The following applications are free applications added to the Kindergarten/ First Grade iPads for your use. The list will change based on needs, feedback, and end of life of applications. All feedback is appreciated!

Single Sign On 

Clever gives everyone at a school and district secure single sign-on access to any online resource or application—all at no cost. Within your personalized Clever Portal, you can easily access all textbooks, files, website links, and applications.


Use your Clever login or a Clever Badge to sign in on your iPhone or iPad.


Math

Moose Math takes kids on a mathematical adventure! Through fun multi-level activities, kids will be engaged in counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, and geometry!


Moose Math engages kids in a mathematical adventure and teaches counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, geometry and more. While playing 5 multi-level activities in the Moose Juice Store, Puck’s Pet Shop and Lost & Found, kids can earn rewards to help build their own city and decorate buildings. Moose Math introduces a new whimsical group of Duck Duck Moose characters, The Dust Funnies, who help with mastering math skills. Moose Math is aligned with Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten and 1st Grade and includes a Report Card section where parents and teachers can monitor progress and find additional skill-building activities. AGES: 3-7.


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Park Math takes kids on a mathematical adventure! Through fun activities, kids will be engaged in counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, patterns, and more!


Award-winning Park Math teaches early math concepts based on Common Core State Standards. Learn numbers, counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, patterns and more through 7 fun, educational activities. 3 levels for Preschool, Kindergarten and First Grade: count up to 20, 50 and 100; addition/subtraction with numbers up to 5, 10 and 20. AWARDS: Parents’ Choice Silver Award; iLounge Best Kids’ App of the Year; Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award. AGES: 2-6.


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Students use Pattern Shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students explore geometric relationships, think about angles, investigate symmetry, and compose and decompose larger shapes. Many of these explorations lead naturally to thinking about fractions as parts of a whole.


This virtual version of pattern blocks is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments that use iPads. Pattern blocks are a key model used in Bridges in Mathematics, second edition. Online preview available at: www.mathlearningcenter.org/bridges

Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Students use the frames to count, represent, compare, and compute with numbers in a particular range.


The frames allow students see quantities as equal groups of other quantities and in relation to benchmark quantities. This helps primary students move away from one-by-one counting toward more efficient ways of counting and computing. As students advance, custom frames can be constructed to help visualize factors, products, fractional parts and more.


These virtual versions of number frames are open-ended educational tools, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments that use iPads.

Number frames are a key model used in Bridges in Mathematics, second edition. Online preview available at: www.mathlearningcenter.org/bridges

Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments.

Loved by teachers... and kids! Quick Math Jr. is an award winning app that covers the essential foundations of mathematics, including counting, addition and subtraction, place value, writing numbers and much more!

ELA

Photo Touch is an exciting educational game that helps your child rapidly learn the ABC by sight, sound, and touch. The interface is so easy to use that even a 9 month old baby will delight in using this app. Ideal for ages 0 to 6.

Give your child the building blocks needed to learn to read. Combine fun, easy-to-follow activities with hands-on and audio features to jumpstart the learning process. Created by reading experts such as Dr. Fry, Kids Learn Sight Words uses developmentally appropriate approaches to let the child


● hear the words

● practice writing the words

● recognize letters

● record the words with playback

● use the words in activities


It combines fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension practice with entertaining, engaging graphics in a disguised-learning format. Children will want to play again and again and by doing so, will be learning up to 300 all-important sight words. Great for young learners and older children struggling with reading.


This app contains words 1–25 for free!

Not ready to buy…. no problem… try Sentence Maker for FREE and find out why tens of thousands of parents, teachers, and kids rave about Sentence Maker.


Sentence Maker is an exciting interactive game that helps your child rapidly learn to make and complete their own sentences all with just the touch of their finger. The interface is so easy to use that even a 9 month old baby will delight in moving their first words around the page. Ideal for ages 1 to 6.

WONDERFULLY EDUCATIONAL READING PROGRAM FOR BEGINNING READERS (AGES 2-7).

Developed in cooperation with educational specialists by an award-winning educational studio, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling Abby Basic Skills and reading program Phonics: Fun on Farm, to best prepare your children for success in kindergarten and school curriculum.


* Entirety of 220 SIGHT WORDS from the popular Dolch list (with extra 94 NOUNS!)*


* Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Categories *

PARTNERS in RHYME was created using a rhyming dictionary and rhyming software to find words that rhyme.

The free version has 12 rhyming trios and 36 matching picture words.

Epic School is free for elementary school educators worldwide. Educators use our award-winning digital library to supercharge reading and learning—with access to tons of high-quality, educational children's books, including Read-To-Me books, audiobooks and nonfiction. Students can use it after class, too!


You’ll also get:


- The ability to create student profiles and assign books

- Personalized recommendations based on students’ reading levels and interests

- Seamless progress tracking between in-class and home reading

- Incentives like special badges and rewards for a job well done

Handwriting

WARNING!! This is a paid for Application.  There is a small free trial. If this is something you are interested in after trying the other apps please let me know so we can get a quote for all classrooms!

Try for free and see how handwriting practice can be easy and fun! Start Wet-Dry-Try today with sample lessons on capitals, numbers, and lowercase letters.


Based on the award-winning Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum, Wet-Dry-Try is a handwriting app that brings fun, multisensory learning to your iPad. You can use Wet-Dry-Try at home as a parent, caregiver, or occupational therapist, or as part of your classroom curriculum.


Wet-Dry-Try's game-based format mirrors the hands-on experience of writing on a slate chalkboard. Students are motivated to progress through the formation of capitals, numbers, and lowercase letters in simple, step-by-step sequences. This multisensory, research-proven methodology is the foundation that Wet-Dry-Try is built on.

Learning to write numbers has never been more fun! 123 Tracing Numbers is designed to engage, entertain and educate your kids.

123 Tracing Numbers is a universal app for iPad/iPhone/iPod that teaches kids about numbers. Children learn by doing, completing a fun activity for every number.


There are two different games for every stage of learning.

- Lessons: learn how to correctly identify numbers by sound and how to tracing numbers with hints

- Practices: Learn to write numbers independently

Gamified Learning

Read, learn, and play with fun activities, games, and songs on Starfall! Covers reading, math, music, and more -- preschool to third grade. Includes free and subscriber content.


Join Zac the Rat and his friends on an exciting learning journey, starting with the ABCs and 123s and advancing up to grade 3 grammar and mathematics. Starfall's playful open format intuitively guides children through sequential learning objectives for reading, math, art, music, and social subjects like kindness and caring.

Creativity

Teachers: Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report. The cartoons that kids are making have delighted thousands of teachers and parents around the world - let yours be next to experience this award-winning digital addition to your classroom. The finished projects are easily shared to be watched by others (share via email, Facebook, or simply copy the video file to your computer and distribute how you see fit - Hint: students love to see their work displayed on a classroom blog).

• Create short instructional videos (in any learning area)

• Storytelling, Reports, Historic Retells

• Help reluctant public speakers present to the class

• Help foreign language or ESL students practice their fluency & language skills

• Brainstorming or storyboarding ideas and presentations


Characters chosen from standard curriculum allow kids to fully engage with content - not even realizing they are actually learning valuable lessons that will stay with them for years to come!

Doodle Buddy is for everyone — from the serious artist to someone just starting out.


• Draw on your pics or dozens of included backgrounds.

• Over 1400 stamps :-) to decorate your drawings and pics.

• Smudge works just like your finger on chalk, but your fingers don't get dirty!

• Stencils make it easy to draw perfect circles, squares, triangles or even intricate snowflakes.


If you think you suck at drawing, try Doodle Buddy. You’ll be surprised at the amazing stuff you can make. If you’re already into drawing, you’ll have fun with Doodle Buddy too. It’s a simple, artistic medium that’s not quite like anything else. Stretch yourself within its constraints, and see what you can make.


Doodle Buddy is where art meets fun.

Draw and Tell is a creative app that brings children's stories to life! Use the tool to draw, color, decorate with stickers, create animations and record stories.

Flipgrid is a place where you can use short-form videos to share what you love, learn what you want, and be who you are.

Google Tools

Chrome is available for use as all students in our district have a Google Account. Students must log in using their email and password.

Google Classroom is a Learning Management System allowing the deployment of assignments and information. For the iPads, I would suggest the use of Clever rather than Google Classroom for ease of use logging in.