ABCMouse.com Zoo Set 3 - Free App of the Day

Welcome to Set 3 of the Zoo from ABCmouse.com. 

This zoo app is an amazing new way to explore animals for kids. With unique features, realistic animals and setting, engaging art, and high quality narration and music, this app will be a favorite for kids of all ages. Universal for both iPad and iPhone with beautiful full resolution animations of the animals. Easy to use navigation and optimized performance make visiting the zoo even more fun.

Features of the ABCMouse.com Zoo apps include: 

Realistic animal exhibits - Photo realistic animals animated by professional animators in natural surroundings and true animals sounds. 

Fun Animal Facts - Learn about the animals with illustrated facts read by the zoo guide. 

Animal Quiz - Test your knowledge about each animals with the multiple choice quiz feature. 

Also watch for fun audio easter eggs. 

ABCmouse.com Zoo Set 2 - Free App of the Day

Welcome to Set 2 of the Zoo from ABCmouse.com. 

This zoo app is an amazing new way to explore animals for kids. With unique features, realistic animals and setting, engaging art, and high quality narration and music, this app will be a favorite for kids of all ages. Universal for both iPad and iPhone with beautiful full resolution animations of the animals. Easy to use navigation and optimized performance make visiting the zoo even more fun.

Features of the ABCMouse.com Zoo apps include: 

Realistic animal exhibits - Photo realistic animals animated by professional animators in natural surroundings and true animals sounds. 

Fun Animal Facts - Learn about the animals with illustrated facts read by the zoo guide. 

Animal Quiz - Test your knowledge about each animals with the multiple choice quiz feature. 

Also watch for fun audio easter eggs.

Agnitus - Free App of the Day

Agnitus - Preschool to Kindergarten Math, Alphabet, Fruits, Shapes, Colors, Counting & Animals




Meet Icky and Olly! They’re playtime friends who have fun adventures here in the land of Agnitus learning! Icky (who has a sweet little laugh) will help your child recognize colors, fruits, and animals! Icky’s sidekick, Olly, shows your child how to learn and play with shapes and numbers! Here is what we play and learn:

Colors: We love colors, yes we do! Learning how to find each hue!
Shapes: Find the shapes and count them too! Stepping stones in front of you!
Fruits: Yummy says Icky! Oranges, cherries, blueberries – learning to notice them! Limes, pears and watermelon – all green - Can you tell them apart?
Animals: Elephants, tigers, monkeys and more, now you see them, now you don’t! Was that a snake, a hippo or a frog?
Numbers: Beginning numbers - we count, it’s true! As part of learning our colors for you!
Letters: We begin with letters a bit at a time, building skill sets as we climb!

DEVELOPMENTAL CRITERIA

Early Childhood Development (ECD) criteria: learn – explore – anticipate – memorize - spatial cognition – emotional development.
Ideal ages for this playtime game: 2 - 5 years

FEATURES

- Playtime levels ‘smartly’ advance, adapting to your child’s learning needs.
- Parental Dashboard and Skill Reports follow & detail your child’s achievements.
- More than one child can be registered to play and learn.


ABOUT AGNITUS


Agnitus touch-enabled ‘smart’ learning games for the iPad take a brand new approach to playtime learning! As your child learns, Agnitus recognizes your child’s strengths and challenges, gently increasing familiarity for your child, through ‘learning-to-learn’ and providing alternative activities adapted to meet your child’s needs.

We know children are naturally creative. Children learn through play, and by seeing, touching, hearing, and doing. Enjoying learning, prepares your child for ready-entry into preschool and structured learning environments. Proven techniques are provided here, to help build basic skills that eventually prepare your child to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. Parents interested in detailed reports on your child’s progress in these remarkable games, can receive and share Skill Reports via email.

Let’s Color! - Free App of the Day

It’s a living, breathing coloring book! Let’s Color! is a magical (and educational) new twist on children’s coloring books.

Simply color a page, press the GO button and watch your drawings come to life. A few dots become falling snow. Scribbles turn to smoke plumes puffed from chimneys. A jagged line pulsates into fire (or water or mustard or whatever a child imagines) spewing from a dinosaur’s mouth.

Afterwards, save your child’s drawing and email it to family and friends!

This time, there are even more free pages, more animation effects, and more features, all designed to inspire children and encourage their creativity.

Let’s play! Let’s learn! Let’s Color!

Features:
• 18 free “living” drawing pages 
• Drawing palette including stickers, chalk, colors, and more
• 16 additional pages available
• Features international award-winning Lazoo art
• Gallery for saved pictures
• Email, Facebook, Twitter, and print capabilities 
• Upload pictures to Lazoo’s digital treasure chest
• Charming animated short featuring Miku the Bunny and friends

Rocket Speller - Free App of the Day

Rocket Speller is a fun and engaging spelling app for 3-7 year olds. Educators, occupational therapists, special education teachers, and parents agree that kids are engaged and learning with this app.

Kids join Zip the alien on an out-of-this-world spelling adventure to build a fancy new rocket. With 4 levels of difficulty, kids spell words to fuel his spaceship and help him choose the rocket pieces he needs. 

Correctly place letters to spell words and move through the game. Choose a rocket nose, body, and boosters. Once Zip has collected all the pieces, launch it from the launch pad and watch it soar into space!

Level 1 - Place letters in any order. Letter hints given.
Level 2 - Must place letters in order. Letter hints given. 
Level 3 - Simple words. Must place letters in order. No hints.
Level 4 - Complex words. Must place letters in order. No hints.

As a special surprise (and to invoke a giggle), touch Zip on the spelling pages and see what he does!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn to spell words in a way that is fun, interactive and promotes self-initiated skill progression
- Develop awareness of how letters combine to form words
- Develop awareness of left to right order
- Promote letter recognition
- Reinforce knowledge of letter names
- Enhance vocabulary

FEATURES
- Kid-friendly interface
- 4 levels of difficulty engage children at different stages of development
- A combination of simple and complex words to enhance vocabulary
- Words are different every time you play
- Choose upper or lower-case letters
- Hundreds of possible rocket combinations!
- Interactive alien
- Entertaining

ABC SPELLING MAGIC 2: Consonant Blends - Free App of the Day

Spelling is fun and easy with ABC Spelling Magic 2. This level focuses on teaching consonant blends.

ABC Spelling Magic 2 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.

The first part of the app has a limited alphabet for building words.

The second part of this app has the entire alphabet available for building words.

This app focuses on the skill of learning to spell words with four phonetic sounds with short vowel words.

This app has been tested and approved of by preschoolers.

A team of educators using accelerated learning techniques and Montessori principles developed this app. It has been tested and approved of by preschool children. The children loved it and it helped them learn the letter sounds. Please give us your feedback and suggestions.

Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver comes in two different versions for iPhone and iPad. 


Throw on your diving helmet, and head into the depths of the sea! Dive amidst shipwrecks and sunken ruins for the valuable pearls, maybe even the elusive black pearl. But watch out for that pesky electric eel!

Ideal for middle school and upper elementary students, grades 3-8, this app addresses number and operations standards established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), including:

=> Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
=> Understand and represent commonly used fractions.
=> Understand fractions as part of unit wholes and as locations on number lines.
=> Compare and order fractions, and find their approximate locations on the number line.

* Developed by mathematics educators, researchers, and game developers at the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State University. Games developed by the Learning Games Lab undergo a rigorous instructional design process, extensive user testing, and input from learners, teachers, and researchers. For more information about the NMSU Learning Games Lab, visit http://learninggameslab.org.


For iPhone: 

For iPad: 

iTouchiLearn Numbers for Preschool Kids Free - App of the Day

iTouchiLearn Numbers combines core early learning number skills with interactive fun. 

Each iTouchiLearn Numbers activity features: 

★Colorful animation, interaction and virtual rewards to motivate and focus attention 
★Fun games that teach core curriculum counting skills 
★Activities that reinforce number recognition, counting, addition and subtraction 
★Audio instructions to enhance learning for toddler, preschool and special needs kids 
★Ideal for kindergarten preparation and post kindergarten review 
★Bonus animated sing-a-long number song 

iTouchiLearn Numbers sequentially builds your child’s understanding of early learning number skills and enables them to apply what they learn to real world situations. 

iTouchiLearn Numbers is most effective when you begin by playing with your child and guiding him or her through the activity. As they become more familiar with the structure of the games, children can play alone and build early learning and number competency skills. 

Free and On Sale iPhone Apps, 6/19 Edition

Buzzle is hot all over the world right now and is free! It's ranked in the Top 100 Kid Games in the US and Top 5 in many other countries. Buzzle was also featured by the US Apple store as What's Hot and New.


Now available for iPhone, School Fonts is a highly rated app (iPad version) and on sale.  iLuv Drawing Dinosaurs also jumped from iPad to iPhone and is free.

Note: As more and more apps are coming out on iPad only, we've added a special entry just for you folks. Universal and iPhone apps will be listed in the App Store below. And as always, check the pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

If you would like to purchase or download any of the apps listed, please use the links below. It gives you the same great deals, but allows me to keep finding you specials!

iPhone, iTouch and iPad Universal Free and On Sale Apps:

Free and On Sale Apps, 6/18 Edition

Get your week off right with some free apps. Plus, some cool apps went on sale.

A number of enticing books went on sale today, and we will definitely add them to our personal library. First, Pete and Pillar -- whose friendship is tested. Petunia Pepper's Picture Day where everything that can go wrong does. And Tractor Mac Arrives -- a story about team work.

Smart Kids Play went free today. Created by an accredited teacher, a professional dad and a tiger mom who all want you to foster creative and fun learning. Adam's Amazing Dream - 3D interactive Pop Up Book also went free for today. And for those of you expecting, The Name - a unique application with detailed description of more than 15000 different names, went free as well!

Note: As more and more apps are coming out on iPad only, we've added a special entry just for you folks. Universal and iPhone apps will be listed in the App Store below. And as always, check the pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

If you would like to purchase or download any of the apps listed, please use the links below. It gives you the same great deals, but allows me to keep finding you specials!

iPhone, iTouch and iPad Universal Free and On Sale Apps: