Thomas & Friends: Engine Activities - Free App of the Day

Tap into the fun of Thomas & Friends with this interactive activity app! Little engineers will be entertained for hours as they play with come-alive puzzles, creativity-boosting coloring pages, and brain-building matching games. Extend the play even further by purchasing additional packs with new puzzles, coloring pages, and collectible match cards. With so much to do, Thomas & Friends: Engine Activities guarantees an endless supply of fun and adventure!

This app includes:

-3 coloring sheets, 3 animated puzzles, and 3 collectible engine cards inspired by Pop Goes Thomas
-3 coloring sheets, 3 animated puzzles, and 3 collectible engine cards inspired by Creaky Cranky
-A matching game that draws from your child’s card collection and helps develop memory skills and hand-eye coordination

Additional activity packs include fan favorites Wobbly Wheels & Whistles, Merry Winter Wish, Rescue on the Rails, Curious Cargo, and Up, Up and Away—each with even more puzzles, coloring pages, and match cards based on these beloved DVDs and characters. Watch for new activity packs available for in-app purchase.

The Land of Me: Story Time - Free App of the Day

Gather round children, it’s Story Time – the BAFTA-nominated create-your-own-story adventure from Ladybird Books

**FOR IPAD2 ONLY** 

★ Create your own stories by choosing the hero, the theme and how it ends then see it come alive before your eyes! 
★ Change the words to instantly alter the storyline as it plays out in front of you
★ Designed by child development experts for young children to explore their creativity
★ On-screen hints offering endless ideas for discussion and things to do
★ Listen as Granny Olive, a turtle of indeterminable age, tells tales about wolves, bravery and things that go bump in the night!
★ Be on the lookout for more apps from The Land of Me series!

Storytelling is an invaluable way for your child to develop their language and communication skills. Which of our intrepid adventurers is the hero of the story? What is the story about? How does your story end? Will you be laughing, smiling or down in the dumps? There’s only one way to find out!

Bluster! - Free App of the Day

Breeze through vocabulary building with Bluster!

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.

Switch to versus mode and play head-to-head for the ultimate test of your lightning quickness. Disrupt your opponent with weather attacks like tornadoes and blizzards - it’s thunderous fun and just might give you the edge you need to reign supreme!

Bluster includes over 800 vocabulary words. Players choose a skill to practice and then try to make matches of three. Ten matches wins a round. 

Features:
• Three different play modes - including two-player action.
• A variety of grade level appropriate content.
• Engaging animated gameplay with sound effects.
• Head-to-head and High Scores tables.
• Plays on the iPad in both landscape and portrait mode.

Creatures of Light - Free App of the Day

By the American Museum of Natural History.


This companion app for the popular new exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence offers a close look at some of the extraordinary organisms that produce light. Enjoy interactive animations, photo galleries, and videos that reveal the beauty of this amazing natural phenomenon, how it works, and how scientists study it. Each chapter of the app, which is adapted from the iPad content featured throughout the exhibition gallery, is set to a symphonic soundtrack composed exclusively for Creatures of Light.

Touch the Sound - Free App of the Day

Touch the Sound is a fun new game that allows your kid to explore the world of sounds one touch at a time.

This app focused on helping kids learn to recognize familiar sounds and match the sounds to the picture. The interface is so simple to use, that even little babies will delight in using this app.

WHY PARENTS AND TEACHERS LOVE THIS APP

✔ The app is super easy to customize so you and adjust everything to your liking
✔ You can turn individual concepts ON or OFF and introduce one new sound at a time
✔ Sounds are grouped into 5 selectable categories (animals, home, music instruments, nature, and transport)
✔ The app is super easy to use for kids of all ages and all abilities
✔ You can add new concepts (emotions, actions, etc.) in one click

WHY KIDS WILL LOVE IT TOO

✔ 300+ gorgeous photos keep kids engaged and wanting more
✔ The app comes with 170+ fascinating sounds
✔ The app if fun, simple, and easy to use
✔ Wrong answers do not interfere with gameplay

Feel Electric! The Electronic Company - Free App of the Day

** 2012 Parents' Choice Recommended ** 

Are you feeling delighted? Astonished? Anxious? “Feel Electric!” explores all these emotions and more! Part of the Military Families “Finding the Right Word” initiative, this app offers engaging tools that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression. Hosted by Electric Company cast members Jessica Ruiz and Danny Rebus, “Feel Electric!” features three fast-paced games, a digital diary to record daily moods, a zany story maker, and more!

** NOTE: Supports iPhone 3GS, iPod touch Gen 3, iPad 1 and later models. **

Features:

▪ 3 vocabulary-based games
▪ A digital diary
▪ A glossary of 50 emotion vocabulary words and definitions
▪ 10 zany story makers
▪ Hosts Jessica Ruiz and Danny Rebus
▪ A library of Electric Company music, photos, and video
▪ Add your own music, photos, and video
▪ Create your own mood dude
▪ Fun point system and scoreboard

Curriculum

“Feel Electric!” empowers children to explore their emotions by building expressive vocabulary skills. 

▪ Introduces 50 emotion words and definitions
▪ Builds emotional awareness
▪ Encourages self-expression

Let's Name Things - Free App of the Day

This colorful vocabulary App has all 52 illustrated picture cards (plus audio of each card text) from the Let's Name Things Fun Deck. Select the cards you want students to see, and have them name items to practice vocabulary, categorizing, and thinking skills. The prompts include statements like, “Let’s name… things that live in the ocean.” and “Let’s name… things you’d take on a trip.”

This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration, and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to the prompt. The student then gives a verbal response. After each answer, tap the green (correct) or red (incorrect) button to score the student’s verbal response. Move to the next card by sliding the card currently on the display screen to the side, and the next image appears. Move to the next player by sliding the bar at the top of the screen. When you finish, view the results, and email them to as many addresses as you like.

Let’s Name… Things Fun Deck App lets you: 
• Select all 52 cards or just the ones you want students to see.
• Enter all your students’ names.
• Track correct and incorrect responses for up to five players at a time.
• Email your results at the end of each game.