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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is no exception. This certainly is one my son's favorite books and despite the fact that we've read it enough times that we could probalby recite it back by heart, my son requests this book very often. Now that we have the eBook on the iPhone, he can read it (or rather have it read to him, since he's not at reading age just yet) as often as he likes (or at least as often as he gets his hands on my phone) 😉
As with all the Dr. Seuss books we've gotten from Oceanhouse media, you can read the book yourself, have the book read to you (and have you manually turn the pages), or you can put it on auto-play which will read the story and turn the pages for you.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish has been released to honor
World Oceans Day (June 8th) and the book's 50th anniversary.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish eBook: $3.99*
*price at time of this writing
Not too long ago
I had reviewed Mandy and Andy - The Seasons. They've recently released an HD iPad version of the eBook. If you are lucky enough to be an iPad owner and would like to have a copy, I am giving away a "promo code" for the eBook to the first person to comment on this post.
If you'd like to learn more about the app itself, you can see a
video of the app here, or you can read more about the app
on the iTunes app store here.
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Go download it and check it out! Here's some info sent to me by the developer:
First of its Kind: Rewards and Tracking as Kids Read Their Books
Parents Can Give Their Child the Gift of Reading
Just in time for summer reading assignments! The Reading Game makes reading books more exciting and fun than ever before. With over 100 rewards to unlock, this game transforms daily reading into kids' favorite thing. It is simple and easy to use.
Students are already hooked on technology. Now they can harness that energy to prevent the summer slide that causes them to shed their academic skills. This new game encourages students to read every day, to track their reading and be rewarded every time they read.
This app was designed to sustain and improve youngsters' academic skills. The Reading Game provides the incentive to read more books and receive immediate rewards.
Using The Reading Game, kids can unlock special characters such as the parachuting squirrel, the cute puppy, the weight-lifting robot, the guitar-playing penguin, the surfing alien, and the water-skiing mouse. After they enter the names and total pages of their books, The Reading Game keeps track of the pages they have read and unlocks their rewards. There are over 100 appealing sound effects and songs to unlock as the user reads. While viewing their rewards, users can shake and tilt their phones or iPads to create wild sound effects.
Features:
• Offers over 100 animations.
• Offers over 100 sounds and songs.
• Responds to shaking and tilting with original sounds from the sound rewards.
• Calculates how many pages are left to read.
• Displays the percentage of the book that has been completed.
• Keeps track of the reader's current page like a bookmark.
• Tracks reading progress with as many books as the user likes.
You can find more info and videos on their site here.
The Reading Game: FREE!*
*Price at time of this post.
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It's kind of funny that we ended up moving to Utah 5 years ago. Ironic, because the entire state has been the punchline of a joke that's been in my family for years, even before I was born. As the story goes - when my parents were young and crazy (well, they're still crazy - but when they were young enough to act on their craziness) they made a number of trips camping across the country. In one of these earlier trips, somewhere along the way they got very very lost. They were convinced they were heading in one particular direction, when a sign appeared on the side of the road that let them know they were going in a completely opposite direction of where they were supposed to be. Here is what the sign said:
Welcome to Utah
Since then, the phrase "Welcome to Utah" has been synonmous with the understanding of
"You are now officially and completely lost."
I wouldn't say our move here was a mistake. From day one - when anyone would ask me how I liked living here my standard answer was always: It works for us... for now. I never had any intention of spending the rest of my life here. And the thought of doing so frightened me. The last year or so, I'd say it's
not been working so much for us anymore, and I'm getting ready to leave. I still don't know when - it could be as much as another year off - but I'm really feeling like it's time to go. It's feeling like it's time to turn around and find which direction I'm supposed to be going in.
(I had been planning on writing this post today - and it's pretty funny that I saw this article on the news today about how they're putting up new/more "Welcome to Utah" signs - supposedly in a bid to increase tourism. Heh)
If there was ever a day I wanted to move away from Utah more than today, I can't think of it. It's May 24th. This is what the morning looked like today:
I'd also like you to remember that
the first snow of the season came at the end of September. If you mark that as the beginning of winter and the last snowfall as the end - that make it about 9 months of winter so far. If this year will be the same as last - and we start getting snow in September, that means we only have 3 months to squeeze a spring and summer into.
Not cool. At all. I am so done.
My name is Jennifer and The Working Mom is my online journal. I'm very bad about updating it regularly. I like writing, but not as much as I 
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