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Free educational games for 5 to 8-year-olds in Australia

Little Roos has 35 free games that suit children from five to eight, and twelve 3D tours of the body, each tied to the Australian Curriculum v9 from Foundation to Year 2. There are no ads, no sign-ups and nothing collected, and it's made in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.

Key facts

35 games suit five- to eight-year-olds (each game's page gives its exact ages), and 4 have harder Big Steps levels for seven- and eight-year-olds.
Every game page names the curriculum codes it practises and links to the official wording. (The skill pages)
Twelve 3D tours explain how the body works, every fact with a source a grown-up can read. (What Makes Me)
Teachers get a lesson card for every game and tour, and a projector mode that keeps nothing. (For teachers)

The games, by what they teach

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: Telling b, d, p and q apart: finding the one different letter in a sea of look-alikes. Ages 4-7.
Sky Grass Dirt: Where a letter sits on the line — up in the sky, down in the dirt. Ages 4-8.
Dingo's Echo: Letter sounds, by hearing a sound and finding the letter that makes it. Ages 3-6.
Follow the Numbat: Writing lower-case letters in NSW Foundation Style: where to start, which way to go, when to lift. Ages 4-7.

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.
Ten in the Den: Making ten, by finding the two numbers that fill the frame. Ages 4-7.
Frog's Big Change: Life cycles: put the stages in order, from egg to frog and egg to butterfly. Ages 4-7.
Wallaby Hops to 20: Numbers to 20 on a number line, and counting on: where will Wallaby land?. Ages 4-7.

The Dusty Red: attention and impulse control

Stroopy: Paying attention when the word and the colour disagree. Ages 6-8.
Hold It, Quoll!: Stopping yourself: tap the quolls that are awake, and let the sleepy ones sleep. Ages 3-7.
Dugong Remembers: Remembering things in order: watch and listen, then do it back. Ages 3-6.
Whipbird's Whistle: Copying a rhythm: a long whistle, a short crack, played back in order. Ages 3-6.
Cockatoo's Loud and Soft: Listening for loud and soft, fast and slow. Ages 3-6.
Kookaburra Takes Turns: Taking turns, with a grown-up or with Kookaburra: turn over two cards, then pass it over. Ages 3-6.

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.
Blend It, Bandicoot: Blending sounds into words: hear s … u … n, and find the sun. Ages 4-6.
Syllable Stomp: Hearing the beats in a word: how many stomps in koala?. Ages 3-6.
Echidna's Sentences: Reading a sentence: put the words in order to match the picture. Ages 4-7.
Lorikeet's Opposites: Opposites: big and small, full and empty, up and down. Ages 3-6.
Flying Fox's Story Order: Putting a story's pictures in order: first, next and last. 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.
Pelican's Patterns: Patterns: spotting what repeats, and working out what comes next. Ages 3-6.
The Big Summer Scene: Counting out a number of things, and where they go: in, on, up. Ages 3-5.
Snake's Long and Short: Comparing lengths: which ribbons are long, and which are short?. Ages 3-5.
Gecko's Mirror: Symmetry: finish the other half so both sides match. Ages 4-7.
Ibis's Big Tidy-Up: Sorting by two things at once: colour and shape, size and shape. Ages 4-7.
Butterfly's Weather: Weather words, and what to wear: sunny and rainy, windy and calm, hot and cold. Ages 3-6.

The Cosy Burrow: feelings, calm and my body

Koala's Calm-Down: Calming down with slow breathing, then naming how you feel. Ages 3-7.
Head to Toe, Tassie Devil: Naming the parts of your body: hear it, then find it on you. Ages 3-5.
Platypus Feels: Reading feelings in faces and in moments: happy and sad, calm and angry, excited and tired, scared and cosy. Ages 3-6.

Big Steps

Switch on Big Steps and the games that have them reach further: counting to 100 in tens, making 20, two-syllable spelling words, and longer rhythms to copy.