Category Archives: FREE apps (for a limited time)

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Teach Me Kindergarten & Teach Me First Grade

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teach me kindergarten

FREE for a limited time – Teach Me Kindergarten, an educational app for young kids. It teaches addition and subtraction to 10, spelling (choose the missing letter), preK & K Dolch sight words, letter writing (upper & lower case), and number writing. The app includes parental controls which permit parents/teachers to choose which subjects they want and/or the level of difficulty. They can even choose specific questions. Up to 40 players can be entered and the topics for each player can be individualized – great for the classroom. Parents/teachers can review performance history for each subject to check how their children are doing.

Kids are rewarded for correct answers with stickers or coins. Sticker scenes include the beach, reef, pirate cove, city, farm, and playground. Parents/teachers can set the number of correct responses needed for getting a sticker from 1 – 9. Completed scenes can be exported to share. 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachme-kindergarten/id336689375?mt=8&uo=4

Also on sale for $.99 – Teach Me First Grade, another educational app from the same team. This app works the same way but teaches the following skills: first grade Dolch sight words, addition up to 20, subtraction down from 20, spelling of over 170 first grade words. 

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachme-1st-grade/id355940964?mt=8&uo=4

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Spelling Star

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spelling star

FREE for  limited time – Spelling Star, an educational app for practicing spelling lists. The app is simple to use – just type in and record the words. You may also include sentences to clarify the words’ meanings. Kids must spell each word correctly three times to become a Spelling Star.  Words are presented in random order. As kids practice, they can get a hint – a quick look at the word spelled correctly. When they spell a word without a hint, they earn a star. Spelling Star provides feedback after each word is spelled with the option to “try again” when an error is made. This educational app is great for home and/or school. Parents can use it to input spelling lists for multiple kids. Kids may enjoy inputting their own lists at the beginning of the week which would be GREAT practice! Teachers can create lists on one device and share those lists with anyone who has the Spelling Star app. Simple to use, effective, and tracks progress – what more do you need? 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spelling-star/id557070660?mt=8&uo=4

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Sago Mini Bug Builder

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bug buider

Only $.99, for a limited time – Sago Mini Bug Builder, an educational app for toddlers/preschoolers. Kids create, hatch, and play with cute little critters. They can transform 1 of 8 shapes into a colorful bug, add some color, then bring it to life. They can also add a funny hat, feed it a snack, clean up its mess, and take its picture. Kids can make unlimited number of unique bugs using this app which is very cute & creative! Older kids could create bugs to use for creative writing – a descriptive paragraph, a story, a dialog. Or, they could create 2 bugs to compare and contrast. Check out this colorful & creative app while it’s on sale!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sago-mini-bug-builder/id657821775?mt=8&uo=4

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Animal Pre-K Learning Games for Kids with Skills on the Farm

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farmFREE for a limited time – Animal Pre-K Learning Games for Kids with Skills on the Farm, a cute educational app for preschoolers. Lily the farmer leads kids through a series of games that teach preschool/K skills: colors, shapes, counting 1 – 10, groups & categories, sequencing & patterns, addition & subtraction. I like that the app teaches shapes in two ways – a circle and a donut, an oval and a watermelon, a rectangle and a bus, etc. And, I was particularly impressed that it names a kite shape as a rhombus. As kids play, they help the cute farm animals (Pinkie the pig, Oliver the horse, Bessie the cow, Cordelia the chicken, Gordon the goat, Sherman the sheep, Webster the duck, Pete the frog) find their way back home. The app is bright, colorful and full of positive encouragement. Nicely done, this app is sure to appeal to little ones.

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animal-pre-k-learning-games/id882334452?mt=8&uo=4

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Algebra Touch

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algebra

FREE for a limited time – Algebra Touch. The animated lessons in this educational app will help kids learn or review algebraic skills. It uses a touch-based approach – tap the operation signs to simplify, drag digits to rearrange them, and draw lines to eliminate like terms. The app is really simple to use. It will not let kids make a move that does not follow the rules of math. They can keep trying a problem until they figure it out! How cool is that? And, the problems are randomly generated so that kids can practice again and again. It covers the following topics: simplification, like terms, multiply then divide, factors, elimination, equations, distribution, and exponents. This app was made possible with support from the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory of Indiana University and the Cave Lab at the University of Richmond.

 VERY cool!!  

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/algebra-touch/id384354262?mt=8&uo=4

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Even Monsters Get Sick

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Cute interactive story for the iPad on sale for only $.99 – Even Monsters Get Sick is a story written for kids 5+ about a boy and his pet monster. Kids can follow along or read on their own as Harry tries to discover what is wrong with his monster. The artwork is appealing and there are animations on every page. It is a nicely done story with a positive message told by Harry, the boy. Perfect :).

Even Monsters Get Sick - Busy Bee Studios

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Halftone

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Half Tone

FREE again for a limited time – Halftone, a photography app with many educational uses. Named by Apple as a favorite photo app of 2011, Halftone makes it easy to turn your photos into vintage-looking comics that your friends and family will love! It’s simple to add paper styles, captions, speech balloons, graphic stamps, and fonts to your photos. Because it is so easy to use, this app would be great for creating the art to go with classroom projects – stories, book reports, newsletters, etc. Lots of creative uses for this educational app!

Halftone - Juicy Bits

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Dic-Dic

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Dic-Dic

On sale for only $.99 – Dic-Dic. Multilingual dictation to practise spelling, writing and sound-letter matching. This educational app helps kids learn to spell common words in four different languages (English, Spanish, Russian, French) and has 3 levels of difficulty. It’s great for kids who are beginning readers/spellers in their native language and/or for kids learning a new language. All words are read by native speakers of the language. Then the child tries to spell the word by typing its letters into the blanks – great for beginning word processing. Clues can be turned on or off depending on the level of the child. If a student misspells a word, the app urges him/her to try the word again. If the word is misspelled a second time, the app spells it correctly. I love this feature – positive encouragement to try again! The app tracks the child’s progress in albums (one for each level and language) so that parents/teachers can monitor success. It also includes an extra game to reward successful players. This app is suitable for a wide range of kids – check it out while it’s free. 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dic-dic.-multilingual-dictation/id643656920?mt=8&uo=4

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Writing Wizard – Kids Learn to Write Letters

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Writing

On sale for only $.99 – Writing Wizard – Kids Learn to Write Letters, a fun educational app that teaches kids to write manuscript letters. The app teaches kids to print letters using 3 of the most common handwriting styles – Zaner-Bloser,  D’Nealian, or Handwriting Without Tears. Kids start by tapping a letter. That letter is named and its sound is given. The app then demonstrates how to trace the letter. Then kids trace the letter using animated stickers with sound effects. After tracing the letters, they can interact with them. The app can be customized for the child’s level in a variety of ways – letter size, difficulty, show/hide model, allow to stop between key points, etc. It also provides detailed reports for teachers/parents which include the ability to replay and export the child’s tracings to view kids’ progress! But the BEST part of this app is the ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) – a perfect way to practice spelling and handwriting at the same time! This app is fantastic for so many reasons – highly recommended!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/writing-wizard-kids-learn/id631446426?mt=8&uo=4

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My Incredible Body – A Kid’s App to Learn about the Human Body

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my incredible body

On sale for only $.99 – My Incredible Body – A Kid’s App to Learn about the Human Body. This educational app takes kids inside the body to see how everything works. Kids start by choosing an area to explore – brain & nerves, digestion, lungs & air, skeleton, kidneys & urine, senses, muscles, or circulation. Each of the 8 content areas provides information in a variety of engaging ways. Kids can watch short movies & animations that explain the different functions of the body. 3D models can be rotated or zoomed to allow kids to see inside the body and discover how body parts work together. Kids will spend hours reading and listening to all sorts of fun facts about their bodies. For example: extraocular muscles control eye movements and are the busiest muscles in the body. This app is fabulous – it’s easy to use, visually appealing, engaging, and full of information. Kids will LOVE it!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-incredible-body-kids-app/id853953105?mt=8&uo=4