Browsing through and trying some of the apps that are free for App Friday, nothing was grabbing me... until finally, I saw him: RhinoMite!
The new app from Mrs. Judd's Games is deceptively simple but challenging enough for older children. Fly the eponymous hero through city streets using simple swiping gestures to manoeuvre, avoid obstacles and collect Rhino coins along the way. Back at Rhino HQ these coins can be traded in for costume changes. You can even upgrade your hero's horn! The games graphics, music and narration all have an Adam West-era Batman quality, which is fun and non-violent. The game itself develops and reinforces skills with respect to following directions and understanding of prepositions, together with basic addition and subtraction. As a bonus, there are lots of punny street names in the app, like Stan Still Street and Packy Derm Drive.
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Rhinomite responds to countless requests from parents and teachers who have been searching children's superhero games that engage a child's quest for adventure, yet does so in a non-violent manner. This special game is designed for the whole family.
The character of Rhinomite is an absurdly heroic figure who offers children the drama of creating fanciful costumes, the exhilaration of pretending to fly, and the challenge of avoiding obstacles in this bustling city setting.
This games focuses on spatial prepositions such as Over, Under, Beneath, Around and Through which are important to early language learning, and later investigations in mathematics and physics. In Rhinomite these words are showcased in a style inspired by the flare of classic comic book superheroes. We also display pertinent numerical information as points are earned or traded in for costumes.
Rhinomite is an open-ended game of flight and flexibility, that allows players to bring their own scenarios of sleuthing, mystery and intrigue to this imaginative setting. We supply the costumes, the challenge and the magic, but the child will supply the tale. We hope your budding young authors will create interesting motivations, conflicts, and triumphs for our fresh new character we call Rhinomite!
- There are no images of weaponry in this super-drama.
- Equal values of ten points per "coin" was chosen for those who are learning to count by tens.
- Subtraction equations are displayed for young players as their points are earned and used for new costume parts.
- During game-play the upper-left corner of your touchscreen was intentionally chosen as the location for written words, since orienting children to that specific corner, as a starting place for text, has value in English literacy.
ENRICHING CONVERSATION:
Families and teachers discussing Rhinomite with children may want to include topics and terms such as: tenacity, resiliency, counting by ten, multiples of ten, adding, subtracting, practice, prepositions, and TRY AGAIN...just like Rhinomite!
ESPECIALLY FOR TEACHERS
U.S. Common Core Standards:
- (K.L.1e) Language Arts standards, beginning at the kindergarten level, include the use of frequently occurring prepositions and continue to be important over the years of one's language development.
- (1.NBT.6) Adding and subtracting in multiples of ten begins being introduced in U.S. Common Core Standards in mathematics beginning in 1st grade.
I hope you enjoy Rhinomite!
Mrs. Judd
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Every day we pick what we affectionately call the Good Free App of the Day, an app that we have downloaded, tested and certified: It can't have a ton of ads or just a little content with a ton of in-app purchases.
It also has to be good.
We then present them to you to read, download, and share and, based on which ones got the most hits, here are your Top 100 Favorite Free Apps!
We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
Enjoy!
Please also see our Top 10 Preschool Apps (staff picks), Top 10 Free Apps for Learning Letters, Deanne's Top 10 Free Apps for ASD Kids, Top 12 Apps for Mom, Editor's Top 10, Reader's Choice Top 10, and Top 10 Addition Apps.
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
1) Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (students/teachers can make whiteboard videos)
2) LEGO App 4+ (build a vehicle and then use it in activities)
3) Open Wide Snap (we rated five stars)
4) ** Toddler/Preschool Flash Cards (warning! now has ads!)
6) National Geographic Explorer
8) The Lorax
9) Hide Run Growl (we rated five stars)
11) Play 123
12) ** Storylines for Schools
13) Little Stars - Toddler Games (letters, numbers, shapes, colors, words)
14) Disney's Where's My Water - free
15) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally Appisode
16) ** Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old)
17) ** Build a Word Express
19) Rover (flash-enabled web browser for kids)
20) Lego Star Wars - Battle Orders
21) Little Writer - Tracing Letters, Numbers, Words and Shapes (awesome app)
22) Disney's Jake's Never Land Pirate School
23) Learning Games for Preschool to Kindergarten
24) Scholastic's Sushi Monster (addition and multiplication)
25) NASA App HD
26) I Can Write 2 (make sentences about images)
27) Khan Academy (educations videos for adults and older children)
28) PBS Kids Video (all their favorites, U.S. only)
29) ** Draw Something (Pictionary online! Older kids/adults only)
30) ** Brain Quest (from the people that make those card thingees)
31) Miss Spider apps (Bedtime Story and Tea Party)
32) Super Duper's Using I and Me
33) ** Thomas & Friends - Engine Activities
34) ShowMe (virtual whiteboard app, shared education videos)
35) ** Goodnight Safari (baby animals!)
36) Toca Kitchen Monsters (all kids need Toca Boca)
37) Rocket Speller
38) ** Scribble Press (make an book!)
39) ** Toontastic (we rated five stars)
40) ** Puzzingo
41) Little Finder
42) Lego Duplo Jams
43) Touch the Sound
44) Color Uncovered (please don't let your dog drive)
46) ** Spy Mouse
47) Bluster! (McGraw-Hill)
49) ** Math Vs. Zombies
50) ** Let's Color (drawings come to life)
52) ** Alphabet Tracing
53) ABC Mouse Zoo Sets 1, 2 and 3
54) ** BrainPop Featured Movie (No. 1 on our Editor's Choice list) 2133
56) ** Articulation Station (lite version, only one letter free)
57) Kids Learning - Photo Touch Learning Concepts
58) ** Clockwork Brain (mind-training puzzles for older kids/adults, has ads)
59) Rocket Math Free (free version of one of our Top Picks)
60) ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions
61) 6-in-1 Children's Games (lite version)
62) ** Sock Puppets
63) Green ABCs (previously cost $30)
64) ** Monkey Drum
65) iTunes U (go to college on your iOS device/older kids & adults)
67) ** MeeGenius (six ebooks for free!)
68) DialSafe Pro (we gave five stars, kids learn to dial emergency numbers)
70) Creatures of Light (bioluminescence!)
71) Feel Electric (The Electric Company is back!)
72) Tim and Tom
73) Lego Duplo Zoo
76) Sprout's Good Night Star (nighttime routine, brusha! brusha! brusha!)
77) ** Booksy (one of our Top Picks)
81) Kids Learning - My First Numbers Counting Game
82) SpellingCity
83) Screen Chomp (virtual whiteboard)
84) Chipper's Rainy Day Adventure
85) Jack and the Beanstalk (modern version of the classic tale)
88) Super Duper's Let's Name Things
89) ** BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week
90) Stewie The Duck Learns To Swim
91) Google Earth
92) Fisher Price's Laugh & Learn Animal Sounds
93) Disney's Where's My Perry Free
95) ** Motion Math - Hungry Fish
96) Squiggles (bring scribbles to life, one of our Top Picks)
97) Little Stars - Word Wizard
98) Adventures of the 7Wonderlicious Girls (girls doing their best, helping others, being brave, learning and feeling good about themselves)
99) The Lorax Truffula Shuffle (U.S. only for some reason)
100) Scooby-Doo Whos Are You? by Hallmark (Zoinks!)
We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds, so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
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