Category Archives: FREE apps (for a limited time)

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Magic Sorter – Sea Tales

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Magic Sorter -Sea Tales

FREE today – Magic Sorter Sea Tales, an app for toddlers. The app includes 10 different games based around the theme of the sea. Activities include puzzles, color matching, size & shape matching, patterns, counting, a memory game, and more. Your child can work on one game at a time or there is an option to mix the games. Kids will enjoy the colorful animations & lively music that they receive as a reward after completing an activity. The app is very intuitive and suitable for kids of all languages  – there are no written or spoken words. If you have a little one who loves the ocean and its creatures, check out this app today!

Magic Sorter - Sea Tales - 10 in 1 - to develop important cognitive and fine motor skills - Igromatic

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Toca Pet Doctor

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toca petOn sale for only $.99 – Toca Pet Doctor, another creative app from Toca Boca. The app guides kids (ages 2 – 6) through activities that teach them to care and feel for animals. Fifteen animals need some tender loving care. Kids come to their rescue in a variety of ways. They help to clean & medicate Rascal’s ear, flip over Tarzan the upside down turtle, untie the knotted worm, and more. After the animals  are cured, kids feed them and they go back to sleep. If your child likes the other Toca Boca apps, you’ll want to add this one to your collection today. These apps do not go on sale or free that often. Another great app from a developer that makes learning fun. 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toca-pet-doctor/id808108897?mt=8&uo=4

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Dino-Store Storybook

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FREE for a limited time – Dino-Store, a funny interactive story for early readers. Leo and his father go to the store to get eggs and chose a carton of HUGE ones. 12 baby dinosaurs hatch out and that’s where the fun begins! Kids can choose to follow along or read on their own as they enjoy the cute illustrations and fun interactions. And…the story line leaves it open for a sequel! This book would be great for teaching story sequence or as a springboard to writing about the dinosaurs’ further adventures.

Dino-Store Storybook - Bluemarker

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Photo Mapo

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photo mapoFREE today – Photo Mapo, an easy-to-use photography app/fabulous tool for classroom projects. This app easily transforms any photo into a mapped masterpiece. The app features twenty-three styles. Projects can be customize by changing the background, map type, & zoom level. There is also an option to add a 180 character description. Finished projects can be shared by email or saved to the camera roll. How fabulous!! Kids can use this app to connect events (real or make-believe) to their settings. They can use it with: pictures of grandparents/great-grandparents to show their native countries, with scanned drawings of story scenes to show the setting, with pictures/drawing of animals to show their habitats, with historical photos to show locations, etc. Kids could also create virtual postcards with this app. Photo Mapo has loads of potential for classroom use!

Direct Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-mapo-add-map-to-your/id525258687?mt=8

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Fiete

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FieteOn sale for only $.99 – Fiete, an interactive picture book for 1 – 3 year olds. Kids help Fiete with his everyday tasks as they put tires on a car, pop a balloon with a pin, plant a seed, load a ship, etc. There are 17 interactive scenes and 3 memory games in this educational app. There are no written instructions which makes it suitable for a wide range of kids. The app is very intuitive – little ones can easily figure out how they are supposed to help Fiete. The cute, hand-drawn illustrations & animations are accompanied by relevant sound effects. The developers of this app created it for their own children so the app is ad-free and does not contain any in-app purchases or external links. It’s a perfect choice for the youngest iPhone/iPad users!!

Fiete - Wolfgang Schmitz

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Sago Mini Friends

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minifriendsSago Mini Friends is currently FREE! Toddlers (ages 2 – 4) can go on a playdate with their favorite Sago friends in this cute educational app. They begin by choosing a character then walking that character to a friend’s house. Once they get there, the fun begins. There are 10+ activities to do with their friends – helping Robin the bird fix a birdhouse, playing dress-up with Jinja the cat, washing dishes with Harvey the dog, etc. Kids will love the sweet characters and the app’s silly surprises. Parents can encourage language development as they help kids make up stories to go with the actions. It’s no wonder Sago Mini Friends was picked as an Editor’s Choice by Apple. 🙂

Direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sago-mini-friends/id874425722?mt=8

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FunSlides – Make HD videos from photos

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FREE for a limited time… FunSlides – Make HD videos from photos, an easy-to-use photography app which could be a fabulous tool for the classroom. Photos from your camera roll are easily arranged into sequence. Then customized text can be added – a variety of fonts, colors, and sizes are available. The app also includes seven transitions and thirteen built-in musical themes. You can also add music from your personal music library or record a voice over to go with your slideshow. Completed slideshows are easily saved to videos in your photo library. From there they can be shared in a variety of ways. Kids could use this app to create timelines, document a field trip, record science experiments, retell a story, etc. There are so many creative uses for this fabulous educational tool!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funslides-hd-make-hd-video/id590225705?mt=8&uo=4

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TeleStory

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FREE for a limited time – Telestory, another fabulously creative app from Launchpad Toys, the creators of Toontastic. Kids can write, direct, and star in their own TV shows with this educational app. Kids choose a theme to start: The News, Star Adventure, Eye Spy, or their own creation. Then they mix and match scenes to create their story. Next they craft a script using the prompts within the app or their own ideas. Then it’s time for the show! Kids choose one of fifty digital costumes for their performance.They perform and record their show which includes animated scenes and special effects. Recordings can be saved to the camera roll to be shared with classmates, family, and friends. How fun!!

Teachers, check out “The News” theme for use in your classroom. Kids can choose to be different types of reporters: The Beat, The Sports Roundup, The News Desk, The Weather, The Critic, or The Eye in the Sky. Then the learning begins. They read, summarize and report about current events. Or, they can learn the science behind the weather and explain it to their viewers. Or they can write reviews of the literature that they are reading. Telestory’s News is a great tool for getting kids excited about non-fiction. Make it a part of your weekly routine. Kids could produce a new show every Friday. 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telestory/id915378506?mt=8&uo=4

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Universal Zoom: All About Sizes and Distances

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FREE for a limited time – Universal Zoom: All About Sizes and Distances, a very cool scientific app. Teachers and parents can use this educational app to help kids compare and contrast the size of natural and man-made objects in our universe. The app features about 200 objects presented to scale. Included are things like the world’s tallest buildings, the largest trees, animals, mountains, the planets of our Solar System. Kids can compare the size of a man to an ostrich, the size of a whale to an airplane, the size of the planets and more. And, there are also interesting facts about each object. VERY cool!

Direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universal-zoom-all-about-sizes/id807673066?mt=8

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Everyday Math® APPS: Addition Top – It, Beat the Computer, Squeeze Monster, Equivalent Fractions, Divisibility Dash

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5 educational apps from McGraw Hill’s Everyday Math® – If your school system uses this program to teach math, you may want to take advantage of these offers. 🙂

Everyday Math’s Addition Top-It app for iPhone/iPad is a two player game. It is fun easy way for kids to practice basic addition facts from 1 – 10 and greater than/less than.

Common Core Standards met:

  • 1.OA.6 – Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
  • 2.OA.2 – Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

Everyday Mathematics® Addition Top It - McGraw-Hill School Education Group

Everyday Math’s Beat the Computer app for iPhone/iPad is fun easy way for kids to practice basic multiplication facts. They race against the computer to score as many points as they can.

Common Core Standards met:

  • 3.OA.7 –  By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

Everyday Mathematics® Beat the Computer™ Multiplication - McGraw-Hill School Education Group

Everyday Math’s Squeeze Monster app for iPhone/iPad is a two player game. Designed for younger students, it reinforces number line concepts and number comparisons.

Everyday Mathematics® Monster Squeeze™ - McGraw-Hill School Education Group
Everyday Math’s Equivalent Fractions app for iPhone/iPad is fun easy way to reinforce fraction concepts. Note: the app uses a digital version of the fraction cards from the Everyday Math third grade book.

Common Core Standards met:

  • 3.NF.3 – Explain equivalence of fractions and compare fractions by reasoning about their size. Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line. Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3). Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
Everyday Mathematics® Equivalent Fractions™ - McGraw-Hill School Education Group
Everyday Math’s Divisibility Dash app for iPhone/iPad is fun easy way to practice recognizing multiples of a number and applying divisibility tests.

Common Core Standards met:

  •  4.OA.4 – Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range 1–100. Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1–100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1–100 is prime or composite.

Everyday Mathematics® Divisibility Dash™ - McGraw-Hill School Education Group