Educational iPod apps

[punter]

Here is a list of free and cheap early childhood games/activities that are either free or cheap, if you are taking the leap and getting a kid an iPad for Chrissy these are all educationally sound and will keep them busy for hours................

Early Childhood & Special Needs Apps for iPad

Social Stories/ Open Ended Apps
Puppet Pals Directors Cut - $2.99
Take pictures of the child and other students and turn them into puzzles. Also take photos of classroom and playground to create social stories teaching specific behaviours.

Art Maker – Free
Play School app great for creating social stories or animated picture books with the beloved Play School characters

Sock Puppets – Free
Cute app for making very short social stories

I Can Animate - $2.99
An animation program that is simple to use with young children to create their own stories

iMovie –
An app for editing animations made in I Can Animate or videos created using the record app built into the iPad. Music, narration and special effects can be added using this app.

Book creator - $2.99
A simple app for the children to create ebooks which they can share in ibook store on the iPad







Language/ Speech
Tom Cat & Furry Friends (Full version) - $1.99
An app to encourage expressive language and articulation

My Play Home –
An interactive app to encourage expressive and receptive language

Nouns (kindergarten.com)
For developing receptive language skills


Bop-it
For developing receptive language & following directions






Search Engine Apps

Autism Apps – Free
An app that reviews and recommends apps suitable for children with Autism or Special Needs

Koala Box – Free
An app that reviews and recommends apps suitable for Early Childhood

Programming App

Planbookedu - http://www.planbookedu.com/
Comes with a links to sites with lesson plans that fit into the AC curriculum. You pay a subscription to use and access the sites. The app is free.
Early Education

Sentence Magic –
An app for learning 3 -4 word sentences with basic sight words

Silly Sentences –
An app for learning rhyming words

Dot to dot –
An app for learning numbers to 20

Hickory Dock –
An app for learning o’clock with lots of interactive games included

Worm Jump-
An app for learning shapes and mental arithmetic

Pot Smash
An app for learning visual discrimination (3 or 4 letter words)

Dominoes
Number & matching

Pickup sticks
Visual discrimination & fine motor

Battle ships
Co-ordinates

Telling time –
A great selection of clock faces and activities to help children learn to tell the time

Junior Bingo –
Shapes, letters and numbers

Story Wheel –
An app to help prompt children with story ideas

Alphabet Car -
An app to help learn the alphabet

My First Tangram HD – Free
An app for reinforcing the concept of tangram shapes

Bug and Buttons - $2.99
An app to help children with learning to count, create patterns & sort

rED Writing – $1.99
An app that teaches children handwriting of letters and numbers using Australian fonts


Sort it Out 1 –
An app for sorting similar shaped objects

Treasure Hunt –
An app with many inbuilt activities that include; word building (CVC’s), sorting words, matching, weights/scales, o’clock time & puzzles








Interactive Stories/ Nursery Rhymes

Twinkle

Mickey Mouse Puzzle book

All the stories by, ‘Tab Tale Books’- (some free & some $1.99)
An app that allows you to down load old classic fairy tables with interactive pictures and puzzles for the children to discover

Gertrude & Green Eggs and Ham

Itsy Bitsy HD –

Twinkle Star

Green Eggs & Ham



Just for Fun

Toca Boca –
All apps by this company are fantastic!!! We love them all!

[MOUSE]

thanks for that mate, not that I condone my kids playing on theres all the time, would rather them playing outside anytime, anything educational is welcome, esp on long trips in the car

[punter]

Yeh, know what you mean, a couple of local teachers put in a lot of work to come up with the list........at least it should be suitale !