Welcome to App Friday, a weekly gathering of family-friendly apps. One of my favorite things about App Friday is when it has a life of it’s own. We’re all joint owners of the promotion, and the more participation, the bigger the buzz. To help, Anahelena of Kid-Capsule programmed some appfriday code to share….which means now you can pop these deals into your very own blog or website (see details in the post). Enjoy!
Participating Apps:
Clicking the links will take you to the app description, which has more information about each app. Parents and teachers, please preview the apps to understand the features before making it available in your home or classroom. Promotional pricing lasts until 8pm US PST Friday, unless extended by the developer.
- Bo’s Bedtime (activities for bedtime routine), FREE
- Bo’s Bedtime Story (help Bo go to bed), $.99
- Bo’s Dinnertime (activities for dinnertime routine), $.99
- Bo’s Jigsaw Puzzles (puzzles and games), FREE
- Coop Phonics (game for parents & kids to play together), FREE
- Farm Joy & Co (early learning activities), $.99
- Grimm’s Frog King (folktale storybook), FREE
- iLearnWords Japanese FREE always, + IAP
- Kids Crosswords (10,ooo puzzles, with 10 difficulty levels), $.99
- Locomaster, Lucas’ Crazy Machine (kids game for simple, pure fun), $.99
- Mulberry Fingerplays (hand gestures to songs, rhymes and lyrics for parents) FREE for June + IAP
- My First App Vehicles (preschool games), $.99
- NxtApp 4 Kids (early learning activities), $.99
- Play Zone (early learning activities), $.99
- Pocket Zoo HD, and iPhone (virtual zoo and animal cams), $.99
- Puzzingo (interactive puzzles), FREE + IAP
- P.O.V. – Spatial Reasoning Skills Development, $1.99
- Stack ‘N Puzzles (kids adventure game), $.99
- The Snow Queen Musical Children’s Interactive Storybook Adventure, $.99
- VAST Songs 1 (speech therapy techniques), $.99
What About Android / NOOK / Google Play / Windows?
- 77 Sparx, developer of Puzzingo and Stack N Puzzles, also available across platforms
- Heppi Apps, developer of “Bo’s” series of apps, also available across platforms
- Sunshine Musicals, developer of Snow Queen app, also available across platforms
Common Core Standards and Apps
Developers, do you notice any relationships between your app, and the learning goals laid out in the Common Core State Standards? Here is what we discovered:
From developer of ==> NxtApp4Kids and Play Zone
- K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
- K.CC.5 Count to answer “how many?”
- K.OA.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects
- K.OA.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5
- 1.OA.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction
- K.OA.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5
- 1.OA.6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10
- 1.NBT.1 Extend the counting sequence
- 2.OA.1 Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
- 2.OA.2 Add and subtract within 20
- 3.OA.9 Identify arithmetic patterns
- 4.OA.5 Generate and analyze patterns.
- 4.NBT.4 Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm
- 5.OA.3 Analyze patterns and relationships.
Community News
- Jellybean Tunes App Report: Volume 35
- MWA Banner takes a trip to Carrot Castle!
- The iMums host “Let’s Talk: Children’s Book Week” through June 30th
- Congratulations to Melissa Northway (who we know as Penelope the Purple Pirate) on your new website and services for the app community!
- Summer of Fun & Learning, at Technology in Education
- Abitalk, apps for phonics and early learning, have specials running every week.
- Join us on Twitter using the #appfriday hashtag to Retweet your favorite apps!
Around-the-World On Facebook
Join app developers on the App Friday Facebook page for some real-time conversation. Gatherings start at 10:00am San Francisco time, and 10:00am Paris time. Posts about your app news are welcome, along with greetings in your local language (we LOVE that!). Chime in to see who is there – you might make a great connection!
- 10:00 am Paris time – Hosted by Mar of Mar Ballesteros Studio
- 10:00 am San Francisco time – Hosted by Maggie of Learning Touch
- World Clock for timezone conversions
App Friday: Get the CODE and Share!
Heppi Link Exchange
Add links to your favorite apps, blog posts, Facebook pages – or any link that covers family-friendly apps. Please include the app name (or page name) in the Link Title, your email, and a URL. Thanks for participating!
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