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App Review: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Wildlife Count Along!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Wildlife Count Along!

When I was a kid we would play car games. License plate bingo, try and make a big rig honk by pumping your arm up and down, punchbuggy and a parental favorite, the quiet game. My kids have many more options for their road trip entertainment and rather than have them just play games I like them to learn a little something. That is why I love apps on the iPad and iPhone. There are so many apps that are all about learning but disguised as games.

Disney Learning recently released their first math and science app. Kids can drive along with Mickey and his clubhouse friends around the world to many different habitats to find, count and photograph animals. In each habitat Mickey will ask kids to find a certain number of animals and if they pick the right group they can then photograph the animals. You travel through many environments because Mickey and friends are headed to the beach so Mickey can photograph some bottlenose dolphins but he keeps making wrong turns. Continue reading App Review: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Wildlife Count Along!

Give Your Preschooler an Edge in Math and Science, Watch Curious George on PBS

You also should be reading to them the Curious George TV-Tie in books. I have a few of these for Eva and they are great. I just received this press release about a study done by the Concord Evaluation Group that says that kids who watch episodes of PBS’ Curious George and read the TV-Tie in books “scored significantly higher on science and math concepts covered”. We’ve allowed Eva to watch Curious George ever since she was 2 years old. We’ve read her the old books as well as some of the new ones. There is some significant learning happening through this show. I watch it with her from time to time and the episodes cover some great science and math concepts. Eva also further explores math and science with her Aunt and she love doing experiments.

You can learn more about the study at http://www.pbs.org/parents/curiousgeorge/program/research.html. There you can download the full study.