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Apps for Kids with Learning Difficulties
Gwen Waters, Disability Coordinator
Limestone Coast Regional Support Services
Collated January 2013 with MY TOP 15 MUST HAVE APPS
CONTENTS
Websites and Apps about apps
Speech & Language
Handwriting
Phonological Awareness
Phonics
Sight Words & Spelling
Reading
Writing
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Websites about Apps
Link
DECD Limestone Coast (>Professional
Learning> Apps-iPad/iPhone/iPod)
About.com
App Advice
Apple
Apps 4 Children with Special Needs
Appy Mall
Autism Queensland
iTunes App Store
Moms with Apps
Scribd
Spectronics
Victorian Government iPads for Learning
Interactive Books
Maths
Geography & Science
Health & Personal Care
Music
Art
Games with others
Entertainment
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http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/limestonecoast/
http://specialchildren.about.com/od/equipment/tp/featuredapps.htm
http://appadvice.com/applists
http://www.apple.com/education/apps/
http://a4cwsn.com/
http://appymall.com/appystore/special-needs
www.autismqld.com.au/userfiles/Autism%20Applications.pdf
http://itunes.apple.com/au/genre/ios/id36?mt=8
http://momswithapps.com/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24470331/iPhone-iPad-and-iPod-touchApps-for-Special-Education
http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog/tools-and-resources/our-appsfor-special-education-list-is-here/
http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/
Apps About Apps
App Store
Look under the category of Education...Special Education and search each Friday when new apps
are advertised in the Featured section as well.
Autism Apps
Autism Apps is simply a comprehensive list of apps that are being used with and by people
diagnosed with Autism, Down syndrome and other special needs. It also includes links to any
available information that can be found for each app. The Apps are also separated into over 30
categories, and the descriptions are all searchable
App Start
AppStart takes a fresh and fun approach to teach how to become more familiar with the iPad and
apps. It includes basic things that everyone should know, and then to get you started with the best
apps for you. Throughout the app you’ll find special sections plus a list of the essentials apps for
certain types of user (lawyers, teachers, musicians, moms, dads, etc).
WeWantApps!
Especially designed for parents of young children (0-14 years old) helping them find trustworthy
apps
Discovr Apps
Simply search for an app that you like or choose from one of the featured apps. Then be shown
how the apps you choose are connected in a massive, never-ending map of the App Store, and get
great recommendations for other apps to download.
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Speech and Language
ArtikPix
ArtikPix is an engaging articulation app with flashcard and matching activities for children with
speech sound delays. Utilizing fun and modern graphics, ArtikPix is a free application offering "th,
w, y, and h" decks with 20 additional decks available as In App Purchases: f, v, ch, sh, k, g, s, z, l,
r, s-blends, r-blends, l-blends, p, b, m, n, t, d, j. Features include recorded audio, voice recording,
and scoring.
Webber Photo Articulation Castle
It has 3,000 photo-words with 24 phonemes for students to practice their articulation skills at the
word, phrase, and sentence level, as well as certain phonology skills. To keep your children
engaged, Artic Castle has eight entertaining learning games..
Speech with Milo (Sequencing; Interactive Story Book; Therapy Ideas; Verbs; Prepositions;
Articulation; Adjectives)
Speech with Milo is a series of fun educational apps specially designed to reinforce kid’s language
skills. Each app offers a unique interactive approach to help and support your kids develop
vocabulary. Created by a licensed speech-language pathologist Speech with Milo has proven to be
very useful with special needs children but also ideal to support all children’s language skills.
Sentence Builder
Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically
correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80% of the
English language. Sentence Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammar
of all children.
Martha Speaks Dog Party
Includes four fun-filled games starring Martha, the talking dog from the popular PBS Kids TV series
Martha Speaks, including Chow time (picture to word matching); Martha Says (verbs); Doggie
Dress Up (adjectives); and Pop Quiz (reinforcement of vocab introduced)
Vocab Tracker
An easy to use app that tracks the vocabulary of your child. Enter their sentences for a few days
and it will collate a list of their words, show you how many different words they have used, and also
show you the length of their longest sentence. The longer you use the app the more accurate it
becomes.
Fun Deck - Following Directions; Let’s Name Things, If..Then; Name that Category
Lift your right leg. Wiggle your fingers. Show me your muscles. These apps are simple to use —
each student looks at an illustration and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to
the prompt. The student then gives a response. After each answer, tap the green (correct) or red
(incorrect) button to score the student’s response.
One Step Two Step
Children can follow directions by listening to them and then coloring and dragging shapes onto
pictures. With 25 different scenes and almost 500 different directions there is also a simple "game"
inside to help generalize following and giving directions.
Comparative Adjectives
Comparing and describing the difference between two objects (ie big/little; sad/happy) is a core
building block of learning every language. Fortunately, with this app, learning comparative
adjectives is a fun game that will keep your kids learning and engaged for hours.
These characters respond to your touch and repeat everything you say with a funny voice. Interact
with them and record your own videos and save or send them.
Talking Pierre the Parrot
Talking Pierre is a very energetic and lively parrot, who lives in Talking Tom's kitchen. He's still a
teenager and he likes to cause as much noise and destruction as possible. When you talk to
Pierre, he doesn't just repeat your words ... being a parrot, he remembers what you said previously
and repeats it later at random. Thus he combines different parts of your sentences to create new
funny ones. Sometimes he repeats just a part more than once and then adds something
completely different at the end.
Tom Loves Angela
Chat with Angela, she actually answers. First intelligent talking character! Talking Tom has climbed
all the way up to a rooftop to get a glimpse of Angela. He is trying to woo Angela by repeating your
words to her, singing a song, having a chat with her and by giving her gifts. But Ginger is there too,
trying to mess things up for poor old Tom.
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Handwriting
Eggy Alphabet
Eggy Alphabet, brought to you by the Reading Eggs, covers both upper and lower case letters for
each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. For each letter there are three handwriting activities that
stress the correct formation of each letter. Another 2 activities build phonemic awareness and letter
sound skills. When learning to form each letter, children use a finger to trace and draw each letter.
rED Writing
rED Writing contains 8 education approved handwriting fonts used throughout Australian schools.
Featuring 6 fun learning modes (including upper and lower case letters, numbers and handwriting
shapes) all supported with audio using a clear Australian male voice, your children will also learn
proper pronunciation and sounds for each letter and number.
iWrite Words
Help Mr Crab follow the numbers in sequence while dragging him with your finger and drawing the
letter at the same time. Once all the letters in a word are drawn a cute picture appears. Re-watch
how you created the letter and word.
LetterReflex - Overcoming Letter Reversals & Backwards Writing in Early Childhood
Development & Dyslexic Children
LetterReflex provides a fun way to help overcome common letter reversals. The first activity, Tilt It,
uses kinesthetic learning to teach left from right. The second activity, Flip It, allows them to practice
what they learned while honing their letter discrimination skills. .
Phonological Awareness
Goodnight ABC
Is it a lesson or a game? Kids can’t tell the difference. Goodnight ABC teaches letters, letter
sounds, colors, numbers, vocabulary, the basics of nature and technology and a lot more, but to
your child it feels like playing the most exciting game in the world!
ABC Sequence
Help to learn the sequence of the alphabet, both upper and lower case along with animals that
start with that letter.
Print Concepts Level 1 (Phonics Awareness; Word Recognition Level 2; Fluencey, Fluency
Grade 3, Reading 3, Kinder Smarts)
Print Concepts, Level 1, is a fun way for your child to learn the fundamentals like capitals,
punctuation and knowing the first and last words of a sentence. Other apps in the series and
provide a fun way for your child to learn core phonics through animation, sound and touch.
Syllable Awareness (Animals, Home, Transport, Food etc)
Syllable awareness is typically the easiest and first phonological awareness skill that children can
learn. This syllable awareness Tap-App is a fun way for children to increase this vital pre-literacy
skill.
Tap the Cat (Reading Eggs)
Start your child on their reading journey with Tap the Cat. Each of the 9 playful activities builds and
reinforces a different literacy skill – from letter sounds, rhyming words and phonics to colouring,
vocabulary, speaking and handwriting. Tap the Cat is brought to you by the makers of popular
educational website Reading Eggs.
Sound Beginnings helps build strong phonics skills and helps develop foundational reading skills
through entertaining, interactive games. Six learning games offer practice using the sounds and
not the names of the letters, and lowercase instead of uppercase letters at the beginning, middle,
and end of words.
PreSchool University Series also includes
Magic Phonics; Magic 2; Magic 3 Sound Matching; Memory Match; Magic Reading Short Vowells;
Magic Reading1 - 3 letter words; Magic Reading 2- Consonant Blends; Magic Reading 3 – Long
Phonetic Sounds; Spelling Magic 1 – 3 letter words; ; Spelling Magic 2 – Consonant Blends;
Spelling Magic 3 – long phonetic words; Magic Sentences 1- 3 letter words;
Prof’s Phonics 1 & 2
Profs' Phonics 1 invites children to explore detailed paintings for words that start or end with a
particular sound. Children will come to understand that words may start with the same sound that is
represented by a letter of the alphabet. This is known as 'cracking the alphabetic code' and is
essential for children to be able to understand the reading process.
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Smarty Pants School
Evaluation and then teaching of a child’s skills in the basics of literacy needed for reading successletter knowledge, phonemic awareness, phonics, regular phonetic words and irregular ‘sight’
words. Great assessment tool but also uses an American accent.
Monkey Word School Adventure
Monkey Word School Adventure is an entertaining and captivating way to introduce your child to
the fundamental concepts behind reading and writing. The lessons range from letter recognition
and writing to spelling and phonics introducing word components such as consonant blends,
digraphs, irregular vowels and more! There is also a special focus on sight words.
Row Row Row Your Boat
The app is full of wonderful educational ideas, animated interactive games, and engaging sounds
to encourage the development of listening and language skills in young children. Families of
children who have reduced hearing or language difficulties will find the app particularly useful.
Phonics
ABC Phonics Rhyming Words Lite - For Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
By matching rhyming words, this game helps children recognize common word patterns, and
understand how the initial consonant, middle vowel, and ending consonant affect pronunciation.
They will learn to distinguish between long and short vowel sounds, and they will learn to
pronounce consonant combination, such as "ch" and "sh".
Phonics Tic Tac Toe Interactive Game
Children build language skills in a fast-paced game of tic-tac-toe! Fun, interactive game explores
vowel sounds, syllables and more. Plus, check out the other Lakeshore Learning Materials apps:
Letter of the Day Interactive Activities + Beginning Sounds Interactive Game.
abc PocketPhonics
Using the best ‘phonics’ teaching techniques, PocketPhonics introduces kids to each of the key
letter sounds. As they learn the sounds, the app guides them how to write each letter through its
unique follow-me arrow making it easy to learn how to correctly form letters.
Howie Word Family
This is a word family and rhyming game to help your child learn to recognize words by letter
patterns. Learning groups of words that have similar letter patterns (such as bat, fat, mat, that or
bake, cake, lake, take, etc.) is an efficient strategy to help your child improve their reading skills
and decode new words from letter patterns.
Phonics Genius
One of the best ways to rapidly learn how to speak, read, and recognise words is through phonic
awareness. This app is specifically designed to help students recognise and distinguish words by
sounds. Over 6,000 professionally recorded words carefully grouped into 225 categories by
phonics.
Phonics Studio
Phonics Studio makes learning how to pronounce words fun and easy. Besides mastering
pronunciation, your students will also greatly expand their existing vocabulary since the app comes
fully loaded with over 2,500 gorgeous flash cards grouped by letter into 200+ unique sound groups
Sight Words and Spelling
Kids Learn Sight Words 1-100
Kids Learn Sight Words uses developmentally appropriate approaches to let the child hear the
words; practice writing the words; recognise letters; record the words with playback and use the
words in activities. Great for young learners and older children struggling with reading. This app
contains words 1–100 with planned related activities. There is another app which has 1-300 Sight
words or the first 25 for free and option to purchase lots of 25 up to 300 within the app.
Tic Tac Toe Kids Learn Sight Words
Combine the fun of tic tac toe with hands-on and audio features to jumpstart the learning process.
This app combines word recognition practice with entertaining, engaging graphics in a disguisedlearning format. Children will want to play again and again and by doing so, will be learning up to
300 all-important sight words. Great for young learners and older children struggling with reading.
Sight Words Sentence Builder
This fun game covers all levels of Dolch Sight Words and lets students practice them in context.
Using grade appropriate Sight Words, children assemble short sentences from given words. The
player receives visual and auditory feedback indicating whether the response is correct.
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Word Wall HD
Word Wall helps early to beginning readers learn to read and write by hearing, visualizing, vocally
repeating and writing down letters and words. It provides activities that cater to budding readers
using multiple learning styles such as spatial, visual, tactile, language-oriented, logical, or rhythmic.
Cimo Can Spell
This is a great app for beginning readers to learn new words. Some of the apps 100 words can be
sounded out using common phonics rules (i.e. grouped by short vowel, long vowel, Bossy R's and
other vowel team words) and others do not follow those normal rules and must be memorized.
Super WHY!
Help your child achieve the Power to Read with this collection of four SUPER WHY interactive
literacy games. Your child can play along with each of the four main characters from the TV series:
Alpha Pig, Princess Presto, Wonder Red, and, of course, Super Why, while practicing the
alphabet, rhyming, spelling, writing and reading.
Reading Eggs Spelling 1, 2, 3, 4
Reading Eggs Spelling for various grades is a fun and motivational app that teaches kids how to
spell. Your child can choose from 10 interactive spelling games – each reinforcing a different
literacy skill, including proofreading, word endings and plurals, compound words, syllables and
much more. From the makers of popular educational website Reading Eggs.
Reading
Dyslexia Quest
The games are designed to assess working memory, phonological awareness, processing speed,
visual memory, auditory memory and sequencing skills. The Yeti Master will explain signs of
dyslexia and suggest how to make better use of your learning strengths. It will explain what
difficulties you will experience and where you have a weakness. The 3 different paths up the
mountain encourage you to replay games and improve your skills.
Birthday Buzz Australian Edition
An Australian educational app that helps children learn story boarding. Explore the title and picture
on the cover of 'Birthday buzz'. Then make a prediction about the storyline. Listen to the story and
follow as each word is underlined. Find out if your prediction matches the storyline. Put the jumbled
events of the story in the right order.
Dragon’s Jumble: Dream
Help a dragon remember what happened in his dream. View four pictures from the dream. Place
the pictures in the correct order. Choose sentences to match what is happening in the pictures.
Show the order of events by adding time phrases such as 'to begin with', 'after that' and 'last of all'.
Watch an animation of the completed story. Then help the dragon to finish two more dream stories.
My Word Reader – Are Bees (Whales or Squirrels) Smart or What? series
Simple to use, these apps incorporate word analysis, phonics, writing skills, word recognition,
comprehension and spelling in a series of dynamic, engaging, and delightful “word games” that are
rooted in the easy-to-read, but sophisticated stories.
Ladybird Classic Me Books
Each title is packed with hidden hotspots that, on touching, trigger wonderful narration, funny
character voices and sound effects from celebrities. You can then create your own interactive
hotspots anywhere you like by drawing with your finger and recording your own voice or sounds
using the device’s microphone.
Fitzroy Readers 1-10 ( 11-20; 21-30; 1x-10x)
The Fitzroy Readers is a set of graded books which employ the Fitzroy Method - a phonic
approach to reading developed over the last 3 decades. The first Reader, A Fat Cat, uses only 13
letters. This makes it easy for small children to start reading without delay. The interface is
designed for young fingers and can be used by the student alone or with a tutor.
LAZ Levelled Readers
Learning A–Z provides materials delivered online and through the iTunes Store that help children
learn to read, write, and discover the wonders of science. All materials are leveled so that children
can access information at their reading level beginning with labeling objects moving to simple
sentences that get more complex and the words more difficult.
Ellie’s Fun Readers
Graded readers across four levels encourage independent reading. Captivating, contemporary
fiction makes reading more enjoyable. Exciting pictures and dynamic layout increase motivation to
read. Carefully written exercises help students to develop effective vocabulary-building (200 words)
and reading comprehension skills.
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Writing
Writer’s Hat
Writer's Hat is an ideas generator to inspire creative writing, oral literacy and imaginative thinking..
The Writer’s Hat app allows students to have four basic elements of their story selected randomly
for them. They will be provided with an idea word for What, Where, Who and When to include in
their story.
Sentence Builder App
A fun new sentence builder app to learn about words, sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and
punctuation. Students can move the words around to build the sentence themselves.. The app
starts with simple sentences and progresses to more complex sentences. The sentences focus on
daily life situations, with many references to numbers, colors, and dialogue.
Grammar Jammers Primary (K-5) Edition (Middle (4-8) Elementary (3-6))
Grammar Jammers Middle Edition includes unique animations and quiz questions on the following
topics: Adjectives; Adverbs; Capitalization; Conjunctions; Contractions; Nouns; Prepositions;
Pronouns; Punctuation and Sentences
Story Creator
With Story Creator you can easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and
audio all in one gorgeous collection. Story Creator truly brings your best stories to life and easily
allows you to retell and share your most memorable moments.
Collins Big Cat Story Creator Series (My Bike Ride; In the Garden; It was a Cold Dark Night; At
the Dump; The Farmer’s Lunch; Around the World; The Steam Train; Playing)
Develop your children’s reading and writing skills with interactive books and Story Creator. These
books have been carefully levelled and each includes an animated, interactive book. Then transfer
reading to writing using Story Creator where you can make your own book.
My Story Creator
My Story Creator is a fantastic storytelling app for telling your stories with cartoon images and the
cute little cartoon characters. Create stories and express creativity, humour and practice English
language skills as well.
My Story Time
My Story Time from Punflay allows kids to construct simple stories or messages using an
assortment of pictures and words. Begin creating a story by selecting three images from a stack of
3 cubes each displaying different pictures. Each picture comes with its own set of words. Simply
drag and drop the words on the lines below the picture to create your story.
Kids Write Text Types
A tool to help teachers and students with writing. Each text type includes the structure/format,
features, and examples. Included with each text type are structure, examples, ideas or prompts
and a planner. The following text types are explored: Procedural; Persuasive; Recount; Narrative;
Explanation; Information reports; Transactional; Description; Narrative; Discussion; and Online.
Kids Book Report
The book report app enables children to write following details:
-- book information; title, author; when and where the story takes place; who are the main
characters; what was the main problem; what was the solution and the child’s opinion of the book.
Interactive Books
Henny Penny
Henny Penny is the story of a chicken that believes the sky is falling and feels responsible to notify
the King (and others along her journey) of their impending doom. The moral to be drawn from this
story is that when faced with what seems to be a disastrous situation, there is usually a rational
explanation.
The Lion, the Fox and the Beasts (Hello Story)
The famous fairytale story comes to life in an Clay Animation-Book
Aesop’s Wheel of Fables
Inspired by "Wheel of Fortune", "Wheel of Fables" is an awesome way for parents and kids to
enliven bedtime story selection! Games to reward reading - bonus "Spot-The-Difference" games
are unlocked with every fable read (above 5 fables). Stories include "The Boy Who Cried Wolf",
"The Hare and the Tortoise", "Town Mouse & Country Mouse" etc. Voice recording function.
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The Flautist of Hamelin
Creatively illustrated with beautiful artistic images and cleverly animated game play this story will
not only teach children the importance of keeping a promise but will also offer them a chance to
enjoy themselves and practice their reading skills. A young flautist appears, promises are made
and not kept and in the end our little hero decides to take matters into her own hands.
A Fine Musician
Join the Fine Musician as he marches through town causing a mighty muddle of townsfolk to
follow along behind. This rhythmical story is accompanied by finely detailed, hand drawn
illustrations on richly textured papers. Discover animations, music and sounds as you explore each
page and encourage people out of their homes and shops to see the musician.
Mr Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes
Mr. Wolf and the ginger Cupcakes captures the charm of the traditional children’s book 'The little
Red Riding Hood’ but transports the reader in a whimsical world where all sorts of funky
characters cohabit in harmony at the sound of dreamy jazz music. Have the flexibility to read the
story to a child or have it narrated with our two reading modes.
Puss in Boots – The Great Adventure
The Great Adventure is a wondrous, interactive experience that transforms, reinvents and
rejuvenates this timeless classic, making it one of the most entertaining children’s stories for the
iPad and iPhone.
The Cat in the Hat
Dr Seuss famous Cat in the Hat story book featuring pop up words when you touch items on the
page. You can purchase many more full books from the famous author and all include word
animation.
Food Fight
Interactive book about Tim from earth and Sammy a sausage from somewhere all together
different. By the same company also comes Slice of Bread Goes to the Beach about Slice of
Bread loves nothing more than hunting for treasure but his day on the beach does not turn out at
all the way he'd planned.
Mika’s Adventures
Be spellbound as you enter a magical new world and experience Mika’s story come vividly to life at
your fingertips. Compelling animations, sound effects and interactive challenges combine to create
a truly immersive reading experience.
How to Train Your Dragon
Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book, the action
comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s
longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers.
Arthurs Christmas
Arthur Christmas is an interactive storybook app that at last reveals the incredible, never-before
seen answer to the question on every child’s mind: how does Santa delivers all of those presents
in one night?!
Animalia
The interactive version of Graeme Base’s award winning book in which you can explore, find
Graeme and challenge yourself to find the hidden objects. Now the same great book has even
more deluxe images to truly see the finite detail, and there are brand new touch based interactive
features.
Rita the Lizard
Rita is a tiny lizard who thinks she is a chameleon just like her uncle William... Help Rita to find
herself and have fun discovering all the secrets! A story about friendship and identity with funny
rhymes, easy for kids to read and ...Do not miss the end!
The Strange and Wonderful World of Ants
The Strange & Wonderful World of Ants is a beautifully designed, educational, and quirky
children's App. Readers can increase the reading level for more detail and challenging vocabulary,
or dial it down for easier reading.
Polar Bear Horizon
Polar Bear Horizon is a fun and informative story with beautifully detailed illustrations. This Book
also includes a polar bear fact section for extended learning. To promote reading in young
children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read .
Read Me Stories – Children’s Books
A new book every day develops your child's love for books and a daily reading habit. There are
great new books in Read Me Stories, already there, right in the app.
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Maths
Arithmaroo
It’s a “right brain” approach. Instead of counting and reasoning, players see number patterns and
relationships. It develops early math confidence and nimble math minds. The math game helps
kids gain “number sense,” that “feel” for numbers that leads to math success.
Motion Math Zoom
Motion Math Zoom's zoomable, stretchable number line is missing some numbers - it's up to your
child to put the numbers back where they belong. The new game uses concrete objects to
represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the
thousandths. Fun animal animations and sound effects help children master the number line.
Friends of Ten
Little Monkey Apps Friends of Ten is an activity to introduce an early understanding of numbers to
ten, counting objects to ten, subitising - recognising a collection of objects without counting them,
counting on from a higher number, partitioning of objects and the combinations that make ten 8+2,
2+8, 1+9, 3+7 etc. These skills underpin mental addition and subtraction.
Monkey Math School Sunshine
From the creators of the #1 Preschool App “Monkey Preschool Lunchbox”! Join your child’s
favorite monkey in math games and activities in a playfully designed beach-themed world. Your
child will count, add and sort their way through engaging games with uninterrupted play.
Bugsy in Math Kingdom
A math drill adventure game that aims to help children master basic addition and subtraction
operations.
Tom’s Clock
The little bear accompanies children on the exciting challenge of unlocking the secrets of telling
the time. This intuitive and easy to use App can be understood through images and sound,
therefore does not require reading skills..
It’s Learning Time
Cuckoo challenges you to practise setting the time on both analogue and a matching 12 hour
digital clock. Focused on helping children practice their time telling skills. It can grow with them
from the time when they learn to tell time by the hour through to mastery of telling time to the
minute.
Telling Time Photo Touch Game
Photo Touch is an exciting educational gaming platform that helps your child rapidly learn how to
tell time by sight, sound, and touch. Any child that already understands the concept of time and
knows how to count to 12 will delight in using this app.
iCan Count Money Australia
5-in-1 Fun & interactive Australian money calculator and 4 money counting games. Also includes a
coins/money calculator to help children learn how to add up money. An excellent way to teach
children how to use Australian currency to pay for items, make up change combinations, and
calculate how much change they should get back.
123 Sheep
Players explore counting concepts in three fun activities. Count, with increasing levels of difficulty,
as you help an Australian farmer to round up his sheep into pens with the sheepdog or helicopter
and count by 2s, 7s etc to get them on the ute.
Solids Elementary
When you run the app for the first time you will be able to choose what shapes you would like to
explore, and once you do that you are presented with an interface that allow you to dissect any
chosen shape.
Fractions by Brainingcamp
Everything you need for teaching and learning about fractions: narrated lesson, practice questions
and challenging game.
Times Table OK HD
Times table pattern game. Cute animal shown besides will remind which number you read.
Tap Times Tables - Multiplication Fun with Math Numbers and Arithmetic
Tap Times Tables is a wonderful learning and practicing tool for kids that need some help with
their Times Tables. It provides a fun, friendly interface that enables kids to improve their
knowledge of the all-important Times Tables.
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Geography & Science
Flat Stanley
Since 1995 the Flat Stanley Project has been used by educators around the world to help children
learn about travel, while discovering different cultures to develop a love for reading. This
application makes it easier and safer for teachers, children and parents that want to create, travel
and share their Flat Stanleys.
Ansel and Clairs - Adventures in Africa (Cretateous Dinosaurs; Paul Revere’s Ride)
Aliens Ansel and Clair explore Africa and the animals through interactive games. Spectacular
interactions & animations, quests, puzzles & games bring learning to life in 3 visually stunning,
interactive locales - Nile Valley, Sahara Desert & Serengeti Plains.
Barefoot World Atlas
Barefoot World Atlas is a magical interactive 3D globe that invites children to explore the regions
and countries of the world, discovering hundreds of fascinating features and immersing
themselves in the rich wonders of our planet. This is a multi-language, universal app.
How It Works: Machines - by Geek Kids
The app combines easy to solve puzzles where your child puts together the major working parts
of the machine, followed by an animation that shows how those parts work together to make the
machine do its task. The application includes 9 vehicles and machines to assemble and set in
motion.
Pettson’s Inventions
In this tricky game you should help building these clever inventions by figuring out which ones of
the objects should be included and where to put them in the machinery. Drag and drop the objects
to their right spot and watch the invention start. For every invention finished there will be a reward
of a cogwheel. When you have finished all the inventions a special invention will be unlocked.
Woodmaze
Lead your chrome ball inside 100 different labyrinths and reach the target, but watch out for
dangerous holes.
Health & Personal Care
I hate washing my hands
Little princess just hates washing her hands! She ate cakes with her dirty hands. As a result germs
started to upset her stomach! How terrible! How did the germs end up in little princess’ stomach?
Let the kids find out for themselves …
Maclean’s Nurdle Time
The Nurdles show kids the fun way, and the right way, to brush all parts of their teeth. A catchy
song is used to get them bopping, while a timer counts down for two minutes. Each complete brush
earns them Nurdle stars that can be used at the Nurdle Shop, where they can buy cool gear to
dress up their very own Nurdle.
Cooking Time - hamburger, hotdog, pizza, sandwich and beefsteak maker
Cooking Time it’s a game where your kids can cook the hamburger, hot dog, pizza, sandwich and
beefsteak. Kids will find it easy to make foods just like playing a puzzle game. When your creation
is complete, eat it, and you can observe how does our body digest food.
Good Manners for Kids
There are different topics where 'Johnny' is expected to behave in a proper way. On each topic
different behaviors are shown and only one of them is a correct behavior. In the full version these
topics are covered - Being A Good Guest; Meet & Greet; Table Manners; Sharing & Caring; Do
Not Interrupt; The Magic Words; and Cover Your Mouth
Discover Your Body
Discover Your Body HD allows you to explore the human body, learn about its organs and parts.
Explore different body parts - tap a body part to see what it’s called. Explore major internal
systems of the body. Display them on top of a boy's or a girl's body so that you can see the exact
location of its parts.
Dr Dino!
Play with Dr. Dino, be a doctor! Kids can do these activities: Fill teeth, Check Vision &
Colorblindness, Injections, X-rays of broken bones, Check-ups etc. Dino Hospital includes 8
departments: Trauma & Emergency, Orthopedics, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology,
Gastroenterology, Physical Examination and Wards.
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Music
Tap a Tune
The young musician in your life will love improving their musical skills as they play classic nursery
rhymes and holiday tunes, helped by a group of hilarious musical animals who pop up from holes
in the ground. Tap the animals in the order they pop up, and create your tune!
Juno’s Piano
Juno helps to break down some of the traditional barriers confronting children when learning to
play piano. Juno’s Piano lights up the on-screen keys, guiding children to press the correct keys
and play with different colors representing the note, ensuring a fun and enjoyable learning
experience. Juno’s Piano encourages your children with cheers and praise from Juno and your
child can sing along with the piano playing to their favorite songs!
My First Classical Music App
It's the perfect introduction to classical music for children. Find out where you hear music, who
writes it and what all the instruments sound like. Meet the great composers and be wowed by the
orchestra. Tap any words or pictures and hear the text narrated, extracts of music, and dozens of
animations and sound effects. The animals can dance, sing and play!
Conga Drums
Featuring high resolution graphics and professionally recorded sounds, You can play the Conga,
Quinto, Tumba, Requinto, Super Tumba or Bongos in 2, 3, or 4 drum configurations. Play alone, to
the metronome with 23 different sounds, or to over 50 unique Pocket Beats and Loops. You can
even play along to your favorite music on your iPod right from within Conga Drums!
Art
Pirate Scribblebeard's Treasure with Oscar & Josephine
Join Oscar, Josephine and Pirate Scribblebeard in this groundbreaking interactive, animated,
drawing app for kids that encourages creativity! Children's drawings become part of delightful
animated cut-scenes while Oscar, Josephine and friends narrate each page and encourage your
child with quirky and humorous animations.
Kids Drawing 1
From wild animals like lion & zebra to insects like bees & dragonfly, this app provides step-by-step
drawing instructions for 108 different pictures in 9 categories, namely animals, birds, food, fruits,
insects, living, ocean, vegetables, and wild animals. The first 2 categories are free and you can
unlock the rest via In-app purchase.
How to Draw
Listen, follow the instructions and draw on your screen. See how easy it is. You may start with a
cat. It's really simple. If it goes well don't be afraid of the "Skeleton" episode! It's the most difficult
but you can do it. Four episodes are free!
Art of Origami
Art Of Origami is designed to help kids learn How to make origami animals, 40 kinds of origami
animals are presented here. Art Of Origami is simple and easy to use, just follow the step-by-step
instructions and watch the animation, so don't worry that your child will just get confused, kids can
fold on their own.
iCreate
Full of educational content, and fun images and clips, kids will be drawing, coloring, and printing
masterpieces worthy of the refrigerator gallery. Also featuring tangrams and a full set of artistic
tools, colors, and brushes. In addition, iCreate has a full complement of learning content including
words and animals.
Superhero Comic Book Maker HD
Create your own animated comic book featuring monsters and superheroes! Create and record
your own stories! Put multiple scenes together to make a comic strip. Includes 55 scenes and
coloring pages with 170+ stickers. Another great app from Duck Duck Moose.
Sock Puppets
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them. Add Puppets, props,
scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically
lip-synch to your voice.
iFunFace Talking Photos
iFunFace lets you create amusing videos of yourself and others by simply using a photo and
creating an audio recording. Our unique speech analysis technology automatically creates the
animation for you. No special skills required. Great way to get kids to talk. Create complex
conversations with up to four characters that can interact with each other.
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Games with others
Game Timer
For everybody who needs a timer for games. Big Time display with different views for seconds and
minutes including a time setting with slider. There is also a traffic light function green, yellow, red
and sound output if time elapsed.
Futaba Classroom Games for Kids (Futaba Word Games for Kids)
Up to 4 students can cooperatively learn using just one iPad. The first player to match the word to
the image scores a point. Win 3 rounds and you'll be awarded a Futaba (a small ‘seedling’). A
word game version also available.
Snakes and Ladders Game
Snakes And Ladders is a classic board game for young children. It is played by 2 or more players.
If the player stops at the bottom of a ladder, it climbs up. If the player stops at the snake's head, it
slides down
Ludo Classic
The traditional game of Ludo. You have the option to play with up to four players against artificial
intelligence or others humans. A very addictive game in wich wins the player with the best
strategy, and of course a little bit of luck to throw the dice.
All in One Board Games
Features 10 board games in this app with three levels: Easy, Med and Hard, meeting needs of all
players. Challenging computer or play with your friend on the same device, can also play against a
friend via bluetooth on two devices.
Fantastic Four in a Row
Try to connect 4 in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally with three great themes. Play against
the computer or against another person in 2 player mode.
Tic Tac Toe Free HD
Tic Tac Toe Free HD supports one player and two player game play, enabling you to play against
another human or against your device.
Entertainment
Barnyard Mahjong
Barnyard Mahjong is a completely new and unique way to experience the solitaire game. It
includes 168 different puzzle layouts each with random tile orders. Find matching pairs of images
at the left and right ends of the lines in the various puzzles to remove the tiles from the board. As
an extra twist you match any cat to any cat and match any dog to any dog.
Spot the Difference Game
Test and train your attention span with this highly challenging hidden object game while being
mesmerized by beautiful photos of nature, animals, cities, boats and hand-drawn cartoons!
Where’s Wally HD – in Hollywood
The ultimate search and find adventure for all ages, as players search for Waldo and his friends
Wizard Whitebeard, Wenda and Woof, and Waldo foe, Odlaw. In addition, there are hundreds of
cleverly camouflaged items to find within the pages. Game play is enhanced with surprise features
designed to challenge players during their search
Everyday Jigsaw
How about turning your family photos, travel pics and any snaps from the camera into beautiful
jigsaws? Or, you may browse a collection of over 10,000 eye-catching jigsaw puzzles and
purchase the ones you like from within the game with just a few mouse clicks. 16 different cut out
shapes, puzzles with up to 1000 pieces .
My First 3D Puzzle - Animals
My First 3D Puzzle: Animals is an amazing game featuring more than 70 different puzzles in
beautiful real time 3D. Rotate the scene and drop the pieces from the deck at the right places to
complete the puzzle.
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Cats Spot (Dog Spot; Horse Spot etc)
A very cute and addictive spot the difference game. Spot all differences in random pictures and
beat the high score. Also make sure to check out other Spot the difference games.
Choo Choo Steam Trains
Chug along picking up passengers in over 50 beautiful landscapes, build your own train tracks and
even take a leisurely ride aboard the Steam Train as you watch the scenery fly by. Choo Choo
trains has over 65 levels across 4 beautifully themed islands.
Lego App4+
Build your own truck (helicopter blades or legs for wheels optional), bring your cargo to its right
destination, and collect coins to earn more parts! Use your imagination and building skills with the
LEGO® Large Brick Box (6166) app.
Sid Meier's Pirates! Piratizer
Use your iPad 2 to take a photo of yourself or a photo from your gallery and then piratize to your
heart’s content. You can easily share your photo with friends. If you enjoy being a pirate take to
the high seas in one of 27 fully customizable ships that can feature your piratized face on its sails.
Jake’s Neverland Pirate School
Ahoy and welcome to Pirate School, Matey! Join Jake and crew for four fun-filled pirate themed
classes and earn Badges of Honor and an Official Never Land Pirate Certificate. Features,
characters and locations from the Jake and the Never Land Pirates TV show.
Clicky Sticky (Super Heroes; Trains; Cars; Christmas)
Your kids will have a blast using their imaginations with this fun animated sticker book app. Watch
your kids interact with fun characters while learning about fish, airplanes and many animals.
Each sticker character can be scaled, rotated and dragged onto each imaginary scene.
Wiggles Big Aussie Road Trip
Join The Wiggles and all the gang as they set off on a big adventure around Australia visiting the
Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Sydney Harbour and many other great iconic destinations. Along the
journey you will need to help The Wiggles put the puzzle pieces together to enjoy the beautiful
landscapes! This application also includes a series of road safety messages.
Pirate Treasure Hunt
Pirate Jack needs your help to solve eight problems and find the hidden treasure. Use the map to
work your way through the obstacles one by one and in the right order. Apply your maths and
literacy skills to make sure you collect the correct item before tackling the next obstacle.
Treasure Kai- The Lost Gold of Shark Island (The Seven Cities of Gold)
Adapted from an award winning children’s book, you hunt for gold by tapping treasure chests that
reveal exciting adventure stories or the lost gold treasure. A different read every time. Comes in
two book apps.
Karl’s Castle HD
Karl's Castle is an interactive picture book for children. By zooming, swiping and pressing a new
world is revealed that is full of little experiences. You will meet many amusing creatures, animals
and well-known fairytale characters.
Hogworld: Gnarts Adventure by Snow Castle
Hogworld is an interactive story about the adventures of a shy little hogbunny named Gnart. He
has to get to the dentist by sundown, but to get there he must pass through some pretty scary
places. On his way, Gnart will confront his fears and make strange new friends.
Webbies
Joyful bunch of friends spend whole days carelessly playing in the woodland. Unfortunately,
Hurgen doesn't like their frolics. This bitter retired wizard has been trying to find the way to get rid
of little imps for ages. Without your help our lovely creatures are doomed to starvation. Help them
untangle all the nuts and fruits, and fill their empty bellies.
Angry Birds Free
Angry Birds Free features challenging physics-based demolition gameplay, and lots of replay
value. The 24 levels, set in 8 mini episodes, have been created specifically for Angry Birds Free.
Each of the levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.
VideoMonster - You Tube for Kids
VideoMonster is the YouTube player especially for children. Search and select videos and store
them as playlists for your children. Access to the Video Chooser is protected by a PIN. App
comes with videos and prepared lists to add to your selection. Children don’t need to be able to
read to operate the player . Videos can be watched without Internet access.
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