Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere’s Ride App Review

Oct 31, 12 Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere’s Ride App Review

Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Featured, Geography, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), History, iPad, Paid Apps, Poetry, Social Studies, US Geography

Ansel & Clair: Paul Revere’s Ride provides hours of educational content for children that is both deeply memorable, historically accurate, and engaging. This incredibly full app uses a wide range of interactive, multi-sensory experiences to provide elementary-age children with an exciting, living experience of early American history.

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Let’s Make a Rhyme App Review

Sep 28, 12 Let’s Make a Rhyme App Review

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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