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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 18, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Health, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Life Skills, Lite/Freemium Available, Nutrition, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Science, Sorting/Categorizing
Nutrition and Healthy Eating is a bright, engaging way to effortlessly teach essential life skills such as identifying food groups, choosing healthy food, and creating balanced meals from a wide variety of food choices. Rewards, animations, and cheerful guidance combine with the loveable health-mascot Bo for a learning experience few preschoolers can resist.
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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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Apr 08, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Addition, Division, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Multiplication, Paid Apps, Subtraction, Thinking Skills
Mathtopia+ is so compelling you might find you and your children sneaking time on the iPad to play this educational game. Combining comprehensive math fact practice in all four main operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) with the addictive game-play of three (or more) jewels in a row matching games, something about this app makes you want to keep going and going!
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Mar 28, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Addition, Android, Division, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), Life Skills, Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Mom and Dad, Multiplication, Paid Apps, Subtraction, Time Management, Tools for Mom
PlayPozz is an exciting first edition of an educational app that helps balance time spent playing on apps with direct educational practice. While it still needs to flesh out its offerings, this app shows promise and innovation, revealing the possibilities Android tablets have to help parents manage screen time without complicated tracking or over-involvement.
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Mar 27, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Colors, Early Learning, Featured, Fine Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Development, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Puzzles, Sequencing, Shapes, Social Skills, Sorting/Categorizing, Special Needs, Thinking Skills, Visual Perception
Barn Door Four: Home Edition includes a wealth of economically priced, well-designed exercises (29 in all) targeting fine motor skills, visual performance, communication, and sequencing designed to support children with autism and other developmental delays. Parents will appreciate the ability to engage their child with a large collection of activities, create customized lesson plans, and to generate a wide range of reports (full version only).
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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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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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Feb 21, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Addition, Biology, Comprehension, Division, Earth Science, Featured, Fractions, Geology, Geometry, Grade Three (8-9), Grades Four to Six (9-12), Grammar, Graphs, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Language Arts, Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Measurement, Multiplication, Paid Apps, Reading Skills, Science, Spelling, Subtraction, Vocabulary, Windows, Writing
I'm excited to see what the future will bring for iTooch and their series of comprehensive, grade level apps for mobile devices. Perhaps some day we'll see Social Studies added to this large collection of educational modules for upper elementary! Until then, iTooch Elementary School will continue to provide an affordable, independent, and sound way for parents to encourage learning, practice, and test-based accomplishment in language arts, math, science and health in a format that focuses on content rather than effects.
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Feb 07, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Golden App Award, Grade One (6-7), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Letter Names, Lite/Freemium Available, Paid Apps, Phonics, Preschool (2-4), Reading, Spelling
I unreservedly recommend Bob Books #2. Not only is it both educationally sound and phonics-oriented, my children thankfully love it as well. Whether you use letter names or letter sounds to read and spell with, Bob Books #2 will work for your family with its flexible settings. It will gently move your child towards spelling and reading simple words and sentences and he’ll have fun doing it!
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I recently posted a review of Motivated Moms 2013, Universal (iPhone/iPod/iPad) – $7.99 and...
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Jan 29, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Counting, Early Learning, Featured, Golden App Award, Grade One (6-7), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Numbers, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4)
Native Numbers goes far beyond your standard flashcards or object counting app by developing a rich, integrated understanding of quantity and numbers through 25 comprehensive activities that incorporate a wide range of educational approaches. This is the kind of app that should really be the standard for interactive education, but sadly, is almost impossible to find. I’m so glad that it’s been developed!
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Jan 23, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Featured, Free Apps, Grade One (6-7), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Language Development, Letter Names, Lite/Freemium Available, Memory, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Reading, Reading, Special Needs, Spelling
Learn With WordFriends provides a unique, context-rich way to learn about word and letter awareness, early vocabulary and spelling through the construction of the word friend animals and objects out of the letters that spell their names.
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Jan 22, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Algebra, Anatomy, Exponents, Featured, Fractions, Geometry, Grades Four to Six (9-12), Grammar, Health, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Junior High (12-15), Language Arts, Lite/Freemium Available, Math, Negative Numbers, Paid Apps, Pre-Algebra, Reading, Vocabulary, Windows, Writing
iTooch is a pioneer – leading the way towards traditional, grade level based, comprehensive curriculum being available on mobile devices. Children can learn, practice, and test their knowledge in all the core skills taught in grade 6-8 language arts and math (and also health for grade 6) with iTooch: Middle School.
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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. 
