Montessori Worksheets for Kids HD: Traceable ABC Letters

March 15, 2013 | appydazeblog

FREE for a limited time – the full version of Montessori Worksheets for Kids HD: Traceable ABC Letters. This app uses a 2-step process to teach kids how to write upper and lower case letters. First kids trace the letters. Then they write the letter independently. Each letter is presented with a picture/word that begins with that letter so that kids are also introduced to the sounds of the letters. Also included with the app is a progress chart. If you have a little one learning to write, download this app today. It is nicely done!!

Abby’s Aquarium Adventure

March 15, 2013 | appydazeblog

Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂

FREE today – Abby’s Aquarium Adventure. Kids will learn about exotic sea creature and the people who work in aquariums by reading this story written by Heidi de Maine, a marine biologist. Lots of fun facts are presented in language that is easy for kids to comprehend. This e-book would be a great to use before a visit to an aquarium 🙂

Parent/Child Apps :)

March 14, 2013 | appydazeblog

A few FREE apps for parent/child time 🙂

FREE for limited time – Little Things Forever, the sequel to Little Things. These apps are the ultimate seek & find puzzles – fun for the whole family! Little Things Forever has 9 puzzles with 101 little things to find within the puzzles. The list of things to find is randomly generated so that the puzzle is never the same. The app can be played in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, or Russian. So… this app could also be used to learn words in another language – fun practice for a foreign language class!

Also FREE for limited time is Family Puzzles. This app has jigsaw puzzles in two modes – kids’ mode and classic mode. Kids’ mode has 36 simple “wooden” puzzles for little ones to put together. Classic mode has 6 puzzles that can be cut into 12, 30, or 56 pieces. But… the BEST part of this app is the ability to make your own puzzles. Using the camera on your device or your photo library you really can make “family puzzles” – sorry, couldn’t resist that one 🙂 How fun would it be to create puzzles of your family vacation photos and work them with your little one!?!

PBS Parents Play & Learn is FREE and currently being featured as New & Noteworthy by Apple. PBS has designed this app specifically for parents and it can be used in English or Spanish. The app uses familiar locations (in the bathtub, in the kitchen, at the zoo, etc.) as themes then provides parents with meaningful activities/games for their children. I LOVE that the app includes ideas for different ages (baby, toddler, preschooler) and provides information for parents about the math & literacy skills embedded in the games. The app supports the notion that a child’s parents are his/her first and most important teacher – LOVE it!

Chalk Box Story

March 14, 2013 | appydazeblog

Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂

Chalk Box Story by Don Freeman (author of Corduroy) is FREE today! Cleverly done – this app encourages kids to participate by using the box of chalk to help create the story’s setting and characters. The bonus section of the app lets kids can tap & drag 8 interactive items into the story’s final scene. Very cute!!

Tellagami

March 13, 2013 | appydazeblog

Currently FREE, Tellagami (rhymes with origami) is a unique storytelling app. Short stories called gamis are easy to create. First you select and customize a character by choosing his/her skin tone, eye color, hair, and clothing. Then you add emotion – happy, sad, surprised, angry, scared, silly. Next you choose a background from the app, from your photo library, or by using your camera. You are now ready to create your gami. You can record your gami in you own voice or choose the text button to type in what your character will say – the limit is 450 characters. Gamis can be shared via email, messaging, Facebook, or Twitter.

The app is fabulous!! Its uses are only limited by your imagination!! Kids can customize their characters to look like themselves and be reporters, scientists, teachers, etc. They create the character and setting from a book they are reading. They could message or email a parent to explain what they are learning in class. Teachers could use gamis as interactive exit slips. The list is endless. Kids will LOVE creating gamis!

Mitzi’s World

March 13, 2013 | appydazeblog

Auryn Apps is giving away an interactive book each day in March to support National Reading Month 🙂

Today’s FREE book is Mitzi’s World by Deborah Raffin – a seek and discover book. Kids follow Mitzi the spotted dog through 15 different scenes of town & country drawn by American folk artist Jane Wooster Scott. Along the way, they look for Mitzi and 150 other items such as 4 small red birds, a snowman, 13 dogs, etc. Kids can zoom in for a closer look or get a hint when they cannot find an item. This app provides hours of fun for kids as they count, differentiate colors, built vocabulary, and learn about the seasons. If you loved the “Hidden Pictures” page of Highlights magazine when you were young, you will love this app for your kids 🙂

Sail Through Math

March 12, 2013 | appydazeblog

$sail through math$

Ahoy there!! FREE again (normally $1.99), Sail through Math from McGraw Hill – a fun way for students to practice their math facts/skills. There are 3 levels of play for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Other areas covered are addition equations. subtraction equations, multiplication equations, two-step equations, names for numbers, patterns/factors/multiples, and compare numbers. This app provides of great practice built around a pirate theme – complete with music and firing cannonballs! At the end of each game, the child can see what problems he/she missed as well as a percentage score. What a fun way to learn basic facts – in the classroom, at home, in the car on a way to an evening activity. I used to tell my students to practice during commercials – 10 to 15 minutes a day works wonders. This app provides a fun way to accomplish that goal 🙂

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.
3.OA.7 – Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

Easter Apps

March 12, 2013 | appydazeblog

Links to a few FREE Easter apps that I have found – enjoy!!

Bunnyfur’s Easter Eggs – an interactive book for toddlers. Kids help decorate eggs, find hidden eggs, etc. Short but cute!

ClickySticky Easter is a creative app for kids that lets them decorate eggs, fill Easter baskets, hide eggs in the yard, and more!

Jasper in The Great Easter Egg Race is another adventure of Jasper & Smiley. Fluffy the bunny has hidden eggs all over the house for an Easter egg hunt. The first one to find 5 eggs wins!

The Trees Grin Beside Me

March 12, 2013 | appydazeblog

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!

Artmail

March 11, 2013 | appydazeblog

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!!

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