Sago Mini School helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Flexibility: Trying new things. 

Sago Mini School has a wide variety of activities for young children to participate in, ranging from free play to more structured learning such as letter and number recognition and tracing. These activities are also based on a variety of interesting topics such as birds, grocery stores, the forest, etc. Because there are so many topics and activities, this app is a great way to introduce variety to your child and let them experiment with trying new things and being flexible in their choices. When your child is picking their initial interests, suggest one that they didn’t select or suggest an activity they have not tried before. 

Planning: Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

Because this app is aimed at very young children, it is a great way to practice planning early on in their lives. There are several activities that encourage planning in Sago Mini School. There are prompts where children need to draw a picture--they need to think about what they are going to draw so that the entire item fits in the space provided. In the free play mode, children who cannot yet write can create their own oral stories. This is a way for them to experiment with narrative and create a beginning, middle, and end to what they are crafting. Even simple actions such as number and letter tracing require the child to think about how they are going to recreate the shapes that form each letter and number by using their finger on the screen.