Category Archives: FREE apps (for a limited time)

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EyePaint MyDairy & EyePaint Animals

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eyepaint

Eye Paint MyDairy and EyePaint Animals are FREE again for a limited time for iPhone/iPad. These educational apps let your child paint illustrations from Japanese artist, Mitsue Haya, in a very unique way. Kids”paint” using their cameras to capture the colors, textures, patterns around them. To begin, a child chooses one of the 10 included illustrations. He/she taps to select the area to be filled in and the creativity begins! Work can be saved to the photo library for sharing or printing. Easy, fun, and very creative!!

EyePaint MyDIARY - Curious Hat EyePaint MyDairy            Eye Paint Animals - Curious Hat EyePaint Animals

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Multiplication: Math Fact Card Matching

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Multiplication

FREE for a limited time – Multiplication: Math Fact Card Matching, an educational app for kids who are learning their facts. This app combines fact practice with a memory game as kids flip cards to match an equation to its answer. The game has 3 modes – 1 player, 2 player, or play the computer. The app can be customized to have 6, 12, or 18 cards. The app can also be customized to be less or more difficult depending on the child’s level. The app also keep track of the attempts made and how many seconds it takes to match all the cards. Great for the classroom  – have kids practice facts with a friend instead of doing a worksheet!

Common Core Standards met:

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

Multiplication: Math Facts Card Matching Game - @Reks

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Shiny Party

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Shiny Party

FREE for a limited time – Shiny Party, a math app for preschoolers. Charlie the monkey and Alice the giraffe are getting ready for their friend’s surprise birthday party. Kids learn about basic geometric shapes as they help. They find matching shapes, do shape puzzles, build cupcakes – all within the context of the story. All activities are age appropriate. Just have one minor concern about the content… the app teaches kids that a square has 4 sides rather than 4 equal sides. All in all, this educational app is great – colorful with adorable characters. Also, you can take a picture of your child with the characters and save it to your photos – a really cute feature. Nicely done and fun for little ones!

Shiny Party - Shiny Things

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The Amazing Train

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Amazing Train

FREE for a limited time – The Amazing Train, an interactive adventure story set in India. Rajeev and Lalita have the opportunity to visit the Magnificent Train. Kids travel along with the characters to discover what make this train so special. The 3D illustrations and animations in this app are quite unique – making this story a stand out among e-books. As kids listen to or read the story, they are also introduced to the culture of India. This educational app even includes a recipe for an Indian dessert – yum! This story would be great for a social studies unit on different cultures. I love books that give kids a glimpse of how other cultures live!

The Amazing Train- Where the adventure comes to life-Full story book 3D - PlaneTree Family Productions

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Wild Fables

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Wild Fables

FREE for a limited time – Wild Fables, an interactive version of Aesop’s fables. This educational app comes with 3 FREE fables (The Crow and The Pitcher, The Fox and The Grapes, and The Ant and The Chrysalis) and the option of purchasing 5 additional stories. Kids don’t just read they stories in this app, they play along! They help save a lion, help a fox leap for a grape, etc. as 3 of Aesop’s fables come to life. Designed to be read independently, the stories do not have a read along/aloud option. The music, effects, and accelerometer can be turned of/off in the settings. If you use Aesop’s fables in your classroom, check out this app. It could be used to introduce fables.

Wild Fables - Razeware LLC

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Cookie Next Door – Rainy Days

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cookie

WOW – here’s one you don’t want to miss!! FREE again for a limited time –  Cookie Next Door-Rainy Days. This educational app was a choice in the “New & Noteworthy”  section of the app store in early February. Kids become storytellers in this animated adventure. Their speech, songs, and rhymes bring Cookie and his friends alive. The app includes a Creative Comic Book, a Voice Over Studio, and an Animated Stage Projector. Creative Comic Book utilizes storyboards to guide kids through the storytelling experience. In the Voice Over Studio, kids can change the pitch of the characters’ voices. As kids tell the story their speech, singing, etc. is transformed into the voices of the characters. Once the story is complete, the Animated Stage turns it into a play with dancing props! This app is very creative, very fun and it’s great for developing oral language skills. I am looking forward to more adventures of Cookie and friends!!

Cookie Next Door ~ Rainy Days - Sabodu LLC

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Homework+

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Homework+

FREE again, for a limited time – Homework+, a simple to use homework/test planner. This educational app is geared towards older students who are taking multiple classes. It could also be used with younger kids as an electronic assignment book. It’s never too early to teach kids how to be organized. 🙂

To set up the app, first edit the subject list & category lists to reflect what you are studying. After that, it is very easy to add assignments to the calendar – just give the assignment a title, choose the subject & category, put in the due date, choose a level of priority, and save. As you finish an assignment, mark it as complete and the app moves it to the finished list. App badges show you how many assignments you have and how many you have finished. Notifications can be set (1 or 2 days before) to remind you of an upcoming assignment. The app also keeps track of overdue assignments. Very slick and intuitive – great for teaching kids to be organized!!

Homework+ - Chijang Huang

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Madagascar: My ABCs

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Madagascar- My ABCs

FREE for a limited time – Madagascar: My ABCs. If your preschooler is a fan of Madagascar, you may want to check out this educational app. It teaches letters (upper & lower case), letter sounds, and letter formation. There are also songs to sing and poems for each letter! Kids can create their own alphabet books with the help of 400+ stickers that reinforce beginning sounds. Kids can also travel on a field trips with Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria to tropical beaches, New York City, savannahs, and jungles in a fun game called Sticker Safari. Kids use their trusty binoculars to find hidden letter stickers. If you have more than one child, no problem – the app allows more than one child to play and save their work & progress. Fun for little ones. 🙂

Madagascar: My ABCs - Knowledge Adventure

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Fraction Walls

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Fraction Wall

FREE for a limited time – Fraction Wall, an app designed for small group or independent learning. This educational app has 4 sections: Teacher Tool, Complete the Wall, 2 Player Game, and Addition. The Teacher Tool can be used to show/discover equivalent fractions or it can be used to answer equivalent fraction problems. Complete the Wall has kids moving bricks on top of equivalent fractions. There are 4 levels: level 1 – halves and quarter; level 2 – halves, thirds, quarters and sixths; level 3 – halves, thirds; quarters fifths, sixths, tenths; level 4 – halves up to tenth. 2 Player Game has kids competing against each other to be the first to fill their wall of equivalent fractions. Addition has kids adding fractions to answer multiple choice questions. There is a clickable wall to help them visualize the answer if needed. This section also has 4 levels. The app can be customized to exclude more difficult fractions from the wall. This app would work well in the classroom – great for practicing and/or for using as a tool to visualize answers. Much more fun than a worksheet for practicing fractions!

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. Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3).

Fraction Wall - Aleesha Kondys

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Bitsboard Pro – Education, Games, and Flashcards for Learning Reading, Spelling, and more

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Bitsboard

Just yesterday, I reviewed Bitsboard and today Bitsboard Pro is FREE for a limited time. Both versions are ideal for teaching languages, vocabulary, sight words, spelling, and more. However, Bitsboard Pro has many more options than the FREE version. It has 10 games – the 3 in the FREE version: Flashcards (10,000+ free flash cards with fully customizable settings), Explore (reviews all flashcards), and Photo Touch (spot the correct item game) PLUS… the 7 games that are in-app purchases in the FREE version. Both educational apps are easy to use and fully customizable so that you can use them to create games for whatever you are teaching. And, you can see that people have done just that because within the app you have access to the Bitsboard catalog. It includes thousands of flashcards with lessons covering a variety of topics. If all of that hasn’t convinced you that you need this app, this feature certainly will – Bitsboard Pro supports multiple users and keeps track of their progress!!

Recommended – a great app with loads of potential!!

Bitsboard PRO - The Best Educational Games and Flash Cards in 1 App - GrasshopperApps.com