Apr 29, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Alphabet, Android, Early Learning, Featured, First Words, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Language Arts, Letter Names, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Puzzles, Toddlers (2-3), Visual Perception, Vocabulary
Alphabet Aquarium is a bright and colorful puzzle-based alphabet app that contains a HUGE number of alphabet puzzles. With 4 different puzzle types there are104 educational puzzles in all! With lots of alphabet words and sentences included, the app also makes a nice first-words alphabet storybook that’s driven by puzzle completion.
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Apr 10, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, First Words, Foreign Language, iPad, Listening Skills, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Spanish, Storybooks, Thinking Skills, Toddlers (2-3), Visual Perception
Meek-a-Moo is a fun-filled, bi-lingual (English/Spanish) app for toddlers and preschoolers including both an interactive first-words style storybook and a playful peek-a-boo game. By using visual and auditory discrimination your child can identify forty animals across four colorful settings. Cheerful characters, rich realistic animal sound effects, and gorgeous design make this app a delight to play together with little ones.
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Feb 27, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 3-Apples, Featured, First Words, Foreign Language, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Portuguese, Preschool (2-4), Spanish, Toddlers (2-3)
Play Words: Foods is a cute, multilingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese) first words app for the toddler set that focuses on common fruit and vegetable names. While filled with quality art and playful feedback, the app still needs some tweaks to see it live up to its full potential.
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Jan 24, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Alphabet, Early Learning, Featured, Golden App Award, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Letter Names, Paid Apps, Phonics, Preschool (2-4), Toddlers (2-3)
Interactive Alphabet ABCs is a classic alphabet app, containing everything a parent could want in a digital ABC book while having clear, simple navigation that even toddlers can work with. Letter names, letter sounds, the alphabet song – its all here and its all done well. There’s a reason Interactive Alphabet has remained a top seller in the App Store for years.
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Jan 09, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Chinese, Counting, Featured, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Numbers, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Spanish, Toddlers (2-3)
Counting Bees is a uniquely interactive and fun approach to counting and early number recognition from 1-20. This high quality app encourages a relaxed way of playing in a number-enhanced environment and is also multi-lingual, allowing your child to explore counting in eight languages.
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Mar 12, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Drawing, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), High School (14-18), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Junior High (12-15), Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Special Needs, Toddlers (2-3)
WURM Junior is a simple, well-designed app with a wealth of colors and shapes that children can use to enjoy multi-touch, kaleidoscopic drawing. This soothing, visually stimulating experience makes a great exploration environment that can be used as a reward, transition tool, doodle board, or creative teaching aid.
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Jan 20, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Comprehension, Featured, Golden App Award, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Storybooks, Thinking Skills, Toddlers (2-3), Writing
The Traditional Storyteller apps are completely irresistible - engaging, vibrant introductions to classic folk stories that tools that help children practice vital language arts skills. I simply can’t think of a more enjoyable way to practice sequencing, narration, and summarizing. Almost better than a live storytelling performance at a library - these can be enjoyed on demand for years to come.
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BabyFirst Encyclopedia is charming - the artwork is adorable and the photographs are all engaging choices. Little ones love repetition, bright pictures, and simple words, this app covers all those bases. Whether your little one loves vehicles or farm animals - all the common high interest categories can be found here.
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Dec 30, 11
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Foreign Language, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Special Needs, Storybooks, Toddlers (2-3)
KinderApp is an incredibly delightful way to learn simple home-centered vocabulary in three different languages (English, German, Hungarian). The natural urge to repeat the questions and words after the native speakers make KinderApp a wonderful choice for toddlers learning their first words, children with speech delays, and beginning foreign-language learners.
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Dec 16, 11
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Thinking Skills, Toddlers (2-3)
Bumble’s Jumble is a cute, simple set of puzzles that serves as a great transition between shape puzzles and jigsaws. Small children will have lots of fun practicing the spatial reasoning and visual perception skills that building puzzles help develop.
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Dec 15, 11
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Grade One (6-7), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Thinking Skills, Toddlers (2-3)
KIDiPLAY Match takes the well-loved classic matching game and provides interesting variations to add challenge and develop a wider range of thinking skills. The straightforward design is easy and enjoyable for children to use as they practice visual matching, audio matching, and making mental connections between common items.
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Dec 14, 11
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Special Needs, Storybooks, Toddlers (2-3)
Kids at Home is truly a little gem. Our family loves this fresh, interactive take on a first words book. I hope there will be more apps like this produced to tackle different sets of common words.
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Dec 12, 11
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Special Needs, Storybooks, Toddlers (2-3)
Speech With Milo: Prepositions is a versatile educational app that can be used not only for children with language delays and special needs, but also as a fun animated storybook to introduce small children to location concepts. It can even be used as an engaging, memorable app to teach early elementary children prepositions as a part of speech in grammar. Milo is simply adorable and no matter how you put this flexible tool to use, your children are certain to be won over by him.
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Dec 10, 11
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Fine Arts, Free Apps, Grade One (6-7), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Preschool (2-4), Toddlers (2-3)
Magic Coloring gives your children nine free coloring pages (without ads!) with four different levels of difficulty to complete – how can you go wrong? My girls are eagerly awaiting the creation of new sets of coloring pages for this app so we can buy some more pages – they really love all the neat details this app includes.
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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. 
