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ABCmouse 26 A-Z Music Videos

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

LEGO App4

When I saw which app I would be reviewing I couldn’t download it fast enough, literally! My son waited for the app to be downloaded onto the iPad while his sister was already playing on her iPod. He was playing catch up for the next few minutes, looking over her shoulder the entire time. I mean, its a cool free LEGO app! The premise is simple. Kids pick a basic LEGO vehicle body, wheel, cabin, and cargo.  They then run… Read more

Toca Tailor

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 free, so grab it while it is on deal.  While in the app, kids pick one of the four characters they want to dress up… Read more

Over in the Jungle

Over in the Jungle, a rainforest rhyme by Dawn Productions is a reading, counting and sing-along interactive app. There’s so much packed in here, that you certainly get quite a bit of content for your dollar with this app! I would say it works best with 3-5 year olds (however, there’s probably something of interest to a wider age range in terms of factual information contained in the app) and it gives kids the opportunity to have lots of variety… Read more

Mystery Math Town

Mystery Math Town is developed by Artgig Apps, who also developed Marble Math.  It is a math app for elementary school kids, but it is more than math.  The story of the game is to help a little ghost rescue the fireflies that are hidden in Mystery Math Town. Kids have to solve math problems to unlock rooms while searching for fireflies. By collecting fireflies, kids move up game levels and earn talking portraits of the townspeople for their gallery… Read more

Toca House

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 can visit different parts of the house by swiping figures around.  Depending on the room or the yard location they stop at, kids can help… Read more

Lucky Escape – Human Body Detective

Over the next few weeks the Piwi kids and I will be reviewing the Human Body detectives (HBD) series for iPad.  There are 3 titles based on the Award winning (printed) books written and illustrated by Naturopathic Doctor, Heather Manley. Young sisters, Merinn and Pearl are Human Body Detectives. After reading a lot about anatomy they both are able to use their imagination to go on adventures inside the body to solve medical mysteries. The HBD series aims to teach… Read more

Phonics and Reading with McGuffey

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

Fruits for Little Lamb

Today we are sharing some Easter devotional apps for kids.  Although iGameMom is not associated with any particular religion, I believe religion is a good window for us to look into a culture.  Having lived in 4 countries with completely different cultual, I appreciate any opportunity to expose my child to a different cultual.  I am glad our reviewer JJ the Piwi mama explored Easter devotional apps to share with us.  Let’s see what Piwi Mama have for us.  This week the… Read more

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories DrSeuss

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr Seuss is another app produced by Oceanhouse Media and adds to their mighty cannon of Dr Seuss related products. I have to admit to being a very late latecomer when it comes to Dr Seuss. I was never introduced to it as a child and hadn’t read any of the stories until I had children of my own. I know, I know! My only excuse is that it just never featured… Read more

Word Wonderland App

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

ArtMail App

Traveling with kids can be one of two things…an absolute joy, or a terrifyingly stressful ordeal. The best thing a parent can do to prevent the latter is to BE PREPARED. Enter my secret weapon—the iPad. On long bus, train or plane rides, we do as many non-digital activities as possible. But the inevitable point always comes when the iPad is the best solution. My arsenal of Apps always have a real world component, that means whatever activity we do… Read more

Grammar wonderland Elementary App

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

A troop is a group of monkeys

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

It is a Small World

Three Disney story apps are on promotion price this weekend, one is FREE.  There are all great apps, if you like them, this is a good time to buy. It is a Small World ($1.99 from $3.99): an interactive sing-along storybook app that shares the beauty and peace between cultures around the world. Featuring the original Sherman Brothers’ song lyrics and Disney amusement park ride of the same name, the app takes kids on a world-class adventure via a hot air balloon… Read more