Not Entirely Intuitive and Rather Boring

I found things in this app that need improvement to make for a more comfortable & intuitive user experience. For example, when tracing letters, why cant you flick your finger to move onto the next letter? When I finish A, I want to do B next, but in order to do that I need to go back to the main menu & choose B? That process is so convoluted.
Why on the main menu are the options not titled or graphically more descriptive? As Im learning how to navigate this app (or eventually my child does it solo), you expect me to automatically know what "a, oy, rR, and E" mean in terms of where these buttons are going to take me? For a graphic example, you could include arrows on the letters which denote tracing activities and maybe a speaker icon on activities where you just listen.

I also suppose this app isnt marketed toward those unfamiliar with Montessori. Its a little strange in how it connects letter sounds to their letter counterpart in the "rR" section. The lowercase "a" slides across the screen and the voice reads the short "a" sound. Then the uppercase "A" slides across and the voice reads letter name, which is also the long A sound. I understand that for your program the lowercase "a" means were going to do sounds and the uppercase "A" means were going to say the letter name. But why not have both the letters slide across together, say the sound then say the letter?

I do like the recording feature for sounds and letters. And I like the tracing practice. But its all fairly boring…nothing interesting, just plain tracing or listening to sounds/letters.

*Im the mom of a preschooler. Im only mildly familiar with Montessori philosophies. I have experience in teaching middle school language arts & ESL.

user experience perfectionist about Montessorium: Intro to Letters