Apr 22, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Drawing, Featured, Fine Arts, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, Language Arts, Life Skills, Paid Apps, Storybooks, Word Processing, Writing
Storybook Maker is a powerful, open-ended tool for creating richly illustrated, written and orally narrated stories and reports. Filled with comprehensive features and options, this easy to learn set of publishing tools lets your child create works that can be read, shared, and printed. Whether your child is an emerging or confident writer, a stumbling or gifted artist, all children will find supportive features to turn their storytelling dreams into a reality with Storybook Maker.
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Mar 07, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Color Mixing, Coloring, Colors, Featured, Grade One (6-7), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Social Skills, Special Needs, Thinking Skills
Emotions, Feelings and Colors ! helps to develop positive social skills and awareness of the feelings of others along with a coloring activity that helps children practice virtual color mixing and matching skills. With rich parental tracking features, animated examples, and fun rewards for children – this app is at home both with preschoolers and special needs children.
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Jan 08, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Art Appreciation, Featured, Free Apps, Geography, Golden App Award, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), History, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Paid Apps, Science, Social Studies
BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week never fails to interest my children. Each educational short receives repeated viewings each week by many members of the family. This is a stand-by must-install-and-keep-loaded app in our home on all devices.
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Oct 20, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Bible, Character Building, Coloring, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Puzzles, Readers, Storybooks
With The Beginner’s Bible now available as an iPad app, I’ll finally be able to stop buying replacement copies of our well-worn print version of this book. Whether used as a Bible story primer for preschoolers or as a reader for emerging readers just stepping into their own Bible reading times, this book-turned app is a fine choice. The inclusion of additional coloring pages, puzzles, and activities is an added bonus!
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Sep 28, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Drawing, Early Learning, Featured, Grade One (6-7), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Memory, Paid Apps, Poetry, Preschool (2-4), Puzzles, Rating, Storybooks
Let’s Make a Rhyme has a lot of potential in not only introducing and reinforcing classic nursery rhymes with young children, but also in gently introducing older children to writing their own poetry by switching out parts of the rhymes with their own text. It does need some polishing but my children really love customizing their own nursery rhyme books by modifying drawings of the characters.
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Jul 17, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Drawing, Featured, Fine Arts, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Language Arts, Paid Apps, Spelling
Drawing & Guessing for Kids brings the live action of in-person, group-based drawing games to the iScreen through WiFi. Your child can experience some of the same excitement of both drawing words to be guessed, and guessing words as they are drawn (with some spelling reinforcement), in a social gaming format, anywhere around the world. If you have mobile WiFi on your device, this app makes a fun traveling/waiting room activity.
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May 11, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Crafts, Featured, Fine Arts, Geometry, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Math, Memory, Paid Apps, Spatial Awareness
Snowflake Station lets your child create endless folded paper snowflakes to explore symmetry and spatial thinking in a fun, creative way! Whether using the pre-programmed snowflake workshops or creating free form flakes, this app provides a fun, informal, and more importantly – delightful – way to build early mathematical thinking skills.
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Apr 23, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Coloring, Drawing, Featured, Fine Arts, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps
iLuv Drawing People gives your child multi-sensory, step-by-step instructions to guide them into the drawing of cartoon-style people directly on the iPad screen. With a wealth of drawing tools, customization options, and sharing features, this app is a welcome, well-designed addition to the iLuv Drawing series.
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Mar 30, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Art Appreciation, Art History, Biography, Featured, High School (14-18), History, iPad, Junior High (12-15), Paid Apps
If your family is interested in pursuing an in-depth study of van Gogh, I guarantee that you’ll be unable to find an app better suited to the task than this one. The combination of biography, historical detail, art appreciation, and sophisticated educational games in this interactive, visually striking production will leave you wanting more biographical studies like Explore Vincent.
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Mar 23, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Drawing, Featured, Fine Arts, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps
Magic Doodles HD provides a fun set of creative drawing prompts that bring your child’s drawings to life once they’re completed. Most early learners will be able to enjoy this app, but without narration for the prompts, pre-readers will need some adult guidance to fully enter into the animated drawing experiences this app provides.
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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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Mar 01, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Art History, Featured, Geography, High School (14-18), History, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Junior High (12-15), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Spelling, US Geography, US Presidents, World Geography
Knowledge Nova is a straight forward (and sort of funny) way to tackle the memorization of US history, geography, world geography, art history facts, and even has a dash of spelling thrown in with word unscrambling. With four levels included for free relating to the US. Presidents, states, and capitals it’s definitely worth a free download to check this out as an independent activity or as a family game team effort.
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Jan 18, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Drawing, Featured, Fine Arts, Free Apps, Golden App Award, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Writing
Toontastic makes exploring the world of creative storytelling a complete delight. Deeply motivating and truly a joy to use, your children will beg you for a chance to explore the basic structure of stories as they craft their own animated cartoons. This free app is incredibly rich and full of features (but don’t be surprised if your children ask you to buy some expansion sets - they are fabulous). Toontastic isn’t an app you want to miss - go get it and give it a spin!
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The Last Supper - Virtual History has drawn me into a deeper understanding of Da Vinci’s famous painting. It has taught me more about the language of the painting, its composition, and its history - all in accessible language. The robust 3-D immersive imaging will allow admirers of Da Vinci’s work to more deeply experience it.
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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. 
