Apps+for+Elementary

Reading/Language Arts

Kindle (Free) : eBook reader that allows the reader to change the size of text, switch from white on black, black on white or sepia text. Writer's ZStudio StoryKit (free): Create an electronic storybook. Write some text, illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album. Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects. Layout the elements of your story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize. Add, reorder, or delete pages from your book. 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. ICDL - Free Books for Children (Free)  The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) brings a worldwide collection of free children's books to the iPad. The largest collection of its kind, the ICDL spans the globe with thousands of children's books from over 60 countries, in a wide assortment of beautiful languages with captivating illustrations. Meet the six Mongolian brothers in search of knowledge, the gray Palestinian peacemaker cat that does something most unusual to the other cat's ears, or a version of the Three Little Pigs that you surely have never heard before. Books in dozens of languages. iPad support for rotation (automatically shows two pages at a time in landscape view). All books have summaries in English and the native language of the book. Special support for readability - by zooming text (for many books). Many books translated into other languages Mad Libs (free):  Mad Libs is now available in a fun, new interactive AND digital platform! In this sample version of Vacation Mad Libs you can test your fill-in the-blank skills for FREE on your iPhone or iPod touch. Then, get all the silly stories and crazy word game play in the complete version with the Goofy Mad Libs iPhone App.  Math

The Ruler ($): This app allows you to measure accurately in English and Metric. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Math Quizzer (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Uses an appealing chalkboard image and keeps score as you play. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Mathboard: ($) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Practice of facts for kids from Kindergarten through elementary. Allows you to control the numbers you use. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squares, cubes and square roots. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Counting Ants Lite: (free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">The app design is simple -- touch the screen to view an animation for each number from one to ten. Fun, friendly little ants march on to the screen and demonstrate the connection between the numeral, the word and the concept. Counting Ants Lite is a great app for early learning - the best way to help your toddler practice counting to ten on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It's also a great way to introduce your kids to a foreign language. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Time to Learn: (free) Time to Learn is designed to help children learn to tell time with a standard analog clock using the Montesorri method - short periods of parent/teacher led demonstration followed by individual exploratory learning by the child. The application allows learning to progress through 8 modes or levels of difficulty Counting Coins (Free) Counting Coins lets you practice working with U.S. pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. You can play in four modes.

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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">World Atlas HD: ($) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">National Geographic Maps in high resolution. Allows for spinning, panning, rotating. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">USA Puzzle: ($) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Puzzle game of the USA in which you must put the states in the correct location. Clicking on a state brings up information such as the state flower, bird and capitol. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">World Book - This Day in History: (free) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Multimedia calendar that includes historical and trivia information for each day of the year. Each event is linked to additional learning opportunities. Video, audio and images will add to the information you can take in each day. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Stack the States ($): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> Stack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun! Watch the states actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game! As you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Science <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">BrainPop (free): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> Learn something different each day with the free BrainPOP Featured Movie App for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch! Watch BrainPOP’s daily animated movie, then test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz.