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How to Read and Write on PDF or Image Files on iPAD

Do you have your child do math or reading practices on worksheets? I have found many free printables recently while searching for some fun learning activities for the summer. These printables are great, but I don’t feel like to print out all of them, so I find a way to have my son do it [...]

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FREE App: European Exploration – The Age of Discovery

European Exploration: The Age of Discovery is a FREE app my son shared with me a while ago. They had played at school. It is a simulation or a role play game like Oregon Trail. The app lets kids to role play as 15th Century captains responsible for exploring the world. The goal of the [...]

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Free App: Teach Kids Money Management on Green$treets

Green$treets: Unleash The Loot! is an innovative game for children to learn money management and financial responsibility in a game setting. It is FREE. In the game, kids are on a mission to save animals that are close to being extinct. For each endangered animal, kids must initially design a budget that is enough to [...]

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How to Text Free between iPhone and Android Internationally

I have been looking for text free solutions for a while. When I first got my iPhone, I thought I was not going to text much, mostly just use it for phone calls, so we bought the mobile plan with monthly phone call coverage, and then pay text by number of texts we send and [...]

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Free App: Madagascar Math Ops

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Madagascar Math Ops has a free version of the app. It is a math app with physics-based game play. The Zoosters, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria, are in trouble, and it’s up to your child and the Penguins to save the day! Your child will help Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico as they embark on [...]

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FREE App: Learn Fraction Comparison with Visual Help

Fraction is a math concept that is easy to understand conceptually, but can get tricky when doing comparisons. Oh No Fractions is a simple FREE app helping kids understand fractions comparison. Opening the app, kids will see two fractions. They need decide if the one on the left is GREATER or LESS than the one on [...]

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FREE App: Discover How To Make Music from Musyc

I spot this app on App Store yesterday. It is a very interesting music app – no key boards, but random objects shaped like a square, a round button, a triangle. To make music, you simply move different objects around, the interactions among the objects create different sound, thus a beautiful piece of music. The [...]

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FREE App: Interactive Educational Toy – Ubooly

After reviewing so many apps, I have been thinking how to better integrate mobile apps into kids learning. Many apps are doing great job in making the learning interactive, incorporating multimedia materials. But there is one area I have not seen as much as I’d like, it is to integrate the mobile learning into the [...]

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App News : Live Puzzle! Forest Animals

Live Puzzle! is a new kind of puzzle for kids. Forget the static jigsaw puzzles, here children are amazed by cartoon animations never stopping: the scene keeps moving while kids drag and drop the puzzle pieces. The app is free with no In-App purchase, available for iPhone, iPod, iPAD, and Android. For more information, go [...]

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FREE App: Play Word Game with SparkleFish

Keep the children entertained and encourage them to use their little grey cells by downloading for free the SparkleFish app. As claimed by the developer, it is “a hilarious audio story completion game for the iPhone, iPad and Nook Tablet that will have you laughing uncontrollably.” It is like a Mad Libs with voice. [...]

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FREE: Help Kids develop Logic and Creative Thinking

Today I want to introduce a website to everyone – AplusClick. It is not an app, but a website. However, it is a website that fully functions on iDevices. I found many cool kids learning game sites, but most of those sites don’t function on iPAD. I am so glad this one does, and I [...]

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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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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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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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Free Apps: Collage Apps for Creating Memories

Mother’s day is coming. This is the time we all like to take pictures or putting family pictures together. Today I am sharing two collage apps I have been using, plus one I just discovered. All apps are FREE. They are all very easy to use. You can use them yourself, or you can use them with [...]

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