Kids in Early Elementary Schools

Apps for Kids Age 6-10

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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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: Books with Learning Activities

On iGameMom, we have reviewed a couple book reader apps. You can think a book reader app as a book library or book store, where you can find many books, and pick which one you want to read or purchase. Recently, Bethany from No Twiddle Twaddle told me about an app from Sylvan Dell. As [...]

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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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On Beyond Bugs: All about Insects -The Cat in the Hat Learning Library

The release of On beyond Bugs: All about Insects couldn’t have been better timed for us. We are just finishing up a month long Butterfly project. This book App by Trisha Rabe is the latest release in the Science themed Cat in the Hats Learning Library. Cat in the Hats Learning Library is a series [...]

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FREE App: Learn Programming with Hopscotch

Does your child like games? Would he/she be interested in make games of his/her own? Hopscotch is a FREE app allowing kids to create their own games and animations. Even if the child has not shown much interest in programing, it is still worth a try on this free app. Why? Here is the information [...]

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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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App Went Free: iLuv Drawing Dinosaurs

Is your child a dinosaur fan? If he/she is, you’ve got to get this one – iLuv Draw Dinosaurs is FREE for limited time. The app will show the kids how to how to draw dinosaurs such as T Rex, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor and more. Like other iLuv Drawing apps, such as iLuv Drawing Animals and [...]

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Off Screen with App: 7 Apps for Off-screen Fun

Next week is Screen Free week. What are you going to do? Are you going to be screen off completely or just reduce the screen time? Here I have a list of apps that will help you stay off screen and still have fun. Fetch Lunch Rush: Kids take lunch order and figure out how [...]

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TeachMe 3rd Grade

I was super excited when I got the opportunity to review this app. I absolutely love the Teach Me series of apps by 24x7digitial. Actually, none of my kids are anywhere near 3rd grade but I really just wanted to see how they changed this series to grow with kids. Well, they did a great [...]

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Off Screen with App: Human Body Science Curriculum

We have reviewed 3 book apps in the Human Body Detective (HBD) Series. As I found out, HBD series also offers learning activities designed based on the apps, and the activities are aligned with school curriculum. Our reviewer Piwi Mama reviewed the materials. Today she is sharing her experience with the curriculum as part of our “Off [...]

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A Heart Pumping Adventure

Today we are reviewing the third title in the Human Body Detective (HBD) series by Dr Heather Manley. During their first trip Merrin and Pearl visited the Digestive system. It the 2nd book, they went through the Immune system. Today’s title is ‘A heart Pumping Adventure’. Merrin is reading about the Heart in her science book and becomes [...]

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