Smart Apps For Kids

From Smart Apps for Special Needs: Brand new completely FREE app for vocabulary and science!

Classify It! is a brand-new app, and I'm hoping that the current price of FREE is not an introductory price. This app is amazing! Developed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, it's educational for science, but it's also extremely useful to me for speech-language therapy, and good for students working on vocabulary and categorization skills. It's hard to believe that an app designed this well is actually completely free!

A rhumba of rattlesnakes? Learn all about it with Lars and Friends

 

 

Bottom Line: Lars the horse is in need of adventure and spends a day cavorting with animals of all shapes and sizes. This storybook app is set at an enjoyable pace and also offers puzzles and a learning section that made this reviewer's heart happy. 

 

Review: MiniSchool offers a range of educational lessons kids will want to play

 

 

Bottom Line: MiniSchool offers a collection of six educational activities with varying levels of difficulty to help teach and reinforce several academic skills. Whimsical ocean-themed scenes and characters keep children entertained while working for a ribbon of success. Though many of the activities benefit younger children, the varying difficulty levels allow this app to grow with the child through multiple years. 

**FREE today only! 8/15**

Top 10 Apps for Kindergarten: The Best of the Best!

People often ask us here at Smart Apps For Kids to make a list of the best apps for <fill in the blank> grade. It's such a hard list to make, given the sheer number of good apps out there. However, we decided it's time to try, so here is my list for the must-have iPad apps in a classroom setting or at home for practice, starting with kindergarten. Just in time to start the school year out right!

Top App for Vocabulary: Use Factory of Categories at home or at school

 

 

Bottom Line: A good choice for the speech-language pathologist targeting vocabulary and categorization with four activities, each with three levels. Its low price for a therapy app ($5.99) means parents can also use it to work at home, and with 120 different categories, there is plenty of content.