We’ve been fans of Tiggly since before they launched. We’ve reviewed all of the products and apps that have come before. We received a copy of Tiggly Words to play with and review. Opinions of this new app and toy are 100% our own. We have used Tiggly almost exclusively with Andrew. Those very first games had Andrew identifying his shapes and colors within the span of 30 minutes. With Tiggly Counts Andrew was excited about counting and he’s counting to 100 all the time, especially at the supermarket. Now with Tiggly Words we are beginning to start early reading with Andrew.
A significant improvement with the Tiggly apps happened with Tiggly Words. The toys work perfectly on iPads that use screen protectors. We’ve had no problems at all with the game recognizing the letters that Andrew choses while playing. Andrew started off playing the Tiggly Submarine app. That is the words related app that he likes the most. The game kept him occupied and engaged for an hour right out of the box. The next day I came home from work and my wife asked Andrew to spell his favorite word. It is HUG. I picked him up and told him that I would make his favorite word bigger and add an “e” to it to make it huge, and I gave him a huge hug.
Andrew has been using Tiggly Words for a few days now and it is working well for him. He’s noticing words more and he is spelling them for us. Tiggly Submarine is still his favorite but he also enjoys Tiggly Tales. When Tiggly Doctor comes out later this week (June 11th) he’ll try that as well. Each game comes free with the purchase of Tiggly Words. Now Tiggly can be found at Target stores in the us and Best Buy stores in Canada. You can learn more about that in the press release below.
TIGGLY LAUNCHES ITS FIRST LITERACY SYSTEM AND ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE EXPANSION TO TARGET
Along with new product launch, Tiggly onboards new retailers bringing the number of stores that Tiggly products are available in to 1,585 retailers throughout US and Canada
New York, NY — May 28, 2015 – Today, Tiggly (www.tiggly.com), makers of the educator-designed, learning platform consisting of tablet toys for children, announces the launch of their third learning system, Tiggly Words. Tiggly’s previous products, Tiggly Shapes and Tiggly Math, pioneered a new play experience combining the best aspects of physical and digital play to offer an optimal learning experience for children. To coincide with the launch of Tiggly Words, Tiggly is also expanding the sale of its products throughout the United States and Canada reaching 1,585 retail locations with new distribution in Target and Best Buy Canada stores. Tiggly products can continue to be found in other premium retailers including Apple Retail Stores and FAO Schwarz.
Designed for children aged 4-to-8 years old, Tiggly Words is the company’s first learning system for early literacy. Tiggly Words is a set of five vowel toys (a, e, i, o, u) designed by educators to interact with Tiggly’s three new iPad apps: Tiggly Submarine, Tiggly Tales and Tiggly Doctor.
Learning language skills is an exciting milestone for every child, and Tiggly Words focuses on helping preschoolers recognize phonemes, construct sounds and learn words. “All of Tiggly’s learning systems are designed from the ground up based on the first principles of play and learning research,” said Dr. Azadeh Jamalian, Chief Learning Officer and Co-Founder of Tiggly. “We know physical play is an integral part of children’s development and with the launch of Tiggly Words, we now have three products that bring that physical play into children’s digital sandbox.”
Tiggly provides children with ways to interactively learn spatial reasoning, motor skills, language and creativity by combining physical toys with the tablets children love. Tiggly’s math learning system has already proven to improve educational outcomes in preschoolers. A recent study by PlayCollective, an independent research firm specializing in early childhood development, showed increases in early number skills of up to 71% for kids who played with Tiggly Math for only 2 weeks.
“We are delighted that more and more retail buyers are putting our learning products on their shelves – a sign that our products form part of the future of play,” said Phyl Georgiou, CEO and Co-Founder of Tiggly. “We are excited to partner with Target and Best Buy Canada to bring our three products to more stores which allows us to reach new customers and expand the Tiggly community.”
About Tiggly
Tiggly is a New York-based company that’s developed a learning platform of interactive toys and apps for the digital generation. Tiggly enables parents to bring physical play, a critical component of early learning, to the “digital sandbox” today’s kids inhabit. Tiggly was founded in 2012 by Harvard Business School graduates Phyl Georgiou and Bart Clareman, and Dr. Azi Jamalian, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Cognitive Studies in Education at Columbia University. Tiggly’s learning journey includes three products – Tiggly Shapes, Tiggly Math and Tiggly Words, which are available in over 1,585 retailers in more than 20 countries.