What's new

PlumoBox now welcomes kindergarten pupils (around 5 years old), the bridge year before primary school. Four new mini-apps have arrived this month, designed for tablet use in autonomy.

Number house has children break a quantity up to 10 by placing tokens across the rooms of a house, with three activities (free house, wall of ways, the hidden-cup complement). Counting box rebuilds the familiar classroom tool to build and count collections of objects. Shapes and sizes offers sorting by shape (circle, square, triangle, rectangle) and seriation from the smallest to the largest. The bead pattern asks children to carry on a rhythm (red-blue, red-blue…) to introduce the idea of an algorithm.

Since early May, new mini-apps have joined the catalogue. Nonogram has you shade squares to reveal a hidden picture by following the number clues (ages 8 to 11), with a printable booklet of the grids you solve. Flags of the world is back too, with a map that uncovers as the right answers come in. Several existing apps also improved: the clock now works out an arrival time and reaches younger pupils, and the solar system, mental maths, timeline generator and solid nets activities were polished.

Most recently, World atlas arrived: a clickable map of the world built as a tool for teachers, with three modes (atlas, continents, time zones), exercises on time differences for ages 10 to 11, and a short summary for each country. The home page now lets you pick a subject directly, which is handier on a tablet, and behind the scenes the official curriculum references were updated and site security was reinforced.

Une trentaine de mini-applications ont été enrichies ou refondues, surtout en sciences, maths et EMC. À retenir : la lecture audio (🔊) des consignes et des mots pour les non-lecteurs de CP, un mode Zen sans chrono en calcul mental, un « Défi du jour » partagé par toute la classe, et un carnet d'expériences imprimable dans plusieurs apps de sciences (Mélanges, États de la matière…).

Côté international, les catalogues anglais, espagnol, italien, allemand et portugais ont été recentrés sur les apps qui ont du sens dans la langue de l'élève, avec des traductions professionnelles sur quatre apps phares.

The catalogue opens today with 100 free mini-apps for ages 5 to 13, ready to play: no account, no cookie, no ads.

Teacher, classroom assistant, speech therapist, parent? Try them in class or at home, tell us what works and what's missing. Your feedback will shape what comes next. And if the tool helps you, please share it: that's what helps the most.