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Where is My Mickey

Where’s My Mickey is another fun app from Disney that is part of the Where’s My Water series. Where’s My Water and its’ sequel Where’s My Perry are physics games for kids. Kids learn liquid physics, problem solving and strategic planning while playing the games. Where’s My Mickey is a new add to the series. There are 8 stories in the app, each story has a set of games. The games in the first 4 stories are free, and the… Read more

WordGirl  Surperhero Training

WordGirl Superhero Training is a vocabulary learning app based on the PBS KIDS series WordGirl.  In this app, you can have up to three different “superheroes” play their own separate games, perfect for households of more than one kids. Kids will love play vocabulary games with WordGirl. Once kids choose their look and their name, they are taken to their lair to play games.  There are four games within this app; a game of logic, reflexes, navigation, and memory.  The lair… Read more

Ranger Rick Jr. Bear App

The Ranger Rick Jr Appventures series is a great app series for kids age 3 to 8 to learn about animals. The Ranger Rick Jr – Bear is the 2nd app in the series. The first app is about Lion. In this 2nd app, kids will learn everything about bears with Ranger Rick Jr. I like apps that are the most comprehensive in their subject matter. They often use varying methods to impart information to your child and common core standards are generally followed. What we… Read more

Earth 101 for iPAD

Earth 101 for iPAD is a beautiful 3D model of the entire earth, with tons of geographic features and landmark information. Upon opening the app, kids will see the globe. Spinning the globe, kids can visit different areas on the earth. Tapping on any place brings up information of the area or the feature, such as the Atlantic Ocean, the London Eye. The information available depends on the zoom level.  When you zoom in, you can see more features and… Read more

Night Zookeeper Story Pairs

This app is a memory game with a cute twist the whole family can get in on.  The game can be played with up to four players who get to test their memory skills with a matching game of pairs.  Seems simple enough, but the twist lies in which pairs you get.  Ahhhh.  Each set has a specific character who holds a special power, maybe a plot twist, a bizarre characteristic or a setting.  Whoever wins has to make up… Read more

LEGO Fix the Factory

Fix The Factory is a new free app from LEGO. LEGO calls it a puzzle game, but I view it another cool game app teaching kids about programming. The story of the game features a humanoid robot fixing the factory, where battery packs are dropped in all the wrong places.  The players’ jobs are to write instructions in code blocks to guide the robot move to the right spot, pick up the mis-placed batteries, and put them back to the… Read more

Eat and Move-O-Matic

The Eat & Move-O-Matic is a free educational app showing kids the relationship between taking calories in and burning them off through activity.  The goal is to help kids make new discoveries about their favorite foods and support healthy decision making related to food choice and consumption. The app was developed as part of the 4-H Youth Voice: Youth Choice initiative, which is a national program that encourages young people to develop and maintain healthy, active lifestyles. It is very easy… Read more

Play and Learn with Wallace

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

Angry Birds

Even if you don’t like games or never played Angry Birds, you probably have seen those red birds somewhere – toy store, candy store, …  I have heard two completely different opinions about Angry Birds from parents.  Some think it is a great educational game.  Some believe kids are wasting time playing Angry Birds.  As you can guess, I am in the first camp.  I think Angry Birds is a great physics game.  If you are interested, here is an… Read more