Kindergarten APPS

In classrooms, a geoboard is a nifty math manipulative made from wood, evenly spaced nails and rubber bands. The Math Learning Center takes Geoboard virtual in its app for the iPad. Like its real... Read more >

Got a sob story, tall story or fish story to tell? My Story is a good choice for the job.  Children can create multi-page books to export to multiple apps such... Read more >

Like Leo’s Pad 1, the second Leo’s Pad appisode is an interactive story with several educational minigames. In this appisode, children work with childhood versions of Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo and Marie Curie... Read more >

Leo’s Pad is an interactive story with minigames starring childhood versions of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. The graphics and animation are beautiful, and the minigames (a hide and seek game that tests children’s... Read more >

Imagine an online dollhouse where all the appliances “work.” In My PlayHome by Shimon Young, a finger’s swipe turns on the lights, microwave and stove. Cabinets and drapes open and close, and the toilet... Read more >

This is a very nice app for learning how to tell time.  While a pre-reader could definitely learn with it, it is best for K, 1st and 2nd (since digital clocks are ubiquitous kids... Read more >

Gus on the Go: Spanish is one of the better apps we’ve seen for basic Spanish vocabulary learning for preschool or kindergarten. The menu starts with a map of Mexico then presents vocabulary organized... Read more >

Motion Math: Hungy Guppy is a new very solid app by Motion Math (see Motion Math, Zoom, Hungry Fish and Wings) – their first aimed to preschoolers. The focus,... Read more >

Montessori Numbers is a very nicely designed app that supports understanding the relationship between numbers and the quantity they stand for, numerals and place value – all using Montessori methodology. Most of the activities... Read more >

Motion Math: Wings is another great app by Motion Math (see Motion Math, Zoom and Hungry Fish).  These guys are really into doing it right  – they focus on developing... Read more >

Math Evolve is a really nicely designed app that will definitely make your kids happy to practice math.  It does a great job of blending “gaming” with education.  So much so that this should... Read more >

This is a simple, but well-designed app for youngsters interested in letters and early reading.  With a finger drag, your child will move letters to form the word shown in the picture.  There are... Read more >

Your kids won’t even know that you consider Cut the Rope educational!  Using elements of physics (gravity and vectors), you move a ball of candy around the screen to collect three stars and then... Read more >

The folks at Motion Math have done it again! Hungry fish is a beautifully designed app that encourages mastery of basic addition and subtraction math facts and true number sense through a simple yet... Read more >

Word Wizard is a great app for pre- and early readers and spellers (and it’s on sale now for $2.99). It uses technology to help teach the building blocks of words.  It has a... Read more >

Flight of the Pamplemousse is a very sweet story app with lovely illustrations (for ages 5-7, $1.99, or try the short free version).  The protagonist is Jonathan, a young boy who falls asleep listening... Read more >

Pirate Scribblebeard’s Treasure with Oscar & Josephine, a $1.99 iPad app for PK-K, is a fun high quality interactive coloring book (or anti-coloring book, as doodle books with only partially drawn scenes have been... Read more >

Happi Reads $.99 universal app for K-1st graders has three levels of sight words. If you choose the correct picture for the word shown, you get a fruit. When you get six words correct,... Read more >

ABC Alphabet Phonics is a simple but effective free universal app for practicing the alphabet. Three letters appear on the screen and the user must touch the correct letter when prompted. When the user... Read more >

Milly, Molly and the Tree Hut ($.99 universal app for PK-2nd graders) tells the story of a boy who watches too much TV and is forced by his mother to go outside and play.... Read more >

Drum Kids (a $.99 iPad only app for PK and K) is nice exposure to simple percussion instruments and rhythm. This app has three basic activities, learn, create and play.  In learn, children get... Read more >

My Word Wall (a $.99 iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad app for PK-K) is designed for early readers and contains a series of activities that reinforce letter names and the reading and spelling of... Read more >

The Musical Me! app does a nice job of early music theory introduction.  With graphics that appeal to 3-6 year olds, and 14 commonly known children’s songs (in English), it has five activities... Read more >

This app is good for spelling and sight word practice.  It includes a spelling practice section, sight-word bingo, and two other sight-word games – each with fun incentives to earn a Bingo bug.  In... Read more >

We were fans of the hard copy version of these books when our kids were just starting to read. The app is pretty similar to the books but with animation and sound effects,... Read more >

This is a math equivalency game – match the tiles with the same values (6+3) and (8+1)  or (.5) and (8/16) to clear the board.  You can choose from three difficulty levels, and content... Read more >

This is a super cool app.  It is merely exposure to a good variety of instruments, but wow, the videos are great.  You can choose an instrument (it is alphabetical so it helps with... Read more >

Give your child’s creativity a boost. This amazingly simple app allows children (and adults) to produce their own live-action puppet shows and enhance them with an audio soundtrack. Sound complicated? Not at all. It’s... Read more >

Math with a what is traditionally considered to be graphics that appeal to girls (flowers etc).  There are no princesses and no bikinis here -  just a garden, which makes us like it more!... Read more >

iWriteWords Spanish app is a good tool for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice writing letters and numbers and to learn their sounds in Spanish.  Your child will practice recognizing and writing letters and numbers... Read more >

A PBS kids app for basic early reading – just simple and straightforward.  Your child might not know all the answers, but they will easily know what to do and won’t get frustrated.  There... Read more >

This is a basic math addition game for the pre-K and K set.  Choose the sea shell with the answer that corresponds to the addition problem in the puzzle, and move the shell to... Read more >

This Encyclopedia of Volcanoes app has lots of  information in (wait for it…) encyclopedic form and is good for preschool to adult.  It is made more interesting by the images, plus a few basic... Read more >

This Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt app is good for ages 4-adult.  It has lots of  information in an encyclopedic form, with lovely images, plus a few basic games (a matching game and a puzzle). ... Read more >

This Encyclopedia of Rainforests has lots of  information in a more traditional encyclopedic form, and is good for ages 4-adult.  It is made more interesting by the lovely images, plus a few basic... Read more >

A Montessori-based app for early reading and writing.  You choose images and/or letters to create words or a story.  It takes a little bit of time to get, but then your child can do it... Read more >

The US Dept of Education funded a study of this app and found that target vocabulary improved up to 31% for children ages 3-7 who used this App from PBS Kids over a two-week... Read more >

A fun way to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  Get the answers correct to fill your bingo card.  Choose an avatar and keep track of your high scores.  Beware – your kids... Read more >

This dinosaur app has lots of  information in an encyclopedic form, with lovely images, plus a few basic games (a matching game and a puzzle).  Nothing reinforces learning, but your reader can certainly gain... Read more >

Very good app for pre-readers to practice saying letter sounds, writing letters and sounding out short words.

The Teach Me Kindergarten App provides strong practicing opportunity – sight words, spelling, addition/subtraction, with rewards (you earn coins and can spend them to “buy” stickers to put on screen backdrops).  This app keeps... Read more >

iWriteWords (Handwriting Game) App is a great letter forming tool for preschoolers and kindergartners.  Your child will practice recognizing and writing letters (following the arrow and using their finger to trace each letter).  This is... Read more >

This solar system app has lots of  information in an encyclopedic form, with lovely images, plus a few basic games (puzzle, matching game).  Nothing reinforces learning, but your reader can certainly gain new knowledge.... Read more >