Tag: educational
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Apps We Love! Ladybird: I’m Ready for Phonics
I’ve been on the hunt for a decent Phonics App for quite some time and if I’m honest the ones I’ve found have been crap. Being Canadian I can overlook American accents, but many of them use the wrong font, wrong pronunciation, wrong level and don’t reflect how kids are being taught Phonics in school. Thanks to…
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Apps we love! Doodlecast
I absolutely love this app, bar the music at the beginning. At first, Doodlecast (£1.99) just looks like another drawing app which we have many, but if I’m honest we prefer paper and crayons for that. What I really love about this one is that the children can record their own narrations whilst drawing the…
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iPad App Review: Eurotalk Maths Age 3-5
I have to say I tutted when I was first asked to review this app as the first Topic is free and then you have to pay for the others. However, my daughter is loving it and keeps going back to it again and again. She only has the Sorting and Matching Topic. I think…
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Scribble Press: Kids Ipad App
I’m absolutely loving this iPad App ‘Scribble Press’ and the best thing of all it’s FREE! Scribble Pad allows children to write, illustrate and share their own stories. They can use a story template as a starting point (e.g. If I were a Fairy, All about my Dad, If I ruled the World or The…
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Kid’s Ipad App Review: Word Wall HD
When I was at school we learned the alphabet by singing the alphabet song but this a major ‘no-no’ now, as it is all done by phonics. Even though I’m a former teacher the whole phonemes, word families and CVC words is all a bit of a mystery to me, as I taught slightly older…