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Assignment 2 1. Preschool Edukitchen. Free. 5 stars: memory, sorting, healthy choices, organizing 2. BasicSkills. Free. Amazing readiness with all areas and total teacher control of content 3. Monkey Business. Free. 5 stars. Must load each student, but then they progress through more than 7 levels of 6 or more steps of phonemic awareness. Love the monkey banana eat and videos 4. LunchBox. Free. Readiness ages 3-5. 5 stars and lots of parent plaudits. 5. PBSkids, excellent, $9.50/month. For up to five children. Every possible concept and readiness skill, reports to teacher or parent, auto learner that presents higher learning as each stage is mastered. Good for small individual groups or family resource 6. Snakestein. Free. Good reviews, chalkboard pics and vocab. Uses first consonant SOUNDS, easy, fun, motivational 7. HungryMonsters. Free. 5 stars. Middle vowel sound and basic. CVC practice with high motivation guy eating hamburgers! 8. SightWords by photo touch, 5 stars. Simple Dolch in increasing groups 9. Easy-Bake. Free. fun!! Great 'learn to use iPad ' app 10. Math Blaster: free: any age, set function, practice timed facts drill. 11. Just found it - Hooked on Phonics - four stars and MY great review - multiple lessons with each short vowel and common word parts. Takes student from single vowel sound through activities to make and read simple CVC words, then has 3 books using the controlled vocab for each lesson. Free version has one lesson and option to purchase more at $6.99/each. But Classroom complete edition was free this week for Teacher Appreciation! I used it today with a K5 student. Good for K4, K5, and Grade 1. Personal: 1. Groupon: 5 stars. Free. Daily push on area local and owners interest discounts-major!! 2. LLingo. Free for first 6, $16 for 60+ Lessons in any language, well worth it. Very cheap and easier than RosettaStone. Chinese was good enough to prep for a recent trip to China, French is going to give me a nice refresher. 3. USA Today. Free. News you need each morning 4. Bookbub. Free. Daily free or cheap Kindle Amazon book choices in genres you pick. My Kindle has 104. Never without a good book! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">5. Flashlight by Apps from OuterSpace. I can find my underwear, matching socks, missing dog while my husband sleeps. Free.