Reader’s Choice 2012 Nominations Open – iTunes GC Giveaway
READER’S CHOICE 2012 Winners Have Been Chosen!
And our iTunes GC winner has been selected as well – congratulations Nicky! I just sent your iTunes GC code over! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to our Reader’s Choice 2012 app winners! Click here to read more about them!
UPDATE/EXTENSION!
Okay guys! We have either TOO much diversity this year or too much solidarity!
The top 5 apps so far are: Splash Math, See Touch Learn Pro, Brain Pop, Bugs and Bubbles, and iTooch If you leave me an extra comment at the voting post for your SECOND most favorite app I’ll give you an extra entry in the contest and hopefully we can get our next top five apps chosen! Please leave me a comment before Wednesday night at midnight AST!
Looks like there is some confusion! I’m trying to get 10 apps, 5 have been selected, for your second choice please vote for an app that ISN’T in the top 5 already – thanks!
Last year we asked our readers to leave a comment with their FAVORITE homeschooling app of the previous year for our Reader’s Choice 2011 awards! The top 10 apps were recipients of this honor, and you can find the list here.
Well, now that 2012 has come to a close, let’s do it again! Please help us choose the top 10 apps of 2012 according to our readers by leaving a comment. Just type in your top pick for 2012 and I’ll calculate the results at the end of the voting period.
By doing so, you’ll be eligible to win a $25 iTunes GC (US Only – but please comment if you are in another country – we need your vote too!)
This giveaway is very simple and straight-forward, please read the details, then get to entering!
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
I have a $25 iTunes Gift Card to the US iTunes store to giveaway to one winner to spend on apps for your homeschool. You must have a US iTunes account to redeem this card. I will be emailing the card code to the selected winner by email instead of sending a physical card.
*To enter let me know your favorite educational app of 2012 – this single entry is the only one available for the giveaway. One vote/entry per house hold.*
The contest will close at 12 a.m. AST on Monday, February 11th, 2013. One (1) winner will be randomly drawn for the iTunes Gift card code on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 and notified by email. Please fill your email address in the comment form when you are completing your comment so that I can contact you and send you your gift card code. Please confirm my email notifying you of your win ASAP and I’ll then email you the code!
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For homeschoolers, by a homeschooler. I'm Jennifer Bogart, a homeschooling mom of four, 8 months - 8 years. I'm an app-loving, aspiring geek dedicated to helping you hunt down the best homeschooling apps for your children. There are a lot of apps out there, let me help you narrow them down. 
My favorite educational app is Webber Photo Articulation Castle because it offers a fun way to practice speech skills.
Thank you for sharing this, Helen! Do you have the full version? I have been looking for something like this for awhile!
Yes I have the full version and I love it!
Phonics and reading with McGuffey
Stack the States
Felt Board
Jeffy’s World.
It is SO HARD to pick just one! I will choose Reading Raven HD.
Splash Math
I love the Teach Me series: Teach Me Toddler, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade.
–Gena@ ichoosejoy.org
I have to agree with Lynette and say the Splash Math apps…
BrainPop/BrainPop Jr.
Freefall money-coin math for kids by merger mobile was a great app for my first grader. She still uses the app. Was very helpful in teaching her about coin value.
I really love the improved See,Touch, Learn PRO!
Crayon Physics for us
My pick is Bugs and Bubbles. It is educational and fun!
I would have to say Brain Pop. My kids watch the free video everyday.
Stack the States – it is the one my son plays the most.
Splash math grade 3, Presidents vs aliens, math summoner
Touch & Write
I LOVED IEW’s new app. Institute for Excellence in Writing has come up with a great, user-friendly app that has all their models, dress-ups, and openers along with preposition lists, ly lists, banned word alternatives, and examples. It’s really good!
This past year the Splash Math: Counting Coins and Bills has helped a ton for two of my kids who struggled.
My pick is SimplePhysics
We really love the ITooch apps, great for math and especially great for english/language arts. Lots of variety in the questions and more then just pick the right answer. A little pricy, but I don’t mind paying a little more for a quality product. A real gem.
Splash Math
Splash math apps, simply comprehensive in content!
See.Touch.Learn.
See, Touch, Learn Pro
app “Mandalas” from http://www.smartphoneware.com for right brain training
See.Touch.Learn
voting for see touch and learn
splashmath
See touch Learn Pro- has so much that you can use it for- it is a great app for all subjects!
itooch and stack the states.
Squeebles Spelling!
Wow,what a difficult task to narrow down your favorite homeschooling app amongst all the subjects, learning styles, and grade llevels available. Hands down the most informative and documentable is Splash Math. This is a very important feature if you are a parent who turns in a portfolio review to meet state requirements. Ned the Neron and D.Bones are excellent interactive anatomy apps. Sight word hangman and compound words are great for spelling and word recognition whereas SAT vocab is great for expanding vocabulary. Mulishani ‘s state or WW Capitals are great geography flash cards. Colorvacuum is fun for art. Don Quixote and The Plague are two fun books/ games for playing history. Finally, one game I do like for my 10yr. old son is Where’s my Water. It’s fun and strategy is needed to complete a level and maximize points.
Splash Math is awesome…worth the price for us.
social express has been our fav here
Splash math,JANES ABCs 123s
I have to say the Bob book apps for my preschooler. We have the books already but she loves to play the app as well. It helps reinforce what she is learning in trying to read.
It’s hard to choose; there are so many great apps we enjoy! The “I learn with Boing” apps are ots of fun, but I think “Bugs and Bubbles” is our current favorite.
My son really likes “go there”
Okay, I’m going to vote, but obviously, I can’t win the GC!
It IS really hard to pick, but I’m going to say Letter School!
I am not very objective, but I will suggest Slate Math for kindergarten and first grade math.
Bugs and Buttons
My favorite app is Human Body by Chocolapps. We studied all the major systems!
Match 10 Puzzle … great for practicing sums of 10 and challenging for both adults and children.
Cell and cell structure is a great science app
Stack the States is what my 10 year old would say, it is good but this next app teaches it is more of a variety, plus I like the colors/images of Grammar Wonderland
Okay guys! We have TOO much diversity this year! The top 5 apps so far are: Splash Math, See Touch Learn Pro, Brain Pop, Bugs and Bubbles, and iTooch If you leave me an extra comment below this one for your SECOND most favorite app I’ll give you an extra entry in the contest and hopefully we can get our next top five apps chosen!
Our favorite educational app is Starfall ABCs. My girls LOVE it! Thank you for the opportunity!
Second favorite app is Word Wizard, by L’Escapadou
Second favorite app is Motion Math: Hungry Fish
out of top 5, 2nd most favorite is Splash Math fun way to learn & practice math. Nice that I get emails, keeping me up to date on my children & they give me suggestions as well.
First choice – Brian Pop
Second Choice – Bugs and Bubbles
Out of the top 5, my second choice is Splash Math.
Looks like there is some confusion! I’m trying to get 10 apps, 5 have been selected, for your second choice please vote for an app that ISN’T in the top 5 already – thanks!
Agnitus Learning Games for Preschool to Kindergarten is great.
Reading Raven gets my second vote….