preschool
Stampy the Wizard and the Lost Wand
Stampy the Wizard and the Lost Wand is a fun interactive e-book app that young children will love. It’s also got a positive and uplifting message about controlling your temper that parents will definitely want to share with preschoolers and other young readers.
Wonster Words Learning – Spelling with Phonics
Overview We have been reviewing Wonster Words for years. The app becomes a quick favorite when any of my kiddos are between 2-6 years old because of all the entertaining features and sounds. And, I am constantly relieved that as a favorite, it is very educationally stimulating for them. Through the years, the app continues …
Equestria Girls
Equestria Girls is a fun app that will encourage little girls to fantasize about growing up into high school. However, parents should be aware that though the app is free, there are many places where in-app purchases and/or purchases of My Little Pony products are required to progress in the game.
Little Chatterbox for Kids
Little Chatterbox for Kids is a fun way to learn a selection of nouns in up to eight languages. The app is engaging, educational, and fun for children well past the preschool years.
Monty’s Backyard Adventure
Monty’s Backyard Adventure is an entertaining and colorful set of activities designed to help young children with early learning tasks such as matching, memory, numbers, and more. Players will enjoy interacting with the canine main character and will get lots of play value from this app.
Miaomiao’s Chinese for Kids
Miaomiao’s Chinese for Kids is an engaging way for young children to get a taste of Mandarin Chinese. They can learn over fifty words and phrases by seeing, hearing, and writing characters.
Lagoona: Kids’ Activity Center
Lagoona: Kids’ Activity Center is an engaging and delightful romp through an underwater paradise complete with friendly fish and other creatures. It includes seven different mini games and a host of levels within each game that will keep preschoolers and young elementary-aged children happily playing for a very long time.
Super School Kids
Super School Kids is a fun and educational collection of games, music videos, ebooks, and more designed for preschool children. It includes over 50 activities that span the typical preschool curriculum and is a good tool for helping young students explore and develop crucial concepts.
Spelling Stage
Spelling Stage is an engaging app that makes spelling practice as much fun as it can be! With a paid subscription, it offers a wide range of words that will be suitable for everyone from preschoolers through adults and makes a great practice tool for an amazing array of situations.
Math Bakery 1 – Start Counting
Math Bakery 1 – Start Counting is a wonderfully hands-on and manipulative app that will help preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders master basic addition and subtraction skills. It not only helps children practice simple problems, but it reinforces the underlying concepts such as making groups of ten while the children play.
Toddler & Kids Learning Games
Todder & Kids Learning Games is a fun app that allows families to try out a selection of game activities for free. Children will be engaged by the fun and colorful animations, and parents will be thrilled at the embedded learning opportunities and concepts.
Stage Fright
Stage Fright is a unique and entertaining app that is well-designed for young children to enjoy. It’s modeled after popular singing competitions on television, and the music is upbeat, catchy and positive. Check it out for your 2 to 6 year old!
My Fixie Town: Collection of Games for Childrens
App Info Price: Overview My Fixie Town is a collection of game activities for the very young. Preschoolers are challenged to various types of coordination, placement, matching and sorting games as they help the main characters solve “incidents” and put the town to rights after trouble strikes. Features include: 13 different mini games Earn presents …
Missing Friend-Lite
App Info Price: Overview This ebook tells an engaging story of the kidnapped Mr. Mole and Mr. Rabbit’s daring rescue from Icky Mr. Fox. It features interactive pages, vocabulary-building labels, and narration for all text. Features include: Quirky scenes and characters Narration of all pages Interactive pages activated with taps and swipes Tap objects to …
Peppa Pig: Happy Mrs Chicken
Peppa Pig: Happy Mrs. Chicken is a delightful app that will make parents search for more in the series. Young children will adore it, it’s easy to use, and it’s very educational.
Smarter Kids
This free app offers a few simple games for your young preschool children, but it isn’t likely to have much staying power without subscribing to the higher level monthly program.
Juana la Iguana goes to the Beach
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.
Spell Bear
Spell Bear is a simple and pleasant app that is designed to help very young students develop basic understandings about letter sounds and word order. The app provides practice with spelling three letter words, sounding words out, and more.
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters is an entertaining app that will unleash creative streaks in small children. Users can create thousands of variations of these not-so-scary monsters.
Poppetto Costumes
Poppetto Costumes is a challenging and entertaining collect and match game that will sharpen players’ grasp of strategy, their observation skills, their memory, and their logic. It’s fun for nearly any age group.
The Turtle, Hare, and Friends Learning Puzzle Race
The Turtle, Hare, and Friends Learning Puzzle Race is a free app that features three simple games suitable for toddlers and preschoolers. The app is pleasant, but somewhat limited in scope unless parents make some in-app purchases.
STEM Storiez-Wootzy Colors
STEM Storiez-Wootzy Colors is a pleasant e-book designed to introduce the very young to the names of the basic colors. It features cute space creatures that visit their colorful home planets and offers surprise animated interactions on each page.
RelationShapes
Interact with shapes and build logic and visual-spatial skills with RelationShapes, a creative shapes app for kids.
Fido & Pumpkin Position Words
Fido & Pumpkin Position Words is a fun app to help young children learn about position in space, covering words such as “in,” “up,” “down,” and “between” with colorful animations and multiple-choice endings to sentences that describe the characters’ positions.
Sago Mini Puppy Preschool
Sago Mini Puppy Preschool is an outstanding app that will entertain and amuse toddlers and preschoolers as they play with the puppies to learn about counting, shapes, colors, numbers and more.
FishyPaint
FishyPaint allows users to view and interact with a virtual aquarium as they touch the responsive fish, and use their own real-world artwork and pictures to create their own unique and colorful finned friends.
Pocket Sight Words
Pocket Sight Words provides a simple and effective way to practice recognition of 220 sight words from the Dolch List. It has few bells and whistles, which results in a very intuitive interface that should be apparent to preschoolers and kindergarteners in the target age group, but also is not likely to be exciting or intriguing for most children in this age group.
Ben and Holly: Elf and Fairy Party
Ben and Holly Elf and Fairy Party is an entertaining and engaging app that will get young children involved and keep them playing again and again as they create a new and different party experience each time.
KazuTime
KazuTime will help young children gain a better understanding of the passage of time, and may assist them with developing the self-control required to wait for anticipated events. It is also useful for timing activities that parents wish to have continued for a specific amount of time, such as brushing teeth or cleaning a room.
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.
EduGuru 3-5 Maths
Eduguru 3-5 Maths is a fun and entertaining way for preschoolers and young school-aged children to practice crucial math skills such as counting, number recognition, geometry, relative sizes, and more.
Highlights Shapes-Preschool Learning Puzzles
The free version of Highlights Shapes-Preschool Learning Puzzles does a good job of offering practice for toddlers and preschoolers to match, sort, and categorize 4 types of shapes and colors as they solve puzzles by sliding the correct shapes into the matching areas on the screen.
Fiete Sports
Fiete Sports offers a quick diversion for kids interested in sports by offering races for medals in track, hurdles, swimming, cycling, and shot put. Some will enjoy competing for the chance to stand on the first-place podium at the end of the competition, or trying to achieve a gold first-place medal in each sport.
Best Apps for Back to School – Kindergarten
Here are reviewed and recommended apps for Kindergarten that will be great for your child or your classroom. The apps we have recommended cover important skills such as developing high-level thinking and spatial skills, building reading and written expressions skills, and mastering basic sight words. Check out these apps! Bamba Space Station Bamba Space Station …
Best Apps for Back to School – Preschool
There are many choices of apps for preschoolers in the App Store, so here are a few suggestions of the best of the best from our reviews. These apps will help your preschooler develop important skills such as sequencing, patterning, building language skills and developing problem-solving skills. Our list of reviewed and recommended Preschool apps …
Solar Family
Solar Family is a very gentle and somewhat fictional introduction to outer space and the solar system that includes some interactive pages and a few simple games.
Cosmic Paul
Cosmic Paul is an early learning app that helps children practice their alphabet and spelling skills using a unique and very entertaining search and find concept. Interactive, educational, and tons of fun, this app is great for children of all ages!
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!
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.