Xander - Shona - 123

Shona 123 is an educational app for young children that teaches numeracy using child-friendly counting beads and characters from the animal kingdom.

Xander, the lovable narrator, guides your child through four stages of learn-through-play activities involving vision, hearing and touch to teach them how to count to 10 in Shona. Valuable skills are gained in the process to prepare children for school readiness, they include counting, number recognition and number tracing.

Shona 123 consists of four games where kids can learn to count, engage with numbers and understand quantities to support a strong base for numeracy.

Features:
Learn to count to ten and trace numbers
Study numbers in the font used by schools
Practice pronunciation
Understand quantities through fun exercises
Improve fine motor skills, number tracing and numeracy

Xander is a truly African initiative, developed by a local South-African Chartered Accountant and mother of three and incorporates widely accepted psychological findings on the importance of education in a child’s mother tongue.

Your children can now engage with high-quality educational apps in the comfort of their home language, resulting in enhanced knowledge absorption and technical skills proficiency that can match global peers.