Smart Apps For Kids

Good Free App of the Day: Little Learners Play and Learn!

Many of you will recognize the Little Learners brand (check out the logo) and this app is a nice debut, with two terrific books for toddlers and preschoolers: Let's Eat and Let's Play. Beautiful graphics with nice, simple interactivity.

There is an in-app purchase for additional material for $1.99, but it can't be accessed unless the child can read and do math. The two books included are more than enough to recommend the download, even if you don't get the in-app.

 

Open House: Week of May 21-27!

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Kelli's Tech Lessons: How to disable in-app purchases

For the longest time, every time I let my son use my iPad on his own I always felt the need to give him the dire warning, “DO NOT BUY ANYTHING!!” And still there was always that little worry that I’d end up with $20 worth of charges to my iTunes account because he just wanted more lives in Candy Crush or some such thing.

Featured Free and Reduced Apps 21st May including Dexteria Jr

(Also check out our Good Free App of the Day: SmartMusic)

We have you covered for fine motor skills, trains, nutrition, concentration and verbs in our list of apps today!  PLUS Twenty-Five Midshapes apps have gone free!

33 apps with over $54 in savings!! 

Good Free App of the Day: SmartMusic

Also check out our Featured Free and Reduced Apps 21st May including Dexteria Jr)

All right. I'm going to try, but I don't think that I'm going to be able to describe quite how powerful this app is.

If you are an instrumental student or teacher, SmartMusic (which requires a subscription for full access) is going to change the way that you practise and play. Your music is onscreen, you can record while you practise along to the built-in accompaniment, you can compare takes, adjust the speed of the accompaniment to suit your ability, transpose the key up or down at the touch of button, it supports just about every instrument (including voice) known to mankind, and even marks success and improvement needed within the practice session. Exhausted? Me too. And that's only covers a small portion of what it can do.

SmartMusic is an online subscription service which gives access to more than 30,000 solo and ensemble titles and 50,000 exercises for woodwind, brass, string, and vocal musicians.

BUT you can have a good play with the 15 or so titles that are provided with the free app download to really explore what this program can do! I must admit, I was simply blown away. 

FREE APP ALERT! ProxTalk, $30 AAC app is free! Limited time!

We just got word that ProxTalk, an app described as an AAC solution that regularly sells for $30, has gone free!

We haven't had a chance to test the app yet, but we could not find any info on how long it's free so this is the kind of freebie you download first and ask questions later.

 

 

 

Syllables Splash: Review

 

 

Bottom Line: An excellent app for teaching syllable segmentation, but with a price that might be out of reach for many families. Teachers and SLPs will love the customization, and kids can’t resist the wrong-answer-eating shark and clapping turtle.