A+ Educational Apps

Best Baby-Toddler Apps

• Baby Sign ASL (over 200 Sign Language references for parents who are teaching their infant to sign)
• Learn to Talk (flash cardsto facilitate language development in one-three year olds)
• Peekaboo Barn (a barn adventure that teaches farm animal names and noises to children in Spanish and English)
• Bubbles (who doesn’t love to pop bubbles; this is a great app if you need a fun distraction)
• Toddler Teasers Quizzing (preschool age quizzes to test children on colors, shapes, numbers, and sizes; progresses in difficulty with your child)
• Tozzle-Toddlers Favorite Puzzle (keeps your toddler entertained as he learns to improve shape recognition and motor activity; choose from 20 different puzzle pictures with sound effects)
• Monkey Preschool Lunchbox (Great for fine-motor skills)
• Dora’s Skywriting ABC’s (Fabulous for fine-motor skills and beginning letter practice)
• Read Me Stories (audio for picture book stories; new story each day)
• ABC Tracing (connect the dots to create letters)
• Talking Tom (great encouragement for building oral communication skills)
• Toy Story 3 (matching memory game)
• iWrite Words (teaches your preschooler handwriting while playing a fun game)
• Where’s Gumbo? (takes your child on an adventure to find a lost dog using clues)
• Kidzongs (6 animated favorite child sing-a-longs)
• The Little Red Hen (animated storybook where you can read the story to your child or play along in three different languages)
• iKids Play- Caterpillar Dream (includes a coloring book, a video storybook, digital finger painting, and a feature for your child to read, record, and playback a story)
• Bumblebee Touchbook (animation and narration of words and sentences in a fun entertaining way)
• Curious George Coloring Book (over 40 unique coloring pages to choose from; store your child’s artwork in a gallery to use or e-mail it to friends and family)
• Wheels on the Bus (fun interactive musical storybook; you move the wheels, open the doors, etc.)
• Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom (easy-to-play adventure in which you tilt your phone left and right to steer Dora along to collect crystals; coloring book included)

Beginner Reading Apps

• Gopher Finding: Sight Words (has five different levels of sight words K-3; great way to practice sight words)
• Sentence Builder (practice making grammatically correct sentences)
• My Word Wall (includes 4 different literacy-based reading activities)

Teacher Apps

• Kids Book Report (a new way for students to write and publish a book report)

MORE TO COME!

Mackenzie is a follower of Jesus, wife, mama of two toddler boys, teacher at heart, and coffee lover. She was a lower school elementary teacher for over 6 years, with a master's degree in Reading, and is a certificated Reading Specialist. She currently works part-time at a private school allowing her more time at home with her little guys.

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