Apps for Kids

Rocket Math has you thinking about physics while you answer math questions. First, is the building of a rocket ship by adding engines, fins, boosters, etc to the ship of your choice. Once the rocket is built it is launched into the air. The higher the rocket flies the more time there is to complete the math mission before it comes crashing to the ground. The catch is that you have to “pay” for rocket parts. You are given a $100 to start with, but there is a fee for each part added to the rocket ship. However, extra money can be earned by solving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions. This is a fun app that adds excitement to solving math problems in order to make your rocket ship better.
                                  
Math missions include time, money, numbers (even, odd, etc), shapes, patterns, multiplication and division ranging from easy to hard. Challenge students by having them play a difficult level or to try and increase their score on the same level. You can even encourage them to talk with each other about the altitude of their ships and which pieces they used to make it better. The free version has limited missions, but the full version has more to offer for only $0.99. Who can build the best rocket ship, complete the most math missions and earn the highest score? Download Rocket Math and challenge your classroom today!

This is a review from a series on educational apps by Kathy Burdick, an educator for over thirty years. Kathy is an experienced educator and former principal. She graciously agreed to let Mobicip republish and promote her reviews on the Mobicip blog. Kathy has been infatuated by the possibilities of technology and educational content for the K-6 students. Kathy writes about how education is changing due to new technologies and reviews the technologies that facilitate that change. Follow Kathy on Twitter @ iAppleLearner or get more information here: http://mobileieducator.com/
 

The iPhone Mom is a real Mom who reviews and recommends apps for Moms, kids, families et. al. Here is her latest "Great Apps For Kids" recommendation for the holidays. Excerpts below, original article here.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas is one of my favorite holiday tales. The other is The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, in case you were wondering. The Grinch e-book is completely true to the original story and they haven’t messed with the illustrations, they look exactly like they do in the book.  Classic Dr. Seuss.

This is a fantastic version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We are loving all the Grinchiness on my iPhone right now. Thank you Oceanhouse Media…I’m hoping this is the beginning of much more Seuss to come for my iPhone!

If you have searched for iPhone apps designed for kids, you will know how hard they are to find. We end up finding good apps through referrals from friends or from the App Store rankings. Christopher Robin (yes, thats his real name) of the aptly named The iKids Blog has published a list of top 20 kids iPhone apps. If you have more suggestions, submit a comment or send a note via twitter to Christopher.

Here is the list and summary reproduced here. Click here to see the original article on The iKids Blog.

Top Kids iPhone Apps in the App Store

 

Wheels On Bus

1. Wheels On The Bus
Price: $0.99
Description: Created by parents, Wheels on the Bus is a fun, interactive musical book, based on the popular children’s song. Come aboard the bus to spin the wheels, open and close the doors, swish the wipers, pop some bubbles, make a dog bark, and much more!
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Cute Math

2. Cute Math
Price: $1.99
Description: Your little one can count baby penguins, pick the right amount of apples to put in a basket, move some happy birds around to solve addition problems, and drop apples off a tree to solve subtraction problems.
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Toddler Flashcards

3. Toddler Flashcards
Price: $0.99
Description: Toddler Flashcards has cards to teach children the names of animals, foods, things – as well as advanced stuff like the alphabet or numbers. Over 200 images, text in English, French and Spanish.
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Voice Toddler Cards

4. Voice Toddler Cards
Price: $0.99
Description: A collection of talking flashcards. Cards speak in English and Spanish. You can also add your own voice to any flashcard.
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Preschool Adventure

5. Preschool Adventure
Price: $0.99
Description: Contains simple activities parents can do with their toddlers: ocean colors, space shapes, monkey body, farm sounds, animal matching, dot-to-to numbers.
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Word Magic

6. Word Magic
Price: $0.99
Description: A picture is shown and and kids select the missing letter for the word shown in the picture.
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Five Little Monkeys

7. Five Little Monkeys
Price: $0.99
Description: Little Monkeys jump on the bed to music — kids can build counting and math skills by taking the monkeys on and off the bed. Interactive objects teach concepts like on/off, open/close and more.
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ShapeBuilder

8. Shapebuilder
Price: $0.99
Description: Shape Builder educates & entertains your little one with easy to move shapes that snap into place on top of silhouette puzzles. Real images are revealed when the puzzle is complete.
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Letter Tracer

9. Letter Tracer
Price: $0.99
Description: LetterTracer is an educational tool that helps preschoolers and other pre-reading children trace and paint letters and number shapes. The exposure to letters and numbers helps prepare children for reading and writing.
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Pick A Letter

10. Teach Me Toddler
Editor’s Choice
Price: $0.99
Description: Teach Me Toddler helps toddlers learn letter names, letter phonics, numbers, shapes and colors.
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Suzy Dress Up

11. Suzy Dress Up
Price: $0.99
Description:Create and customize Suzy’s wardrobe and accessories with options including: hat, shoes, jewelry, purses, pets, glasses, hairstyle, eyes, mouth, skin color, wings, costumers and more.
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PopMath Basic Math

12. PopMath Basic Math
Price: $0.99
Description: Pairs of bubbles float on the screen and your goal is to pop each pair. For example, if one bubble says “7″ and another says “3+4″ simply touch one bubble, and then the other to pop them both.
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Animal Memory Match

13. Animal Memory Match
Price: $0.99
Description: Animal Memory Match is a fun filled memory match game for kids of all ages. Improve/test your children’s memory skills by matching pairs of cute and friendly animals.
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Best of Eye Spy

14. Best of I Spy
Price: $0.99
Description: A collection of children’s game and puzzles. Each puzzle consists of a picture with hidden objects. The challenge is to find the hidden objects within each puzzle.
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Flash for Kids

15. Flash 4 Kids
Price: $0.99
Description: A collection of children’s game and puzzles. Each puzzle consists of a picture with hidden objects. The challenge is to find the hidden objects within each puzzle.
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Letters A to Z

16. Letters A to Z True Learning
Price: $0.99
Description: Letters A to Z is a captivating set of animated flashcards designed to help toddlers learn the letters of the English alphabet in a fun and engaging way.
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Coloring Book

17. Coloring Book
Price: $0.99
Description: An outline of a picture is displayed, and then you simply touch the appropriate color and paint in the picture with your fingertips.
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abc PocketPhonics

18. abc PocketPhonics
Price: $0.99
Description: PocketPhonics teaches the letter sounds for all the letters in the alphabet. It also visually demonstrates how to write each letter.
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Math Flash Cards

19. Math Flash Cards
Price: $0.99
Description: Math Flash Cards is a fun to use math drill application that looks just like paper flash cards.
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