Posts Tagged ‘apps for kids’

Kid’s Book Review: Press Here

Kid’s Book Review: Press Here
Tweet It’s 2011.  Our electronic gadgetry responds to taps, swipes, sounds, and breath.  The notion that a book – a flat, relatively non-interactive form of media – could approximate such feats of wonder seems damn near impossible. ...
March 24th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

iPhone App for Kids Review: Measurement

Tweet When we first downloaded the 5-in-1 Mathomatix Measurement app a couple months ago the Bear (age 7) would help the Mouse (age 3.75) play which was both nurturing and beautiful to watch.  The lessons are simple and the repetition effective...
February 25th, 2011 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone Apps for Kids Review: Magic Ink Books

Tweet Remember those Invisible Ink Books your mom would buy for the long & boring road trips to Grandma’s house?  You’d rub all over with that curious, rather bland-looking marker, then squeal with delight as images magically appeared.  ...
January 13th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone App for Kids Review: Alzebra

Tweet It’s easy to appreciate a math game that can be played by both my 6-year old and her 3 1/2-year old sis.  Alzebra, a new iPhone app for kids, features games centered around early math ideas – sequencing, sorting, shapes –...
December 15th, 2010 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Black Friday iPhone App Deals

Tweet It’s hard to beat FREE.  For one day only, on Black Friday 11/26/10, all Once Upon An App iPhone & iPad applications are abolsutely free.  Download 1, download ‘em all.  Zero downside.  Go nuts. I’ve reviewed a few...
November 24th, 2010 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone App for Kids Review: Faces iMake

Tweet Collage art is pretty darn cool, but maybe you don’t have what amounts to a flea market full of odds & ends to make such art.  And, even if you do, maybe you don’t want your kids playing with THAT much glue. No worries.  The...
June 30th, 2010 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone App Review: Number Sense

Tweet NUMBER SENSE – $2.99 I get really excited about math, and even more so, about math concepts. The Bear is three weeks away from finishing up with kindergarten but is well beyond that grade level when it comes to math ideas.  I like to...
May 28th, 2010 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone App Review: Wacky Chatter

Tweet WACKY CHATTER – $.99 If your kid digs whoopie cushions, poop jokes and is a fan of making bizarre alien noises, there’s now an app for them. Wacky Chatter lets you and your little ones pick pronouns, verbs and nouns then select...
May 26th, 2010 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Can Kid’s Music, Books and iPhone Apps Save Our Planet?

Can Kid’s Music, Books and iPhone Apps Save Our Planet?
Tweet I dunno, but if the little ones who listen to music, read books and play apps on our iPhones grow up to save our planet, then yeah, I guess all that stuff can actually help the Earth.  It not perfectly linear, I’ll admit, but by-golly...
April 21st, 2010 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK Kid's Music News, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Free iPad App for Kids

Tweet Just in time for Easter (and the launch of the iPad), comes The Tale of Peter Rabbit storybook app. You can download this application straight to your brand new iPad (or iPhone/iPod Touch) for FREE on Saturday and Sunday, April 3 + 4. The storybook...
April 3rd, 2010 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More
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