Steve Jobs has been gone 10 days now. Besides his death, which people are still talking about, there has been much iNews lately. In tribute to Jobs and my love of iProducts I figured I would write an iTribute of my favorite Apple features before iRun out of jokes!
Apple still has the market share on apps, partly because Android is so hard to develop for and partly because Apple was on the scene first. Here is a run down of some of my education-related, therefore, homeschool related apps:
1.) Tozzle - a puzzle game for the toddler age, when we first got this app, my kids were obsessed with completing the puzzles over and over again. You can also change the language for the puzzles. There is at least a German and French option
2.) Youtube - Yes, Youtube. Comes standard on every iPhone because the Youtube website requires Flash, something Apple does not support. This is also why you will get different search results when using your phone versus the website. Some video formats on not available on the iPhone. Anyway, my kid LOVES watching Youtube videos about anything you could imagine from a parent's perspective. We learn German, French, and watch Dora videos. We learn nursery rhymes and play children's music. She loves to watch instructional videos. Right now, Lilly loves videos about making cakes and cupcakes. Howdini has a really good line of videos about how to make and decorate elaborate cakes used for a toddler's birthday party. Gabe likes to watch Thomas videos. A lot of the Thomas videos are people's homemade videos of themselves playing out scenes with their Thomas toys. In the end, Youtube is an endless educational resource, but one that also needs monitoring.
3. Team Umizoomi - Worth the price tag of 2$. My kids are in love with Team Umizoomi, which makes me happy, because I was never that good at math. I hope my children will be different. I'm doing all I can to make math and science fun for my daughter to help break the cycle.
4.) My Coloring Book - This app introduces basic coloring skills and colors to toddlers. It features a lot of different pages that toddlers can touch themselves. They can pick colors and then "drop" them into the coloring page white spaces.
5.) There are quite a few books that read themselves as the toddler listens along. Some of our favorites are: Down at the Docks, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk.
No, none of the app developers paid me to give them a good review, but that would of been nice right? Another time, I will tell you all of our favorite phonics apps. I am concentrating on phonics with Lilly right now for "school" and I just got a handful more phonics apps that I am trying out. Of course we learn on more than just the iPad and mommy's phone. :) What have been some invaluable apps for small fingers that your family uses?
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