For grown-ups
What this is, what it teaches, and what we do and don't collect. It's short, because there isn't much to say.
What Little Roos is
A free place for children roughly three to eight to play learning games. One game, one idea, done properly — telling a p from a q, counting, spelling, paying attention when it's hard. A new one arrives most Fridays.
It was made in the Blue Mountains by a parent whose own small boy is the quality-control department, and who tests every toy through the rigorous procedure only a small boy can manage.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no paid tier, no subscription and nothing to unlock. There is no advertising of any kind, and there never will be.
What we collect
Nothing about your child. There are no accounts, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to breach. No analytics script, no advertising pixel, no third-party code runs on this site at all — the site's own security policy blocks it, so it can't happen by accident either.
Which games have been played is remembered in your own browser, on your own device. It never leaves it, and we can't see it. The whole privacy page takes about thirty seconds.
Every game, by what it teaches
The home page is five places a child can tap. Each place is one kind of learning, and this is everything in them.
The Rustly Bush — letters and phonics
- Ps and Qs — Telling apart the letters children reverse most — p, q, b and d (ages 4-7)
- Waterfall — Spotting a letter quickly, under the gentlest kind of time pressure (ages 4-7)
- Sky Grass Dirt — Where a letter sits on the line — up in the sky, down in the dirt (ages 4-8)
The Bobbing Billabong — numbers and counting
- Count on Me — Reading a number and putting it where it belongs (ages 3-6)
- Number Ninja — Adding and taking away, by finding the pair that works (ages 6-8)
- Bigger Than a Digger — Which numbers are bigger and which are smaller (ages 5-8)
The Dusty Red — attention and impulse control
- Stroopy — Paying attention when the word and the colour disagree (ages 6-8)
The Quiet Deep — words and spelling
- Spelling Bee — Putting letters in order until they make a word (ages 5-8)
- A Rhyme at a Time — Hearing which words end the same way (ages 4-7)
The Bright Spot — shapes, colours and noticing
- A Shape in its Place — Telling shapes apart (ages 3-6)
- A Match for the Patch — Finding two colours that are the same (ages 3-6)
Playing without a signal
Add Little Roos to your home screen and it works offline. Every game your child has opened keeps working in the car, on a plane, or anywhere the signal gives up. Nothing needs downloading from a shop.
Using it in a classroom
You're very welcome to. It works on a whiteboard, there's nothing to log into and nothing that identifies a child. Spelling Bee lets you type your own word list — this week's spellings, a child's name — kept on that one device.
Talk, the communication board
For children who can't rely on speech: tap pictures to speak. It's free, it works with no internet, and nothing about your child leaves the device. Open Talk, or read the guide for grown-ups first.
The Friday email
One email, one Friday, one new game. Nothing else, ever, and one click to stop. It's the only thing on this site that asks you for anything.
The list opens shortly — the sign-up form goes here once a provider is chosen.