Help with ABC Mouse!

[Anonymous]

My preschooler has been working on ABC Mouse but is now at an activity where she is supposed to trace and color something. I don't know if it's a problem with our iPad or the app, but it shows the "pen" tracing the line but doesn't show any actual tracing. She can't move on in her learning trail and is getting super frustrated. Any tips for how to get it to work or how to skip an activity to continue on?

[Anonymous]

What if you log in on the website? When I have trouble with something on the app, it works ok from the website on my laptop. If it works that way, you could do it quickly for her with the mouse and then move on the next activity.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a try.

[Anonymous]

We had to switch to a laptop with a real mouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had to switch to a laptop with a real mouse.

I mean, a real wireless computer mouse. Not a live mouse . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had to switch to a laptop with a real mouse.

I mean, a real wireless computer mouse. Not a live mouse . . .

Do you mean permanently? Or just to get past certain activities? We don't have a spare computer. This is the activity to keep the littler one occupied so she isn't constantly interrupting her older sister's Zoom class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had to switch to a laptop with a real mouse.

I mean, a real wireless computer mouse. Not a live mouse . . .

Do you mean permanently? Or just to get past certain activities? We don't have a spare computer. This is the activity to keep the littler one occupied so she isn't constantly interrupting her older sister's Zoom class.

The family laptop is really only for her schoolwork and abc mouse. DH and I each have a work laptop and we have 2 cheap chromebooks for playing games and internet browsing. I also have the zoom app on my phone for work zoom meetings so I can zoom and do work on my laptop at the same time. If you can afford it, a cheap chromebook might be worth it. Ours were less than $200.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had to switch to a laptop with a real mouse.

I mean, a real wireless computer mouse. Not a live mouse . . .

Do you mean permanently? Or just to get past certain activities? We don't have a spare computer. This is the activity to keep the littler one occupied so she isn't constantly interrupting her older sister's Zoom class.

The family laptop is really only for her schoolwork and abc mouse. DH and I each have a work laptop and we have 2 cheap chromebooks for playing games and internet browsing. I also have the zoom app on my phone for work zoom meetings so I can zoom and do work on my laptop at the same time. If you can afford it, a cheap chromebook might be worth it. Ours were less than $200.

Unfortunately we don't have a spare $150-$200 lying around. I guess we could get one of the chromebook loaners from the school district for the older kid to use for her schoolwork and let the younger one use my laptop, but I understood the loaners to be for the families who absolutely did not have a device around for their student.