iPad+Apps

=iPad Apps for PreK and K=

When I look at apps for our students, I divide them into three categories: learning apps, creation apps, and sharing apps. Below is a list of some of the apps I have used with students, along with some teacher notes.

General Apps

 * ===**Name of App**=== || ===**Description from iTunes** **site**=== || ===**Teacher Notes**=== || ===**Grade Level**=== ||
 * **Bugs and Buttons**

|| Make fun more educational! Bugs and Buttons is a uniquely styled collection of games and activities that are entertaining and educational. || --- patterns --- counting button sorting catch 'em (1 or 2 fingers--not both hands) --- Connect Dots Button Truck -- Firefly Sky- touch and drag the color Matching- Memory type game

Click on Explore to go to a category. Categories include: Patterns Counting Tic-Tac-Toe Catch 'em Button Sorting Factory Sortng Apple Picking Connect Dots Button Truck Bug-Mazing Firefly Sky || PK/K ||
 * **TeachMe: Kindergarten**

|| TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational app which teaches four different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. ||  ||   ||
 * **Abby - Basic Skills PreK**

|| Letters, Counting, Puzzles, Sizes, Shadows, Matching, Colors, Shapes, Differences, Patterns and more ||  ||   || || Children will love to learn while playing with colorful schools of fish which magically transform themselves into different letters, numbers, shapes, colors and more. Fish School includes 8 fun educational activities that will engage children: ||  ||   ||
 * **Fish School**

Literacy

 * ===**Name of App**=== || ===**Description from iTunes site**=== || ===**Teacher Notes**=== || ===**Grade Level**=== ||
 * **Bugsy Kindergarten**

|| Here’s the Educational app your kids will Love. Now if only they’d eat their vegetables. WHAT YOUR CHILD WILL LEARN ❥ Alphabet — lowercase & uppercase letters ❥ Phonics — beginning, ending & vowel sounds ❥ Spelling — missing letters & arranging letters ❥ Reading — Dolch sight words & more ❥ Vocabulary — 370+ words || finding beginning words beginning sounds letters at the beginning of a word ||  ||
 * **Bugsy Prekindergarten**

|| ✭ "Bugsy Pre-K strikes a perfect balance between learning and play. Get it for your little learner today." Appadvice Meet Bugsy. You’ll be amazed how fast they learn. WHAT YOUR CHILD WILL LEARN ❥ Colors — even pink ❥ Shapes ❥ Letters — lowercase & uppercase letters ❥ Phonics — beginning word sounds ❥ Numbers — 0 - 20 ❥ Counting — up to 15 ❥ Vocabulary — 120+ words || colors letters (uppercase and lowercase) numbers ||  ||
 * **iWriteWords**

|| iWriteWords teaches your child handwriting while playing a fun and entertaining game. The New York Times: One of “The Best iPhone Apps for Kids”. ||  ||   ||

Math

 * ===**Name of App**=== || ===**Description from iTunes site**=== || ===**Teacher Notes**=== || ===**Grade Level**=== ||
 * **Moofy Patterns**

|| This is a great app for preschool, kindergarten to 1st grade children. They can learn alphabet and number ordering and recognizing patterns with simple shapes (i.e, triangle, square, circle, star, hexagon, heart, oval, octagon, pentagon, rhombus, trapezoid) and colors (i.e, red, yellow, green, white, orange, pink, blue, purple, brown). || good patterning ||  ||
 * **Park Math**

|| Come play at the park, and learn to count, add, subtract, sort and more! Park Math introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool and Kindergarten ||  ||   ||
 * **Team Unizoom - UmiNumbers**

|| Team Umizoomi, ready for action! Your child will use mighty math powers to explore Umi City, uncover hidden surprises, and play five Umirrific math games: •Toy Store – A counting game •Number Bubbles – A number identification game •Race Around Umi City - A number comparison game •Up! Up! And balloons! – An addition/subtraction game •Rolling Toy Parade – A number line game ||  ||   ||
 * Playful Minds ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Jungle Fractions ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Jungle Coins ||  ||   ||   ||

Science
identify different weather situations in various seasons and teach them appropriate clothing and activities
 * **Name of App** || **Description from iTunes site** || **Teacher Notes** || **Grade Level** ||
 * I Learn with Poko Seasons || Seasons and Weather : 3 games to help children 3 to 7 learn to

listening to clues for seasonal picture weather/what to wear (a bit hard at beginning of the year) ||  || Kinder || learning with core science and math concepts from classification and identifying patterns to charting and sequencing. ||  ||   || to wake, clean, and feed the animals. ||  ||   ||
 * Sid’s Science || Sid’s Science Fair engages players (ages 3 to 6) in experiential
 * Curious George - Zoo || George has been asked to help out at the zoo. George needs your child’s help

Social Studies
clever combinations in the fun-filled mix and match game built around 10 occupations. Mix ‘em up for giggles, or make a match to unlock the adventures that will have your little learners wrangling cattle, flying rockets and grinning from ear to ear. ||  ||   || Let your kids do the dishes, ironing, sweeping or planting flowers in the garden. Loads of fun with 19 different mini-games! ||  ||   ||
 * **Name of App** || **Description from iTunes site** || **Teacher Notes** || **Grade Level** ||
 * Swapsies || What do you get when you cross a baker with an astronaut? Just one of a few thousand
 * Toca House || Welcome to Toca House! Help the five friends to do fun chores around a cosy house.

Part 2: Creation Apps
stickers, then talk about your drawing. Move the stickers to create an animation! Your memories and voice recording will be saved with your drawing. || - Blank paper and coloring option, can start with a photo - Can create image with clip art Stencils, letters to add - Lots of clip art to bring in - Drawing and coloring tools - crayons, paint brushes, pencils - Add a picture and label the parts record your voice and move images to tell a story - Save drawing to photos to use in iBook as a movie ||  || markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and MORE! Save your artwork to your Drawing Pad Album and reload it later to keep working on your masterpiece!
 * **Name of App** || **Description from iTunes site** || **Teacher Notes** || **Grade Level** ||
 * Draw and Tell || Draw and Tell is the best drawing app for kids of all ages. Draw or color, add
 * Drawing Pad || Create your own art using "actual-sized" photo-realistic crayons,

Save to Device Camera Roll Photos, share via Email, Twitter or Facebook (note to Facebook users, once you upload a drawing, log onto your Facebook account and "Approve the Pending Drawing Pad Album). Use iOS Photo App to set your new creations as your desktop background! || - Paper backgrounds and photo import - stickers and photo stickers - 2 finger resize image, 1 finger move image - In app purchases can hide the store in settings - can save to facebook, twitter, images, email, or drawing pad - background and stickers can come from camera roll - no voice recording ||  || amazing coloring: easy tap to create perfect colorful pictures filled with crayons, pencils, markers and brushes, as well as normal pure colors. || - Buy extra items - Organized by category -- animals, etc. Many are locked - Coloring only ||   || kids to freely create pictures, animated movies and story slideshows using Play School toys and craft items. || - Can start with a photo - Limited clip art - Can add toys - No drawing tools - Has backgrounds or you can use a photo as a - background - animated movies and story slideshows (8 images) narration ||  || on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. || Share via email, print, send to iTunes Can add photos from the camera roll Add a text box and move around the screen Record your voice or import sound from iTunes Library Open in iBooks or Evernote ||  || and book creator in the App Store. My Story combines drawing, photos, voice, and text to promote literacy and creativity for you and your child together. They then share their book within the app, via email, or directly to iBooks. Your child’s art, coloring, photos, and voice recordings are saved forever! || Drawing - brushes with different line thicknesses and colors Photos - Take directly from app or select from images, background only Voice - record for each page of book -- start and stop at any time Typing - each page has a place for kids to type Share - directly in app, email, or iBooks ||  || Create a digital story in three simple steps. 1. Choose Images/Videos 2. Record Story 3. Upload to YouTube or Email to friends || Can add photos or movies from camera roll photo library or take a picture directly from program. Works with images only, no way to create artwork. Record story one image at a time. clicking on next as you go. Very easy. Click "Create Video" to make a movie of your story. ||  || and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want || Comes with 8 characters and you can download more, can add your own actors from photo gallery. You can cut around a character to select only the person from the photo. Great way to add your students to the story. Can choose up to 8 characters for the puppet show. Can resize, move, and rotate characters as you record. Can choose up to 5 backdrops. From program or photo gallery. While you record, you can move the puppets around and then change scenes as you record your voice. Only one chance to record or you record over your voice Paid app allows you to download a variety of characters from several categories, including holidays, farm, monsters, pirates, political, space. || Puppet Show || something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album. clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize. Your story is always saved in your iPhone. Carry it with you and work on it any time. Upload your story to the StoryKit web server and email a link to the story from within the app. No account is necessary. Stories are private. || Simple book creator -- for iPhone, so small. Can add images, paint, voice, and text. Share your story to the story kit server. ||  || rocket smoke, cotton candy, sheep’s wool, a curly beard, and more! Simply squiggle away to complete Lazoo’s internationally award-winning art. Then hit the GO button and watch drawings soar, pulsate, move, twirl, and multiply. ||   ||   || of every-day objects. But Faces iMake is much more than that! ||   ||   || ✔ Select one of two gorgeous story book templates ✔ Add your own voice - now your toddler can listen to the entire story in mommy's or daddy's voice ✔ Add word highlights - Customize word highlights and make your stories interactive. Once added words are highlighted in red and respond to touch ✔ Add picture highlights - Click on any picture within the edit mode to add picture highlights and make your stories interactive. Great for adding names or describing objects ✔ Supports three playback modes - read to me, read by myself, and auto-play which automatically turns from page to page ✔ Add your own photos in a click ✔ Multi-sensory learning tool - combining seeing, hearing, and tactile feedback ✔ Multi-language support - since you can edit all existing items and sounds so you can record everything in your native tongue || Uses images from the image library. If drawings are used they would have to be created in another app first. Program froze quite a bit and had to restart iPad. Cute idea and layout. Can add picture, text and voice recording. ||  || the world. This free version allows you to create audio up to 3 minutes in length and post that to your own account on the web. You can add titles, tags, geolocation info and a photo to the recording before you upload it and we'll save all that with the file. The audio can then be shared with your followers or via Facebook, Twitter & other social networks by managing your account at http://audioboo.fm.
 * Amazing Coloring Studio || Let our little artist have their own studio! Here they can try
 * Art Maker || Free for a limited time, the Art Maker by Play School app is a fun way for
 * Book Creator || The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right
 * My Story || Celebrate your child’s art with My Story, the simplest story maker
 * Storyrobe || Is a mobile digital storytelling application.
 * Puppet Pals HD || Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage,
 * Story Kit || To create your story:
 * Write some text.
 * Illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of
 * Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects.
 * Layout the elements of your story (text boxes, images, and sound
 * Add, reorder, or delete pages from your book.
 * Squiggles || A child’s simple hand-drawn squiggle can become a bird’s nest,
 * Faces iMake || Faces iMake is a tool for creating collages using pictures
 * Faces iMake || Faces iMake is a tool for creating collages using pictures
 * Little Story Maker || ✔ Add as many stories as you can like
 * Songify || Speak into your device, and Songify will turn your speech into a song. || Comes with four songs and you have to buy more. Simple pick a song and record your words. The app makes a song. You can share email, facebook, twitter, or download ||  ||
 * Audioboo || Audioboo is an application for recording and sharing your voice with
 * Audioboo || Audioboo is an application for recording and sharing your voice with

In addition, you can also listen to featured, followed, popular, recent, nearby and favourite boos in the app (as well as your own) and view photo & location details if attached.

You don't need to create an account to start recording but it'll certainly help you keep track of your boos in the future. You can also sign in using Twitter. || -Very easy to record voice. You can pause as you are recording and then start over. You can add a picture to your recording when you upload. You can add title, description and tags before uploading. Can choose location. -Uploads over internet connection -audioboo.fm -automatic posting to facebook and twitter. -public -Can direct message someone. -Can listen to nearby boos ||  || learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world. Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on Toon Tube, the app's global storytelling network for kids. || Create a cartoon - scenes: setup, conflict, challenge, climax, resolution 1. Create setting where story will take place. Not many to choose from. You can see ones that are not available and then you are asked to buy it. 2. Choose your characters. Again limited with some choices you would have to buy. 3. Animate your scene and move your characters on screen. Record at the same time. You can choose music to set the scene. 4 Move on to next scene. You do not need to add each scene, but can add setup, conflict, etc. and change the order of the story parts.
 * Toontastic || Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a storytelling and creative

Walks you through process very nicely. || 2 and above.Would be too complicated for younger kids. || 1. Snap or select a photo 2. Speak into your microphone to record your voice and/or enhance your photo with visual effects 3. Share with friends via Facebook, Twitter or email. || Very easy. Can edit pictures, add effects, stickers, crop. etc. Limited stickers. Have to buy more. Share easily via fotobabble, facebook, or twitter One photo, one recording. Can take the picture directly through the app. ||  || Pic Stitch packs a simple design with a powerful editor to give you everything you could possibly want to make your photo's simply amazing. Share your masterpiece on your favorite social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Or order prints from your local Walgreens for in-store pickup. Use Pic Stitch to create a before-and-after sequence, combine great photos of each of your kids, or produce a photographic series. || Buy add on packs. Upgrade to Pro Choose from several pages of layouts. Add images from photo library - can add effects, stickers, crop and enhance. Many are free, some need to be purchased. Export to facebook email, photo album, instagram, print to walgreens, open in... ||  ||
 * Fotobabble || instantaneously share your Talking Photos in three simple steps:
 * PicStitch || Quickly combine multiple photos into one beautifully framed picture.
 * PicStitch || Quickly combine multiple photos into one beautifully framed picture.
 * Instagram || It's a free, fun, and simple way to make and share gorgeous photos on your iPhone. ||  ||   ||
 * iMovie ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Pages ||  ||   ||   ||
 * iPhoto ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Keynote ||  ||   ||   ||
 * PicCollage || Import photos from your photo library, your Facebook albums (and your friends' albums too), or use photos from the web to create a collage. There are also lots of fun backgrounds and stickers for you to choose from!

Simple and intuitive touch gestures: - Tap to add photos and move them to front - Resize photos by stretching or pinching them - Rotate them with two fingers - Delete a photo with a simple flick - Tap-and-hold to move photo to the back - Double-tap a photo to edit photo, crop photo, or edit borders - Move multiple photos at a time in your collage - Shake-to-straighten photos - CLIP PHOTO by outlining the area you want to "clip" with your finger

When you're done, share your collages on Facebook, Twitter, or email. In addition, you can print and ship it as a physical postcard if you prefer a more personal touch. :)

Have fun with PicCollage!

TIP: To select multiple photos from the Camera Roll, go to your device Settings => Location Services => scroll down to Pic Collage under your list of Apps => make sure that the switch is set to “ON”. Relaunch Pic Collage and select multiple photos at a time! || Great and simple app. My favorite part is that you can take a picture and trace around it to select only a part of the picture. You can then put this into your photo album to use on other apps.

Stickers are limited and you have to purchase more from within the program. ||  ||

Teacher Apps
is a note taking app for teachers that lets you record and keep track of the notes you take on your students; both individually and in small groups. ||  ||   || them with family and friends. Spice up your greeting cards, wallpapers, screen savers and weekend trip photos or simply send a teaser to your friends. Photo Wall will add zing to all your beautiful memories! ||  ||   || how to guides. Discover new things to cook, build, wear, play and more. ||  ||   || This means our team of educators and parents pick apps that your kids will love to play and will also help them learn. Stop wasting endless time searching the App Store and start using KinderTown to find great kids apps. ||  ||   ||
 * **Name of App** || **Description from iTunes Site** || **Teacher Notes** || **Grade Leve**l ||
 * Confer || Created by a full-time, National Board Certified Teacher, Confer
 * Photo Wall || Photo Wall is about creating amazing photo collages and sharing
 * Snapguide || Snapguide is a simple, beautiful way to share and view step-by-step
 * Kindertown || KinderTown shows you only the best educational apps for your kids.
 * Evernote ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Paper 53 ||  ||   ||   ||

PE Apps
 * **Name of App** || **Description from Site** || **Teacher Notes** ||
 * Team Shake ||  ||   ||
 * 12 Minute Run ||  ||   ||
 * First Aid ||  ||   ||
 * Beep Test ||  ||   ||
 * Bracket Maker ||  ||   ||
 * Cardiograph ||  ||   ||
 * Coach's Eye ||  ||   ||
 * My Daily Plate ||  ||   ||
 * Fitness HD ||  ||   ||

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