Apps+for+Early+Childhood

Beep Beep (Free): Turn your iPad™ into a coloring book. Give your kids hours of fun with Corel Beep Beep, a creative collection of coloring books made for iPad, complete with pictures, sounds and lots of vibrant colors. Beep Beep is perfect for the car, at home and anywhere you’re on the go. It helps young artists discover and play, with plenty of themes and drawings to choose from. Dragon Dictation (free): Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. Dylan Monkey and Squishy Face (free): Interactive Children's book. Put on your thinking cap for this educational storybook app. Dylan Monkey and Squishy Face will make children laugh out loud while learning lessons about creative thinking, problem-solving, and the scientific method through funny story-telling. This app for kids combines interactive touch features with animated cartoon to bring the lessons to life. StoryBox ($): Read, learn and play with the first StoryBox app! StoryBox magazine is an award-winning (Parent’sChoice Gold Award) educational magazine for children that combines fiction, facts and fun. If...Then ($ ): This colorful problem-solving App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod Touch® has all 52 illustrated picture cards (plus audio of each card text) from the If… Then… Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want students to see, and have them complete statements to enhance their critical thinking, inferencing, and reasoning skills. Prompts include open-ended statements like, “If it looks like it’s going to rain, then …” and “If you spill your drink, then …” Alphabet Tracing (Free):  Fun train, truck and worm animations come to life for children to follow, while showing the proper way to write alphabet letters and numbers. Talking Tom (Free): Tom is your pet cat, that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say with a funny voice. You can pet him, poke him or grab his tail. Record your own videos of Tom, save them to your library and send them as MMS, share them on YouTube & Facebook or send them by email.