The Noisy Bug Sing Along app is an interactive story book of bug sounds. With a target audience being 5-8 years old, it’s a great learning app for all the nature loving kids out there. It offers a fun way to learn more about bugs and their sounds. The author is a bug expert, so the facts are accurate and detailed. It’s a great interactive tool for learning about science and insects. Science and nature are a fundamental concept for… Read more

Sago Mini Sound Box is a free app from the developers at Sago Sago. It is an interactive music app for iPhone and iPad that is a great sound game for infants, toddlers, and preschool age children. This app allows for young children to explore music through coordination, exploration, and fine motor development. Music is a great learning tool and helps to develop intellectual and emotional skills. In this music app, the home screen opens up to a basic cover… Read more

Sound Touch is a great learning tool for young children. It is a flash card app geared toward toddlers and preschoolers, but  the simplicity of this app is great for all ages. This app is a virtual version of flash cards, which helps children to learn name recognition as well as teaching them animal sounds and musical noises. The main screen has 12 clip-art images to select from, and once chosen the screen displays a full screen photo of a… Read more

Magikid Train app is a matching puzzle game targeted toward 5-8 year olds. Puzzles are great for child development as it helps them recognize patterns, stimulates cognitive development, and teaches color and shape recognition. There is also a free version of this app, which I like because I can check out the free version before buying it to make sure I like it or not. If you do like it, I highly recommend purchasing the full version as it has… Read more

One of the most difficult things as a parent of a young elementary school kid isn’t trying to help them to learn basic math, it’s helping them to recall all those facts quickly and accurately.  It’s something that takes tedious amounts of time, years even.  It is so important to learn though, because it’s the simple math mistakes that are also the easiest to avoid.  Math Kingdom can offer that sort of help for your child.  It can help you… Read more

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 ABC and A Jazzy Day.  This app focuses on teaching about music and instruments through the exploration of a world tour. The opening screen takes… Read more

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 level. This interactive book app allows children to become part of the classic fairy tale. They have turned the story into a type of choose-your-own-adventure… Read more

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 in the game, and it lets the child express themselves with a sing-a-long karaoke option to the Bingo Song. This app also encourages clapping and stomping, which… Read more

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 job. There are four areas they focus on here: multiplication, division, spelling, and sight words.  First, the multiplication and division is presented in such a… Read more

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey from scholastic is a chapter book series geared toward school age boys. This book app is filled with action, thrills, and laughs. Your child can read the book, have the book read to them, or you can read it to your child. The silliness puts a fun spin on reading and a great way to draw in active, adventure seeking kids. The app has three sections: first the chapter book, second an… Read more

One of my all-time favorite authors is Dr. Seuss. You can’t get more legendary and classic than a Seuss book, and with the celebration of his recent birthday the Dr. Seuss apps are everywhere.  This app/book is one of my favorites: There’s a Wocket in my Pocket! by Dr. Seuss from Oceanhouse Media. It is a goofy story of rhymes and the various creatures found in the main character’s house. This book app offers three options for reading: read to me, read it myself… Read more

Today’s post focuses on learning activities for kids.  First we are going to introduce an app for toddlers, then we will look at the learning activities shared at last week’s Mom’s library.  There were so many interesting activities shared last week, it was hard to pick which one to feature.  Finally I decided on an article with 35 gross motor activities, bug and butterfly learning, and how to use chalkboard in everyday learning.  The app I want to share today… Read more

We have introduced several common core standard aligned apps, such as SplashMath, iTooch Elementary and Middle School, Math on Video.  The other day, I saw the FREE Common Core Standards app on App Store.  I found it very handy for teachers and parents to have. In the app, you will see three sections under Standards: Math – Traditional, Math – Integrated, and Language Arts.   According to corestandards.org, Math – Traditional is typical for schools in the US, while Integrated Math… Read more

Most schools are in spring break now, or are getting ready for spring break. It can’t be a better time for the kids to catch up some classic stories they will love.  Here is the good news – five Disney story apps are on sale this weekend!  Who doesn’t love a Disney classic? They are the stories that made us fall in love with Disney characters and faraway lands that will be in our imaginations forever. For only $0.99 cents… Read more