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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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Improve Your Spatial Reasoning with Pictorial HD – iPad App Review

Pictorial HD is an educational game that purports to improve your spatial reasoning skills. Spatial reasoning is a skill in which you can identify patterns and imagining transformed objects, particularly those needing rotation or observation from a different point of view. It is often used in determining IQ as well as exercising your brain for mathematics, physics and computer science.

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iLearn With the Mighty Jungle: Animals! – iPad Promo Code Giveaway

Last week I looked at iLearn With the Mighty Jungle: Animals! HD and thought it was a great choice for kids 3-6 years old.  Now this week I’ve got ten promo codes from Tribal Nova to give away to our readers.

iLearn With the Mighty Jungle: Animals! HD is a life sciences educational app for preschoolers and early elementary school students.

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AlphaBooks for iPad – A Great Way for Kids to Learn

Do you have young children at home learning the alphabet?  If so, Letter Buddies AlphaBooks for the iPad is a great educational app to add to your collection.

Created to help two to six year-olds prepare for school by learning letters, developing vocabulary and practicing basic reading skills, Letter Buddies entertains and teaches with its collection of 24 books.

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iLearn With the Mighty Jungle: Animals! HD

Kids are mesmerized by animals.  What they eat?  Where they live?  How they act?  From slithering snakes and fast cats to jumping dolphins and soaring birds, the wonders of the animal kingdom amaze them.  If you’ve got three to six year-olds interested in playing games and learning about animals, the developers of PBS KIDS PLAY! have created an iPad app with this age group in mind.

iLearn With the Mighty Jungle: Animals! HD is a life sciences educational app for preschoolers and early elementary school students that features characters from the Mighty Jungle TV show.

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