What we love…
The unique right brain exercises are more like play than work. Questions and activities involve only images rather than words and numbers.
What we’d love to see…
Audio added to the animated stories.
Summary
A great resource for right brain development with lots of quizzes and activities suitable for children up to 6 years old.
Our Rating
4.5 out of 5 stars!
Play and Grow : Right Brain Exercises by Gakugei Co., Ltd. is an iBook filled with cute characters, engaging short animations and lots of game-like quizzes for exercising the right brain. These exercises aim to activate the less utilized right brain for optimal functioning of the whole brain and hence unlocking the child’s learning potential.
If you are not familiar with the right brain programs practiced in Japan, you may find some of the quizzes in this iBook foreign but they are not at all difficult to understand. Designed for use with an adult, the instructions in this iBook are clear and there are animated stories to introduce each of the 15 topics included. These animations (no audio) feature 8 cute characters who will attract and keep your children’s attention throughout the program. Children will soon find out each character’s unique characteristics and can’t help being drawn to the stories and activities.
There are altogether 56 sets of 5 questions arranged according to topics and difficulty levels. Using only images and no words or numbers, the exercises aim to develop a variety of skills like attention to details, scientific knowledge, mathematical thinking, deductive logic, mental flexibility, creativity, visual memory and discrimination.
While there are familiar activities included e.g, finding the odd one out, a few activities may be new for the children e.g. looking at objects in different ways. Some can even be extended to beyond the iPad like cutting fun shapes out of colored paper. Depending on the type of questions/activities, some answers are demonstrated through a short animation and the multiple choice questions are designed for errorless learning. Do note that the types of exercises included in this iBook form just a fraction of the many exercises children in a typical right brain accelerated learning program are exposed to. It is also uncommon to find such a printed resource in English.
It’s a pity that the animated stories have no audio but my son and I had fun taking turns dramatizing the characters’ dialogue. Other than that, this iBook on right brain exercises is a great resource for families who want to develop their children’s enormous right brain abilities. The fresh approach to learning is sure to engage your children for hours.
Category: Education
Requirements: This book can only be viewed using iBooks 2 on an iPad. iOS 5 is required.
Cost: $ 4.99 
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This sounds just what is needed for brain enhancement.
Do your children/students do any form of right brain exercises? (A blog post comment is required to enter this giveaway contest.)
No, this is the first time I heard of this. Sound very interesting. I would love to try this.
I would love to win this for my daughter who has a TBI.
Cool book.
I frequently use right brain activities in speech/language therapy. Activities that address logic, reasoning, and making inferences are great for language therapy.
Can I have the promo code to win this iBook….
Currently, we don’t do any outright right brain exercises, so this app would be a good start. Thanks!!
We don’t currently do any, so would love to try some exercises!
After reading the review, I realized that I do right brain activities with the kids that I work with. Just didn’t formally identify them as that! This app would be great to add to my therapy resources.
I would love this for my daughter with FASD, an organic brain disorder
We have some apps and books that feature memory activities, finding what is different between two pictures and seeing things from different angles (POV app for example), but that is all really. This looks like a great book to explore more right brain type activities and it’s pitched at my son’s age level so would be immediately helpful.
Right on! Love right brain activities :-)
We don’t currently do anything like this at home. I’m not sure about school. I would like very much to see what something like this could do to help my autistic daughter.
My children demonstrate right-brain use at the most surprising times. It amazes me how their brains work!
We don’t have any similar apps like this….looks great!
I do some (especially with older/higher functioning kids I work with). This would be an interesting addition to my therapy toolbox. :)
I don’t have anything to work on right brain!
We do things for left and right thing but nothing as specific as this app! This would be a wonderful app to help children…
My son finds right-brain activities very calming when his sensory issues get too much for him.
I do not currently have anything to work on right brain. This would be awesome to have! Thanks iMums!
No we do not do any right brain exercises right now, I really do not know what to do.
No. Never but looks like an interesting concept.
I haven’t done any exercises like this with my class. Looks great though!
wow what a great app i definately need to get this one for my nearly 5yr old daughter who has Down syndrome :)
Looks like a good app, thanks for the chance to win
No, I haven’t done any right brain activities with my students. But, it looks like a good idea!
Neat way to capitalize on right brain strengths
No, but I’m always interested in brain based learning theories-
No – but I would like to start
I think this app is very good. It´s not in the ordinary way to think, for exampel, what is missing. Here the students have to think in the opposite way. It´s great to challenge their brain and how to think and talk about things. I would really like to win the app.
Alex is the Puzzle king and love to show how fast he can solve them, and at the same time he is learning the names of the Shapes
I may have to use this one for my RBF.
I try to do a lot of right brain activities in my therapy sessions. This App sounds like it would be quite useful!
We don’t currently do any, so would love to try some exercises!
thanks for the chance!,
Yes we do. We use books that have right brained activities and it is a very fun for the kids!
Yes, especially with my students with TBI
No, but we may need to start!
What a unique way to stimulate the whole brain working and learning together. This is the perfect app for the children who I see with traumatic brain injuries and other cognitive difficulties.
I haven’t currently tried anything like this for my son since I began home schooling, will be very interesting to see how he goes.
Wow! This looks really cool! :-) No, we have never specifically done right-brain training with Nichole, but I would sure love the opportunity. It would also be great for her caregiver with her kids. Thanks for this opportunity!
I personally have TBI and learned how to use right brain activities to help myself and during that process my son was starting the autism decline and I shared activities and apps that did the same thing for him. This app would be really awesome for him to continue to work on those areas and having it geared for his age will make it so much easier for him to use. He loves logic and critical thinking games as well as ones that challenge his cognitive thinking.
No they don’t. Consequently their language skills are great but their reasoning skills need work.
no they don’t – this would be fantastic!!
No, but we would love to try some!
This app will be the first right brain activity for my daughter, who I think will benefit. She has DS and has been doing great at reading so this might be a great experience. Looking forward to working on this together. Would be great if we could win a code ;~)
No we do not. Looks like we need to start.
I was aware of this but had not used it with students. Considering my deaf students are continually reversing what they see and what they sign this would be a good program for them to practice with.
We currently do not, but this would be a great way to start.
Looks like a great app that could help my boys!
no..none right no :(
Nothing like it