Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
FREE today – The Trees Grin Beside Me based on the book by Michelle Macdonald. In this book a young girl compares herself to the trees around her in a beautiful story that explores our connection to nature. Peaceful and poetic – a great addition to anyone’s digital library!
FREE for a limited time! Add a personal touch to your emails with Artmail, an app for writing and sending handwritten notes. The app features several choices of stationery plus the option of using your camera to create a unique background. The writing is a brush style (similar to a fountain pen) with several color options. But the best part of this app is the scaling feature – which makes this app great for kids. Users can fill up the entire screen and the app automatically shrinks the word/words to fit in a letter format. Subsequent words are shrunk to match the size of the other words. A red cursor can be moved around to change the location of the words. Little hands will be able to write thank you notes to grandparents or to add a note of explanation to a photo. In the classroom, teachers could use it is SO many ways – for good copies of their writing, to communicate with parents, as an exit slip after a lesson, etc. I LOVE that this app preserves the child’s writing!! Very cool app – perhaps an upgrade will include the ability to pull in pictures from the photo library which would make it even better!!
Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
FREE today – Miko Goes on Vacation by Brigitte Weninger. Miko, a cute little mouse, goes on his first trip to the beach with his mother. He is concerned about leaving his little friend Mimiki alone when he goes into the water. So, he elicits the help of a little girl named Mia. Milo soon discovers that the best thing about going on vacation is making new friends. Like other apps from this developer, the story can be personalized by having your child narrate it – a super option for kids who are learning to become more fluent readers.
This book is the sixth book app featuring Miko and Mimiki – a wonderfully sweet series of books for young children. The apps normally sell for $1.99 each so make sure you download this one today 🙂
Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
FREE today – Rowdy Raccoon and the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly, a cute story about a raccoon and a turtle who wish they could fly. The two friends make themselves wings and a tail so that they can fly and be special like their friend Scissor, the bird. Things do not go smoothly and Tommy the Turtle ends up in a dangerous situation. In the end they discover that everyone has something that makes them special. Cute story with a great message!!
Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
Today’s book is Van Gogh and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt. Based on actual events, this story introduces kids to Van Gogh and his work. It begins when Camille (the young boy in the story) and his father help a stranger (Van Gogh) who moves into a house on their street. Camille take Van Gogh a huge pot of sunflowers and a friendship evolves. The beautiful watercolor illustrations complement the story which features several of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings. It is a wonderful story of friendship and acceptance of/compassion towards people who are different.
The app has some cool extras: a Museum of 10 Van Gogh paintings, an armature game, and painting. The Museum contains 10 Van Gogh paintings with facts about each one. The armature game shows kids the mechanics of animation. The animated structures are collapsible so that kids can put the pieces/gears back together. The painting option permits kids to paint the characters for the book. Then the kids’ paintings then become part of the story!
This is wonderful app – for so many reasons!!
FREE today only – Marble Math. There are lots of good reviews of this app for 9 – 12 year olds which was selected by Apple as New & Noteworthy. Kids solve a variety of math problems as they navigate their way through a series of marble mazes. Concepts included are addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, adding/sequencing fractions with different denominators, factoring, adding/subtracting negative integers and more! The game supports multiple players and it allows you to customize specific skills for each player – what a great option! Another great thing about this app – when a player answers incorrectly, he/she can choose of 3 options: try again, show me, or next problem. Kids earn marbles as they answer correctly and high scores are recorded. This game blends fun with the practice of common core skills. Worth downloading!
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Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
Today’s book is Ling Ling Looks in the Mirror by Ming & Wah Chen. Ling Ling is a little girl who realizes that she can be anything that she wants to be when she grows up. From Arctic explorer to a paleontologist, Ling Ling dreams big about where life might take her. Each occupation is beautifully illustrated by Mariko Jesse. This is a great story to encourage kids to be dreamers about their future – a perfect introduction to a writing assignment and/or a unit about occupations.
Like other apps from this developer, the story can be personalized by having your child narrate it – a super option for kids who are learning to become more fluent readers.
Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
Teddy’s Day is FREE today! Based on the bestselling book “What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day?” by Bruno Hachler, this app was recognized by the Kirkus Review as one of the Top 10 Best Children’s Book iPad apps. It is the story of a little girl who wonders what her teddy bear does all day so she stays home to spy on him – a cute story with lots of great interactivity! You won’t want to miss this one 🙂
Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂
The Turtle and the Dove by Don Freeman (author of Corduroy) is FREE today! It is a beautiful story of an unlikely friendship. The friendship develops when a dove is blown out to sea and ends up finding refuge on the back of a turtle. The two become separated in another storm, time passes, and they both go on to have families. Eventually the two are reunited and the families become friends – great story with a great message!!
Like other apps from this developer, the story can be personalized by having your child narrate it – a super option for kids who are learning to become more fluent readers.
FREE today only – Where Do Balloons Go? a story written and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. Based on the book of the same title, the app transforms the story into an interactive experience for kids. This app includes a lot of creative play. Kids can created their own movies in the Balloon Theatre, hear a helium version of their voice, create their own balloon animals and much, much more!
Check out this clip for more information: Jamie Lee Curtis: “Auryn HD – Where Do Ballons Go?” highlights & tutorial – YouTube
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