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Linda Doll 10 Educational Apps 1. The Brainquest App costs $4.99. This app would be great to use in a center during free time. The students could work alone or in groups. They can play at the third grade level and try to make the Mountain Trek. In order to complete each stage they have to answer questions correctly on a variety of subjects such as math, science, language, and social studies. 2. The ABC Cursive App costs $.99. This app allows students to practice their cursive letters, numbers, and words. It also has a doodle board. What I like is that the students can see the correct form for writing the words and letters. They have the opportunity to trace over it and see how it is done when they hit the trace button. 3. The Telling Time App is free. Many of my third graders struggle with telling time. You can set up the game based on the number of questions, practice or quiz, timed or not, and the increments you want the clocks set to. When the students start play they need to fill in the correct time. If they fail, they need to try again until they get it right. 4. The Hungry Fish App costs $1.99. This engaging math app allows students to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and all different levels of difficulty. The fish grows as you feed it correct math facts, and shrinks with wrong answers. 5. The Counting Money App is free. This is a great app if students are struggling in third grade with money. This is strictly a practice app. It gives students a chance to count and add money. 6. The Grammarpolis App is a free download for nouns. If you want the complete version it costs $12.99. This app is a modern day version of school house rock videos based on various parts of speech. Every part of speech has its own neighborhood that includes a curriculum map with songs, books, videos, and quizzes. 7. The Vocabulary Spelling City App is free. This is a fun app to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing learning games using any word list. 8. The Accelerated Reader App is free. This app allows students the same type of quiz-taking and viewing of reports that we have online. Students in my classroom have an AR assignment each quarter, so this app will be used often. 9. The Freddy Fraction App is free. This is a fun app for third graders learning their fractions and it helps them understand equivalency from fractions to percentages. Freddy is an alien that has lost his spaceship and by solving problems students help him get it back. 10. The Dictionary & Thesaurus for iPads App is free. This app is very useful in the classroom to get students using a dictionary and a thesaurus. It also has several other features like: "Word of the Day" and "The Hot Word", which can be used in daily vocabulary development. This app also provides audio pronunciations, examples of word usage in a sentence, word origin and history, has voice search, and spelling suggestions. 5 Personal Apps 1. The Pinterest App is free. It is a wonderful tool that helps you plan things you want to do. I can plan projects for my home, get ideas for trips, collect funny quotes, find food and recipes to cook, and even get fitness tips. When I find something that looks interesting, I Pin it! 2. The Weather Channel for the iPad App is free. This app helps me plan my day, week, or even the next 15 minutes with the most accurate forecast. It has a lot of great features especially pollen forecasts. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">3. The Words With Friends App is free. This is a fun word activity similar to the game Scrabble. You can have numerous games going on at one time with a number of different people. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">4. The Pandora Radio App is free! I love the endless selection of music from rock to country. You can create up to 100 radio stations by just picking your favorite artist, song, genre, or composer and Pandora will do the rest. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">5. The Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker App by My Fitness Pal is free. This app helps you lose weight by keeping track of what you eat, similar to a food diary. The scanner helps you log calories. I hope this app will help me realize what I'm putting in my body and lose weight.