Denise

Content Specific Apps: 1. Kids Planet Discovery: free app Features: Learn about cultures, animals, music, dress and geography of many different countries. 2. US Geography with Flat Stanley: $1.99 fee, 5 stars, low amount of reviews. Features: Great way to learn about the US states. 3. Reading Rainbow: Read along children's books: Free, 4 stars, Features: Unlimited amount of children's books in video form and field trips to spark children's imaginations. 4. Word Dynamos: flash cards & word games by dictionary.com: $2.99 fee, 4 stars, 106 reviews. 5. Geoband, by the math Learning center: free app, 4 stars, Features: Use like a normal geoboard Nd stretch bands across begs to explore shapes, and line segments 6. Brain POP Feature Movie: free app, four stars, lots of reviews by parents, students, and teachers. Features: Great tool to help absent children catch up on missed work. 7. Sand Timer: free app Features: This is a great tool to help manage your time. The sand timer can be set at many different times between 1 second and 60 minutes. Watch how sand drops down to show how much time is left to work on a project. Timer sounds can be changed in order to help students identify what skill is stopping. 8. Remind: Safe classroom Communications: free app. No reviews or ratings. Last update on June 25, 2014. Features:a way for teachers, students and parents connected. Messages are one way only. (Keeps phone numbers and address private in your grouping.) 9. Grammaropolas : nouns free, other parts of speech have a purchasing fee. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: Teaches students nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">10. Spelling Tutor: 0.99 fee, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: Able to program in own spelling word. Uses multiple intelligence to practice spelling skills. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Personal apps: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">1. My fitness pal: free app <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: I use this app to help monitor calorie intake and also calories burned through exercise. This app is able to scan food bar codes to add foods to you dairy. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">2. PBS: free app, 4.5 stars <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: allows one to watch all PBS programs. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">3. World Book - This Day in History: free app <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: Gives four historic facts for each day. Includes births and deaths do historic figures. Will also show short videos of historical events. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">4. Pinterest: free app <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: Provides a social media way of sharing ideas. Personally use it to find recipes, craft ideas, and teaching projects. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">5. Snapchat: free app, iPhone app <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #383d48; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Features: takes pictures, videos can can send with a message to others that you have connected to (Facebook source for contacts). Photo only last for 10 seconds.