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What Will I Be?
Review Excerpt: Wondering what you’ll be when you grow up? Now there’s an app for that. This 19 page eBook follows a predictable pattern, with about four animated surprises ...
Ten Giggly Gorillas
Review Excerpt: Ten Giggly Gorillas is like Five Little Monkeys. The story is enjoyable and the optional Read to Me narration by Angela Catterns is well done. The main feature of Ten ...
Clifford’s BIG Birthday
Review Excerpt: Children explore Clifford’s doghouse as they work together to set up a surprise party for Clifford’s birthday. This app looks good but it acts a lot like it ...
Story Toys Jr. Farm 123
Review Excerpt: This is one of a series from Irish-based StoryToys. This particular story mixes farm animals with an all-to-common counting theme. You can herd chickens to hear them ...
Count to 100!
Review Excerpt: In this interactive counting board, you start by setting up your number board with a challenge, such as to skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s and 25s. There’s also a ...
Bugs and Numbers
Review Excerpt: Third in the series, Bugs and Numbers contains 18 games and activities, designed around a bug city. The app is organized into three basic stages, to grow with your child ...
Quick Images
Review Excerpt: The app starts with six types of numerical representations, such as “Ten Frames” and “Rekenrek” models which are used in many school curriculums. ...
Let’s Count
Review Excerpt: Designed to teach children to count, this app contains four counting exercises each dealing with jellybeans. You can arrange towers from short to tall; place the right ...
Kinect Sesame Street TV
Review Excerpt: We’ve all grown used to the notion of watching TV. Now it can watch you back, providing you have one of two Kinect titles — Kinect Sesame Street TV, or Kinect ...
Dora: Where is Boots?
Review Excerpt: Billed as a “Hide and Seek Adventure” this app was inspired by the classic lift-the-flap books. The nine screen adventure hides something red in each page. ...
National Geographic Little Kids: Look & Learn Animals Vol. 1
Review Excerpt: Did you know that a brown bear has claws as long as your mom’s hand? That’s one of the 18 “fun facts” found in this app, which is built around ...
Montessori Numbers
Review Excerpt: Four number sandboxes in one app are ideal for letting a preschooler freely experiment with the first mathematical relationships using number sets that range from 0 ...
Jazzy 123
Review Excerpt: This third app in the Jazzy series by The Melody Book is the sister app to A Jazzy Day, this time dealing with counting with musical instruments.
There are three options ...
Tens Frame
Review Excerpt: A tens frame is a simple yet very effective tool for playing with numbers up to five and ten. This app provides a tens frame and ten counters, five blue and five purple. ...
Ten Giggly Gorillas
Review Excerpt: Ten Giggly Gorillas is like Five Little Monkeys. The story features optional Read to Me narration by Angela Catterns, as well as a separate Monkey Memory game featuring ...
Math Doodles
Review Excerpt: Math Doodles consists of four hand drawn activities: Sums Stacker, Connect Sums, Unknown square and a preview (but functional) version of Splat GoRound. Each lets you ...
Number Bonds
Review excerpt: This app consists of a set of virtual Cuisenaire rods, which must be arranged properly in order to unlock the next level. Features include the ability to remember progress ...
Motion Math: Wings
Review excerpt: If you’ve ever played a game like Doodle Jump or Scoops, where you lean the iPad screen from side to side in order climb higher, you get the idea of Motion Math ...
Little Miss Muffet HD
Review excerpt: Three classic nursery rhymes hide children’s voices and a chance to count, in this four screen children’s app. Content includes versions of “Little ...
Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Review excerpt: The traditional print edition of Eric Carle’s classic book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, is an effective way to let children informally discover quantity, as they ...
Finger Math
Review excerpt: What to learn a little “chisenbop?” Here’s your app. This app teaches you how to turn your fingers into a calculator. You start be learning how to ...
Team Umizoomi
Review excerpt: This one player problem solving adventure features Milli, Geo, and Bot from the Umizoomi Nickelodeon show. In order to rebuild a submarine, children move through 25 ...
Eddy’s Number Party, The
Review excerpt: This app features four levels, ranging from counting (drag a set of balloons to the matching numeral) to a game of concentration that involves matching sets of dots ...
Bugs and Buttons
Review excerpt: Once you get past the idea of touching the swarms of realistic roaches, ants, or bees, children quickly fall for this collection of 18 counting and classification activities. ...
Jim Henson’s Sid’s Science Fair
Review excerpt: Put a science center in your iPad, with this collection of three activities, featuring Sid the Science Kid characters. Following a noisy introduction — just like ...
StoryBox #1
Review excerpt: Good for older readers (upper elementary and middle school) this children’s magazine (by Bayard Presse) on an iPad mixes age-appropriate content with some mid-to ...
DotToDot Numbers and Letters
Review excerpt: This collection of 42 dot-to-dot puzzles can be used to practice counting, the alphabet, or times tables. For example, to connect the dots, you might be asked to follow ...
Counting Beads
Review excerpt: Here’s an interesting new angle on sequencing/counting games, designed to provide playful, auto-correcting practice with counting and alphabet abilities. The numbers ...
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
Review excerpt: Those silly five little monkeys. Now they’ve moved into your iPad, with this Oceanhouse Media adaptation of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt picture book, by Eileen ...
Scout’s ABC Garden
Review excerpt: Leapfrog’s second app is designed to introduce upper and lower case letters, and it can embed your child’s name in the dialog. You start by creating a profile ...
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Review excerpt: Children swipe their way through the original colored pencil illustrations from the book “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” by Eileen Christelow (Houghton ...
Thomas the Tank Engine Misty Island Rescue
Review excerpt: Thomas the Tank leaves the Island of Sodor for the very first time to build a new Search and Rescue Center, in this 23 screen eBook. When Thomas helps a friend in need, ...
Sesame Street: Cookie’s Counting Carnival
Review excerpt: This is a collection of early math (counting, sorting and patterns) activities, introduced by Cookie Monster and Big Bird in a carnival setting. While your kids will ...
Dora’s Cooking Club
Review excerpt: Help Dora get ready for the Favorite Foods Festival by chopping, stirring, and mixing different food ingredients, using the touch screen on the Nintendo DS. There are ...
Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure
Review excerpt: Help Dora and Boots get out of Wizzle World and make it to Dora’s birthday party on time. In the Wii version, you hold the Wii controller like handlebars to jump, ...
Josh and Emma
Review excerpt: Featuring clean graphics and narration but limited content and interactivity, Josh & Emma Go to the Beach is a nine screen eBook. On some of the screens, children ...
Freddi Fish ABC’s Under the Sea
Review excerpt: Freddi Fish — the androgynous fish that looks as if he/she could’ve swum out of The Little Mermaid , has been to a lot of platforms, but never before to ...
Tam & Tao in Numberland
Review excerpt: This is a sandbox App, where children can freely tap, trace, drag and drop their way through a set of numbers, from 0 to 9. According to the documentation materials, ...
Park Math
Review excerpt: This sixth App from Duck Duck Moose is designed for iPhone and iPod Touch and contains seven easy to explore games, each with multiple ways to explore some powerful ...
Club Penguin: Game Day!
Review excerpt: Club Penguin: Game Day is a collection of 12 multiplayer minigames designed for the Wii that can optionally be integrated with the Club Penguin virtual world. So it ...
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