Have you seen the movie How to Train Your Dragon? Now DreamWorks is working with Netflix to launch a new extension series exclusively on Netflix Dragons Race to the Edge. It is coming out on June 26. In the same time, they also launched an app School of Dragons. Kids can grow and train their own dragons right on the iPad or other tablets. If you don’t like to play on tablets, you can also play on computer on the… Read more

Weather has been a fun part of early education for kids. I remember those weather boards in my son’s classroom. We have a magnet weather board at home for him to play with also. Today we introduce a real weather app specially designed for kids. It is a real weather app because it tells kids the weather condition of major cities around the world in real time. Because it is specially designed for kids, it is more kids friendly and… Read more

DIY Lake Water is a free hands on science app for kids from UC Berkeley’s The Lawrence Hall of Science. We reviewed their DIY Sun app, which is also free. This new app DIY Lake Science is another fun science app for kids who are interested in natural science. Funded by NSF, it allows families and educators to investigate and learn about lakes and other freshwater ecosystems at home, at school, or anywhere you go. For those who don’t have… Read more

Love of reading is the best gift parents can give to their children. The most important factors that are shown with positive effect of children’s reading ability are the availability of books at home and parents reading with kids. Now children are spending more and more time on digital devices, it is a good idea to have reading apps for kids on your smart phones and tablets. Digital books on mobile devices have many advantages. Mobility is one, carrying many… Read more

We’ve heard it again and again that the best gift we can give to our children is the love of reading. But what can parents do to make kids enjoy reading and enjoy books? There are so many ways, and every parent is doing it differently. Here are some we’ve done that worked well for us. I’d love to hear your ideas and the books you used. How to Help Kids Enjoy Books at a Young Age Start from a… Read more

We have reviewed several Grandma Grandpa series apps. I love the fun grandma and grandpa and the interesting learning activities they have. Today they launched a new app called Grandma’s Preschool. If you have a preschool age child, check it out. Your child will love it. It is essentially a preschool on your tablet. Kids can learn and play preschool at home. When kids start the app, they will see a room like most preschool classroom. There are several stations… Read more

ABC Gurus just had a new update. Kids can now play the app in 5 languages: English (US & UK), Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. To celebrate the new update, Colto the develop of this fun app is giving away 5 apps to iGameMom readers. You can download the app using the coding below. ABC Gurus is a fun alphabet app designed with the incidental learning method. It is just like the natural way that kids acquire the language. Instead… Read more

Do you like math? Math is in our daily life. The more you help kids relate math with things they like, the more they will like math. Today we share some ideas of kitchen math activities for kids, things you can do with kids in your kitchen that also use their math skills. Fun Math Activities in Kitchen for Preschool Kids Make a necklace with cheerios: you can also use any o-shaped snacks. Tell kids you are going to make… Read more

Learning numbers and counting could be really fun. There are so many things that we can count with kids no matter where we go. But how to count with a preschool or kindergarten kids? How to make the counting activities different and interesting? Today’s app Numbers and Counting with Teacher Tilly will show you 5 different ways to learn numbers. Numbers and Counting is a math app for kids age 2 to 6, helping them learn and practice numbers and… Read more

We all know today’s kids facing a changing world, that the knowledge base of human being grows faster and faster. It is crucial for kids to have the skills to be a self-learner. They can gather information from different sources and decipher the information, connect the dots, and form their own knowledge base and opinions on subjects they need learn. One big building block in this self-learning process is reading non-fiction materials. Reading non-fiction is very different from reading fiction… Read more

Play, sing, create and orchestrate with Opera Maker your own opera. Share the results as a video with your friends and family. You direct, choose the stage setting and the costumes. Create your very own story on the stage with ease. Take a photo of yourself and lend your face to the characters. Give them an extra special touch with your own voice. For more information, go to app on App Store. Posted By: Opera Maker Note: App news submitted… Read more

Game developer Playmation Studios released mobile game Sleep Furiously May 7th, 2015. The game is a puzzle game in which players connect words from a jumbled grid in order to form sentences. The game is based on the concept that a sentence can be grammatical but nonsensical. Sleep Furiously is $2.99 to download and includes no in-app purchases. For more information, go to the app website. Posted By: Jen Helms Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed… Read more

Do you like to watch movies with kids? I like movies. Good movies provide a lot learning opportunities for kids and they can learn things they would not from other sources. In addition to watching the movies, there are a lot simple things you can do to maximize the learning from the movies. We have introduced ideas on how to teach with movies. Today we share some movie themed educational activities for kids. Educational Activities for Kids Based on Movies… Read more

Among the wonderful apps available, only one teaches babies and toddlers the key sounds of English, Spanish, French and Italian that provide the building blocks for future language learning, backed by scientific brain research and immersive game play! For more information, go to https://www.kadho.com Posted By: Kadho inc. Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the links before publishing the news. Like to receive future articles for FREE? Sign Up Below!  … Read more