Anyone researched all the iPhone apps out there and have favorites?
We have a couple of flashcard apps. downloaded now, but I chose them for the pictures and sounds, not with any reading goal in mind.
Now that we’ve read up a bit more on the subject and are getting more organized about it, I’d like to use the apps. that are more helpful for teaching reading.
TIA
Well there are thousands of good ones - you have to scan them for your needs no way around it.
For an older child my case (Leena is 5) I can recommend:
touchPhysics (our latest favorite $1,99)
Lumosity (brain games - the best are in the website though, for iPhone only 3games)
NASA
Chirp (bird songs)
MandarinFastrack (very good!!! a bit pricy $19)
Beg Mandarin
The states v1.01 by moatkin systems llc for states and Capitals
US presidents by Mulishani
factbook
ICDL for baby stories
Bones lite
AnatomyQuiz
Anatomy3D
Infections
Stanza free books !!
Health Tips
Voice Elements Table
SimpleMindX this is very cool simple mind maps for you to create
Mozart Brain (just ok - free)
hope this helps.
Gloria
Thanks GloriaD!
Our little guy is just 1.
Anyone have favorites for younger ones?
Will the iphone apps work on other devices - like the new “android” phones available from Verizon? How about just PC or Mac programs and run them on a mini notebook (for car/bus/train trips - or any other “out of the house” learning experience)?
Thanks
I believe they will only work on iPhone.
sadly
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My daughter just turned 18 months old. I have an Ipod Touch 3g. I sometimes let her use my Ipod when we are both on the couch or bed. She is going through a throwing stage so I don’t let her use it often LOL.
Even though these videos are available on YouTube, I bought Weet Woo! and like it very much. It gives access to prescreened YouTube videos for children, categorizes them, and then puts them in the classic apple “cover flow” format where the child can easily flip through the selections.
I have also bought Voice Toddler Cards. I have let her play with this one a few times. I bought it because it has a feature where you can record your own voice for the flashcards but I haven’t tried that yet.
I also have the Signing Time app. It has signing flash cards and a few videos which were a lifesaver during my doctors appointment the other week. Even though we don’t sign extensively, we enjoy the Signing Time videos! I think they are educational just for learning simple words and concepts like please and thank you.
Also, on a complete not educational note, I let her play with my Koi Pond app. You can interact with the fish and hear the water splash. You can also use the options for different sound effects (rain, wind, etc.). We both like it!
Hope this helps. I have a problem with her accidentily hitting the red button and getting out of an app that I have brought up for her. Let me know if you come up with a solution to that one.
My son is two and a half and love our iPhones! Here are some of the applications I have for him:
peekaboo barn - he loves this! We had the lite (free) version for a long time. It has only 3 animals, but he loved it. For a trip I upgraded to the full with 10 animals or so, but he likes the lite version still LOL
teach me toddler - I love this one. It has stats so you know how they’re doing. It hold my Childs Interest
quizzing and shapes - both of these were free and fun for my son. Numbers letters shapes
IWW lite - this is great! Free app that helps them start writing numbers and letters
sing kids songs - these go on sale for free often so I don’t pay for them. Abc, baba black sheep, knick nack paddy whack, row youur boat
hippo shapes
finger piano lite
I only paid for teach me toddler and am so glad I did. Other than that, just keep checking educational apps for sale or new free ones. I use appminer to help me. It a free app that searches the iTunes app store for the top apps, sale and free apps. Check it out.
Sorry for the typos above. Still don’t like typing on my iPhone and miss letters or words sometimes. On the iPhone I have to look at the keyboard to type still and that’s distracting. The only reason I moss my blackberry!
Anyway, good luck on finding apps! Have you used any great ones?
The two I have so far are Voice Toddler Cards and Talking Baby Flash Cards.
My boy likes them both.
My plan is to record Russian translations for all the flash cards with Voice Toddler Cards.
Neither app. allows you to quickly go to a particular flashcard from a menu, nor can you remove any from the list :0(
Talking Baby doesn’t even allow you to go back to a previous card at all…each forward or backward finger swipe gesture produces a new card - you don’t have a choice in the matter!
Voice Toddler Cards has certain exotic animals and foods that I feel are pretty useless to the very early reader (like Tapir). Wish I could remove them or replace their images.
I’m on the hunt for an app. that lets you create your own flashcards for the iPhone and came upon the following. Let me know if you try them!
http://www.macflashcards.com/iphone
It’s called Mental Case
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
Flashcard Exchange is compatible with Mental Case and also works on the web on its own, I guess.
This is what I got when I searched for Dolch, for example:
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/vocabulary?t=1&q=dolch&search=Search
mom2ross
Little Pim sent me an e-mail today offering some iphone downloads…
baby firstwords is quite interesting application.i have been using it for my baby since he was 6 months old and he likes it a lot…it’s using the multi-sensory approach i.e. word, picture and sound…
Girls is two
Song
Frank Leto’s Ladybug ladybug
wheels on the bus
sing kids
E book
Itsy bitsy spider
Animal Sounds
Peekaboo barn
Flash Cards
baby flash cards
Kaelee’s fun cards
Others
I hear ewe
weegiggle
funboard
Our two recent additions (which DS loves):
Vocal Zoo ( a gentle intro. to finger gestures on the iPhone UI) - the animal sounds are great and the app. is dead simple.
ShapeBuilder - I do the puzzle for him for now, but when the pictures get revealed after the puzzle is completed, DS gets very excited. The pronunciation is (done by a speech pathologist), and the paid version has the whole alphabet with each phonic sound pronounced!
Can’t wait to add more and more iPhone apps.
Thanks for all the suggestions - keep bringing them on!
They aren’t APPS, but now you can get the Memoflix digital flash cards in an MP4 format to download and use on your phone. There are 80 categories to choose from equaling 800 words that you can use on your phone.
To check them out got to http://stores.intellbaby.com and click on Memoflix. You can get all 80 categories on a DVD for $19.95 and that gets you the MP4 files for free or you can purchase just the Mobile files for $9.00.
YES!! A developer who is creating some wonderful apps for children in Spanish is Early Apps - the name of the one that I LOVE is Primeras Palabras
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/primeras-palabras-early-apps/id360280185?mt=8
They are on Facebook as well!
I want say you that exist a game that teach to children to use the iPhone: tap, move, drag and drop!
BabyClick is its name!