Murky Reef: Reading, Math & Logic Games is a nice mix of a little bit of everything. The app has twenty-two different games that cover science, math, language arts and critical thinking skills. It all blends together so children are kept on their toes. The overall game concept is for players to help Puff, a [...]
Bobo Explores Light is a phenomenal, interactive science book for children. The app has more than 100 pages of content dealing with twenty-one topics all centered around light. A robot named Bobo will guide children though the book, interacting with them as they learn. Screens come with facts, videos and images to illustrate and explain [...]
I was recently introduced to the Human Body Detectives series, created by Dr. Heather Manley, a naturopathic doctor. The series stars Merrin and Pearl, two girls who have the ability to get inside the human body to discover what’s going on inside those around them. Battle with the Bugs is their new storybook app and [...]
I Learn with Poko: Seasons & Weather is the follow up app to I Learn with Mighty Jungle Animals. Like it’s predecessor this app focuses on a National Standard in Science for children aged 3-7. This time, the focus is the seasons and weather. The app is extremely well done and I found it fun [...]
Fancy a lesson in history and science while you play a fast paced finger tapping game? Check out NewtonApples. As in Sir Isaac Newton, he who discovered the laws of motion and gravity and has a history intertwined with the apple tree. In NewtonApples Sir Newton sits underneath the apple tree, thinking scientific thoughts while [...]
Charlie Wonders Milk tackles the timeless question – where exactly does milk come from?? This is an educational story that follows a boy named Charlie on a trip to his aunt and uncle’s farm. While he’s there he gets an education in how milk makes it’s way from a cow to a carton in the [...]
Experimenter is a collection of fourteen science experiments. To give you a small idea of what’s on this app I’ll tell you that some of the experiments involve Pepsi & Mentos, dry ice, glowing water and fireproof balloons. The app gives you a list of the supplies needed to conduct each experiment and then a [...]
WebMD Baby was released earlier this month and it is awesome! Seriously one of the best “baby” apps I’ve seen to date
iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]
I review iPhone apps for moms. I have a decent grasp of techy things but the technical guts (for lack of a better word) of how the apps work are beyond me. So my reviews will be practical and purely subjective. Reviews for moms by a real life, actual mom. My kids will vouch for me.