Three Really Good Apps

The Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade students have to take turns when we are working on the computers.  Those students who are not on the computers are using our Media Center iPod Touches.  We have been using apps that support what is happening in the classroom.  Listed below are the apps we have been using lately.  The students are enjoying them a lot, while having lifelong skills reinforced.  

An app that I have used with Kindergarten and First Grade is The Math Tree by Bellamon.  Click here for information about this app.  I love this app because of the mix of simple addition and subtraction facts.  It is a paid app; the price is $.99.

An app that I have just begun to use with First Grade is Interactive Telling Time Lite.  I have only used the Set the Time part of this app.  This has the students setting time to the hour and the half hour.  The students love this app!  The added bonus of being able to pick a prize to add to aquarium, in the app, was a nice reward for setting the time correctly.  The lite version of this app is free.  I have not used the paid version of this app.  Click here for more information about this app.

A great app for Second Grade, Third Grade, and older students is Counting Bills and Coins.  Click here for more information about this app.  This app has so many different activities, that is what makes it great for a lot of different grades.  The activity that the students have been using is counting money.  This activity allows students to count just coins or bills and coins and type in the correct amount.  The other activities are:  Show Me The Money (students are given an amount and have to show it with bills and coins), Making Change (students read a word problem and have to figure out how much change the person in the problem would get), Matching Amounts (students have to show a different combination of the amount of money given), and Show Value (students drag money over to the board, count it up in their head and the touch show value to check their answer).  The best part about this app is that it is free!

A word of caution with these apps and any others that you have download to your devices for your children, make sure that you are going on each app and playing with it every so often.  Many times the creators, after a few updates have added some ads that are not appropriate for children.  This is why before I use any apps with students I always play around on them, even if I used the app the day before.

Miss Hazuda