Category Archives: FREE apps (for a limited time)

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Flat Stanley

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Flat Stanley

FREE for a limited time – Flat Stanley. Teachers around the world have been using the Flat Stanley Project since 1995 to help children learn about travel, cultures, and the love of books. This educational app makes creating, sharing, & sending Flat Stanleys easier and safer for teachers, kids, and parents. Kids start by creating their own Flat Stanleys/Flat Stellas with different shirts, pants, and shoes etc. Then Flat Stanley/Stella is ready for adventure! Kids can send, receive, and share their favorite photos and Flat Stanleys. Teachers and parents will be happy to know that any content uploaded through the app is the monitored and approved by the “Flatter World” team members. If you have ever participated in the Flat Stanley project, you will want to check out this app. Kids LOVE being involved in this project – it’s really fun!!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flat-stanley/id382161936?mt=8&uo=4

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Sleeping Genius Baby

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sleeping

FREE today – Sleeping Genius Baby, an app which plays peaceful music for baby’s nap/sleeping. According to the developer, this app helps in 3 ways: it gets your baby to sleep faster, it improve your baby’s sleep quality, and it improves brain function. When you first open the app, it downloads the HD audio files. Then you can choose bed time or nap time music for your child. Information within the app includes: tips for success, how it works, benefits, and more. Or you can read that same information on the developer’s website: Home – Sleep Genius and decide for yourself before your download it. Many parents try to establish a consistent routine at bedtime for their children. The nice thing about using an app is that it is portable. You can easily take your bedtime music with you. 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-genius-baby-calming/id669390302?mt=8&uo=4

 

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Popboardz

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Popboardz

Recently updated and FREE for a limited time – Popboardz, a productivity tool that normally sells for $4.99.  Popboardz makes it easy to organize, store, and present information. Each board is a grid with 16 spaces for content so that all of your PDFs, images, videos, websites, can be arranged on one screen. Unlike other presentation tools, Popboardz makes it easy to customize your presentation to meet the needs of your group. Just click on the grid space that contains the example, information, or link that you would like present next! It’s easy to skip around. This app would be fabulous to use in the classroom. A teacher could organize all his/her digital resources for a unit on one board. That board can be saved so it is always ready to present! It is also easy to edit and/or rearrange boards so that lessons can be tweaked as new resources become available. Students could also use Popboardz – to organize information, to present projects, to give reports, and more. What a great educational app!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popboardz/id563989511?mt=8&uo=4

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Writing Wizard – Kids Learn to Write Letters

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Writing

FREE for a limited time – 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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All About Shapes by Tiny Tapps

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all about shapes

All About Shapes by Tiny Taps is FREE again for a limited time for the iPhone/iPad. In this educational app, a genie and her magic lamp helps your preschooler learn about 13 shapes through activities such as songs, tracing, puzzles, and games. This app has a nice variety of practice. I especially like the shape section of the app because each shape is named/spelled and two examples are given. One caution about this app – the cone is not drawn as a 3D object. The other 3D shapes (cube, pyramid, cylinder) are correctly drawn as 3D shapes. Hopefully the developer will correct this error in the next upgrade. 

All About Shapes by Tinytapps - Altaf rehmani

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Tiny Dentist

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Tiny Dentist

FREE again – Tiny Dentist. Kids get to be a dentist for a day with this educational app that teaches about dental treatments and instruments. Dozens of patients with dental problems need fixed. The “dentist” has the tools to: remove cavities & fill in the hole, remove plaque, use water & air sprays, remove decayed teeth, put on braces, and more! The app was developed to alleviate children’s fear of the dentist. Visual instructions for using the different tools are found in the grown-ups section. Another fun feature of the app is the ability to take before and after pictures of the patient. 🙂 Check it out!!

Tiny Dentist - fantastoonic

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Ask Me! Colors and Shapes

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Ask Me

FREE today to celebrate 1,000,000 downloads of Eggroll Games – Ask Me! Colors and Shapes: Preschool Edition. Over 100 colorful objects are used to teach kids colors and shapes. Simple to use and cute for toddlers.

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ask-me!-colors-shapes-preschool/id689592594?mt=8&uo=4

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Sesame Street Apps

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Weekend sale!! To celebrate the start of the new season, all Sesame Street educational apps are reduced to $.99 or FREE.

Elmo

Cookie

FREE – Elmo Calls and Cookie Calls. With these educational apps, kids can receive audio /video calls from Elmo/Cookie. They can also dial Elmo/Cookie on their own. The apps simulate Facetime as the child sees a live video of himself/herself in the corner of the screen while chatting with Elmo/Cookie. Parents can activate or schedule calls for a variety of situations – going to the doctor, bath time, learning to potty, etc. Super cute and sure to be a hit with kids who LOVE Sesame Street!!

Download link for Elmo: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmo-calls/id467703220?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Cookie: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cookie-calls/id578982065?mt=8&uo=4

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Peekaboo! Guess Who?

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peek

The full version of this educational app is currently FREE again for the iPhone/iPad. This app is designed for the youngest iPad users – the peekaboo players. 🙂 Kids hear an animal sound and have to guess who is making it. The full version has 4 levels – farm, ocean, circus, and jungle. In baby mode, kids listen to the sound then tap the door to reveal who is making it. In kids mode, they listen to the sound then guess who is making it.  If you have a little one that loves peekaboo, check out this cute and colorful app!

Peekaboo! Guess Who? - Bacciz

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Cutie Mini Monsters

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Cutie Mini Monsters

FREE again for a limited time – Cutie Mini Monsters, an iPhone/iPad app for preschoolers. This educational app introduces kids to number recognition and counting. Kids meet Blushy, Toothy, Golly, Taily, Blobby, Growly, and Snouty. They count the monsters’ body parts – tails, eyes, feet, spikes, etc. The app also includes 9 simple  jigsaw puzzles featuring the same characters. Cute for little fans of monsters!

Cutie Mini Monsters - Paul Smith