Parents recommend 10 Kindergarten apps at the website listed below:

http://www.allparentstalk.com/top-10-ipad-apps-for-kindergarten/general/

Five Fun Free iPad Apps for Elementary School Teachers And Students by K. Walsh on October 23, 2011
Preschool Memory Match

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/preschool-memory-match/id368542467?mt=8
This is your standard memory match game (flip tiles two at a time, looking for matches), and it comes in 4 levels of complexity from Easy to Super Duper Hard. The game uses mostly pictures of animals and provides and displays and pronounces their names, which provides additional learning opportunities. Times Table Quiz

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/times-tables-quiz!-multiplication/id441001315?mt=8
This is a rudimentary, but very useful app that tests students skills with math times tables. The app presents random multiplication questions from the spectrum of times tables from 22 to 12 x 12, providing 4 possible answers in multiple choice format, and you keep going to see how many you can get right in a row. When you guess an incorrect answer, it stops and tells you the correct answer and you start over. This is geared towards later grades, as it does not allow for setting the level of the times tables it just mixes the full range.

Trainyard EX

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trainyard-express/id348724199?mt=8
This application is great for the younger grades, as it guides the student slowly through a smooth learning curve with an increasingly complex task of designing a path for one or more trains to get point A to point B. As you progress through successive successful completions of the game it gets more complicated, working its way up to some pretty involved challenges!

BrainPops Featured Movie

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brainpop-featured-movie/id364894352?mt=8

BrainPop is a powerful application, with a wide range of functionality in its relatively inexpensive paid versions, but they provide the Featured Movie feature on their iPad app for free, and elementary school teachers might find it worth using. Students can watch a different animated movie each day, then test their knowledge with an interactive quiz. The movies are well done short animated clips on a wide variety of subjects, providing a fun, engaging way to learn. Amazing Shape Puzzle Lite Version

http://itunes.apple.com/app/amazing-shape-puzzle-lite/id469339346?mt=8

This app has three free puzzles that can be fun and educational for younger elementary school students. The app works in English, Spanish, French, and German and provides Word Learning opportunities in addition to developing concentration, memory, and cognitive skills.

Top 10 iPad Apps for Elementary Teachers written by Wesley Exon

Here are the top 10 iPad apps for elementary teachers. 1. Math Magic: This app is all about making math fun. It involves interactive games for adding, subtracting, word problems, and more. Your kid will feel like hes playing a video game, when hes really getting an education. 2. Alphabet Fun: This app creates a game out of learning the alphabet, and it also teaches students about numbers and colors. Students can trace over letters with their fingers to help them learn how to write. 3. Star Walk: This app teaches students about the stars, and it has won several awards for its outstanding graphics and interactive features. It shows more than 9,000 solar objects for students to learn about.

4. Miss Spells Class: This app is designed to make students better spellers. It asks them to find missing words and then re-spell them correctly for points. Students can correct their simple mistakes and have fun at the same time. 5. ArithmeTick: This app forces students to answer math questions under time constraints. They must struggle to beat the clock or risk losing points for their answers. Thatll get the hearts pumping! 6. VideoScience: This app features short videos with cool science experiments. The videos are created by an award winning developer who uses creative techniques to make science easy to understand. 7. Dictionary.com: This app is a full dictionary right on the iPad. Students can use it to look up words they dont understand or discover new words they might not know yet. 8. Wikipanion: This app gives students easy access to Wikipedia. You may not like using that site in the classroom, but it can be a good reference point or your students to start from. 9. National Geographics World Atlas: This app gives students access to maps from around the world. Its perfect for geography lessons or simple exploration in the classroom. 10. Read Me Stories: This app offers a new talking picture book every single day. Rather than taking books home to read, students can just download the app and learn right at home. ************************************************************************* *****

20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading

09/12/2012, TeachThought Staff, 5 Comments

With these 20 apps, children can learn how to write letters, improve phonics fluency, and even write their own books. Read on to find the very best iPad apps for developing young readers, and feel free to share your own favorites in the comments. 1. ABC PocketPhonics Kids can develop skills in letter sounds, writing, and first words with ABC PocketPhonics. Independent research has shown kids using this app can learn even faster than they would in a classroom lesson. Parents and teachers alike love this app as an early childhood learning tool. 2. Play & Sing

Preschoolers can get interactive with this app that encourages reading, teaches colors, letters, shapes, and even animals. Children will trace numbers and letters, pick out colors, shapes, and animals, plus pick out whats next in a sequence.
3. Booksy

Students in Kindergarten to second grade can learn to read on this free platform. Designed to help children practice and develop their reading skills, students can download books that help to build comprehension, give cues, and even track progress with detailed user stats.

My Word Wall

Children can develop early reading skills with the help of My Word Wall, an educational app for budding readers. Students will hear, visualize, vocally repeat, and write down letters and words to learn, plus get engaged with educational activities that are great for all learning styles. Fun games and structured learning make this app a great choice.

Letter Lab

An incredible tool for learning to write and recognize ABCs, kids will trace uppercase and lowercase letters with their fingers on this app. Letter Lab not only teaches kids to write, but also about real-world objects with an audio component. Story Patch

Teach students about the flow of stories by helping them to create their own. Story Patch for the iPad makes it easy for children to create their very own picture books. Customizable characters, hundreds of illustrations, and built-in story themes make this a very fun and engaging reading and writing app. Learn to Read!

Kids can get a head start on learning to read with this app, designed for kids from Kindergarten to second grade. Using a flash card deck of sight words, children will develop the building blocks of reading. Voice prompts, examples, and easy-to-read text come together in this highly educational app. Phonics Easy Reader

With the Rock N Learn Phonics Easy Reader, little ones can practice their phonics. Short vowel sounds, combinations, memory words, and more are all covered in this app. Kids can choose whether a story will be read aloud to them and highlighted, or if theyll read by themselves, tapping words when they need help.
ABC Alphabet Phonics

An awesome phonics game app for kids, Alphabet Phonics offers a great way to teach your child their ABCs. Using sight, sound, and touch, this educational app is useful even at the infant stage.
Reading Raven

Reading Raven is a beloved reading game app for the iPad. A favorite of teachers and even Apple staff, the Reading Raven is a fun reading adventure guide offering excellent features for kids, teaching phonological awareness, full sentences, and even printing skills.
SUPER WHY!

Theres so much to love about this reading app. Featuring characters that many kids already love from the SUPER WHY! TV show, children can choose from several different activities that develop their vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. Letter hunts, tracing letters, rhyming, and completing sentences are just a few of the ways kids are engaged in active reading development in this app.
K-3 Sight Words

Children can learn sight words with the help of this app that focuses on words that must be memorized instead of sounded out. With five different levels, young users can gradually build their skills and word memorization.
Find the Words

Kids will have fun playing word search on this easy-to-use educational app. Several different backgrounds and themes keep things interesting and engaging.
Aesops Quest

In Aesops Quest, Aesop the Ant reads through stories, revealing clues that help him in his quest. Little readers must remember important elements of each story to help Aesop along the way, developing reading comprehension and cognitive reading skills in a really fun way.
Read Me Stories

Develop a daily reading habit with this app that delivers a brand new book every day. Fun features include text highlighting as its read and the ability to touch characters and explore story lines.
Scholastic Reading Timer

Encourage daily reading with this iPad reading timer that keeps track of reading minutes and monitors weekly reading goals. It works just like a real stopwatch, but its fun for kids to see their reading minutes add up.

Kids Can Spell

Using fun animal images, kids can learn how to spell with this app. Through Kids Can Spell, children will see many different animals with sounds and spelling lessons to

back them up. Theyll check out beautiful photos, then drag letters in place to assemble words. Theres even a timed version for an added challenge!
Reading for Details

Reading for Details is a great app for helping kids build reading comprehension skills. Students read passages, then test their understanding of the who, what, why, when, and where at three different levels of reading difficulty.
Word Magic

Created by the parents of a 5-year-old, Word Magic was designed with young readers in mind. Kids find missing letters that identify photos, featuring attractive and funny pictures. Parents and kids alike love this learning app for its positive reinforcement, bright colors, and simple design.
C is for Cow

With this app, kids can have fun learning phonetics and letter recognition. Even very young children love to see the animals, repeat their sounds, and learn their names.
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This site I knew about and it was recommended to me again by Hannah Palmer and Gayle Picotworth looking at: http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/dozieripad/freeapps.htm

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More to come If you have an app you would like to share that is not in this list, please e-mail me at: chering@phasd.us and I will be glad to add them to the list. Thanks to all who contributed thus far: Laura Chambles, Tami Cronce, Stacy Biscorner, Gayle Picot, Hannah Palmer and Mariol Schmitt.