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Here is a list of fabulous k-2nd grade apps for the ipad:

Toy Story takes you on the adventure of a lifetime: A fully interactive reading experience packed with Games, Movie Clips, Coloring Pages, Sing-along Tunes, and Surprises on every page. Hear the story read aloud, record your own narration, or explore at your own pace.

AppleTreeBooks™ has been inviting some of the best illustrators from across the world to create illustrated stories for us. Exquisite pictures, vivid narration as well as animation and interactive features bring you and your children wonderful stories and a brand new reading experience. We have carefully selected various stories, including well-known classic fairy tales and new original stories, to give you many options to find the ones you love. Additionally, we will continuously update the books on our online bookshelf, so that you can read our illustrated stories at any time. AppleTreeBooks™ will enables you to experience a new kind of reading and the fun that comes along with it.

Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80% of the english language. Sentence Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammer of all children.

Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for non-special needs children.

Question Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to abstract. There is a lite version of app that has one-tenth of the features available in the full version.

Now that your kindergartner is sounding out words, it's time to start building sentences. In Read on Sight, the child hears the sentence, watches the words in the sentence scatter, and then puts the words back into place.

The sentences are made up of Dolch sight words, a list of frequently used words that have to be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency.

This free version includes a limited number of sentences at the pre-primary level. A paid $2.99 version has sentences for different levels and more features. This app was formally known as Word-Blocks.

Help your child achieve the Power to Read with this collection of four SUPER WHY interactive games. Your child can play along with each of the main characters from the TV series: Alpha Pig, Princess Presto, Wonder Red, and, of course, Super Why, while practicing the alphabet, rhyming, spelling, writing and reading. Super Duper!

Learn how to write both print and cursive letter forms by tracing them with a finger over templates. Each letter includes a sound to teach the pronunciation of each letter.

Fun train, truck and worm animations come to life for children to follow, while showing the proper way to write alphabet letters and numbers. Trace with your finger, try the color palette and textures. Use as a doodle pad.

Alphabet Jungle is perfect for the youngster learning ABC's. Alphabet Jungle is packed with Sounds from a 7 year old speaking the Letters of the Alphabet and the Animals displayed on the screen.

This app was a request from a teacher who uses tracing apps in her class and wanted something to demonstrate the proper strokes to her whole class with large letters.

FEATURES:
- Cursive stroke guidance animations - show proper strokes of each letter
- Letter Recognition and Name.
- Easy to read in Bold Letters.
- Bright and Colorful Visual
- Easy for child to use
- recorded audio for clear pronunciation .
- Tested by Parents and their kids for ease of use
- Design to be used by the kids alone or with parents in an interactive session.

Improve your child's math skills with our Math App for Kindergarten. Based on State Board Mathematics Standards. We increase the level of difficulty as students master easier problems. See detailed results of every quiz.

These and other apps can be found at www.teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com

Hello All!
November has come in like a Hurricane...literally! I hope all is well to all impacted by Sandy. Here comes the pitter patter of little first grade feet, the tittle tattling of first grade mouths, the hitting and helping of first grade hands, the caring hearing of first grade ears, and the seeing is believing of first grade eyes…I’m so excited! In my posts I will share my best teaching practices and fun ideas throughout the school year. I'm big on using technology in my classroom to enrich my curricular and engage my first graders, so I will often post the latest technological gadgets on the market and explain the pros and cons of each.
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