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Free App: Teach Kids Money Management on Green$treets

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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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Teaching Kids about Airplane Travel with Smart Fish Frequent Flyer

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Are you planning to take airplane travel soon?  How do you help your kids to prepare for the travel?  How do you explain the security check at the airport? How about the waiting for luggage after landing?  Today I am going to share an app that will teach kids all about air travel: Smart Fish: [...]

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App Went Free: The Amazing Train

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This is another app deal shared at our Google Plus Educational Apps for Kids community.  If you are not a member yet, I highly recommend joining the community.  I learned many apps from the community, and many app deals shared by the community members.  All you need do is to open a Google account and [...]

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Make Pizza on iPAD – Bamba Pizza

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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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Learn Culture in the World via Music – Jazzy World Tour

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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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App Went Free: Toca Tailor

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Toca Tailor is FREE for limited time, from typical price $2.99.  iGameMom reviewed Toca Tailor Fairy Tale, a similar app from the same developer.  While Toca Tailor Fairy Tale has two fairy characters for kids to play with, Toca Tailor has four characters.  It is an app I would recommend even if it is not [...]

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App Went Free: Toca House

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Toca House is from one of my favorite developer Toca Boca.  It is FREE today only. Like other Toca Boca apps,such as Toca Doctor, Toca Tailor, Toca Kitchen,  it is open-ended play with no winning or losing.  It teaches kids about everyday chores of a household. Once kids open the app, they see this big house.  They [...]

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Help Kids on Social and Emotional Development – iLearn with Poko

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Social and emotional development is a skill children start developing right out of the womb. Whether it is the gaze into a parent’s eyes or being sang to while getting a diaper changed social-emotional development surrounds all of us. As children grow they begin to become aware that their emotions have names. iLearn with Poko: [...]

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Apps Helping Kids on Social Skills

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Today we have a guest reviewer from South Africa.  Nikki Heyman is a speech & language therapist with over 22 years of experience.  She also has a qualification in remedial education (cum laude), with a special interest in Autism Spectrum Disorders.  She is married with 2 teenage children.  Today she is sharing her expertise on [...]

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Learn History with Britannica Kids Ancient Rome

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Britannica Kids: Ancient Rome is such a great app for upper elementary and middle school kids.  It has rich content yet all at the appropriate age level, no matter it is the length of each article or the vocabulary choices.  The games are fun and are tied very well with the main contents.  As an app [...]

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App Went FREE: Toca Hair Salon

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Toca Hair Salon is another app by Toca Boca, who developed Toca Doctors, Toca Kitchen, and Toca Store.  All are recommended by iGameMom.  For limited time, Toca Hair Salon is FREE on App Store. In Toca Hair Salon, kids will be hair dressers or stylists.  They will cut hair for one of the 6 characters: [...]

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FREE App: Teaching Kids about US Elections

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The other day I took my son and his friend to their soccer practice.  During the ride, I overheard the two 4th graders talking about who they will vote for if they can vote.  Their discussion triggered my search of good educational materials about election.  Of course, I started with apps.  I found that quite [...]

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Real Friends vs. the Other Kind – A Realistic Guide

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Real Friends vs. The Other Kind is the 2nd book app in the Middle school confidential series.  As the title suggests, this book app addresses friendships among middle school kids.  What is a real friend?  What do you mean when you call someone friend?  What do you do if a friend gets her way all [...]

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Number Monkeys Help Kids Memorize Phone Numbers

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Does your child know your telephone number? Are you having a hard time helping him/her remember your phone number?  Now there is an app for that.  After playing the Number Monkeys game, your child will be able to sing your telephone number. Before letting the kid play the game, you have to put in a [...]

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The Oregon Trail – Great History Simulation Game

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The Oregon Trail is an educational simulation game teaching kids what it was like to be a pioneer traveling west in the 1800s.  It is based on the classic PC simulation game The Oregon Trail, which was created in the 1970s. In the game, kids join a historic wagon train traveling west ward from Missouri to Oregon.  [...]

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App Went Free: Toca Store

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One of the Toca Apps is FREE right now.   All Toca apps I reviewed are good.  I did not review this one, but want to pass on the news.  For Toca Apps I reviewed, please go here and here. Introduction at the App Store:  Have your kids ever played store at home? Now you [...]

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