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features six free games each week, Browse by grade level, Content organized by skill
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ABC Mouse
learning program for ages 2-8, teacher creates accounts for class (which keeps it free) and assigns lessons
(AR) Renaissance
Accelerated Reader Tests
360 Testing
AniMatch Animal Pairs and Sounds Match
develops memorization skills.concentration, memory, and cognitive skills, and teaching them what sounds animals make
Apple Classroom
Classroom turns your iPad into a powerful teaching assistant, helping you guide students through a lesson, see their progress and keep them on track
ChatterPix Kids
Grab your camera! Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more. Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports.
Lesson ideas:
- picture of a geometric figure: students describe attributes of figure
- picture of an animal (mammal, fish, etc): describe attributes
- picture of a character: students could pretend to be character and summarize the story, students could pretend to be the character and express how they feel about another character in the story
- picture of students drawing-students express what all is occurring in their picture
- ex: take a picture of a plant, students talk as the plant and express what each part of their plant does to stay healthy
- give artwork a voice
- book reflection, trailer or report
- another book reflection
- Lesson ideas
- Kinder Teacher Explains
FeltBoard
Whether used by children as a creative play set, or by adults as a storytelling resource and teaching aid, Felt Board offers a variety of benefits for children, including:
- A simple user interface that allows independent exploration
- -A wide variety of characters and settings to encourage creativity and imaginative play
- -Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills are developed while dragging, placing and pinching objects to scale
- -Colorful shapes, Letters and Numbers are included as an educational resource
- -Pattern block shapes that can be rotated to make geometric designs
- Varied facial expressions to discuss emotions of characters
- Community helpers characters and vehicles
- Pieces for popular preschool and nursery songs, stories and rhymes including 5 Little Monkeys, Old MacDonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider, 3 Billy Goats Gruff and more
Lesson ideas from local Kinder teacher:
- The first app my kids use each year
- start by just letting them play!
- pair them up randomly, use Felt Board to explain who the 2 kids in the group are
- upper and lower case letters (and LOTS of other t-chart uses!)
- fiction v. non-fiction pictures
- 4-box graphic organizer (e.g., seasons)
- Venn diagram (land animals / water animals / both)
- how would you put this into a literacy center?
- make the empty Venn diagram with labels
- put the screenshot printout at the center
- now, students, you make this and then fill it in
- great for story writing (INSERT PICTURE; 3rd picture = ‘get a house’)
- telling a story and writing that story down are two different skills
- many of these apps let me break down those two skills into separate components
- Printing
- we always print in black and white
- we only print in color for Parent Night
- I print two or three of each kids’ screenshots
- they can pull their picture and write their story, they also like to write about other students’ pictures
- Mix up the groups as often as you can
- don’t let students work with the same peers over and over again
- How can we connect this to our standards?
- (working in pairs to identify a standard and discuss a potential use of the app)
- There also are Christmas and Mother Goose versions of Felt Board but wait until they are listed as free which happens frequently
Hundred Board
teach and practice the concept of numbers from 1 to 100
The Hundred Board is a fun and educational exercise found in the Montessori classroom to help children with their counting from 1 to 100. The board and number tiles in the app are exact replicas of the classic classroom materials.
The basic task is to transfer the scrambled number tiles on the right hand side to the board in the correct order.
Activities:
- Assemble the Hundred Board in sequence using either a touch only method where the number tile moves to the board automatically, or drag and place the tiles to the board for them to snap into position.
- Show the control numbers on the board to simplify the task.
- Simplify the task even further with an activity that shows a reduced number of scrambled tiles to search through.
- Assemble the Hundred Board in a random fashion.
- Assemble the Hundred Board in sequence by Evens or Odds.
Features:
- Every number can be heard aloud when it is placed into position, reinforcing the name of each number for the child.
- At the bottom of the screen there is either a score or a timer for parents and teachers to evaluate a child's progress.
JumpStart Preschool Magic of Learning
JumpStart Preschool Magic of Learning is an educational app designed for little ones bursting with big imaginations! Your preschooler is invited to join Frankie the Dog on a magical learning adventure that will show him just how much fun learning can be.
With 15 games designed to teach more than 10 math, pre-reading, and critical thinking skills for school, this app is the perfect tool to keep your preschooler learning on the go. After all, there’s no stopping a kid with a JumpStart!
Kahoot!
- Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, free for teachers of awesome and classroom students. Play, learn, have fun and celebrate together! Wonderful formative assessment tool.
- Create a Kahoot! Quiz using a computer
- Create a Kahoot! Quiz using the app
- How to play Kahoot!
- How to assign kahoots as homework with the challenge feature
- Kodable
coding curriculum for kids (as young as 4) teacher creates account for class (free)
- LetterReflex-Overcoming Letter Reversal
LetterReflex provides a fun way to help overcome common letter reversals. The first activity, Tilt It, uses kinesthetic learning to teach left from right. The second activity, Flip It, allows them to practice what they learned while honing their letter discrimination skills.
- Mathmateer
56 Different Math Missions:
- Numbers / Fractions / Decimals
- Counting
- Telling Time
- U.S. Money
- Shapes (2D and 3D)
- Patterns
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Square Roots
- About and how it works
- visit these tabs: How it helps, Play together, make it work, academic skills, ADHD
Moose Math
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.
Phonics and Reading with McGuffey
This is a complete phonics and reading curriculum for beginners. Over 52 hours of lessons! From introducing letter sounds to reading complete stories, this adaptation of the time honored McGuffey reading method comes to life as a rich interactive learning experience!
Right away, students are engaged in letter recognition accompanied by charming animations. Phonics Flashcards follow up each lesson. Students learn at a natural pace. New words are introduced right after teaching the individual phonetic components. Student then read complete stories accompanied by the beautiful original color illustrations of Robert Schoolcraft. Comes with games and exercises including:
- Word Truckin’ - Load up your truck with the right letters, and she’s off!
- Train for Words - The train is coming up the mountain! But it need the right words to keep on chuggin’!
- Phonics Blender - Hear your own word creations with the Phonics Blender! Thousands of fun possibilities!
Other great features:
- Supports up to 10 students, and provides student progress saving and tracking.
- Teaches to visual, kinetic and auditory learners
- Designed for non-readers
- Accelerate students to first-grade reading level
- Includes special font for dyslexic readers
This app is authentic to the original school book, “McGuffey's Eclectic Primer Revised Edition”.
Pic Collage Edu
* Safe and fun for all ages and perfect for classrooms
* Import photos from your photo library.
* Rotate, resize, and delete scraps with simple touch gestures.
* Easily ""clip"" photos by outlining the area you want with your finger.
* Doodle drawings on your collage with our new "Doodle" tool.
* Access hundreds of stickers and backgrounds for FREE.
* Choose from a variety of fun frames to create an instant collage.
* Over 100 colorful backgrounds and fun stickers.
* Square and portrait layouts.
- Freestyle All About Me Activity (how to video)
- Frog Life Cycle mini poster
- 3D Shape Hunt
- Geometry Scavenger Hunt
- Spanish Vocab
- Related Math facts
- Solids, liquids, gasses
- PicCollage on Pinterest
Seesaw Class
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that inspires your students to do their best work and saves you time. Browse thousands of great activities ready to use in your classroom today. Collect student responses digitally and lug home fewer papers. Seesaw helps you see and hear what each student knows so you can better understand their progress. Give more differentiated support through comments and feedback.
Sight Word Ninja
- maybe-not sure which one this is since several apps with same name:
first guess: similar to fruit ninjas but with sight words.
SMART Notebook
- Do you still want this on your ipads?
for iPad is a light version of the SMART Notebook collaborative learning software. Using this app, you can both use and edit SMART Notebook lesson activities for individual and collaborative learning with an iPad.
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synced videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-sync to your voices
- Student introductions. This is a fun and entertaining way to help students break the ice and to help alleviate those first day jitters.
- Generating ideas. A fun way to start brainstorming ideas through speech before getting stories out on paper.
- Create short dialogs. Have one puppet ask a question and the other can answer. Replay the videos to reinforce the correct answer.
- Display conflict resolution methods. Have students record their own conflict scenarios and make a dialogue between two puppets solving their problems. Use Sock Puppets to create a fun and interesting exercise to describe different ways for students to communicate with one another.
- Engage students. A great way to teach students about science concepts, history events or appropriate social behavior.
- Teach and learn conversational skills and manners.
- Youtube Sock Puppet App playlist
- Uses and hints
Starfall ABC
Children delight as they see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games. They learn to recognize letters while developing the skills they need to become confident readers.
Starfall Learn to Read
- excellent for emerging readers
Each numbered section features a vowel sound and its related spelling. Your child will hear, touch, read and eventually master this sound-spelling through a variety of engaging activities, movies, and songs. Encourage your child to play and explore! Your child will come to recognize the relationship between spoken and written language while having fun learning to read.
Starfall Fun to Read
With a basic understanding of letter-sound relationships, your child is ready to explore a variety of genres and topics that will expand reading vocabulary, comprehension, and world knowledge. The games and activities within demonstrate the joy of reading through rhyme, alliteration, spelling patterns, and word play.
Starfall I'm Reading
- develops comprehension and reading fluency in beginning and advancing readers
The stories in this app contain a controlled vocabulary set, using the words most frequently encountered in print. The stories and activities reinforce high-frequency words, also called “sight words,” in sentences rather than in isolation. This ensures the young reader will make a meaningful association with each word and more readily commit it to memory. The stories can be read aloud to model the qualities of fluent reading: intonation, expression, inflection and rate. Users can enable or disable the AutoRead feature. Ear buttons are supplied for fluency when AutoRead is off.
OSMO
Masterpiece
Will be coming soon to SRS iPads
Pick something to draw: a picture of a friend, a favorite cartoon, or even a photo you snap yourself. We are researching taking a picture of a word and using Masterpiece for our beginning writers.
Or browse through our collection of ready-to-draw options. The possibilities are infinite.
OSMO
Newton
Will be coming soon to SRS iPads
Use your creative brain and inventive objects like a hand-drawn basket, glasses, dad’s keys, or anything around you to guide falling on-screen balls into targeted zones. The more you succeed, the harder it gets! You can use simple strategies in the beginning, but as you progress Newton will challenge you with bouncing balls, accelerating platforms and fans that force you to think in new ways!
OSMO
Numbers
Students arrange physical tiles, including dots and digits, to make numbers and complete levels. Add by putting more tiles, subtract by removing tiles and multiply by connecting tiles together. Experimenting becomes fast and intuitive.
OSMO
Tangram
The game Tangram has been around for almost a thousand years, but Osmo reinvents this classic using a fully interactive video experience. With visual and audio feedback, multiple levels of difficulty, achievements and more. Tangram is not only fun, but it’s good for the brain too. Playing Tangram is a great way to exercise spatial and visual problem-solving skills.
OSMO
Words
Look at the on-screen clue to guess the secret word, and zoom letter tiles into the play space to spell your answer. Each letter you get right appears on screen, until eventually the entire word is revealed.
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