Letters
Recognising capital and small letters and knowing each letter’s name.
For grown-ups
Learning with Annamaria
Annamaria's Wonder World is made for children aged about 2–5 to enjoy with a grown-up. Each story and game practises one small early-learning skill. Here is what that looks like, plainly, without big promises.
Phonics: first sounds
Hearing the first sound of a word ("ball" and "bus" start the same). We keep the letter NAME ("bee") and the letter SOUND (/b/) separate.
Vocabulary
Naming everyday objects, animals and actions in each world’s story.
Numbers & counting
Counting objects one by one, matching a number to a quantity, "one more" and "too many".
Shapes
Naming circle, square, triangle and rectangle and noticing them inside bigger things.
Colours
Naming colours and finding them around us.
Patterns, logic & sequencing
Spotting what comes next and what happens first, next and last. Coming to the garden soon: the Pattern Train and Story Castle.
Feelings & friendship
Recognising happy, sad, surprised and worried faces, and kind things to do. No feeling is "bad".
How to get the most from it
- Sit together and talk. Say the words out loud, ask "what do you think?", and wait. The pauses are for your child to answer.
- Short is good. A few minutes, then something else. The games have no timers and no "lose" screen, so stopping is easy.
- Take it off the screen. Every game page ends with a tiny activity for home: a counting walk, an "I spy" first-sound game, a shape hunt.
- Let the level move by itself. Games start at Discover and quietly get a little easier or trickier. There are no grades, rankings or scores to compare.
What we don't claim: we don't say the games raise IQ or guarantee any result. They are gentle practice that is fun to share. Every child learns at their own pace.
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