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What apps are installed on a Kindergartener’s iPad?
All apps on the list below have been requested for Kindergarten classroom use by a NRCA staff member and approved by NRCA Administration. Click or tap on the name of the app to see more information about the app from the Apple App Store.
10 Frame Fill
10 Frame Fill provides children practice with recognizing additive "10 Families" (e.g., 1 and 9, 2 and 8, etc.). Set the 10 Frame to fill in sequence or randomly. Use contrasting color chips to fill the 10 frame as you determine the answer. Select to show a corresponding number sentence.
ABC Alphabet Phonics
Photo Touch is an exciting educational game that helps your child rapidly learn the ABC by sight, sound, and touch. The interface is so easy to use that even a 9-month-old baby will delight in using this app. Ideal for ages 0 to 6.
ABC Magic Phonics
This app will help your child learn the sounds of the letters of the alphabet, which are necessary for reading. Learning the sounds of the letters gives your child the tools for reading and helps them become better readers. A matching phonetic photo image is matched with each letter to help your child learn the sound of each letter.
Amazing Coin
Amazing Coin is a fun and educational game for kids to practice identifying and solving math problems with coins. It will teach your kids how to recognize, count, add, pay, and make change with coins.
Animal Math Games For Kids
Travel the world over from Bessie's Farm to the plains of Africa to a lush, green forest as you join math-explorer Emma through more than 100 fun math games on a quest to help her animal friends find a way home!
Animal Math Games School Ed
Travel the world over from Bessie's Farm to the plains of Africa to the deepest reaches of outer space as you join math-explorer Emma through more than 100 fun math games on a quest to help her animal friends find a way home! (This is a paid app purchased by the school for Kindergarten students to use on their school device.)
Animal Math Kindergarten Games
"Featuring a colorful cast of silly pets from Ralphie the Cat to Oleg the Owl, join math-explorer Emma through more than 100 fun math games on a quest to help her animal friends explore the big city!
Playable by kids of all ages with lots of positive encouragement, professional narration and catchy music.
(This is a paid app purchased by the school for 4th-grade students to use on their school device.)"
Bible App for Kids
The Bible App for Kids is the newest member of the YouVersion family of apps. Available now for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, the Bible App for Kids is always completely free! Through interactive adventures and beautiful animations, kids explore the big stories of the Bible.
Bob Books Reading Magic Lite
Start your child reading with this phonics-based interactive game. Even very young children love the simple drag-and-drop interface. Your favorite Bob Books characters and full-color animations encourage kids along the path of learning to read.
Book Creator for iPad
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 50 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children's picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks, and more. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for 2nd-grade students to use on their school device.)
Clips
Clips is a free app for making fun videos to share with friends and family. With a few taps you can create vertical and horizontal videos with immersive camera effects, artistic filters, dynamic music, animated text, emoji, stickers, and more.
CK-Auth
The ContentKeeper CK-AUTH App provides users with a protected Internet browsing experience in conjunctions with the ContentKeeper Secure Internet Gateway (CK-SIG) system. The App provides for highly granular users-identity based reporting along with single sign-on support.
Count Money!
Count Money ! is a great way to practice counting money. Select the difficulty level and the number of problems in the "Settings" screen. Progress through the difficulty levels until you master counting money.
Counting Board
Teach your children to count from 1 to 100 by tapping the numbers one by one and read it loudly. Automatic pronounce function included. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for Kindergarten students to use on their school device.)
Domino Addition
Practice Addition Facts with sums to 30 and addends to 16. Each problem is displayed using one domino… add the number of pips on the left side to the number of pips on the right. Answers are entered by tapping a button in a number grid along the bottom of the screen. Feedback is provided via a green (correct) and red (incorrect) highlight of the answer choice.
GarageBand
GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ.
iMovie
With a streamlined design and intuitive Multi-Touch gestures, iMovie lets you create Hollywood-style trailers and beautiful movies like never before.
Inkling
For Inkling business and institutional accounts only. Inkling brings multimedia, interactive, and searchable content to iPhones and iPads. Sign in with the credentials provided by your organization to get started!
Interactive Telling Time
Includes 9 beautifully hand-drawn interactive clocks that come with movable hour and minutes hands specially designed for small fingers! This app was made for you by artists and educators, with the help from school teachers and mother’s groups to bring you the best app in learning to tell the time for young beginners.
Keynote
Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and cinematic transitions — as simple as touching and tapping.
Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational program with thousands of activities and books that will inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery for children ages 2-8. Children can learn reading, language, writing, math, social-emotional development, problem-solving skills, and motor development. Open-ended activities and games like drawing, storytelling, and coloring encourage creativity and self-expression.
Learning Patterns
Learning Patterns helps your child develop critical thinking and mental reasoning skills thus expanding a very important part of their mind. Plus, even adults will have fun playing with this app at the more advanced levels
Line 'em Up
Designed to promote mastery of number order. This app replicates a simple classroom activity in which children place number tiles in order from least to greatest. Options include using 10, 15, or 20 number tiles and designating a range of beginning numbers.
Little Matchups ABC
A fun new matching game to learn your ABC. Approved by parents, teachers, and kids the world over.
MarcoPolo Arctic
Explore one of the most fascinating places on Earth - the Arctic. Learn about 30+ animals and play with them in an interactive land/sea environment. Feed the animals, throw snowballs, drive an amphibious vehicle, and much more!
MarcoPolo Ocean
Parents' Choice Gold Award! App Store Best of 2014 and Editors' Choice in 16 Countries!
Make dolphins jump. Build a coral reef. Explore the deep sea. Create your own aquarium. These are just some of the fun things you can do with MarcoPolo Ocean, a “digital sandbox” for kids to play in that sparks their interest in the most unexplored part of our planet – the ocean.
MarcoPolo Weather
Explore the fascinating world of weather! Create rainbows, thunderstorms, blizzards, and more as you learn about 9 major weather types.
Math Word Problems for K-1
This app includes a wide variety of addition and subtraction word problems designed for students to listen, read, draw, and solve.
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet app, lets you create, view, edit, and share your files quickly and easily. Manage spreadsheets, tables, and workbooks attached to email messages from your phone with this powerful productivity app.
Microsoft PowerPoint
The PowerPoint app gives you access to the familiar slideshow maker tool you already know. Create, edit, view, present, or share presentations quickly and easily from anywhere.
Microsoft Word
The trusted Word app lets you create, edit, view, and share your files with others quickly and easily. Send, view, and edit Office docs attached to emails from your phone with this powerful word processing app from Microsoft.
Mind Map Maker - Mindomo
Capture your thoughts directly on mind maps, turn them into presentations on the fly, and share them with others. Synchronize your maps to the cloud, from any device.
Moose Math
Moose Math takes kids on a mathematical adventure! Through fun multi-level activities, kids will be engaged in counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, and geometry!
My Story School eBook Maker
Storytelling is a fantastic way to promote literacy, comprehension, creative thinking, and self-driven learning. My Story is an amazing way to engage your K-5 students. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for Kindergarten students to use on their school device.)
Notability
Students, teachers, and business professionals use Notability daily to enrich their lives. It is uniquely designed for each device to provide the best note-taking experience at school, home, and work. (This is a free app, but the school provides an annual subscription for unlimited note taking and premium content for Kindergarten students to use on their school device.)
Number Flash
Helps children transition from counting to number understanding. A ten frame with dots flashes on the screen (you can choose the number of seconds it appears on the screen).
Number Games Match Game Free Games for Kids Math
"Number recognition and learning to count has never been more fun and intuitive!
With ""Show Me"" and ""Peek"" features, play comes easy even for young learners."
Number ID
A set of numerals in circles is randomly spread out on the screen and a number word is shown. Match the numeral to the number word by tapping on a number in a circle. A correct selection will highlight green.
Numbers
Numbers is the most innovative spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. Get started with one of over 30 Apple-designed templates for your home budget, checklist, invoice, mortgage calculator, and more. Choose from over 250 powerful functions. Draw and write with Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger. Tap to add tables, charts, text, and images anywhere on the free-form canvas. Animate your data with interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts. Easily filter through large tables. Find patterns and trends using pivot tables.
Pages
Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed template to instantly create gorgeous reports, digital books, resumes, posters, and more. Or use a blank document and create your own design. Easily add images, movies, audio, tables, charts, and shapes. You can even draw and annotate using Apple Pencil on supported devices or your finger. Pages has been designed exclusively for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
Paint Sparkles Draw
Your budding Picasso will LOVE the world-famous Paint Sparkle Draw app with gorgeous new graphics and fabulous features! This children’s favorite coloring book is now easier to use than ever! With 20+ vibrant crayon-like colors and a whimsical magic coloring tool, your little artist is guaranteed hours of fun.
Quizlet: AI-powered Flashcards
With new expert explanations, an AI Learning Assistant and our ever-effective flashcards, get a suite of science-backed study tools at your fingertips. Quizlet is the easiest way to study, practice and master whatever subject you’re learning. Download the app today and join over 60 million students owning their classes with Quizlet.
Sand Draw
Sand Draw is a fun app that lets you draw free on realistic sand! It's the ultimate drawing pad!
Schoology
Get the award-winning app that extends Schoology’s powerful learning management solution to your iOS device. Manage your classroom, create and submit assignments, participate in interactive discussions, perform assessments, collaborate with your peers, and much more! With Schoology’s iOS mobile app, you can have rich and engaging academic experiences anytime, anywhere.
ScratchJr
By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.
Sentence Maker
Sentence Maker is an exciting interactive game that helps your child rapidly learn to make and complete their own sentences all with just the touch of their finger. The interface is so easy to use that even a 9-month-old baby will delight in moving their first words around the page. Ideal for ages 1 to 6.
Sight Words Reading Games ABC
Developed in cooperation with educational specialists by an award-winning educational studio, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling Abby Basic Skills and reading program Phonics: Fun on Farm, to best prepare your children for success in kindergarten and school curriculum.
Simple Whiteboard
A simple whiteboard, fast and easy. No fuss, no muss, draw, write, and share.
SPELL tapper
SPELL tapper is an educational game for children 5 and younger, learn to spell by tapping the letters before they fall off the screen!
Spelling Bug
Kids learn to spell the most needed words as they play. Application presents each word by displaying a picture and pronounces the word and presents the letters that are needed to make the word. Kids use their hands to arrange the letters in the right order to make the word. Using this not only your kid will learn to spell the common words, he/she will also learn how to say them.
States and Capitals Map Games
Best States and Capitals learning game! The cute Hippo is coming back! He will travel all 50 nifty United States, teach the knowledge of all 50 states, and play 10 fancy games with you! Start the amazing exploration by sliding two fingers to zoom in and out and click the shining star.
Teaching Number Lines
Little Monkey Apps Number Lines helps to introduce the concept of number lines to young students through the use of cute little frogs that make steps and leaps. When introducing basic mathematical skills such as counting, ordering, addition, and subtraction, it is important to use a variety of models such as counters, drawings, and number lines to explain and physically model problems.
Tiggly Chef Addition
This is a math learning app, which will help your child learn addition, and represent addition problems with drawings, verbal explanation, and math equations - while helping Chef prepare his signature Spicy Hula Monkey Cake, and over 40 other outrageous dishes.
Tiggly Story Maker
Tiggly Story Maker puts YOU in control. Create a world powered by your imagination, and bring word building and storytelling to life! With the screen recording feature, you can record up to a two-minute video: both video of the screen and your voice.
Touch and Learn
Touch and Learn is a powerful new gaming platform that allows you to introduce new concepts in a fun and exciting new way.
Writing Wizard - School Ed.
Writing Wizard is designed to help every child learn how to trace letters, numbers, and words through a fun system carefully designed to maintain motivation. (This is a paid app purchased by the school for Kindergarten students to use on their school device.)
ZOOM Workplace
Zoom is #1 in customer satisfaction and the best unified communication experience on mobile. It's super easy! Install the free Zoom app, click on "New Meeting," and invite up to 100 people to join you on video! Connect with anyone on iPad, iPhone, other mobile devices, Windows, Mac, Zoom Rooms, H.323/SIP room systems, and telephones.
