AHhhhh! This is my kind of App. I love a good leveling educational app with a printable worksheet component that meets Common Core Standards. Nothing in life makes me happier. The Phonics Munch App gets your little one on the path to early reading with a cute story about Chomper the Bear who eats letters, consonant and vowel sounds and rhyming words…and he is just SO cute. The program reinforces what it teaches by using several different methods to create… Read more

When I first received this app to review, I felt a little overwhelmed.  I was also a bit skeptical.  I have downloaded language flash card apps with little success, thinking that seeing and hearing the words would be all my children needed to get themselves familiar with a foreign language.  I was wrong.  This app, Kids Learn Mandarin Beginner, shows me how and why.  This app doesn’t just show kids the pictures and let them hear the words but puts… Read more

We have reviewed a couple Lola Panda apps, such as Lola’s Math Train,  and Lola’s Fruit Shop Sudoku.  I am glad to see a new Lola Panda’s app coming out – Lola’s ABC Party.  Like other Lola Panda apps, this is a bright and engaging learning app for kids 3-6.  It begins with simple word recognition, and graduates to more challenging tasks when the child is ready. Great and fun reading practice for preschoolers! When kids start the app, they… Read more

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

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

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 their speed and comprehension.” We want our children be able to “read to learn”, but they have to pass the “learn to read” stage first… 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

Learn with WordFriends is an educational game from WordWorld, the Emmy-winning show seen on PBS. It is a TV show teaching kids about words.  I found their website  have a lot great activity ideas helping young kids on their literacy.  In the app, kids will see the familiar characters if they’ve been watching the show.  They will play games building and discovering words with the 7 characters: Dog, Duck, Sheep, Ant, Bear, Pig and Frog.  There are three types of games… Read more

A while ago I introduced Mindsnacks Spanish app.   Now they have a kids vocabulary app with similar game settings. Different from typical ways that English is taught at school, the app groups words by context.  The first lesson is all about animal life, so you see the words: omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, fauna, scavenger, voracious.  Kids can jump into games right away, or they can choose to take the lesson first.  In the lesson, they will see a cute picture illustrating the meaning… Read more

ABCmouse.com released another free app: 26 A-Z Music Videos.  It is a companion app for their newly released music album The Letter Songs A to Z.  In the album, there are 26 original letter songs helping children learn the names and sounds of the letters, and corresponding vocabulary.  Each letter song is produced and arranged in a different musical style to introduce children to a wide variety of musical genres, including folk, pop, R&B, big band, country, rock, tango, disco… Read more

This is an app deal shared on Educational Apps for Kids community on Google+ by Brian Morale . It is such a great deal, I felt I have to share with my readers.  If you have not joined the community, I highly encourage you to join.  You will receive app reviews and deals from various developers and reviewers, not just iGameMom.  In additional to this one, there is another app on deal news shared there too.  Make sure visit there.  To… Read more

Word Wonderland is an app helping kids practice phonics in a game setting.  The content is designed for kids in grade k to 2.  It is FREE for limited time.  When kids start the app, they can choose between Explore the World and Practice.  Practice is where they just practice, with no level advancement.  Kids can choose what they want to practice and at which level. Explore the World is the game setting.  Kids start at level 1 and advance to higher level… Read more

How do you children like English grammar?  Do they like to practice grammar problems?  Grammar Wonderland Elementary is a game app designed for grammar practice.  It makes learning grammar a fun activity and it is FREE for limited time.  When kids start the app, they will have two options: Explore Worlds and Practice Skills.  Looks to me, the content of both options are about the same, except Practice Skills lets kids choose what they want to practice on, while in… Read more

Did you know a group of peacocks is referred to as an ostentation? Well, I had no idea, so I hope you’ll understand why I’m desperate to stumble across some now, and soon, so I can show off my new knowledge. A Troop is a Group of Monkeys is an adorable iPad book (they say they’ll release a hardcover version this fall). The book teaches children, with the use of rhyme, the correct terms for different groups of animals. Here’s… Read more