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Toca House

Posted in Featured, Games on February 22, 2012 by Emma Apple

We’ve come to expect great things from Toca Boca, to this day Toca Robot Lab is one of the top 3 games played by the Muslim Friendly Mini-Testers. Toca House does not disappoint. As with all Toca Boca apps, it’s an open ended, relatively simple ‘digital toy’ that is aimed at having fun and learning in the process. You have a family of characters, an older woman, an older yellow hulk-like creature, a girl, a boy and an even younger triangle headed creature. You can get to... Keep Reading »

Tags: Gold Apple, iPad, iPod/iPhone, New Release, No Holidays, No Pigs, No Religion, No Romance, No Violence

A Little Book About Feelings

Posted in Featured, Stories on February 13, 2012 by Emma Apple

The latest book from PicPocket books is ‘A little book about feelings’ by The Mother Company and was released on Valentines Day 2012. The story comes from the award winning show ‘Ruby’s Studio: The feelings show’ (which I haven’t seen but would love to after reading this story!) and introduces the concept of feelings in a very, very sweet way. The story has some sweet background music that doesn’t interfere with the (also very sweet) narration or overpower... Keep Reading »

Tags: Gold Apple, iPad, New Release, No Religion, No Romance, No Violence

Choco Gets a Check-Up

Posted in Education, Featured, Stories on February 2, 2012 by Emma Apple

The newest app from PicPocket books, ‘Choco Gets a Check-Up’ is simply adorable! Author Mary Faulhaber uses several layers of cute and comfortable to introduce an often scary and uncomfortable topic to kids – seeing the Dr! Choco is an adorable, fluffy, sweet Bunny, his school says he needs a check-up so he asks a few friends what that means. He ends up going to see ‘Poppi’ and ‘Nana’ (Grandfather and Grandmother, who are humans), Poppi is a Dr and he gives... Keep Reading »

Tags: Gold Apple, iPad, New Release, No Holidays, No Music, No Pigs, No Religion, No Romance, No Violence

Writing Letters

Posted in Education on January 29, 2012 by Emma Apple

Writing Letters is a simple app that allows kids to practice writing their letters on the iPad. I would say it’s more of a digital workbook sort of an app with some multi-sensory features. You have one letter at a time, the app has an audio prompt “The letter A, the sound ‘a’, Apple.” to teach the sound each letter makes and associate it with a word, it also has a picture of the example (see screenshots below). You then trace the letter (which has arrows to show you... Keep Reading »

Tags: Half Apple, iPad, Letters, No Holidays, No Music, No Religion, No Romance, No Violence

iReward

Posted in Education, Special Needs on January 24, 2012 by Emma Apple

The 3rd app in the Grembe Apps collection, iReward shares many of the subtly great characteristics of iCommunicate and My Pictures Talk. It is simple, relatively unremarkable in looks, yet invaluably versatile in it’s potential uses. The old saying less is more definitely applies to these apps. To set up the app you add children (first screen shot below) then you add tasks/behaviors (second screen shot below). When you add a child you have the option of adding a user image, changing the color... Keep Reading »