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Help Your Preschooler Learn in Oolly App – iPad App Review

Oolly AppIf there is one thing for certain, Oolly is the most enthusiastic and adorable little creature you have ever laid eyes on. Put Oolly App to good use by employing it as an educational tool and help your child to learn organizational skills while developing their fine motor control.

Instead of the usual touch-and-drag interface, Oolly App has your child use their fingers as virtual tweezers to pinch-and-move items into the correct locations.

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Make a Good Impression in Toy Story Showtime! – iPad Game Review

Toy Story Showtime!When it comes to creating content that engages and inspires, nobody delivers like Disney. With every bit of the imagination and quality found in everything that comes from Disney, Toy Story Showtime! doesn’t fail to impress.

Featuring your favorite characters from the popular Toy Story movies your child will be guided through a story that has Buzz Lightyear trying to impress Jessie at the talent show.

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Santa’s World – An Educational Christmas Game for Kids and Elves Alike!

Santa's World - An Educational Christmas Game for Kids and Elves Alike!The real fun of Christmas is experiencing it with your children. Santa’s World is a fun Christmas-themed game that encourages learning through task-based activities.

Whether you are helping to get Santa dressed for his big night full of gift deliveries, helping the elves to build toys in the workshop, learning the alphabet by identifying toys that correspond to each letter, or trimming the Christmas tree by matching colorful ornaments and lights, your little one will get more excited about the holiday season. The challenge I pose to you is to try and avoid feeling a little extra Christmas spirit when you are done!

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Put Learning on the Table with TableTots – iPad App Review

TableTotsTableTots is a unique approach to a learning app for your iPad, allowing you to create “table tops” that contain lessons that you’d like to work with. Choose from sorting, counting, spelling, shapes, numbers and even basic math and build educational opportunities for your child.

The potential for customization with this app feels nearly infinite. Choose from a variety of themes and layouts, and choose whether you want peek-a-boo curtains, object sounds, quick rewards and whether you want alphabet sounds.

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Create Educational Opportunities with House of Learning – iPad App Review

House of LearningDeveloped by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, House of Learning bills itself as a tool for learning and playing. Using a series of activities within the app, you are able to work directly with your child to develop and improve their language skills.

Let’s face it, we all know what various words mean but it isn’t always easy to communicate those to your children when you are trying to help them learn. What seems obvious to us may not be to them. This app works to bridge that gap while keeping children entertained so they don’t know they are hard at work!

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Get Your FREE 3rd – 5th Grade Vocabulary Prep Promo Codes Now!

Everybody likes something for free, right?  Tonight we once again partnered with 965 Studios to bring our readers a collection of educational apps.  This post includes promo codes for the universal apps 3rd – 6th Grade Vocabulary Prep.  Each app is $2.99 in the App Store and now is your chance to get one for FREE.

We have listed the promo codes below the fold. Please be a good netizen and take only one code.  If the code doesn’t work, someone else probably beat you to it, so pick another and try again.  Good luck!

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Educational iPad App Promo Code Giveaway – CourseNotes

It’s that time of year again and students across the country are headed back to school for another year of reading, writing and arithmetic. In preparation for school days packed with learning, parents are hitting the back-to-school aisles in search of bargains on everything from notebooks and markers to clothing and gym shoes.

From now until September 11th, PadGadget is partnering with a host of great developers to offer a series of educational app giveaways for students from preschool to college.  Make sure you check back every morning to discover the featured educational related app and Click to Tweet for a chance to win.

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Educational iPad App Promo Code Giveaway – Bob Books #2

It’s that time of year again and students across the country are headed back to school for another year of reading, writing and arithmetic. In preparation for school days packed with learning, parents are hitting the back-to-school aisles in search of bargains on everything from notebooks and markers to clothing and gym shoes.

From now until September 11th, PadGadget is partnering with a host of great developers to offer a series of educational app giveaways for students from preschool to college.  Make sure you check back every morning to discover the featured educational related app and Click to Tweet for a chance to win.

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Educational iPad App Promo Code Giveaway – RetroCalc

It’s that time of year again and students across the country are headed back to school for another year of reading, writing and arithmetic. In preparation for school days packed with learning, parents are hitting the back-to-school aisles in search of bargains on everything from notebooks and markers to clothing and gym shoes.

From now until September 11th, PadGadget is partnering with a host of great developers to offer a series of educational app giveaways for students from preschool to college.  Make sure you check back every morning to discover the featured educational related app and Click to Tweet for a chance to win.

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Educational iPad App Promo Code Giveaway – What Note Is This?

It’s that time of year again and students across the country are headed back to school for another year of reading, writing and arithmetic. In preparation for school days packed with learning, parents are hitting the back-to-school aisles in search of bargains on everything from notebooks and markers to clothing and gym shoes.

From now until September 11th, PadGadget is partnering with a host of great developers to offer a series of educational app giveaways for students from preschool to college.  Make sure you check back every morning to discover the featured educational related app and Click to Tweet for a chance to win.

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Cars 2 World Grand Prix Read and Race – iPad Game Review

Cars 2 World Grand Prix Read and RaceDisney is back with another interactive book, this time following the high-revving stars of their Cars 2 franchise.

The book takes you on a tour of all three World Grand Prix locations: Porto Corsa, Italy and England. My personal favorite race car, Rip Clutchgoneski, makes an appearance in this book, along side Miguel Camino, Max Schnell, Francesco Bernoulli and the star, Lightning McQueen.

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Learn Numbers, Learn to Count – iPad App Review

Learn Numbers, Learn to CountWhen discussing the value of an iPad, most people mention the ability to surf the web, check your e-mail, play games and other recreational type uses, but many forget to acknowledge the potential for education. Learn Numbers, Learn to Count is an app that endeavors to teach children how to read and write numbers, count and do simple mathematics.

In order to make these concepts easy to understand for the small children learning them, this app is broken down into three main categories:

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Getting Interactive and Educational with Zachy the Robot

Zachy the Robot is a delightful interactive cartoon series that seeks to educate children between ages 3 and 7 on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) concepts. Through a series of chapters where they will learn the basics of balance, children will be able to help Zachy and his friends save the tower from falling over at the end of the exercises.

Zachy the Robot, along with other games in this genre, is seeking to whet the appetites of young people in an effort to strengthen their interest and skills in the STEM fields. The lessons were developed in cooperation with the Carnegie Mellon University Children’s School, experts in the field of early childhood education and development.

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Jumpstart My ABC Book- Digital Children’s Book For iPad

Jumpstart My ABC Book is a colorful alphabet-learning app for ages 2-5. Filled with engaging songs and poems, this audio-centric app is a great way for your little one to learn the alphabet.

You have two main options with Jumpstart My ABC. The first option is to play a game wherein you must match a letter of the alphabet with a corresponding sticker that starts with that letter. When the letter appears, a chorus of children pronounces it. When you pick the correct image, a narrator says what the image is, if you are correct, you receive a check and the next letter appears.

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Teaching Reading Skills with My Word Wall – iPad App Review

My Word Wall is an innovative app that aims to teach your children, ages 4+, the skills needed to read and write. Through numerous activities, children are able to take advantage of spatial, visual, tactile, language-oriented, logical, or rhythmic learning styles.

There are 4 games: see & find (seek and find), hide a word (memory matching), bubble words (spelling words to match the image) and jigsaw words (assemble a jigsaw puzzle to spell a word). These games serve to reinforce existing reading skills by engaging and entertaining young people.

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