When you incorporate a book into your lesson plans, you want your students to walk away with a deep understanding of the text. Knowing the character names and major plot points may be enough to help a student pass a multiple-choice exam, but grasping the ...
Juana la Iguana Goes to the Beach is a fun app that plunges preschoolers into the Spanish language. The beach theme is fun and attractive to young children, and the immersive style of instruction is a proven method of teaching language to young children.
Learn Animals: Hide and Seek is a simple and fun hide and seek game that will also help young children learn to identify farm animals, match, follow oral directions, and develop visual closure skills.
When you have children in your home, it can seem incredibly overwhelming to think about childproofing. It’s a big undertaking that requires not just time, but careful planning. Despite the challenge that comes with ensuring your home is safe for your little ones of any ...
It’s that time of year again where the leaves are falling, Christmas is fast approaching (we’re under 100 days away!), and children are well and truly settling into their new routine. With a new classroom, a new teacher and perhaps even a new group of ...
Bloom by Megalearn is a fun and entertaining way to learn about some important aspects of biology and plant life cycles, and activates some important higher-learning skills such as generalization and finding similarities and differences.
Toddler’s brains are like sponges. They absorb more knowledge in their early years than at any other time in their life. This makes children’s early years a critical time for the brain to develop key skills such as speech and language. EduGuru Apps are specifically ...
Blimp Code is a computer programming puzzle that will challenge reading comprehension, memory, and logic skills as players follow along with tutorials and hints, and then attempt to solve the puzzles to save the world.
Pepi House gives users an in-depth look at daily life within a household by offering an interactive dollhouse-like experience that will stimulate language skills, imagination, and creativity.
Curious George Train Adventures is an entertaining app that gives young children a great opportunity to practice vital thinking, predicting, and problem solving skills while they enjoy the antics of one of their favorite characters.
Read-Kids Learn to Read and Write in 20 Lessons is an outstanding app that offers some simple, yet effective practice for early reading skills in the areas of phonics, sight word recognition, writing, and reading comprehension.
The free version of Mathway provides students with ready answers to math and chemistry problems at nearly any level. A subscription must be purchased to access step-by-step solutions that some students may need to understand the process of solving the problems, though.
Peppa Pig's Golden Boots is a fun app for preschoolers that will keep them occupied with constructive readiness practice and skill-building games. They will enjoy dressing Peppa and interacting with each of the other five games as she travels through her day.
Math Galaxy Whole Number Riddles is a fantastic app that will help with basic computation practice as well as working with time, money and measurement. Kids from first grade on up will play for hours competing to see who can be first to solve the ...
Bamba Space Station is an app that will encourage exploration and creative play with young children as they immerse themselves in the space station’s many rooms and activities.
Create Storytime is a fun and child-friendly app that will encourage creative writing in a rather structured way. Children can create professional-looking ebooks featuring their own ideas, but some may find it too limiting for extended play.
Autism Core Skills is an outstanding app that provides a wealth of effective, targeted, scaffolded practice for students with autism working to master Common Core skills at the preschool through grade 1 levels. It makes good use of research-based best practices for education, and keeps ...
It’s the holiday season, and that means it’s high time to think of gifts. Getting a gift for a child is a slightly tricky thing – it’s hard to tell, sometimes, at exactly what stage of development your kid is. Is he or she ready ...
Introduce kids to fun animated versions of classic stories and silly songs with MOVING BOOKS! Jajajajan.
NextGen Maths is a specialized app that will provide supplemental review of basic arithmetic concepts and limited practice questions and problems. It is especially well-suited for visual learners with strong reading skills.
Giveaways are announced on the BestAppsForKids.com Facebook page. Tip: Be quick, codes go fast! Subscribe to the review comments then you’ll be the first to know when the codes are posted. Latest Giveaways Giveaway date: November 25, 2015 Box Drop Math Addition Game: A Fun Way ...
Families now are busier than ever, but one fundamental activity can help your child succeed in school and in life – reading to them. Starting early with reading to a preschool aged child engages them with stories and pictures, familiarizes them with words, and helps ...
Learning to time is a skill that every child needs to learn. These reviewed and recommended apps teach kids this valuable skill in a fun, educational way. Did we miss your favorite telling time app? Leave a comment and we’ll take a look. Tell Time ...
We recently featured 13 reviewed and recommended Spring & Easter Apps for Kids 2015. Do you have a favorite? Did we miss a “must have” app that you use? Vote for your favorite app and we’ll announce the top 3 reader’s choice apps at the ...
These 5 apps are completely free (no in app purchases) and great way to introduce kids to coding.
‘Tis the season for giveaways…introducing a very special Holiday Appstravaganza Giveaway! There are 2 ways to participate: First, share your favorite Christmas / Holiday app by leaving a comment on our Christmas roundup for 2014 for a chance to win a $25 AppStore gift card (US residents only – ...
Danny the deer is getting ready for the holidays. He’s very excited, but can’t decide what color sweater to wear. Can you help him? Print and color this free Christmas / Holiday coloring page and card to give to friends, family, or teachers. Click the ...
Do your kids like to color? If so, they’ll love this adorable (and free) Christmas penguin coloring page and card. The free printable card is an easy and cute ways to give a personalized card to teachers, friends and family. The free printable coloring page ...
Welcome to the “black Friday” version of Free App Friday. We’re spending time with family, so it will be a quiet one. Enjoy! Most apps are listed on our sister site, FreeAppFriday.com. If we’ve reviewed and recommend the app we list it below. Enjoy! view ...
Create a masterpiece with Peppa Pig and her brother George in this fun painting app.
Young children will enjoy helping Dracolino learn about feelings and how to respond to them appropriately.
Welcome to a very special giveaway – our Halloween Spooktacular Giveaway! There are 2 ways to participate: First, tell us your favorite Halloween app on Our Halloween roundup for 2014 for a chance to win a $25 AppStore gift card (US residents only – sorry). Then, ...
Play through the final chapters of the Harry Potter saga in Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7.
Lego Juniors Create & Cruise is another fantastic Lego app that offers a great mix of fun and educational value as well. There are many great Lego games on the App store, but for some reason this one here looks to have gone under many ...
Have fun in the world of Harry Potter, but in Lego Form. Relive the best moments from the first four movies in this awesome game.
