You are planning to travel ... Get ready for some Fun Educational Apps
Traveling can be fun, but at one point we as parent always face the traditional “Mum, are we there yet?”, When are we there” “I am bored” ... and so one. Get ready to make the most of your travel and make sure to download some Fun Educational Apps before you go.
Travelling, going to new places can be great way for our children to discover and learn new things. Take advantage of today’s technology and include some fun educational apps on your kid’s iPod Touch or your own iPhone if you let them play with it.
Here are some Fun Educational Apps that will transform your travel experience. Each Apps can be played on the go, in the train or in the car.
Give a new dimension to bingo. With road trip bingo, your kids will have to spot things on the way, the first one to find them all wins. Simple fun and easy, it will bring some fun into long journey.
Requirements: compatible with iPod Touch or iPhone. Requires iPhone OS2.21 or later
Don’t we all have it, Are we there yet, mum I am bored, How long before we get there ... and it goes on. Time to get your iPod Touch or iPhone out and play iSpy Kids Travel Game. iSpy is a fun and ingenious games that can be played altogether. With iSPy kids Travel, you will see pictures of things such as bus, road sign ... and you, your kids and friend will have to spot these images in the real world. The game can be played up to 4 persons and includes 2 different sets of pictures. One is for the country side and small towns and the other is for cities and area. The one that find the object first wins.
Requirements: compatible with iPod Touch or iPhone. Requires iPhone OS2.0 or later
This game is intended for the whole family to ply while travelling. The Fun Kids Car Travel Game contains over 200 questions, which will let you discover new things in a fun educational way. Questions are formulated in an open ended manner in order to encourage creativity, other are very straightforward. Play as a team or against or against one another. Add some fun to it and find things before the time runs out. The whole family will enjoy it. The younger ones can play with questions related to shape, number and colours, and older one can brush up on their reading skills with more advanced questions. Depending on where you are you can choose questions related to “Town” or “Country”. Write down the name of each player and keep on going, even if one has found the answer, the clock is still ticking for the others to remain in the game.
Requirements: compatible with iPod Touch or iPhone. Requires iPhone OS3.0 or later
Cost: 1.19£
Have fun on the go and let us know if you and your kids enjoyed these games.
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Artemis Fowl - a well known series of novels by Eoin Colfer , bestselling author of books for children and teens, is now available on Flips Nintendo DS and DSi. Primarily written to appeal to those between the ages of nine and 12. Flips - Artemis Fowl will make reading even more enjoyable.
Artemis Fowl II, teenage criminal mastermind, wants to rebuild his family’s fortune after the disappearance if his father.
Reading Artemis Fowl adventures with the Filps version of on Nintendo DS and DSi will give your child a new dimension to reading.
NASA Education is launching a new educational website: SPACESUITS AND SPACEWALKS, a great site that will allow children to discover the wonders of space.
The site features information about:
Spacesuits : learn all about the different parts of a spacesuit via an interactive experience. Each click will give children information regarding the name and function of each part of the suit. Children will also have a chance to watch several videos on Spacesuits including how they might look like in the future and how they looked like in the past. Other videos include brain bites and an interesting one on how you can learn how to make a "hard move" in space. The site contains a lot of information as well as many space related activities that will fascinate anyone interested by Space expeditions.
LeapFrog has been creating many innovative and educational products to encourage learning at a young age. The latest products include the LeapFrog Tag Reading System and the Tag Junior Book Pal that will be available this summer.
Clever kids is a new series aimed to support children 5-10
years old in their learning experience. Clever kids series focus on kids favorite
subject and encourage them to explore and interact in their field of interest,
thus encourages learning.
Clever kids series is also specially designed to:
Maintain children interest in a subject by keeping them
entertained:
Increase attention
spam with lively characters and scenery,
Encourage logical thinking and reasoning by providing challenging
puzzles
The majority of us parents have tried start charts one day or the other. There is no need to claim the benefits of it. Start charts are great in motivating children. The problem I always have with Star Charts is that they are effective in the short term and with 3 kids it is sometimes hard to keep up with it.
Today, we live in such a competitive world, we are always looking
for the best job, the best program, the best holidays .... and when it
comes to our kids, we are looking for the best school, the best
learning system, in fact the best of everything. We are so focused on
their achievement and success that sometimes we forget that the key
element of their learning journey is having FUN.
Fun Learning: when kids are having fun, learning becomes more effective and long lasting
I am a Mum of 3 boys. Watching them grow up, learn and discover the world has been exciting, fascinating and at times a real challenge. Introducing fun educational games in their life has helped them to go one step further and motivated them toward learning.
Today, our kids are learning in a different way than we did. Educational tools are really poles apart from what we used to have. Going to Primary school 20 years ago, we had black board and coloured chalks if we were lucky! Schools were not equipped with computers, interactive white boards, videos. The concept of home computer and internet was just not there.
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