We love Smithsonian. This institute has done so much in education! Recently I found an excellent non fiction reading program from Smithsonian. It is called Smithsonian Tribune. It collects appropriate news stories that will interest kids and deliver these stories on the website or the free apps, and invite kids take quizzes or post comments. All readings are leveled by Lexile score. The content includes passages, photos, graphics, and audio and/or video materials about current events, history, art, culture and… Read more
Nico and Draco’s adventures keep going on a second chapter full of surprises and fun. Nico and Draco: bath time has 8 scenes where kids can interact with objects and move the story forward by playing the 7 minigames, where they can join figures, crush flies, make soap-bubbles… All of that while they practice reading, acquire new vocabulary, and more. For more information, go to the app’s website. Posted By: G4M3 Studios Note: App news submitted by app developers are… Read more
Storm and Skye is an animated story app for kids. It is designed for kids age 5 and up, but younger kids can enjoy the story as well, as long as they are not afraid of knight and dragons. The whole story is narrated vividly, with no text to read. It is a 45 minutes long story with 9 chapters. It is almost like a short movie to me. Storm is a boy. One day after shopping, his mom drove… Read more
Kidz Mix is an educational application containing Alphabets, Basic number operations and Numbers. It has alphabets for category “Transportation” and “Country”. The app gives detailed description about countries,their government, sports played and their culture. Each letter in an alphabet describes country and their flag. For more information, go to the app on App Store. Posted By: Gomathy Shankaran Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the links before publishing the news. //… Read more
Teaching kids creative writing is a complex process. It involves many elements, such as idea generation, plot structure, vocabulary, character development, review and revision, … and many more. We are trying to put some learning tools we discovered over time that are helpful in our writing learning journey. Hope this is helpful to you as well. I’d also like to hear from you what tools do you use while teaching kids writing. This is part of our Best Learning Tools for… Read more
This application describes basic internal organs and skeletal system, taking human body as an example. Body Parts is an educational app that helps young children learn what the different internal and skeletal parts are, along with names of the respective parts. For more information, go to the app on App Store. Posted By: Gomathy Shankaran Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the links before publishing the news. //… Read more
Gilbert Gas Science Experiments is a book app teaching kids about gas, or carbon dioxide in particular. It is one of the book in a 26 science book series: The Quirkles apps. They are also available as print books. Gilbert Gas Science app is usually $10, and is free for limited time. However, if you missed the free app, you can download the eBook on Quirkles website when you sign up a free account. We have the download link at the… Read more
A Multi-Level iOS and Android Game that is so entertaining you won’t even feel it is also educational! The game, created by FrankLouren Studios, has unique and dynamic gameplay, singular animation per level and many more features that will challenge your math skills! For more information, go to the app on App Store. Posted By: Frank Louren Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the links before publishing the news. //… Read more
Many people have heard of or even are using Lumosity. Now Lumosity has a new app designed especially for toddler and preschool kids: LumiKids. Looks like it is going to be a series of apps, and the first app LumiKids Park is Free. According to the designers, LumiKids is a collection of intuitive and adaptive play-based experience for young children. The focus of the design is on children’s cognitive, motor and social-emotional skills. The team has made great effort to… Read more
Roamaor is the novel word puzzle game on iOS. In Roamaor, the challenge is to combine characters into words. The words of the puzzles are from poetry. You can feel the rhyme of poetry while solving the puzzles. There are various kinds of monsters and obstacles blocking the way. The first version of Roamaor contains 3 worlds and 60 levels. For more information, go to the app on App Store. Posted By: LiWei Yang Note: App news submitted by app… Read more
Sight word recognition is an important stage for kids’ literacy development. Sight words, like is, of, you, make up 50% of texts. If kids can read and understand sight words, they are well on their way to being fluent readers. Although sight words are used frequently. they usually cannot be easily sounded out. Most times, kids learn sight words by simply memorize them, some with the help of flashcards. Today we have an app that makes learning sight words more… Read more
Squack has divided the world into 500 million squares, and it’s your job to collect them all by physically visiting them! Cover your neighbourhood, or challenge yourself to find new trip routes, hiking trails, or just be able to see where you’ve traveled. Compare against your friends, or the world at large. Fun, addictive, and family friendly. For more information, go to the app on App Store. Posted By: Tomasz Czernecki Note: App news submitted by app developers are not… Read more
Les Trois Elles, the French indy educational app publisher founded in 2010 by Montessori teachers recently announced that it is rebranding its 11 award-winning apps to Edoki. Discover their brand new website and blog and find out more about their beautiful apps available in 15 languages. For more information, go to http://edoki.net Posted By: Valérie Touze Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the links before publishing the news. //… Read more
Switch Zoo is a free app about animals. It is a little weird, but definitely fun to play. Kids mis-match parts of different animals to create new animals, along the way, learn facts of the original animals. After they create a new animal, they can write a story about it. So it is a good writing app too. Kids start the app with a busy interface filled with fun. In the middle is the frame showing the animal creation. Below… Read more
Christmas Pegboard by Cleverkiddo is a educational app for 6-8 year olds that allows the child to copy christmas themed templates onto a peg board. The Christmas themed templates tells the Christmas story. For more information, go to the app on App Store. Posted By: Carien van Zyl Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the links before publishing the news. //… Read more





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