Early Learners PreK-1
Empowerment starts early with strong relationships
Character-driven, play-based approach to building resilience and a readiness to learn!
Bouncy’s Ready to Learn Resilience helps every child succeed in school and life by teaching them how to develop positive coping skills when faced with frustrations, disappointments, and challenges. For those students who need additional behavioral interventions or who are exhibiting stress-reactive behavior, Bouncy provides support through calm, caring, and reassuring coaching. Bouncy is comprised of both physical and digital elements, all which offer a play-based approach to offer choice, delight, and reassurance as your little ones get ready to learn.
Meet Bouncy!
Bouncy is a lovable service dog with a prosthetic leg who provides skill development and emotional comfort and support to children four-to-seven years old.
Watch this introductory video to see how Bouncy helps our youngest learners. It shows how Bouncy can act as the perfect teacher’s aide and a strong family connector. Look for ideas for integrating Bouncy into your setting.
Bouncy Works
Individual learners show:
- Tantrums down 94%
- Roughhousing down 75%
- Disruptive behavior down 99%
- Anxiety-driven behavior down 81%
Prepares our earliest learners by fostering:
- A sense of safety
- Feelings of belonging
- Abilities to self-regulate
- Skills to build agency
Educators report Bouncy:
- Serves as a trusted assistant
- Helps them manage their own stress
- Strengthens their professional capacity and expertise
Reports from classroom groups show:
- Breathing-based self-calming
- Positive self-talk
- Perseverance
- Appropriate movement
- Helping behavior
Tailor Bouncy to work for you and your students
Traumatic stress flips a switch in the brain from a natural, ready-to-learn state to a threatened state. This is especially true for our youngest learners. To flip the switch back, kids need three things: safety, secure attachment, and social-emotional competencies.
Bouncy achieves all three of these things by using direct instruction, music, dance, games, self-reflection, and community-building exercises. Students learn to develop agency, self-regulation, and a growth mindset, resulting in strong, calm, self-confident learners who can soothe themselves when stressed and persist in learning.
Play with purpose
Bouncy’s program elements are ideally designed for play-based learning. They can be easily integrated into learning centers and group play activities, incorporating digital and physical components as you see fit. Better yet, kids can take the lead in playing with Bouncy to support their agency.
Develop a sense of security
Bouncy understands that distressed and disruptive behavior in children is often rooted in fear and/or stressors. Bouncy calms and comforts children first, and then provide skill training so they learn how to self-calm and self-regulate. Bouncy does this is a fun and playful way.
Target behavior
Every child reacts differently to events, challenges, and traumas they encounter. Bouncy works as a teacher’s assistant to help address some of the more serious issues, like bullying, teasing, roughhousing, anxiety, and detachment. Using Bouncy’s array of instructional elements, students learn to address these target areas.
What others are saying about Bouncy’s Ready to Learn Resilience
“This is definitely a TWA Top Pick, and something to place in the curriculum for all kids”
– Teachers with Apps
“…ideas for teaching compassion and empathy…”
– TEDx Golden Gate ED
“Thorough, thoughtful multimedia social-emotional learning experience”
– Common Sense Graphite
“Elementary age students will love this sweet little dog and learn valuable life lessons while having fun”
– Smart Apps for kids
“…teaches life skills and social skills”
– Smart Apps for Special Needs
About Born for Greatness book for early learners
“…lovely children’s picture book with a positive message”
– The Combined Book Exhibit
I learned I should keep trying all the time and never give up.
Gabriel L., Age 4