Play and Learn with Wallace is a learning app series designed for preschool kids.  It combines educational games and interactive play to engage preschoolers in a fun learning environment. It is a shell app, holds all the apps coming into the series.  It is free to download, with sample questions from each individual app to play with.  There are currently 4 apps are available, each has 6 games.  The 4 apps are: My first app: Kids learn simple words, numbers… 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

When we talk about kids learning math, we tend to think about math facts practice.  While math facts are important foundational math skills, there are more math skills kids need learn – critical thinking and problem solving are two of them.  I have not found as many math apps focusing on these skills as those on simple math facts, so I get excited whenever I found one, and even more excited if it is FREE.  MathLands is a free app… Read more

ABC music is an app for kids to learn alphabet and music instruments, like their names and sounds.  It is a fun app even for parents.  It is now Free for limited time on App Store.  When open the app, kids will see arrays of pictures that are all instrument related, some with letters on it.  Tapping on any of the pictures will bring up the close-up photo of the instrument and the instrument name and the starting letter are… Read more

Leo’s Pad Appisode 3 launched a while ago, and now all three appisodes are put into one app called Leo’s Pad: Preschool Kids Learning Series.  We reviewed Leo’s Pad Appisode 1  and Leo’s Pad Appisode 2, and like them very much. Like previous appisodes, Appisode 3 also has great learning activities built in the storyline. It starts with a painting activity, where kids have to share a brush with others and waiting for their turns; then Leo and Cinder have to… Read more

Do you have your child do math or reading practices with 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 found a way to read and write on PDF or image files on iPAD directly. All you need is the app GoodNotes. GoodNotes can read files from your device’s photo album, your Dropbox, or… Read more

European Exploration: The Age of Discovery is a FREE app my son shared with me a while ago.  They played at school.  It is a simulation or a role-playing game like Oregon Trail. The app lets kids role-play as 15th Century captains responsible for exploring the world. The goal of the game is to discover the entire New World. In the game, kids are in charge of everything from hiring a crew, to building the ships, to planning the trip… Read more

Today we are introducing a book set teaching children to read.  It is from Blue Manor Education.  As it is their grand opening day, they are doing an iPAD mini giveaway.  All iGameMom readers can enter the giveaway in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.  We have introduced several early reader series before, like ABCmouse early reader series free apps.  The Blue Manor Education’s Early Reader Series  are not apps, instead, they are eBooks in PDF format, which can be opened in… Read more

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 sustain the animal’s lifestyle in natural habitat, such as animal’s food, shelter, and toys. They also need take care of the animal by feeding and playing with him. Once… Read more

Easy Studio – Animate with shapes is a fun app you and your kids will all like.  Just like the app title suggested, it lets kids put together animations on the iPad using only geometric shapes. There are two play modes: Easy and Expert.  When kids first start the app, they will be in Easy mode.  Kids will watch a tutorial on the basic functionalities – how to move pieces onto the canvas, how to take single pictures, how to play the… Read more

Are you looking for an app for your little ones to share with daddy this Fathers’ Day? We have one for you – Just Helping My Dad is based on Mercer Mayer’s easy reader of the same title. Little Critter’s Dad has the day off and has a big list of things he wants to get done. It is a good thing Little Critter is determined to help out! He even gives dad an early morning wake up call! With the ‘extra… 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

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: Frequent Flyer.  The game starts by asking kids pick a place they want to go: Paris, Moscow, London, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, … There are… Read more

I found this app 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 join the community. You don’t even need a gmail account, you can use any email account to open a Google account. If you already have a Google account, simply click the… Read more