Tag Archives: educational apps for kids

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Leo and the Windy Day

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Leo and the Windy Day

FREE for a limited time – Leo and the Windy Day, an interactive story for the iPad. Leo’s wish that his bike could fly comes true. Kids join Leo, his friend Mira, and his hamster Mr. Snibs on a midnight adventure to rescue Leo’s kite from the top of the church tower. Kids can use their fingertips to bring the animations in the scenes to life. Their fingertips also activate musical notes in the same musical key as the soundtrack. The app is professionally narrated by Lyndsay Abbott or it can be read alone. Nicely done!!

Leo and the Windy Day - Lakeland Graphics

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Herd the Words

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Herd the Word

Herd the Words is a FREE word ladder game. Word ladders were invented by Lewis Carroll (author of Alice in Wonderland) in 1877. Players are given two words – a starting word and an ending word. They must change one letter at time to create a ladder of words between the two. Here is an example for changing blast to lease: blast – beast – least – lease. Players switch out letters (written on sheep) to create the word ladder. The app keeps track of how many steps it took to complete the puzzle. There are two modes of play – single player and multiplayer. In app purchases are available for unlimited play, hints, and to disable ads.

Games like this one are great for helping kids develop a sense of word structure. 🙂

Herd the Words - Gabicoware LLC

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Good Night and Sweet Dreams

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Good Night & Sweet Dreams

FREE for a limited time – Good Night and Sweet Dreams, a bedtime story for 3 – 7 year olds. It’s getting dark and the zoo is closing so it’s time for the animals to be put to bed. The zookeeper is already asleep so kids are asked to help turn off the lights for the bear, elephant, lion, hippo, fish, parrot, zebra and giraffe. This app reminds me of Nighty Night, the 2011 App of the Year in the USA “books”  category. In that app, kids help put farm animals to sleep as they turn off lights in a barn. Both apps are great for bedtime!

Good night and sweet dreams - Beautiful interactive bedtime story for kids - Links der Isar GmbH

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Color Dots

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Color Dots

FREE today – Color Dots, a visual tracking app for young kids. Kids will enjoy popping the vibrant dots and hearing the accompanying popping sound. The app begins with one bouncing dot. When it’s popped, two appear. When they are popped, three appear and so on. The settings enable you to change the appearance, size, speed, sound, and number of the dots. This app is a colorful digital toy for little ones!

Color Dots - Ellie's Games, LLC

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

A super-cute version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – FREE today! Goldilocks is a young lady who is quite mischievous. She causes problems for the Bear Family when she visits their cottage. In this interactive version of the classic tale, kids help Goldilocks make amends for the problems that she has caused during her visit. They help her fix Baby Bear’s chair & tidy the house. She leaves with a promise never to be mischievous again. Do you believe her? – a fun topic for discussion. After reading the book, have kids write a letter of apology to the bears as if they were Goldilocks. 🙂

Goldilocks and the three bears - Craig Melbourne

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Adventures of Puppup: Lost at the Zoo

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Adventures of Puppup

FREE for a limited time – Adventures of Puppup: Lost at the Zoo. Julia takes her Puppup, her stuffed dog, to the zoo. Children are introduced to 16 different animals as Puppup befriends them. The story is told from the perspective of Puppup  – what he wanted to do and what he did while Julia and her dad rested. Kids will enjoy this cute story with fun animations – jumping fish, monkey-dancing, waterskiing, zebra-riding, and more.

When I was teaching, we had a class stuffed bear (with a journal) that went home with a different child every weekend. The bear then wrote in the journal about his weekend adventures with that child. It was a fun way to encourage writing and reading. This book would be great introduction to that sort of project. 🙂

The Adventures of Puppup: Lost at the Zoo - Fletcher Grayson

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My A – Z

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FREE for a limited time – My A – Z, a fully customizable alphabet app. Using this app, you can easily create your own alphabet flashcards with personal pictures and personal recordings (up to 30 seconds)! The app comes with words & pictures for each letter of the alphabet but you have the ability to edit those and/or add your own. Just use already existing photos from your albums or use your device’s camera to take new photos. Easy!!

There are so many fun uses for this app. Make alphabet cards of your family or your family vacation. You can include recorded greetings from the relatives pictured! Make alphabet cards to teach words in another language. Make alphabet cards that teach math terms. Make holiday editions of alphabet cards. Obviously, the audience for this app is not just limited to toddlers. It would be fun for older kids to create their own ABC flashcards in any subject area. The possibilities are endless!

My A-Z - Night & Day Studios, Inc.

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Homework+

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Homework+

FREE for a limited time – Homework+, a simple to use homework/test planner. This 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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Timmy Tickle

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Timmy Tickle

FREE for a very limited time – – Timmy Tickle, an interactive story about an octopus for 2 – 4 year olds. Kids help Timmy by participating in a number of activities such as: tickling Timmy to cheer him up, playing nursery rhymes on his xylophone, counting Timmy’s balloons, washing and spin-drying his plates, and more. The app also contains painting pages. Professionally narrated by Gina Beck who is currently playing Glinda in Wicked, this app is sure to delight your little ones!

Timmy Tickle - Nimblebean

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Comic Book

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Comic Book

FREE for the first time ever – Comic Book. This app was named Best Photo App of 2011 and was the App of the Week in 12 different countries! Using the app’s selection of image filters, comic fonts, customizable captions, classic comic graphics and page layouts, you can easily change your photos into comics. So many creative uses for the classroom!! Download now, brainstorm uses later!!

ComicBook! - 3DTOPO Inc.