Primary+Apps



 Show Me is a personal interactive whiteboard. It allows you to draw or paint., write, and record your voice. It is very easy to use and you can use it to explain topics, assess knowledge of content or just use for fun. What's best is that it's **free**.

Bluster! Breeze through vocabulary building with this **free** app! This word matching game develops vocabulary and word understanding for school-aged children, or anyone brave enough to battle the elements. Shine bright in single-player mode as you learn and practice important word skills. Match rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives, and more. Collaborate with a friend in team mode. The multi-touch iPad screen allows both players to play simultaneously, so you can work together to weather the vocabulary storm.

Help Aesop the Ant read through the stories. Be sure to pay close attention while reading because there are clues in the stories that will help him along his quest. This is a learning game where the player must remember elements of a story to complete a level. The game uses reading comprehension to develop cognitive reading skills. The game engages children in a hands-on learning process, implementing kinesthetic learning. The game incorporates reading comprehension based upon excerpts from grade-appropriate reading materials. The recommended graded level are as follows:Level One: 2nd gradeLevel Two: 3rd gradeLevel Three: 4th gradeLevel Four: 5th gradeLevel Five: 6th grade. This app is **free**.

Rocket Math is a **free** math app for children of all ages. Children are able to practice basic mathematic skills, work on telling time, handling money and identifying three-dimensional shapes. This practice is done in a game like way. As the students successfully complete math problems, they earn virtual money. That money can then be used to build a personalized rocket ship! This one offers a great mix of play, and learning, all in one.

===Scribble Press=== Scribble Press for iPad is a **free** book creation platform that allows kids to imagine, create and share their own stories with great drawing and writing tools. Download your books instantly to your iBooks library! Scribble Press for iPad makes it easy to create an ebook – either write your own or use one of over 50 story templates. How about “My Babysitter is a Zombie” or “The Dog Ate my Homework”? From serious to seriously fun, you can make a book about any topic and instantly publish to the gallery or share with friends anywhere in the world. This app is free.

Domino Kid-Calculations A powerful arithmetic math set for the 1.Grade! To counting, calculating or simply to have fun in playful handling on numbers! First counting ... then calculating, pushing, pulling, tapping ... and then understanding! This is a **free** app!

[|Teach Me]: TeachMe: 1st Grade is the third installment in the popular TeachMe series of educational apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. TeachMe: 1st Grade teaches four age-appropriate subjects to first grade children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. TeachMe: 1st Grade's unique TeachTech character recognition engine interprets a child's written answers, helping to reinforce writing skills while teaching math and spelling. This app costs $1.99.

Build a Word: A child is offered either/both a visual prompt or/and audio prompt to "write" a word. The word is to be written by dragging appropriate letters one at a time in the designated slot in the correct order. Success is rewarded by a short fun game.

Spelling Magic: Spelling is fun and easy with ABC Spelling Magic ($2.99). Teaches the sounds of the letters and how to build words. This app can help your child learn the sounds of the alphabet. This app indirectly teaches the essential reading skill of segmenting as well. Two levels of challenge are available.

Book Creator ($4.99): Not free, but a visually appealing,intuitive, and highly rated book making app. You can insert your own photos or other images from the web, creat and edit text, add music or record your own voice/sounds, and then easily share your book with the world. Books are not directly embeddable, but they can be saved as PDF, saved in DropBox, sent via email, etc.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">DoodleCast Doodlecast ($1.99) is a unique drawing app that records your voice as you draw. The Doodlecast For Kids App comes with more than 20 drawing prompts – simple questions designed to give kids a starting point. Kids can choose from one of the prompts or start a drawing from scratch.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Word Magic You can use this app ($0.99) everyday in your classroom for spelling practice. Its a great app and it also has other spelling games.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Fry Word List The Fry 1000 Instant Words are a list of the most common words used for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Flip through each set of flash cards at the touch of the screen. Words are read in a clear voice. This is a **free** app!

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Educreations: You can create tutorials for your students easily with this **FREE** app! Educreations is so easy to use, your students can also use it to publish their own content.



<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Base Ten Number Blocks App ($0.99) [|Base Ten Blocks App.] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You can manipulate ones, tens and hundreds number blocks to count, add or subtract.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lifecycles for Kids App ($0.99). lChildren can use the drag and drop method to feed animals or see the changes happening in a lifecycle. This can be supportive to active observation of any lifecycle in the classroom. And check for understanding with in the lifecycle.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> i Write Words <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Children can practice forming letters in the right direction with exposure to shapes, numbers and colors with this app ($2.99). This helps give an interactive opportunity to children. It is also developmentally appropriate for children's hand eye-coordination and drag and drop strategies.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Puppet Pals: Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, 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! This app would be great for storytelling in a primary classroom as you could incorporate several story elements. Students could create scripts in small groups and practice their fluency while recording. This app is also a great resource for summarizing stories read OR creating new endings. It is a wonderful way for kids to practice fluency! This app is free with one character set (fairy tales). Purchase the Puppet Pals Director's Pass ($2.99) to unlock more than 12 additional character sets.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Word Wizard <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you like Make-A-Word activities? This app ($2.99) is appropriate for preschoolers through primary learners. Choose Moveable Alphabet for upper and lower case practicing letter sounds, building words. Choose abc order or keyboard qwerty. Create your own differentiated spelling lists to practice and play on Spelling Quizzes. Traditional Fry lists and Dolch lists available too.