1st Grade Apps
We’ve searched far and wide to find the top first grade apps for iphone and android. The good news is that there are plenty of fun and challenging first grade apps as well as some great teaching, reading and math apps too. Want the best first grade apps for kids? Start here.
Mighty Colossus Storybook
Mighty Colossus Storybook is a powerful, yet flexible system for creating digital storybooks using built-in characters, backgrounds, and props, or user-generated artwork, pictures, and other content.
MyTeeth All Inclusive
Help kids learn to brush their teeth with the interactive timers and how-to resources in MyTeeth.
Bloom by Megalearn
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.
Spooky Hollow – Interactive Children’s Book
Discover why all of the pumpkins are different colors in Spooky Hollow, a cute animated story for Halloween.
Caroline’s Camera
Caroline’s Camera is a highly entertaining app for kids that uses creative rhythms, music, and camera play to create hours of fun. Easy to use and great for children of all ages, this is one app that both parents and kids will love.
GO Math! GO – Fun learning for grades K, 1st & 2nd
App Info Price: Overview Go Math! Go makes a high-quality math curriculum accessible to parents and teachers. This interactive math app covers a range of skills for grades K-2. Skills are organized by grade-level and allow parents and teachers to track a child’s progress and he or she works through the app. While most of …
GO Math! GO Review
See the App in iTunes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Price: FREE GO Math! GO is a fun new educational app geared towards kids ages 3 through 7. The app focuses on math skills that will be learned in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. I thought that this app would be a great way to get …
Artie’s Magic Pencil
Go on a drawing adventure with Artie and his magic pencil in an app designed to help kids learn to draw basic shapes.
Handwriting Heroes Review
See the app in iTunes Cheryl Bregman Price: $2.99 Handwriting Heroes is an ingenious app that will revolutionize the way children are taught to write! This app integrates fun animation, songs, and learning to create one amazing app that your children are sure to love. Parents and teachers alike will also love having …
Trilo Spelling
A series of unique spelling activities that naturally progress in difficulty will help kids build basic spelling skills in Trilo Spelling.
Ant and Grasshopper Kids Book
Ant and Grasshopper is a classic kids story that teaches children great life lessons in a fun storybook app. This app is not recommended for young children as it includes unprotected links and advertisements.
Mulle Meck’s cars
Kids design their own cars and then test them out with Mulle Meck’s Cars.
Fiete Math
Build addition and subtraction skills through a unique game that has kids cut up, combine, and group numbers.
Super Yoga Bedtime
Super Yoga Bedtime is the perfect app to help children wind down from the day and get relaxed and ready for bed. With a superhero theme, yoga practices, and calming guided visualizations, this app is great for children of all ages.
Planet Earth HD
Planet Earth HD is an incredible educational app that has everything you would want to know about our fabulous planet. Educational, interactive, and great for children of all ages.
Zcooly Time Ranch
Set the clock correctly to earn coins to purchase new animals with Zcooly Time Ranch.
Sofus and the Moonmachine
Sofus and the Moonmachine is an adventurous storybook app that takes readers through a magnificent and interactive journey through space. Fun to read and highly interactive, this app is great for children of all ages.
Zcooly Time Ranch Review
See the app in iTunes Zcooly Price: $5.99 It’s Back to School time and high time to take time to learn to tell time! Zcooly Time Ranch is the perfect way to help your children learn to tell time! Children will learn to tell time in several different ways including digital, analogue and text. …
Best Apps for Back to School – 2nd Grade
Here are some great reviewed apps for spelling, phonics skills, listening skills, and more! These apps are perfect for second-grade students. Planet Lettra Planet Lettra is a playground for word-building. Users are magically transported to the mythical Planet Lettra where letters float in bubbles in the sky. When the bubbles bump, the letters combine, and …
Best Apps for Back to School – 1st Grade
A little bit of science, a small bit of social studies, some reading and some math round out the suggestions for first graders this year. Take a look at these apps. Malama Honua My Voyage The My Voyage app will take users on an elaborate adventure through documentary-like videos, games, and more as the main …
Fuzzy House
Go back to a simpler time and interact with a classic doll house in Fuzzy House.
Wuwu & Co.
Wuwu & Co. is a storybook app that takes children on a 3D adventure full of magic and wonder. Exciting, entertaining and great for children of all ages!
Aiko & Egor: Animation 4 Autism
Get to know Aiko & Egor two friendly, animated fish who want to help kids with autism develop key skills.
Read – Kids learn to read and write in 20 easy lessons Review
See the app in iTunes Olivier Romanetti Price: $2.99 As the parent of a 5 year old, I am always looking out for ways to help him stay on top of his reading skills, especially during the summer. Any resources I can get my hands on to help him become a strong reader build confidence …
Chortopia
Chortopia makes chore time fun with stories, games, and lots of adventures. Perfect for families with multiple children and parents who want to teach a bit of responsibility.
Malama Honua My Voyage
Malama Honua My Voyage is an outstanding app that will fascinate kids and adults alike with a detailed and engaging description of Polynesian and Hawaiian history and culture, interspersed with interesting and varied interactive activities and laced with positive core values.
Weather Puzzles: Science for Kids
No matter the weather where you live, kids can experience all kinds of weather with Weather Puzzles: Science for Kids.
Snot & Fluff
Snot & Fluff is an entertaining cosmic tale that takes readers on a 3D adventure through space. With great interactive graphics, a fun story, and so much more this is one app you don’t want to miss!
Math Jungle : Grade 1
Run through the jungle in Math Jungle, collecting bananas and answering first grade math problems along the way. How many bananas can you collect?
MegaPro Calculator 5000
MegaPro Calculator 5000 isn’t your typical calculator! This calculator actually reaches children how to add and subtract large numbers in a visual way. Well done!
Crazy Maths Adventure
Crazy Math Adventure is an engaging, educational app that allows children to practice their year 1 and year 2 math skills with an exciting game like platform. Full of adventure and tons of fun this app is great for children of all ages.
Pepi House
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.
TwinGo London
Learn all about London when you travel there with Alicia and Theo in TwinGo London.
World of Liberty: Paintings, Planes, and Pioneers
World of Liberty: Paintings, Planes, and Pioneers is a great app to encourage young elementary children to learn more about specific aspects of our country’s history and geography while encouraging the overall values of love of learning, research, and finding connections with other times, places and peoples.
Tiny Words Spelling Game Review
See the app in iTunes tu Trinh Price: Free Nothing is more empowering for a child than learning to read or write. It is so exciting to see them figuring out how to blend and spell words. Tiny Words Spelling Game is the perfect way to facilitate that early phonics learning that is essential to …
Andy Helps You Read
Andy Helps You Read Offers a thorough and thoughtful approach to reading instruction for kids with special needs.
Sound Salad-Help Mr. Ear By Sorting Sounds
Sound Salad-Help Mr. Ear by Sorting Sounds is an enjoyable app that will help children between ages of three and seven to build auditory processing, memory and attention skills, which form the foundation for later academic learning including phonics knowledge.
Rose Milany at the Beach
Join Rose Milany on a trip to the beach and interact with her as she builds a sand castle, collects sea shells, and enjoys other beach-related activities.
Mussila
Mussila is a highly interactive and engaging music app that teaches children to recognize instruments, rhythms, and a variety of other musical lessons in one place. Easy to use and loads of fun, this app is great for children of all ages!
Magic Store Math
Magic Store Math is a magical app that helps kids learn to add bigger numbers.