Apr 25, 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, Paid Apps, Phonics, Preschool (2-4), Printing, Reading, Reading Skills, Sight Words, Spelling, Vocabulary
Finally – a seriously educational app that leads children from early phonological awareness and phonics right up to reading full sentences while integrating printing skills and teaching through games. Reading Raven is an incredible learn-to-read app, easily the best I’ve encountered to date in the App Store. I’m in love, and so are my kids.
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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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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 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 19, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Family and Life Skills, Featured, High School (14-18), iPad, Life Skills, Mac, Mom and Dad, Paid Apps, Time Management, Tools for Mom
LifeTopix is not only the most comprehensive planning and organizational life management app that I’ve ever seen, but it also does the best job of scheduling simple repeating school subjects for homeschooling moms. Say good-bye to your mommy binder – this app also keeps track of appointments, to-do lists, shopping lists, your finances, tracks your weight, and a whole lot more. Comprehensive? That might be an understatement.
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Mar 18, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, Junior High (12-15), Math, Mental Math, Multiplication, Paid Apps
Math Mathews takes children on a epic pirate-adventure while practice multiplication skills from a variety of angles. Children sink deeply into the storyline, and the collection of treasure really keeps them motivated to move through the mini-games and to master those timetables in order to get the magic necklace pieced back together to save Captain Mathews.
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Mar 13, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Communication, Family and Life Skills, Featured, High School (14-18), iPad, Junior High (12-15), Language Development, Life Skills, Paid Apps, Social Skills, Special Needs
ConversationBuilder Teen is an excellent resource for teenage children who need support developing flowing, natural conversational skills with their peers. Full of a wide variety of common situations and conversational settings (over 300 in all) in 8 main categories, the app provides constructive guidance, practice opportunities, and positive modeling as children learn the unspoken rules of normal conversation in our culture.
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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 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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Feb 05, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Addition, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Paid Apps
Column Addition is a deeply process-oriented math app that supports children visually as they learn to work in columns and to carry numbers. It's my top recommendation if you need help with this mathematical skill; while it may appear deceptively simple, it is remarkably well designed and can be used independently by children to both reveal and practice the steps of column addition. Problems and settings can be flexibly altered by parents to match their child’s current level of understanding.
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Jan 31, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), iPad, Junior High (12-15), Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Paid Apps, Phonics, Reading, Spelling, Word Roots
SoundLiteracy has proved to be an invaluable tool in our family, making the integration of hands-on letter-tile based phonics activities in reading and spelling stress-free in our home. Compatible with any phonics program – particularly those inspired by the intensive Orton-Gillingham system of phonograms, this app ensures that you’ll never run out of, or lose a letter tile again.
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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. 
