I was really really excited to be able to review this app! My 3 years old boy is very much into skeleton stuff at the moment and I know I just had to review this app with him when I saw the review pitch of this app with the icon of half a child and half a skeleton figure! And yes, this app does not disappoint, in fact, we love it so much that I started recommending it to other friends of mine! Anyway, my review as below...
* Title: This Is My Body (Anatomy For Kids)
* Price: $1.99
* Category: Education
* Released: Apr 21, 2012
* Version: 1.0
* Size: 38.5 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: urbn; pockets
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Description from the product page:
"Created by a team of medical doctors, educators and parents "This is my body - Anatomy for kids" features informations about all important aspects of the human body – all within in a beautifully designed and illustrated app! The main areas your child will discover and learn about:
* You are unique and yet we are all very similar to each other
* Growing - how fast do we grow and how long
* The skin - and how to protect it
* Senses - how do we see, hear, feel, taste and smell
* Digestive system - why are we hungry
* Respiratory system - your body needs oxygen constantly
* Circular system - your heart beats constantly
* Muscular system - exercise is good for you
* Nervous system - how are informations transmitted
* Skeleton - how do bones look like and why do you need joints
This is my body - Anatomy for kids follows a playful yet working learning methodology that entertains children while learning."
What's good?
* I really, really love this engaging and interactive app! To be honest, I learned new stuff when I go through this app with my 3 years old boy!
* Firstly, kudos to the app developer for putting in the options for us users to select the gender of the child as honestly, I feel that my child relates himself to the character more if it is the same gender as him, so it is no surprise that my boy chose the boy character (with the blue shirt which is his favorite color at the moment)
* Another awesome thing to note is that we can adjust the setting of the app whether to show the child figure in the app wearing underpants or not as according to the app, there are parents who are not comfortable with letting their child see the genitals of the character. I for one, am very happy to be able to turn off this setting as I do want my child to learn and be exposed to learning this. Please don't get me wrong, my opinion is I would want my child to be comfortable with his own body.
* There are about 9 topics to be covered in this app, among our favorites are the senses, heartbeat, nervous system and skeleton topics.
* There are some pages which I also used the opportunity to teach my boy about manners, such as wiping his nose when he sneezes (or when he has runny nose)
* I was actually surprised to see my 3 years old boy nodding, listening and watching intensely as I explained to him how the food we ate and what we drink goes through our mouth, throat, body and so on. At the sight of this, I did get excited about the future plans in our learning lessons! So so so much potential and many more things to learn!
* My boy's favorite part of this app has got to be the skeleton puzzle game! I am surprised he can actually matched some of the bones structures correctly as I was only explaining to him about our skulls and bones in general prior to this!
Other Things to Note:
* It actually took me a while to figure out how to change the settings for the child figure's underpants - was looking for the setting all over the app until I remembered there is another setting on the iPad screen outside the app.
* I also have a bit difficulty reading the cursive style of text info on the pages so perhaps the developer can look into making the text easier to read?
You can purchase the "This Is My Body (Anatomy For Kids) " app from the iTunes App Store.
I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"
