Free Play on Ooka Island!
A Chance for Curious Young Minds to Explore and Discover New Things

Free Play on Ooka Island!

Here’s one more way children can explore, discover, and learn from one another on Ooka Island! The Free Play feature is enabled after a child completes a full cycle of the learning flow (see PDF).  

The learning flow consists of 20 minutes of guided curricular play in a variety of fun phonemic and phonetic activities and then 10 minutes of reading a new e-book in the Popcorn Library. After this 30 minute period of learning, the child has accomplished a lot of hard work and as a result is rewarded with Free Play! During Free Play, the entire island opens up and children can navigate freely throughout the island to explore and discover new surprises.

Free Play is eight minutes long and is signified by a beach ball timer. During Free Play, Ooka Island is open for discovery and the young learner can explore the following experiences:

• Interact with the Ooka Elves in the Pencil Playground
• Change their avatar’s clothes, costume, hairdo, Zopet etc.
• Listen and dance to Ooka Tunes music at the Ooka Jukebox
• Browse and purchase items at the Mist Mart
• Visit Trophy Room to view in-game achievements
• Read unlocked books in Popcorn Library
• Play their favorite activities and reinforce reading skills at all unlocked sites around the island

Check out the video clip below of a small group of kindergarten students exploring Free Play together!

- The Ooka Island Reading Team