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 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 19, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Puzzles, Spanish, Spatial Awareness
Spanish Word Book and Puzzle Box HD is an incredibly engaging way to practice and reinforce early Spanish and puzzle solving skills for young learners. The combination of Spanish phonics AND Spanish letter names for spelling make this a rich, valuable option for building familiarity with the language through time-tested early literacy methods. The puzzles are awesome too, though not tied directly to Spanish vocabulary.
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Feb 19, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Early Learning, Featured, Fine Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills, First Words, Foreign Language, French, German, iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Life Skills, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Sorting/Categorizing, Spanish, Special Needs, Thinking Skills
Oolly’s winning combination of pre-writing motor skill practice, sorting and categorization thinking skills are presented in an adorable, engaging educational game. I’ve never seen such a fun way of developing and strengthening the pincer grip – Oolly both encourages the correct grip and keeps children coming back for more! Irresistibly fun.
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Feb 17, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Dutch, Featured, Foreign Language, French, German, 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, Portuguese, Preschool (2-4), Readers, Reading, Spanish, Storybooks, Vocabulary
The Adventures of Robin Hood has only strengthened my opinion that the multilingual storybook apps produced by Chocolapps (previously So Ouat!) provide the most feature-filled read along experience available in children’s storybook apps today.
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Jan 18, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Alphabet, Catalan, Early Learning, Featured, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Phonics, Preschool (2-4), Printing, Spanish
ABCKit is a well-rounded, multi-sensory early learning app that includes plenty of phonetic reinforcement throughout three learning activities (Know, Hear, Write) in three languages (English, Spanish, Catalan). This isn’t a splashy app, but it can serve as an effective teaching tool for pre-readers and early foreign language students.
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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. 
