ipad apps
My Little Fairy
My Little Fairy is an app that introduces children to the magical world of fairies with lots of fun activities including puzzles, music, and magic wands.
Sticker Story – The storybook creativity kit for kids
Sticker Story-the Storybook Creativity Kit for Kids is a fun and creative way to nurture self-expression and story-telling in children from preschool through middle elementary grades.
Touch Activated Sensory Light Show
Touch Activated Sensory Light Show is a unique app that uses bright colored shapes, lights and sounds for children to enjoy.
Wonster Words – ABC, Phonics, and Spelling
Wonster Words: Spelling with ABC and Phonics by Puzzlingo is an amusing and entertaining way to help children practice reading and spelling words that review basic phonics skills such as word families, rhyming, consonant digraphs, and more.
Early Language Development with Sleepy Fred
Follow Sleepy Fred as he gets ready for bed in this cute rhyming story for kids.
Free App Friday – September 11, 2015
Welcome to another Free App Friday! If we’ve reviewed and recommend the app, a link to the review is included. Always check the app store for the most recent price before downloading. Enjoy!
Vocabubble
Vocabubble is a unique early learning app that is designed to help children practice their alphabet while adding a variety of new words to their vocabulary.
Words with Ibbleobble
Words with Ibbleobble is an educational vocabulary app to teach children a wide variety of new words using fun images and illustrations.
This is my Food-Nutrition for kids
This is my Food is a fantastic educational app that teaches children all they need to know about nutrition and eating healthy. Educational, engaging, and perfect for home or the classroom!
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – High School
In high school, students are getting down to business, and they need apps that will support their learning. Bells and whistles of entertaining educational games often (but not always!) give way to practicality as kids focus on the job at hand. Our selection of recommended apps will help students review important concepts in core subjects, …
My Alphabet: Underwater ABC for Kids
My Alphabet: Underwater ABC for Kids is a great early learning app that teaches children to learn, recognize, build words, and write the alphabet. Perfect for young children!
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 8th Grade
Our reviewed and recommended apps for 8th grade offer review of middle school science concepts, inspire kids to start writing as well as quiz them on verbs, nouns and adjectives, work on foundational concepts in Algebra, and provide a homework planner to help students stay better organized. There’s a nice review of challenging skills in …
Makesto
Makesto takes story creation to a whole new level with the freedom for children to craft, illustrate, narrate and produce their very own stories. Fun for children of all ages!
Jazzy World Tour
Jazzy World Tour is an excellent educational app with lots of great information and fun activities for children to enjoy. Particularly great for music lovers!
Teachley: Subtractimals
Teachley: Subtractimals is a fabulous tool with two teaching methods to help children learn and practice their subtraction tables in a game-like environment. Perfect for use in the classroom or at home.
MARTi
MARTi is an innovative and outstanding tool that will improve quality of life for individuals struggling with learning problems, dementia, cognitive challenges, autism, traumatic brain injury and many other conditions that impair reasoning, memory, sequencing and other vital skills.
Duolingo-Learn Languages for Free
Duolingo offers a positive and comprehensive language learning experience that most middle school, high school, and adult students will find engaging and fun. It features short, effective lessons and practice, motivational rewards, and a built-in goal-setting feature.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy’s app provides a comprehensive library of topics and skills that support Common Core goals. It includes a wealth of information particularly on middle school and high school classes, as well as useful topics for college students and adults.
Heroki
Heroki is a fabulous video game-like app with gorgeous visuals, lots of challenging levels, and an adventurous story weaved throughout that children will love.
CK-12
CK-12 offers a comprehensive system of review resources and practice questions that will help students get ahead in school. The app does a thorough job of covering vital ideas in elementary math as well as middle and high school high school math and science.
Homework List
Homework List is a handy tool that will help students get organized with school assignments and stay that way with minimal effort. The fact that it is digital should be appealing to most students.
Middle School Vocabulary Prep
Middle School Vocabulary Prep offers hundreds of words with definitions and parts of speech in learning, quiz, and test modes. It will provide middle and high school students with hours of productive vocabulary practice that will improve performance in class and on standardized tests.
Middle School Science Pro 8th Grade
Middle School Science Pro 8th Grade is an engaging way to encourage students to review middle school science concepts. Two modes of play, the ability to earn banana tokens and unlock levels, and the potential to gather game enhancements will help many students stay more engaged.
Tiny Builders- Digger, Crane, and Dumper for Kids!
Tiny Builders is a cute app for soon to be engineers and children who love everything construction related. With loads of machines to explore and a free play environment, this app will quickly become a family favorite!
Tic Tac Math Trilogy
Tic Tac Math Trilogy is a simple, effective system that provides vital, practical practice with math skills from basic computation through algebra, and it even includes a massive section on operations with fractions for good measure.
Coloring Storybook-Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk is a cute storybook app with a coloring twist where children can read, color, and enjoy this classic story in a unique way.
Connect-O-Dot
Connect-O-Dot is a fun app with lots of great pictures that teaches children their numbers and letters in a variety of fun connect-the-dots games. Great for children of all ages.
Toddlers Musical Tunes
Toddlers Musical Tunes is a cute musical app for young children that allows players to explore a variety of sounds and instruments. Easy to use and fun!
Ocean Forests
Who needs shark week when you have an app like Ocean Forests that takes learning to the next level? This underwater virtual app is full of awesome images and great information for children of all ages!
Imagination Playground
Imagination Playground is a virtual 3D building app that is designed to allow children to build anything their amazing minds can come up with. Great for future engineers or little ones who love to build.
My Shapes & Colors Farm Puzzles
My Shapes & Colors Farm Puzzles has so much to offer in education and entertainment. With loads of puzzles that include sorting shapes, sizes, colors, letters, numbers, and much more, it is the perfect early learning app for the little one in your home.
Moppa Ice Cream
Who doesn’t love a cool ice cream treat in the summer? Moppa Ice Cream is a fun app that allows players to get creative as they craft unique cool treats for their monster friends!
Say Word
Say Word is a perfect tool for students in middle to upper elementary on up to use for practice with difficult homophones and easily-confused words. Most will find the vocabulary and concepts challenging and interesting.
Pete & Mike
Join Pete & Mike on their adventure to help and save the townspeople from an angry dragon sleeping in a nearby mountain. With lots of adventure, interactive illustrations, and clues to follow, children will love this app!
Star Gurus
Star Gurus is a great app for young children that will help them practice important counting skills which are foundational to learning math in early elementary school. The dot-to-dot game is rewarding in its own right, and the teaching is so gentle and unobtrusive that kids will not even know they are practicing important skills.
Kids U.S. Atlas
Explore the United States through its animals, landmarks, and geography with this exciting virtual atlas for kids.
Grandma’s Preschool
Grandma’s Preschool is a great virtual learning app with lots of fun, interactive learning games and activities for children to explore. Great for the preschooler in your home!
Imagistory
Imagistory offers a healthy dose of creative thinking and storytelling opportunities to children by encouraging pretending. With two free wordless picture ebooks and four more available for purchase, children will love building story after story, recorded in their very own voices.
Auto Repair
Auto Repair is a creative, hands-on app that allows children to use their logic and problem solving skills to fix a variety of unique vehicles.
Opera Maker
Opera Maker is a fun, creative app that allows children to enjoy a few favorite operas and create their very own. Great for the creative child who loves creating their own stories.