Apps on Elementary iPads:
Every Day Math Games:
Top It (Subtraction Top It with 2 Digit Numbers)
The Subtraction Top-It game by McGraw-Hill offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce 2-digit subtraction computation and number comparisons. This two-player game runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Top It Addition (0-10)
McGraw-Hill’s Addition Top-It game offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce basic addition facts (0–10) and number comparisons. This two-player game runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Name that Number
McGraw-Hill’s Name That Number game offers a fun and easy way to practice computation and order of operations. This computation practice game runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Monster Squeeze
McGraw-Hill’s Monster Squeeze game reinforces number recognition and offers a quick and easy way to practice number line concepts and number comparisons. This two-player game runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Tric-Trac
McGraw-Hill’s Tric-Trac game offers a fun and easy way to practice addition facts. This competitive two-player game runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Other Math Games:
Park Math HD
Park Math HD introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade (ages 1-7). Brought to you by Duck Duck Moose, the creators of Wheels on the Bus and Itsy Bitsy Spider, and winners of six Parents' Choice Awards.
Join Blue Bear and his friends as they play in the park and learn through 7 fun educational activities:
1) SWING: NUMBERS –- Count up to 50 as a rabbit swings.
2) SLIDE: ADDITION -- Help ducks climb to the top of a slide and learn how to add.
3) SEESAW: GREATER THAN / LESS THAN -- Balance a seesaw by adding and subtracting mice.
4) APPLE TREE: SUBTRACTION -- Learn how to subtract as apples fall from a tree.
5) SANDBOX: PATTERNS -- Complete the pattern in a sandbox with the correct toy.
6) BENCH: SORTING -- Order the dogs from small to large. Order numbers in sequence.
7) PICNIC: COUNTING -- Feed a hippo the correct number of food items.
Hungry Fish
This game is an excellent practice app for quick addition and subtraction skills - my students really enjoy it. The top levels are quite tough!
G3 Math HD
This app combines with 8 different games appropriated for primary year (Grade 2-5). Good for parent and teacher who may have a wish to teach your kids via activities, you can also choose which topics they want their child to learn. The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be kids friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. Audio and sound of this app records from kid voices and gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun.
KG Math HD
This app combines with 18 different games appropriated for kindergarten up to early primary year (Grade 1-3). Parents can choose which topics they want their child to learn. The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be kids friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. Audio and sound of this app records from kid voices and gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun.
Phonics Apps:
Spelling Magic 1
Teaches the sounds of the letters and how to build words.
This app can help your child learn the sounds of the alphabet. This app indirectly teaches the essential reading skill of segmenting as well. Two levels of challenge are available.
The first part of the app has a limited alphabet for building words.
The second part of this app has the entire alphabet available for building words.
This app focuses on the skill of learning to spell words with three phonetic sounds with short vowel words.
Spelling Magic 2
Spelling Magic 3
Reading Skill 1
ABC MAGIC READING includes games that will help your child experience blending and segmenting, which are the most essential pre-reading skills that language researchers talk about.
The categories and levels of ABC MAGIC READING will provide meaningful challenges to strengthen your child’s phonemic awareness.
ABC MAGIC READING also has built in features to discourage picture guessing and to instead encourage reading skills.
ABC MAGIC READING is great for young children learning beginning reading skills.
ABC MAGIC READING is also good for those learning the foundations of English as their second language.
Reading Skill 2
Reading Skill 3
Word Wizard
Word Wizard is a unique app that lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words using a talking movable alphabet. Featuring advanced text to speech capabilities, the app can pronounce and spell-check an unlimited number of original words and sentences built using the movable alphabet.
Word Wizard also provides spelling practice with a list of more than 1,400 questions and answers, and the best is that you can add your own words to create any spelling quiz, and track the progress of your kids thanks to detailed reports.
Word Wall HD
Word Wall helps early to beginning readers learn to read and write by:
•Hearing, visualizing, vocally repeating and writing down letters and words.
•Providing activities that cater to budding readers using multiple learning styles such as spatial, visual, tactile, language-oriented, logical, or rhythmic.
•Engaging kids with four well-designed reading games that reinforce recognition of age appropriate sight and word family words.
•Providing structured learning for ESL/EFL and special needs students to help develop or improve their reading and writing skills.
Writing Apps:
Book Creator
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.
StoryKit
Create an electronic storybook. Make use of the little gaps in life - on the sofa after dinner, in the back seat of the car, or on a train - to do something creative together.
StoryBuddy
★ The Premier Award Winning StoryBook Creator for iPad
★ Recommended by Top Education Professionals & Institutions
★ From the creators of Alphabet Fun & CardBuilder
Draw directly on the iPad's screen with your finger as you create your very own picture book - page by page. Add customizable text with the built-in keyboard. Import images from your photo album for that personal touch. Even add beautifully crafted paper styles to each page.
Compile your story and experience the excitement of interacting with its pages like a real book. Listen to your very own audio narration for each page. Send your story to iBooks with a tap, share it with a friend through email, and even access your work through iTunes File Sharing.
ToonTastic
Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kidsto draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with other kids around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150countries, parents and teachers rave about the app...and kids can't stop creating!
Toontastic teaches key storytelling skills that help to promote creativity at a young age and map directly to Common Core standards for K-5 classrooms. For more information and Best Practices for storytelling at home and in the classroom, look for the Launchpad Leaders button on the Home Menu.
Montessori Crosswords
Based on the proven Montessori learning method, Montessori Crosswords helps kids develop their reading, writing, and spelling skills by building words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.
Montessori Crosswords helps kids learn and understand two fundamental concepts:
➜ First, the app helps kids understand that words are made up of sounds or phonemes (phonemic awareness). For each word, your kids can touch the empty rectangles where letters must be dragged to complete the word, and hear the sound the corresponding letter produces.
➜ Secondly, the app helps kids memorize the phonics associated with letters by providing a phonics-enabled alphabet where kids can touch each letter and hear the associated phonic.
Drawing Apps:
Doodle Buddy
Doodle Buddy for iPad is the most fun you can have with your finger--heck, it’s the most fun you can have with all your fingers! Finger paint with thousands of colors and drop in playful stamps.
• Paint with multiple fingers, yea like in pre-school!
• Funny sounds paired with stamps are a blast!
• Doodle and stamp all over your own pictures.
• Lots of cool drawing tools: paintbrush, glitter, chalk, text, stencils, smudge and more!
• 44,000-color picker doesn’t get your fingers dirty.
• Share your doodles with your friends via email.
Drawing Pad
Create your own art using "actual-sized" photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and MORE! Save your artwork to your Drawing Pad Album and reload it later to keep working on your masterpiece!
Save to Device Camera Roll Photos, share via Email, Twitter or Facebook (note to Facebook users, once you upload a drawing, log onto your Facebook account and "Approve the Pending Drawing Pad Album). Use iOS Photo App to set your new creations as your desktop background!
Other:
TeachMe Kindergarten
TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational iPhone app which teaches four different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. Parents can select which subjects they want, set different difficulty levels, and even choose specific questions. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing.
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