Apps

iPad Apps for Kindergarten

ELA

Letter School

I love this App!! This app is seriously amazing for learning to write letters and numbers. It begins with the letter sound, symbol, and picture. There are 3 turns to practice forming the letter or number of choice. The interactive tracing, sounds, and animation make this a fun and engaging app for students. Click here to purchase Letter School at the iTunes Store. 

Starfall

This is another great FREE app that features educational games, books, and songs. Student tested and teacher approved! Starfall also has a variety of other educational apps.  Click here for the link to Starfall Educational Apps. 

Word Wizard

With Word Wizard kids learn to spell with talking alphabets, spelling tests & fun phonics games

By L'Escapadou Click here for the link for this app on the iTunes Store. 

BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week

This is one of my favorite apps! BrainPop Jr. movie of the week is a free app with tons of educational resources. Click here for the link to this app at the iTunes Store. 

 

Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging games using any word list. The most popular activities are Spelling Test Me, Hang Mouse, and our vocabulary and phonics games, available to Premium Members. The most popular word lists are Sound Alikes, Compound Words, Hunger Games and SAT Words. The free app includes ten of our most popular learning activities and ten of our most popular word lists. By Spelling City.  Click here for link to this app at the iTunes Store. 

Sky Fish Phonics

This is a fun and engaging phonics app for beginning readers. I love this app! My own kids play this app and have a blast with it. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Sight Word Ninja

My kids love this app. Great app for an ELL teacher. There is also number and letter ninja apps available for the beginning on the year. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Kindergarten Bingo

This is a letter, shape, and numbers bingo app for kindergarten. This app is free for a limited time! Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Phonics Genius

This is an awesome FREE app that helps teach phonics awareness. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Bob Books Reading Magic Lite

This is a great FREE app with no in app purchases. Earlier readers for beginning readers. This is great for kindergarten! Click here for the iTunes Store link.  

Monkey Word School Adventure

Check out this great app! Join Monkey and his jungle friends as they explore a fun-filled world of letters, sight words, phonics and spelling. This app is $1.99 at the iTunes store. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Math

Counting Dots

This app is great for number recognition. This app is $1.99 at the iTunes Store. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store.  

Geoboard

In Geoboard learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. This is a FREE app. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Number Rack

The movable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. This is a FREE app. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Math Slide

This is a great app for understanding groups of tens and ones up to 100. Players learn by sliding tiles into the center to match an answer, equation or image. The player who slides their tiles first wins. This is a FREE app. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Teaching Number Lines

This is super cute FREE app that introduces number lines. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Count Battle

This app is so fun! You can play by yourself or with a friend. The player must tap each number in order as the numbers are moving. Each player is trying to get to get all their numbers tapped first. This is a great app for number recognition. This app is $0.99 at the iTunes Store. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Sort It Out 1

This is a great sorting app for kindergarten. This application helps develop conceptualization, visual perception and fine motor skills. This is a FREE app. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Drawing

Show Me Interactive Whiteboard

Turn your iPad into an interactive white board with the Show Me app! This is a FREE app. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Kids Doodle

"Kids Doodle" is a pretty easy-to-use painting application that is designed specifically for little kids to enjoy doodle freely on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It supports more than 10 brushes, such as glow/neon brush, rainbow brush, crayon brush, oil brush, etc. The brush size and color is randomly adjusted to let kids entertained all the time. This is a FREE app. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Scribblify Lite

Fun FREE drawing app for kids. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Chatter Pix Kids

I love this app!!! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more. 

Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE! Click here for the link to the iTunes Store.

Augmented Reality

AR Flashcards

AR Flashcards is a FREE augmented reality app. All you have to do is download the Free flashcards and download the free app from the iTunes Store.

FETCH! LUNCH RUSH

Fetch! Lunch Rush is a Free augmented reality math app! In this Augmented Reality, multi-player game, you need to keep up with lunch orders from Ruff’s movie crew. The challenge is keeping track of how many pieces of sushi everyone wants.Click here for the link to the iTunes Store.

ZooKazam

Zookazam is a FREE Augmented Reality app. This app is amazing!
To experience the possibilities of Augmented Reality download Zookazam 3.0.1, where you can download and print the free targets. Click here for the link to the iTunes store where you can download the app for your iPad.

Collaboration

Socrative

This is another great FREE app! Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative Student app. Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction.

Kahoot!

 Kahoot! is an educational response system that is free to use! Kahoot! is an amazing tool for informally assessing your students.The best thing about Kahoot! is that it can be used with any device (not just iPads). Creating a kindergarten Kahoot! is fun and easy. You can create your own quizzes, or you can use some of the public quizzes already made on the Kahoot! site. 

Nearpod

Nearpod is a FREE app that allows teachers to create multimedia presentations with interactive features such as quizzes, videos, polls, drawing tools, and more! Click here to create your own free Nearpod account. Click here to download the nearpod app from the iTunes store. 

Edmodo

Edmodo makes a teacher’s daily life easier by providing a safe and easy way for teachers and students to engage and collaborate for free, anytime, anywhere. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Use Edmodo for:

• Secure classroom discussions

• Posting assignments

• Gradebook tracking

• File sharing and uploading

Key Features:

• Classroom activity feed

• Student progress tracker

• Educational resource library

• Professional learning networks

Classroom Management

ClassDojo

ClassDojo is a FREE classroom management app that kids love! Teachers use ClassDojo to give their students instant, positive encouragement during class. Teachers choose and customize behaviors that matter most, and then award a student in class Dojo points when a skill is demonstrated. Best of all, teachers can engage parents with ClassDojo progress reports and instant messaging so they can stay involved in their child’s success at school. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store.

Stick Pick

This is an awesome app!  Pick a student at random with just a tap, swipe, or a shake -- but that’s just the beginning. Stick Pick suggests question starters for learners at different levels and also records how well students respond during classroom discussions. If a student is consistently scoring near the top or bottom, simply change the level so students aren't bored or frustrated. Depending on students' levels of English proficiency, they might be asked simple yes-or-no questions or to elaborate in longer sentences. This app is $3.99. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store.

Classroom Timer Lite

Classroom Timer Lite is a FREE time keeper app. This app works well in the kindergarten classroom. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store. 

Voice Meter Lite

The "Voice Meter Lite" app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, is a simple, but effective FREE (for the Lite version) app that helps children monitor the volume of their own voice/s in a Fun and Engaging way. Click here for the link to the iTunes Store.