Smart Apps For Kids

Clicker Docs: Review

 

 

Bottom Line: a powerful, fully customizable tool for writing support that makes technology previously only available to schools accessible to individual families, teachers and therapists.

Touchable Earth - Review

 

 

Bottom Line: A very useful social studies app for homeschoolers and teachers. Not a game, but educational vignettes of children from different countries which give a peek into their everyday life.

 

 

Jörgits: Review

 

 

Bottom Line: a very ambitious book app that introduces an entire world of alien characters that crash land on earth and make some interesting discoveries about our planet. Best for independent readers 9+.

Featured App: ThUMP Ultimate Calculus and Algebra Training.

Tell your high schoolers (or super, super gifted middle schoolers) to fire up their thinking caps- ThUMP Ultimate from Mathtoons Media  is here to push them to the next level in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Calculus.

It works like this: The free version comes with 6 subjects: Number skills, Exponents, Radicals, Basic Algebra, Equations and Inequalities, and Intermediate Algebra.

3 more subjects, Advanced Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry, are available as in-app purchases at $.99 a pop. 

Featured Free and Discounted Apps for May 5th--$80 in savings!!

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

With Super LisaM out, I'm coming in to pinch hit on the Featured Free and Discounted Apps post today. Don't worry, Lisa will be back tomorrow, and she's not even injured. She trained me well, and I couldn't stop finding free and reduced apps until I knew I'd found the day's best deals. 

I think I've managed to hit a walk-off home run today, with total savings at $80! There are apps for all ages, including games, books, and many more apps for speech-language therapy, even a brand-new articulation app! Don't miss these great savings!

 

Good Free App of the Day: Star Chart

(Also check out today's Featured Free and Discounted Apps post)

Kids are totally enamoured by the stars. Me, I'm just happy to know that the sun and the moon are pretty consistent about turning up when they should. But no, my little girl is now asking me all sorts of difficult questions about what she's seeing in the night sky.

Cue Star Chart. Download this little beauty, turn on the location finder so that the GPS can find you, point your device at the sky, and lo, it tells you what you are seeing! Such a face-saver for an unknowledgeable mother like me>: "Yes sweety, that's Mars (and not a shiny star with a cool reddish tint like I tried to tell you it was yesterday)".

There is a reason that this app is the best-selling augmented reality app on the app store. It's really very beautiful to use.

There are in-app purchases but unless you are really into your astronomy you're not going to need these, the basics of what you are looking at are all included in the start-off app price, which is FREE today! 

FTVS HD - First Then Visual Schedule HD: Review

 

 

Bottom Line: This well-designed tool for creating visual schedules and choice boards for individuals with autism and others comes with a huge symbol library and the ability to add photos, videos, text and voice to any routine.