Kids in Pre-School and Kindergarten

Apps for Kids Age 3-6

App Went Free: Patterns by EdNinja

Pattern recognition is an important skill for early math learners. Patterns by EdNinja is a perfect app for this purpose. With the app, kids have to quickly analyze the pattern, relate and select an image to fill in the blanks at the beginning, middle or end of the pattern. Depends on kids ability level, teachers [...]

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Make Pizza on iPAD – Bamba Pizza

Do your kids like pizza? Do they like to make pizza? We have a local pizza restaurant where kids can watch, through a big window, how pizzas were made. Every time when we eat there, my son has to go watch and there are always many kids line up at the window waiting for their [...]

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Science of Light – Bobo Explores Light

Since I posted best science apps for kids, I received several recommendations on Bobo Explores Lights. I contacted Game Collage, who designed the app, for a review copy. I am so grateful they sent me one and I am very impressed with the app – the art, the interface, the content, the animation, the flow [...]

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App Went FREE: Guess How Much I Love You

Guess How Much I Love You is an app based on Sam McBratney’s ever-popular book of the same title Guess How Much I Love You. I remember we read the book again and again with my son. I am sure your little one will like the book and this app. It is FREE for limited [...]

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Learn Culture in the World via Music – Jazzy World Tour

If you are looking for an app to teach your children about culture and various parts of the world, this app is for you. The folks over at The Melody Book have recently released Jazzy World Tour – Musical Journey for Kids. They have developed several music themed learning apps, such as Jazzy 123, Jazzy [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow

I remember reading fairy-tales as a child. I could read or be read the same story over and over and find so much enjoyment. I love reading and hope I can pass on this passion to my children. The children’s book and app publisher, Nosy Crow, has taken the classic fairy-tale of Little Red Riding Hood to a new [...]

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FREE App: Another Monster at the End of This Book

Another Monster at the End of This Book, sequel to The Monster at the End of This Book, is set to FREE today, as a result of sponsorship. Now when you open the app, you will see a sponsored ad at the beginning and the end of the story as a way to support the [...]

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Off Screen with App: Water Wheels

While it is getting warm, I start collecting ideas on activities we can do outside. I found a FREE app called Curiosity School. It has instructions on making a water wheel with egg carton. We did it over the weekend. It is very easy to make and we all had a good time making it. [...]

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Dr Seuss Short Story Collection

Oceanhouse Media have pulled out another Dr Seuss app from their creative hats. Everyone’s favourite cat in a hat makes an appearance, along with an astoundingly large extended rhyming family including I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today, King Looie Katz about the king of cats, The Glunk that Got Thunk about a little girl who likes [...]

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Kids Magazine on iPAD – Timbuktu

A while ago I discovered an App magazine for children called Timbuktu. I like the app a lot, the design is bright and the delivery of the learning is fun and engaging. I invited Francesca Cavallo, Co-founder & Creative Director at Timbuktu Lab give iGameMom readers an introduction about the app magazine. Here is what Francesca shared with [...]

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FREE App: Jake’s Never Land Pirate School

Jake’s Never Land Pirate School App from Disney Jr. is really cute, especially for a free App. It offers itself (tongue in cheek I think) as Pirate ‘School’ borrowing from other school themed Apps, it has various leveling games laid out in a school room structure. Your child can take classes in: Sailing: a motion [...]

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App Went Free: Montessori Numbers

Montessori Numbers is designed to help build sound mathematical foundations in children aged 3-7 by using a concrete, visually significant material inspired from the Montessori methodology. I love the visual association they used in the app: for 100, it is a 10×10 square; for ten, it is a rod with 10 units sticked together. We [...]

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Toy Story: Story Theater

Finally, an app ALL of my kids love! What a joy as a parent to find a place, toy, activity, or game that all of your kids can enjoy together. Well, I bring you an app the whole family can enjoy. What makes Toy Story: Story Theater so great is everything your kids bring to it. [...]

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App Went FREE: Baseball Multiplications

If you have a child who likes baseball, you have to get these two apps when they are FREE now, for limited time. Everyday Mathematics Baseball Multiplication 1-12 Facts and Everyday Mathematics Baseball Multiplication 1-6 Facts. They both are multiplication practice apps – as you can tell one is for numbers within 6, one is [...]

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Learn Sight Word with Smiley Sight Words App

Sight words are very important in reading ability development. According to Patricia Cunningham in Phonics They Use, “In order to read and write fluently with comprehension and meaning, children must be able to automatically read and spell the most frequent words. As the store of words they can automatically read and spell increases, so will [...]

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The Bingo Song – Interactive Sing Along Music App

The Bingo song is a well known classic children’s song. The Bingo Song HD app brings this song to life for kids to interact with, sing along to, as well as fun animal flash cards that helps make learning farm animals fun. This app can help children recognize the names and sounds of animals, various colors and characteristics found [...]

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