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Bottom Line: When your child is ready to move on past the basic numbers apps, Math Easy HD is a must-download.
Math Easy HD features 10 math games targeted for older preschoolers and younger children in school (approximately 4-6). The app is very well done and presents a nice bridge between the basic counting and learn-your-numbers apps and more advanced school-age games.
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Every reader who comments on this post in the next 24 hours will be entered in a drawing to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate! The winner will be drawn out of a hat by my six-year old (to ensure complete integrity) and announced tomorrow.
You can just say hello...or tell us your favorite educational app that you'd like to see us review. All you have to do is comment!
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Bottom Line: Awesome, but $7.99?
If you're not familiar with Todd Parr, he is an author who writes fantastic children's books about acceptance, diversity and self-esteem (It's Okay To Be Different, The Peace Book, etc.)
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Bottom Line: A great intro to poetry writing for kids...and adults.
In Instant Poetry, the player is presented with a group of random words to compose a poem (or short story) of their own design. Words can be dragged and dropped, enlarged or shrunk, and colored. The author can also enter their own words if they choose or just keep selecting from different groups of other random words.
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Bottom Line: Not a lot to it, but my daughter has played it so much I hear the song in my sleep!
Five Little Ducks is an app designed around the child's song of the same name: "Five little ducks went out one day. Over the hills and far away...Mother Duck said Quack, quack quack, quack. But only four little ducks came back."
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Bottom Line: Well done, allows more levels to be downloaded and free!
Free apps don't get much better than TinkerBox. Sometimes when I review an app and I type something like "$2.99 is expensive" I hesitate, because $2.99 isn't really that expensive, but apps like Tinker Box remind me why...$2.99 is expensive when there are free apps like this.
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Bottom Line: Not a bad game, but the developers haven't corrected a major flaw.
In Book Worm, the player builds words from a set of scrambled letters by dragging their finger across the letters in order. The words can be built in any direction, as long as the tiles are next to each other...and the letters of the completed word all become a snack for the book worm.
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