Below is a list of five paid educational apps worth checking out for the iPhone. These apps are all 99 cents & were hand picked according to certain criteria suitable for children such as content, graphics, music, entertainment, etc.
Genre: Education
Price: $0.99
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Created by parents, Wheels on the Bus is a fun, interactive musical book, based on the popular children’s song. Come aboard the bus to spin the wheels, open and close the doors, swish the wipers, pop some bubbles, make a dog bark, and much more!
Delight your children while encouraging cognitive, language, and motor development:
- Sing and read with your children.
- Listen to the song in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
- Record your children’s singing!
- Hear the music played on a violin, cello, piano, and even a kazoo.
- Touch, explore, and discover fun surprises in the captivating, interactive illustrations.
Genre: Education
Price: $0.99
Release Date: July 28, 2009
KidCalc teaches number recognition, counting and math to pre-schoolers, kindergarteners and elementary school aged children using flash cards and puzzle games, with engaging artwork, animation and voice-overs.
KidCalc includes animated addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division lessons. KidCalc is easily configurable to adjust how challenging the counting and math puzzles are, with settings for toddlers learning numbers, for preschoolers learning to add and subtract, and for elementary school aged kids learning to count as high as 1000 and to multiply and divide.
KidCalc is jam packed with features and now teaches the following skills:
• Writing numbers
• Number recognition by sight and sound
• Quantity recognition with icons
• Counting forwards and backwards, with voice-overs, by increments of 1, 2, 3, on up to increments of 100
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with operands up to 1000
Added this week:
• NEW: Voice-overs by adult speakers
• NEW: Birthday Party theme with presents, birthday cakes, cupcakes, candles and party hat icons!
Added in January:
• Flash Card Challenge making KidCalc 7-apps-in-1. See how quickly you or your child can solve 10, 25, 50, or even 100 math problems.
• Flip flash cards over to watch animated illustrations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division math problems.
• Running timer and totals can be shown or hidden.
• Choose any combination of beginner or intermediate addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems.
Other Features Include:
• One-touch skill settings to configure all learning games appropriately for a wide range of ages 2-4, 4-6, 6-8, 8-10, or Little Geniuses
• Counting puzzle and Counting Snowflakes game
• Animated and voiced math puzzle
• Animated and voiced calculator with icons that animate and illustrate mathematical operations as they are entered
• Additional themes including Sports, Outer Space, Springtime, Valentines Day, Easter and more.
Genre: Education
Price: $0.99
Release Date: November 12, 2009
TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational iPhone app which teaches four different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. Parents can select which subjects they want, set different difficulty levels, and even choose specific questions. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing.
TeachMe: Kindergarten keeps children engaged with a rather unique reward system where children earn a coin for every three correct answers. Coins can then be used to purchase stickers to place in fun sticker scenes. Sticker scenes can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends.
The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be child friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. An animated teacher (Mimi Mouse) gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun.
FEATURES:
• 4 different sticker reward scenes: beach, underwater reef, pirate cove, city
• Over 70+ different stickers for adding to a scenes
• Save learning information for up to four different children
• Select which subjects are displayed for each child
• Turn on/off specific questions within a subject
• Change the number of correct questions to earn a reward
• Tracks performance for each subject item (last five)
• Export sticker scene to Photos, for emailing or using as wallpaper
LEARNING SUBJECTS:
• Sight Words: Dolch (Pre-K), Dolch (K)
• Addition: up to a total of 10
• Subtraction: from 10 down
• Spelling: complete words by choosing the first letter
Genre: Education
Price: $0.99
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Contains eight simple activities parents can do with their young toddlers and preschoolers:
- Dot-to-Dot Numbers
- Artist Coloring Book
- Typing the ABC Animals
- Ocean Colors
- Space Shapes
- Monkey Body
- Farm Sounds
- Animal Matching
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Please take a look at our other fun and educational children apps (only .99 each):
* Preschool Music
* Preschool Arcade
* Bumblebee Touchbook
* Suzy Dress Up
* Make A Martian
5. KiddySong
Genre: Education
Price: $0.99
Release Date: April 24, 2010
“Come and get our latest creation!” – Special dedicated to young childrens, KiddySong is a fun and engaging musical iphone app. Entertain your children with popular kids song plus an animated illustration.
APP FEATURES:
- Consist 6 songs (Wheels On The Bus, Railroads, Incy Wincy Spider, London Bridge, Twinkle Little Star and Old Macdonald)
- 3 different voices featuring Angelo: The Panda, Gavin: The Monkey, Delius:The Cow
- Bright and lovely colors
- Touch to discover sounds surprise
- Easy to navigate
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