- Child’s Prayer – our all time favorite Bible app that starts our day off with a different scripture to talk about and pray about
- Stack the States – fun geography game for any age teaching the shapes, capitals, historical facts, and more of the 50 states.
- Stack the Countries – fun geography game for any age teaching the shapes of the continents and countries within them, languages, flags, etc.
- Presidents vs. Aliens - a great game for any child/adult interested in identifying the US Presidents while learning some interesting facts about each one as well.
- Mousey Howsee and the Rescuers – great interactive book for all ages that changes based on the current season and time of day!
- JumpStart Preschool Magic of Learning – 15 games designed to teach more than 10 math, pre-reading and critical thinking skills for preschool age children.
- Number Tag – great way for preschool/K age children to master identifying their numbers and counting to 20.
- Alphabet Freeze Tag – great way for preschool/K to master the alphabet.
- Pre-K Letters & Numbers – wonderful app for children to learn phonics, letters, and the basics of tracing leading into handwriting.
- Learnin’ USA – wonderful tool for any age to learn state names, positions, capitals, bordering states, etc.
- Adding Apples – math game teaching from 1+1 to 9+9, as well as boosting confidence and fluency in addition. Recommended for ages 3-8.
- Subtracting Sardines – math game teaching single digit subtraction, as well as boosting confidence and fluency in subtraction. Recommended for ages 3-8.
- Multiplying Acorns – fun multiplication game teaching 1×1 through 9×9. Recommended for grades 1-5.
- Bluster – develops vocabulary and word understanding (synonyms, antonyms, etc). Recommended for ages 4+.
- Starfall ABC’s – based off of the fabulous starfall.com – this teaches letter recognition and phonetic sounds in a fun way! Preschool aged and up.
- Children’s Bible – contains comic books and movies about the Bible for children of all ages.
- Into the Snow We Go – wonderful interactive book about Stella and Sam and their adventures in the snow. All ages.
- ABC Mouse Grand Canyon – a fun interactive story that uses music and art to help teach reading fluency and fun facts!
- Grover’s Number Special – uses fun Sesame street animation to teach number recognition, counting, and shape recognition. Preschool and up.
- Math Blaster Hyper Blast – 30 levels of mind-bending math teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Recommended for ages 6+ but my 4 year old son LOVES this game.
- KinderMath – teaches sorting, classification, counting, number comparison and more. For Kindergarten age children (4-6).
- SightWord – a list of sight word designed to help children from preschool through 3rd grade with reading fluency.
- Jingle – a Hallmark story designed to go with a b
ook, but we use it alone. Great for all ages and they have other free apps to go with their books as well. - iLuv Drawing Animals – teaches you how to draw 40 animals. For all ages.
- Alpha Tots – my two youngest (boys 3 & 5) really enjoyed Alpha Tots. Not only does it reinforce learning the alphabet, it provides several wonderful interactive games that include puzzle solving and teaching various life skills.
- Tally Tots – this app is a hit with my 3-year-old son. He enjoys counting and sorting all of the rich colorful shapes and pictures. This app is helping to reinforce my 3-year-old sons conceptual understanding of actual numbers.
- Table Tots – this app is very unique in that you are able to create your own “lessons” for math, colors, shapes, and letters. It is like your own unique table in which you are able to teach your toddler any combination of the lessons offered. My 3-year-old son LOVES to do any of the lesson related to colors and letters. Our 5-year-old son really enjoys the math counting with dominoes and coins.
- Swapsies – this app is the favorite of our 3-year-old son. This app allows the children to “dress” various people in any combination of 10 occupations. There are three sections your child can sort through: shoes/pants, shirts, and hats. When your child gets an entire uniform that matches there are 10 games that they will be able to play – one per occupation. There is even a quiz that your child can take as well.
- Operation Math – our 10-year-old daughter tested out this app. There are 105 different “missions” based on three different skill levels. My daughter is really advanced in math (currently in pre-algebra) for her age so the game was very simple, but still fun. She enjoyed the theme of the game and really liked the mission tracking map. The game is a great game, just a bit under my daughters current level of math. However, the boys are both interested, and our 5-year-old is able to play up to a certain level which was a great surprise.
