Kids Iphone App Review
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100 Butterflies By Little Five Games is a very simple counting app. The graphics in 100 Butterflies By Little Five Games are very well done and well suited for a target audience of young girls learning to count. My four year old loved to click each butterfly and see each fly away as they came out of their cocoon.

What your child is going to learn is number by repetition and I think this is the perfect app for my four year old at this point. She can count to 13, but gets a little mixed up above that number. She has yet to realize that there is a system to the numbers and that is where this app can help. Repetition can drive that idea home.

The other game in the app asks your child to find the numbers in sequence. This gives the app another dimension where your child is quizzed while still learning the numbers. There isn’t a score or a reprimand, but only a suggestion to look for the correct number as it is spoken. Great job on that!

Learning – 5
Attention – 3
Fun – 4
Total – 12

A great number learning app. Stands on its own teaching by repetition in a simple game.

I Learn With Poko: Seasons and Weather! and the whole I Learn with Poko series are great learning apps that are also fun. My four year old was playing with this app for a very long time. It was interesting to see–and you can see it in the video because it had been a while since she played the app–that the learning is interactive and interesting.

Figuring out which picture shows rain or snow is fun and can be challenging too. This app has some legs! There are several levels so I Learn With Poko: Seasons and Weather! is something your child is going to come back to over and over again.

The graphics are well done, the audio is pleasant, and the process is simple for a young one to figure out after a bit of help. These are all important traits.

Fun – 4
Learning – 5
Attention – 4

Total – 13

I Learn With Poko: Seasons and Weather! is available for the iPhone and iPad, but in separate apps (choose carefully).

BilingualABC English-Espanol by BilingualABC is a fun app to learn your ABCs in English and in Espanol. My ten year old daughter has a friend who speaks Spanish, so my four year old is familiar with the idea that some people speak different languages. I was not as concerned with her learning the letters in Spanish as I was interested in this app working as a reinforcing app for her English ABCs.

It is a neat app and works well. It has some interesting choices for the objects that represent each letter, and that is a nice touch. The voice is very well done. I can also see my ten year old, or myself, using this app to actually learn the alphabet in Spanish.

Learning – 5
Attention – 3
Fun – 3

Total 11

Story-Boards Little Bot Big Bot By OmegeBlueStudio is a really fun learn-to-read app. In the app you follow around the Bot and learn that he is small on his planet, but large on ours. In the game you are simply presenting with words on cardboard cut-outs. You are first read the words by a youngster, and then you can read them yourself along with the adult. The graphics are very interesting and the way the game is laid out makes for a book that is easy to follow.

Story-Boards Little Bot Big Bot By OmegeBlueStudio reminds me of the Dick and Jane book style of reading. Your child is learning site-words and the process of reading. Once they are comfortable with the words in Story-Boards Little Bot Big Bot By OmegeBlueStudio they can move on to another book or perhaps OmegeBlueStudio will release another book!

Attention – 5
Learning – 5
Fun – 5
Total – 15

This is a universal app, so it works great on both the iPad and the iPhone.

I was a bit confused when I first opened Baby’s First Monsters: 123 By Three Brothers. I thought that it might just be a dictionary app for kids to learn about mythological creatures. I was wrong.

Baby’s First Monsters: 123 By Three Brothers is a fun learning game, in this case numbers is what you will be learning. By visiting the various islands you can count the ears on the monsters, or the feet, or just the monsters themselves. Without realizing it your child is counting by twos and threes and so on. It is a fun app with great artwork that will keep your child engaged.

My four year old really likes the app, but isn’t quite ready to actually get the counting by multiples yet. That is ok she can still experience the app and learn through practice. It is fun to watch and achieve the various levels of the game. She still learns to count by singles and a great re-enforcer for when she starts preschool in a few days.

Fun – 5
Learning – 5
Attention – 3 (she wont play it for hours, but still very engaging)

Total – 13

My lil’ Books- The Farm By Editions First-Gründ is simple and fun app for young kids. Your child is presented with a set of common farm animals; a sheep, chicken, donkey?, and many more. Clicking on a farm animal brings up a larger image of the animal where your child is told to click the square to find out more.

This is where the app gets fun. You can feed the donkey and play with the other animals in the app and they make animal noises, which is fun for kids. It really is a neat app once you get into it a bit. My daughter spent about 15 minutes on the app initially and has returned to play with it several more times since. Learning about animals, their names, the sounds they make is an important thing for a young child to learn and it is fun!

Fun – 4
Learning – 5
Attention – 3

Total – 12

JumpStart Preschool(r) By Magic of Learning is a great educational app for kids. It teaches numbers, letters, and spacial recognition. It is a fun app for kids to learn with.

I like how targeted JumpStart Preschool(r) By Magic of Learningis as a learning app. It teaches kids a few essential skills in a small app that is very focused. The are some in-app purchases available that can extend the usefulness of the app, but we didn’t get the chance to download and test any add-ons.

Is the app fun? Yes it is. Is it a good way to teach your young child numbers, letters, and spacial learning? Yes it is.

The basic idea of the app is to learn while playing games. the execution is outstanding. The idea is to capture the attention of your child and get them to have some fun while learning. The variety of the activities in this app are what set it apart.

Fun – 4
Attention -. 4
Learning – 5
Total – 13