This month kids can see the cartoon sights of London and play with all the characters in the dollhouse-style app My City: London. Then, they can blast off as dinosaurs in spaceships, saving cute creatures and learning addition and subtraction in Dinosaur Math 2. Musical kids can work on note recognition and tempo with Ear Domino. Finally, kids can stretch their vocabulary with the tough word puzzle Spellt.
Garry Froehlich
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My City: London
By My Town Games
My City: London is another in the series of dollhouse apps from My Town Games, featuring an idealized tourist view of London. Kids can enjoy high tea, go shopping, get a view of Tower Bridge, visit Trafalgar Square, and even enter the palace itself. As always, kids move, dress and pose characters, interact with almost everything in the scenes, and find hidden puzzles to solve. My City: London is a fun excursion for fans of dollhouse apps.
Dinosaur Math 2: Games for Kids
By Yateland
Dinosaur Math 2 focuses on addition and subtraction of numbers up to four digits long. The app is divided into two parts. First, kids explore colourful areas, picking up and dropping off cute creatures, each of them carrying a number sign. In this part, the app counts for you and at the end of each area presents you with math questions that you can solve, or wait for it to show you how to solve them. Each level gives kids a new ship part they can use to unlock new vehicles. The second part is a timed quiz presented as a battle between dinosaurs in their space ships. Kids must quickly answer math questions (the the number range depending on the level chosen) to win the battle. Dinosaur Math is free to try for the first few levels, then requires a single in-app purchase to acquire the full app.
Ear Domino
By Sebastian Mikolai
Ear Domino is a simply ear training app for kids in music lessons. The app starts with 3 notes out of a single octave and plays two notes. Kids are then invited to play the second note and then play a note of their choice in the same tempo. The app adds more and more notes to the pool of available notes as you progress, until you make three mistakes. You are then given a score which you can compare with your best performances, or with others through Game Centre integration. You can also adjust the tempo to be faster or slower. Ear Domino doesn’t require any musical knowledge, other than which keys play which note, and is simple enough for anyone to pick up quickly.
Spellt
By Gabriel Perez-Putnam
Spellt is a word game that stretches your vocabulary. You are presented with 7 letters and must make as many words as you can using those letters. You solve the puzzle by finding a certain number of words of different lengths, while the game keeps track of your progress with colorful rings it calls crop circles (a play on spelt). There are 3 levels of difficulty, although harder difficulties simply mean finding more (and more obscure) words. In an additional twist, the letters can be unscrambled into the name of a geographic location, with the colors of the crop circles providing a hint. It’s a clever, if difficult puzzle, but worth a try for word puzzle fans. Spellt is currently free with no ads.
