One small app (Moon Globe)

Andy Cripe

Oregon State University junior electrical and computer engineering student Chris Vanderschuere wrote an app for the iPhone called Moon. Here the app is displaying the next full moon in Corvallis which will be March 27 at 2:28 am. (Andy Cripe | Corvallis Gazette-Times)

It’s been downloaded by more than 1 million

Best Apps for 5 Year Olds

The KinderTown review team of early childhood education experts, parents, and kids spent the last month reviewing their favorite educational apps for 5 year olds. They’ve narrowed it down to their favorite four apps in various educational categories including math and language. The full list is below.

Kids Fun Colors [Free Apps]

Description
Kids Fun Colors is an easy-to-use coloring app especially designed for the youngest.

Enjoy the retina graphics made for the new iPad by choosing among several realistic drawings and play with a large choice of colors!

Kids’ Learning App: Sight Words Learn to Read Fun

This animated kids’ learning app was designed with Pre-schoolers and Kindergartners in mind to teach common sight words throughout simple interactive gameplay. This Education app will help build a solid reading foundation, features Swish the Fish as the learning guide, an underwater theme with fun animated graphics, 2 timed learning modes (40/Pre-School and 52/Kindergarten), and fish to earn for their own virtual fish tank. You can Get this kids’ learning App FREE…..but hurry,there are only a limited number of downloads.

Fun Learning App for Kids – Dog Tales (Free) (Video)

Learning apps like Dog Tales (for the iPad) are making the process of learning specific math skills fun. This free kids learning app features a combination of platform gameplay, multi-tasking problem solving and math problem solving to help kids learn in a fun way. This unique iPad learning game could be called an “Edugame.” Edugames are part game and learning all rolled into one learning app that works nicely on the latest technology like the iPad.