Parent & Caregiver

Apps for Preschoolers:
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Preschoolers can tap on colorful pictures of various musical instruments to learn about their sounds.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Start your remote teaching with Augmented Reality and discover inspiring learning content! Lesson plans available for pre-K, elementary schools, middle schools, upper secondary and libraries in ELA, Social Studies, Math, Science, Coding, Design Thinking, Computational Thinking, and STEM/STEAM. Also a great tool for Career and Technical Education (CTE).

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

This app's interface is designed for pre-schoolers to learn the alphabet.  Entertaining sentences go with each letter to reinforce its sound.  Combines audio, voice and written words.  Parents can even record their own voices so child learns from them.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Preschoolers can interact with this app to hear the sounds made by each letter of the alphabet. Photos are shown of items when the word is sounded so that children can speak along with it.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $1.99

Play with your kids and teach them to write with the Magnetic Alphbet. It's the iPad edition of the old fashioned magnetic board suitable for kids of all ages.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $0.99

In this game letters are shown and sounded and the little ninja must slice through the correct letter. It is designed for preschoolers to learn letters and the sounds they make. Children can play at different levels of easy, medium and hard.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Teach your pre-schooler simple Spanish words. 

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

This app moves the child (ages 2 - 8) through the basic skills in phonics, math, colors, shapes, etc. by playing fun and colorful games.  It includes report cards for the parent to gauge how their child is progressing.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $2.99

AlphaTots contains 26 different games to help preschoolers learn the alphabet.  Games involve robots, space aliens, and finding treasure and more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Children's favorite fairy tales with beautiful illustrations one each page.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary.

 

 

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Over 450 colorful flashcards help preschoolers learn words with real sounds and voiceover pronunciations.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Friends Ben and Bella explore a zoo in these interactive games.  Through their escapades they teach the names and sounds of animals, colors, and patterns and more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $2.99

App for emergent readers, who drag letters into place to spell words and bring Bob Books to life. 4 levels increase in difficulty.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $2.99

In this game, users trace and color letters of the alphabet and transform them into refrigerator magnets.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Laugh and learn as you help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges. This bilingual (English and Spanish), research-based app helps your child learn Sesame’s "Breathe, Think, Do" strategy for problem-solving.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Create art anywhere, with Brushes on your Apple mobile devices!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

The classic children's story provides animations on every page, the ability to interact with things on the page, and audio narration.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

This doodle App lets you finger paint with your favorite colors and drop in playful stamps. You can also connect with a friend to draw together over the Internet.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $4.99

EDA Play helps children work on vision and fine motor skills with games ranging from simple to more complex. You can choose the level of play for your child in two categories: Visual Level and Task Level.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $0.00

This App offers a collection of classic narrated stories.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.99

This fun and colorful app is designed to assist with language acquisiton, speech, and auditory development. In playing the user can see, hear, and say two or three word phrases. The developer states that it is especially effective with speech-delayed children and those with autism spectrum disorders.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $0.00

This App introduces children to twenty different fruits and vegetables from the common to the exotic.

Compatible with Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $3.99

This Dr. Seuss classic goes digital. In the Read to Me option, words are highlighted as they are read.  In the Read to Myself option, the reader can tap on individual words and pictures for prompts.

Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android Tablet, Android Phone
Cost: $0.00

Based on the Hooked on Phonics system, this app uses music, games, lessons, and stories to help preschoolers learn to read. It features three lessons, loaded with interactive fun as it teaches how sounds become words and words become stories. It’s just right for kids who know the sounds of the alphabet and are ready to take the first step into reading. It’s also a powerful tool to reinforce reading skills for beginning readers.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $2.99

With this app, every letter of the alphabet turns into a toy, making learning the ABC's a fun, interactive experience.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $2.99

Practice proper letter and numeral formation with self-correcting handwriting App. Letters are presented in isolation and also in short words. The free lite version is good, but doesn't contain the entire alphabet.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Alphabet Aquarium - THE BEST WAY TO LEARN THE ENGLISH ALPHABET! Four great puzzle games with letters and animated animals to develop your child's skills and prepare your kids for success in preschool and kindergarten curriculum.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Designed for children ages 1 and up, kindergartens and preschools, it will help develop babies’ and toddlers’ hearing skills, imagination, and fine motor skills!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

This app from Google Play is a game designed to teach numbers, counting, and basic addition and subtraction.

Compatible with Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

This Sesame Street App helps parents and caregivers with children ages 2-5 be prepared in case of an emergency.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

This App provides content filtering on the various iOS mobile devices. Simply set your filtering level at Elementary, Middle or High School. Mobicip will automatically apply filtering standards used by K-12 school systems

Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $1.99

Designed for ages 2-5, children help the monkey pack his lunch and play 7 fun games designed to teach colors, letters, shapes and more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $3.99

This multi-award-winning app is purposed to help children under 5 understand how numbers represent a certain quantity. Activities increase in complexity and lead to learning to count up to 999 and a beginning understanding of the decimal system and place value.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $2.99

Move your finger around the screen to "paint" musical tones and create audio-visual compositions that you can save and play later.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $4.99

This App gives kids the power to paint music! Musical Paint is a creative app that gives kids the power to paint music! Designed for children ages 8 and under, this developmentally appropriate, open-ended app allows for endless creative possibilities!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

My Coloring Book is a fun coloring activity for all ages. It has a variety of bright colors to use and show off your creativity. It will keep young people busy with a positive activity that fits right into the palm of their hand. You won't have to worry about them crying over crayons or books that they have dropped and cannot reach. The touch sensitive screen is easy to pick up and play for both kids and adults.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

You can watch full Nick Jr. episodes, play educational games, discover original videos, and, with a tap, uncover other silly surprises. If you are a Nick Jr. channel subscriber, you can also access hundreds of additional episodes when you sign in with your TV provider.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

It's always growing season on Wonder Farm , where children plant digital seeds and help them grow! In this app, children create a sequence of conditions for the seeds and observe how tomato, cabbage, bean, and carrot plants transform as time passes.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $0.00

Subscribe to NOGGIN and your child can watch over 1,500 episodes from preschool TV shows like PAW Patrol, Blue's Clues, Peppa Pig, The Backyardigans, Yo Gabba Gabba, Dora the Explorer, and more. Moose & Zee, our beloved hosts, are kids’ co-adventurers, guiding them on a fun-filled journey to explore numbers & shapes, letters & sounds, music, art, manners, and much more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

These fun activities are designed for ages 2 through 7.  They teach and reinforce counting, number recognition, basic addition and subtraction and more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Watch videos from your favorite PBS KIDS television series anytime, anywhere. This iPad App features more than 1,000 videos from over a dozen top PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO! television series, including Curious George, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, Dinosaur Train, SUPER WHY!, Sesame Street and Wild Kratts.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Children learn many things from this interactive app including: Social cues, physical cues, animals, letters, emotions, sounds and actions.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $0.00

Peep, the cute little chick, is playing hide and seek with his friends in a tool shed.  Preschoolers can help him spot his friends by clicking on them in this app designed to teach observational skills to preschoolers.  It was developed by WGBH in Boston.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Preschoolers play a matching game to help Peep and his friends like Mole find their homes.

Developed by WGBH in Boston, this app is designed to help children begin to understand the concepts of home and habitats for animals.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Quack and his friend Peep are in for a fun, colorful time when they paint a fence.  They jump on paint tubes and discover so many new colors by mixing.  Developed by WGBH in Boston this app was designed to introduce children to the concepts of color and the color wheel.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Things get wet when children try to roll apples into a pond to help Quack set up a fish museum.

Developed by WGBH in Boston, this fun app helps preschoolers begin to think scientifically by figuring out how to get the apples in the pond despite obstacles. 

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Things get melodious when Quack, Peep and Chirp begin to learn about music and sound.  Users can tap on characters to mix and match different rhythms and sounds.  Developed by WGBH in Boston the app was designed to help preschoolers begin to understand music and the properties of sound. 

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

In this app Chirp helps her friend Raccoon sort through his stash of trash.  They have to sort the items according to categories such as color or things that can be eaten.  Created by WGBH Boston this app helps preschoolers begin to understand the science concept of categorization.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Pre-schoolers can help Quack the duck with counting his friends the fish.  The colorful and fun app is designed to help children learn to sight count and was developed by WGBH in Boston.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Quack, the duck, and his friend Chirp, the bird, are enjoying the cherry blossoms that have fallen in spring.  They want to divide them so that each of them has the same amount to enjoy. Preschoolers using this app can drag blossoms to make piles for Quack and Chirp.  If their friend, Peep, wants some too they will have to learn to divide things into 3 groups.  The app was designed to help children learn the concept of fair shares.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Preschoolers can have fun and begin to learn about the science of sound with this app. Quack plays hide and seek in a number of different places.  Can you find him by using sound clues and listening to how his voice sounds?  Developed by WGBH Boston this app helps preschoolers lay the foundation for further explorations in science.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.99

This app contains over 6000 words grouped phonetically. Each word is spoken for the user and the user can control the speed at which words are shown as well as select the font size and color. 

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

Amazing sets of puzzles, games and quizzes for Toddler and Preschoolers to Learn Colors, Shapes, Numbers, Letters, Time, Sorting and Much More!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Easy to use recording app that can record for seconds or hours. Great audio quality.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.99

Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound.  Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $3.99

By playing a game about slicing things, children learn fraction concepts like numerators and denomenators, equivalency, and subtracting fractions.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Speech Cards is a flashcards App that can be used to teach children articulation skills, vocabulary, categories, and more. The text, pictures and audio can be customized to suit the needs of the children. The children can get immediate feedback by recording and then listening to their own voice. The integrated scoring and reporting system enables you to track the progress of the children.  This version is free, but a "professional" version is also available.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $0.00

This App is the "ABCs" section of Starfall.com's web site. Students can see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.99

This cute app helps kids learn their geometric shapes.  It is almost the same as the online version but also includes a cookie tray for finished cookies, the option to create a boy or girl gingerbread, and a shapes maze.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Do your students enjoy the web site Starfall.com? Now the can get all of the content from the web site in the "Learn to Read" in an App.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $3.99

From PBS this app contains literacy games to help children recognize letter and sounds,  begin writing, and identify words that rhyme.

Compatible with Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Talking Tom Cat is a fun app for kids of all ages. It's especially good for learning about taking turns in conversations, but it's also good for fine motor skills because you can interact with Tom by petting him, poking him, grabbing his tail, etc. This App can be helpful to children that are on the autism spectrum.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $14.99

TASUC Schedule for iPad is a very simple, picture-based schedule application for iPhone/iPod touch, especially for small children to easily create his/her own daily time-table by using image cards with sounds & voices attached. This application was, above all, developed for verbally disabled children and people with developmental disabilities such as autism, so that they can manage their “want-to-do”s simply and in order. As a result, an intuitive user interface and experience have been realized, thus this application can also be used for ordinary children and adults as well.

Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android Tablet, Android Phone
Cost: $4.99

The classic Aesop's fable about the boy who cried wolf is brought to life in a wholly new medium with vivid American Sign Language storytelling with over 140 vocabulary words, signed and fingerspelled.

Compatible with iPad
Cost: $0.00

This interactive ebook tells the classic story with lively inteactive animations and audio narration and special effect sounds.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $4.99

The Monster at the End of This Book enhances the classic Sesame Street book with a completely immersive experience that draws children right into the story.  The all-time favorite you loved as a child comes alive for today's young readers with interactive play, plus touch-point animation.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad
Cost: $4.99

This reading readiness App helps children identify, match and sort shapes as well as recognize patterns. When puzzles are completed, there are surprising interactions with The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet
Cost: $0.00

Award-winning app with great artwork, sound effects and music.

Compatible with Android Tablet, Android Phone, iPad, iPhone
Cost: $4.99

Children can interact with animation effects on the pages of this classic story as well as listen to a professional narration of the story.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad