today’s review we are looking at Counting Kingdom from the Reading Kingdom family of programs.
What We Received:
We received one year of access to the online program Counting Kingdom, a part of the Reading Kingdom family..
How It Works:
This online program is intended for ages 3+ and designed to introduce students to mathematical and reasoning concepts. The program is divided into 3 levels. Level 1 introduces numbers 1-10 gradually and practices counting. Level 2 graduates to higher-level concepts like all and same number. Level 3 introduces memory and addition concepts. The program recommends students to use it at least 4 days a week and 5 being better. On the Dashboard page, records of each student’s progress is kept for all Reading Kingdom programs. Counting Kingdom keeps a running evaluation of each lesson and level. Also on the dashboard is a settings option to speed up or slow down the program’s expected response time. The program asks the student to place a number of pictures in the box or click on the appropriate number. After so much time of either no response or incorrect response, it will answer for the student. This customizes the program to each student’s pace.
What We Thought:
I used this program with my 4 year old son who has already had some experience with counting and number recognition. He’s also used other online educational programs so this isn’t his first time. We ended up using it about twice a week rather than the recommended 4 times. The skills of counting and recognizing numbers were not a problem, but the mouse skills were very frustrating to him. He struggled to both hold down a button and drag items. A touch screen or tablet would probably have been better for him, but we didn’t have one available during the review time. Eventually, he could get the hang of it, but the tasks didn’t change all that much so he became really discouraged and didn’t want to do it for very long. He is definitely a task oriented person and the amount of struggle combined with the monotony of the same 3 activities, it seemed to leave him very unfulfilled.
This program seems to be designed for someone who need and/or responds well to repetitive and simplified tasks. I can see it being useful in certain special needs educational settings or remedial work. More than anything, it serves very specific needs rather than a broad spectrum so it is beneficial to test drive their free trial to see if it fits your family’s needs.
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The Crew tried out other products from Reading Kingdom including Story Smarts and Spelling Ninja! To find out how those programs work, check out the reviews through the link below.
