Lola’s Alphabet Train, BeiZ, Ltd. $1.99, is a great little app to try and get your pre-school or kindergartner spelling. The app claims to be designed for 3 to 8 year olds but I would say 3 to 6 is more like it. The game includes both capital and lower case letters and comes in four languages: English, French, Spanish and German. Both my 4 and 6 year olds seem to think they are playing a game as opposed to spelling. It’s actually gotten them to stop playing Chop Chop Ninja for the past few days! The game is quite simple. Lola, a cute Panda, needs help filling her train with presents to take to her friends. There are three levels (easy, medium and hard) and four different games to play. The easiest game is just identifying a letter out of a choice of three. My four year old can handle that by himself. One shows a picture and asks what it is offering up three words as choices. Another shows a picture of something (like a truck) with the letters scrambled as seen here above. You have to touch and drag each letter into the correct position to spell the word. These range from simple three letter words to harder words like penguin. The fourth game shows 7 pictures and asks which one starts with a certain letter. Lola's Alphabet TrainWith each word you get correctly you earn coins that you then buy gifts with that you place on the train’s cars. I’m not sure how long this game is going to hold their interest (it’s only been 5 days so far). However, getting them off mindless games they prefer to play on the iPhone makes me feel like a slightly better dad – and its hard to put a price on that :)