Another Giveaway to celebrate the 10K pageview milestone — The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk.  It is $3.99 at the App Store.  A great Halloween gift for the kids. For a chance to win, please enter at the Rafflecopter below.  If it doesn’t show, simply click the “App Giveaway” link.  The Giveaway ends October 13.  The winner will be announced on October 14 at the bottom of this post.  The winner’s name will also be on Rafflecopter. Good luck! Like… Read more

Do you like felt board? Have you used it before? I liked felt board, except that it was hard to find the pieces you wanted many times. Now with Felt Board app, this won’t an issue anymore. All pieces are well organized, and you don’t even have to worry about losing any. In the Felt Board app, you will find pieces in different categories: background; body and figures, such as faces, different hair styles; clothing; animals;  accessories, like hats, wands… Read more

The 2nd Giveaway to celebrate the 10K pageview milestone is Dr. Seuss What was I Scared of?.  The Halloween promotion is off, now it is $1.99 at the App Store.  It is a great book teaching kids about fear. For a chance to win, please enter at the Rafflecopter below.  If it doesn’t show, simply click the “App Giveaway” link.  The Giveaway ends October 12.  The winner will be announced on October 13 at the bottom of this post.  The winner’s name… Read more

This is the first giveaway in celebration of the 10K pageview milestone. MultiFlow is a great app to help your kids learn times tables. Thanks to Dactyl Applications, who developed the app, iGameMom has one promocode to giveaway. To learn more about the app, please read iGameMom’s review here. For a chance to win, please leave a comment at the original review page here. You have to include “Math” in your comment to be eligible. The giveaway ends on Thursday… Read more

STEM is a quickly developed area. It includes Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. These fields are in high demand. As data has shown, STEM is growing as twice as fast as other field by 2018. What do you do to encourage kids’ interest in STEM field? Today we share a wonderful website with tons of STEM information for kids, as well as for teachers. This post was sponsored by the Boys & Girls Club of America as part of an… Read more

Learn Times Table is a key stage for kids to get fluent in math. As my son’s math teacher told me, you want the child be able to memorize the basic facts, so he can tell you the answer without even thinking about it. This is not an easy job. Luckily, there are quite some tools helping kids to achieve the goal, MultiFlow is one of them. MultiFlow is an app to drill the kids on multiplication facts. There are… Read more

I can’t believe it is already time to think about Halloween. My son just got his Halloween custom yesterday! Here are some good Halloween themed apps. They are educational and kids friendly that young children can use. Trick or Treat Picture Me is designed for kids 2 to 5 years old. It lets parents add their child’s photo to this personalized book app and see them dressed up in adorable Halloween costumes such as a silly scarecrow, pudgy pumpkin and… Read more

Have you seen any of the Ice Age movie? Do you like them?  Now it is available on iPhone/iPod/iPAD.  Even better, for a limited time, it is FREE. This is a book app developed by iStoryTime, who also developed Wee Sing & Learn ABC.  With the initial download (now it is free), you get Ice Age story.  It is essentially a picture book with background music.  Both the pictures and the narration are authentic.  There are three options to read… Read more

Do you know you can send text, image, and video for FREE with iMessage?  iMessage is a free service from Apple.  Communications between iMessage users are free via WiFi.  You can have iMessage on iPhone, iPod, iPAD, and your MAC computer with OS X Mountain Lion. How to set up iMessage?   On iPhone, go to “Setting”, then “Message”.  You will see a screen like below.   Usually, iPhone automatically turns on iMessage during activation.  If not, turn it “On”… Read more

This week’s giveaway is Number Monkeys.  Since I posted the review, it received a lot traffic.  Seems there is a great need in teaching little ones the phone numbers.  Thanks to Thomas Peay at South Bird Studios, who developed the cool app, iGameMom has TWO more promocodes to giveaway. To learn more about the app, please visit my review page. For a chance to win, please enter at the Rafflecopter below.  If it doesn’t show, simply click the “App Giveaway” link.  The… Read more

Scribblenauts Remix is a fun game that the whole family can enjoy.   I like it especially for the open-ended play.  There is no right-wrong answer.  You solve a puzzle in your own unique style. The app has a variety of brain-teasing puzzles.  The solutions to the puzzles are endless, so you can re-play the same puzzle again and again.  For example, the first puzzle is to grab the star on a tree.  The child can choose to cut the tree… Read more

If your kids study any type of music instrument, you probably have used metronome.  We had one, but it was broken.  Where shopping for a new one, I explored the App Store.  Metronome+ is the third metronome app we used at home, and this is a keeper. The reasons we like this one: The interface is very user friendly.  It is very easy to set the speed. The tempo is very stable. The sound is loud enough for the user to… Read more

Educreations is originally designed for teachers. It turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Users can create an animated story, or a tutorial video, with pictures, adding notations on the pictures, recording voices, and, of course, writing on the board. You can use it teaching almost anything. Once you finish recording, you can share it with people of your choice through email, Facebook or Twitter. As a FREE app, it is a great teaching tool for teachers and home-school families… Read more

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