Reading Raven is a fantastic iPad app for early readers. It takes children through five different lessons that teach a variety of skills. The app builds a foundation of letter recognition, phonics, vocabulary and more. It is self-paced and can be adjusted depending on your child’s age. The options section breaks down the activities by [...]

The clean, crisp look of Smarty Pants School will grab you from the get go. The app has a very nice design, I found it extremely appealing. This is an app that will help you teach your children how to read. It begins with an evaluation. Your child will think they’re playing a game but [...]

How many of you became first time iPad owners over the weekend? In no particular order here are the most used apps on our well loved iPad.

Presenting Word Bingo, a follow up to one of my all time favorite Math apps, Math Bingo. In Math Bingo you play a game of Bingo by solving math problems and marking your answers on a Bingo board. Word Bingo takes that concept and applies it to sight words, there are over 300 featured in [...]

Fill the Gap Pocket stars Smudge the Spaniel and is the iPod version of a popular educational software used in elementary schools. Smudge accompanies your child as they work to “fill in the gap”, in other words the missing letters in words. At the beginning of the game you and your child can decide how [...]

Today I’m taking a look at two apps from Brainbeanz – Sound Seeker and Blend Seeker. Sound Seeker – Sound Seeker is for children who are just beginning to discover letters and the sounds they make at the beginning of words. The game presents four images and four letters. Each of the words will begin [...]

ABC by Paul McDougall is another unusual ABC book. This one features some unique characters and very silly text. Take for example C – C is for Chelsea the charming young carrot. Chelsea’s illustration shows she is indeed a carrot and quite charming. Then there’s G – G is for George, the ghost made of [...]

WordTotz is a nice flashcard app for toddlers. It features four main categories – animals, objects, food and numbers. The animals, objects and food that are shown on the flashcards are real. There are no cartoons or illustrations in this app and I appreciate the fact that  photographs of the actual things are used. As [...]

My five year old and I both thought Spell Blocks was a great app. It combines the idea of alphabet blocks with sight words. You’ll hear a sight word spoken aloud and then you spell it by dragging and dropping the blocks into the correct order. In the settings you can add in extra letters [...]

Last year Oceanhouse Media brought Dr. Seuss’s Grinch to the iPhone. Just last week they released an iPhone version of “The Cat in the Hat” and “Dr. Suess’s ABC”. This weekend I tried out the Dr. Suess’s ABC app because that is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books. It’s a fun twist on an [...]