Subject specific apps for the primary classroom

Apps in the primary classroom

access ever-growing catalogue of completely free, hand made, unique and educationally valuable classroom display resources and teaching aids such as: posters, banners, word mats, stickers, certificates, signs and much, much more.

Find SA store apps that are free for a limited time, with offers changing each day. Includes a quick summary and reviews.

Making your admin easier...

Teacherkit

*Manage your classes individually

*Record attendance and behaviour

*Record grades

English...

Reading

Grade 1 & 4 reading comprehension

An interactive and educational app, developed to assist in teaching students to learn the essential skill of reading comprehension.

ABC Mouse (The Tortoise and the Hare)

Great for reading comprehension. Includes glossary, read/read to options, comprehension questions, word pronounciation.

English Idioms Illustrated

What is the meaning behind English idioms and where do they come from? Discover the secret history of more than 160 beautifully illustrated English idioms, from “Achilles' heel” to “Wrong side of bed”.

Writing

Alphabetical order

Learn letters and order of alphabet, match sets of lower and upper case letters.

ABCs Writer

This app lets you draw with your fingers and save your art. Trace all the letters of the alphabet - learn to write while you create.

Book Creator

The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to people you know or your students or submit them to the iBookstore.

Realistic comic styling with a wide selection of image filters, comic fonts, customisable captions, a library of classic comic graphics and dozens of multi-panel page layouts.

Writer's hat

Speaking & Listening

Collins Big Cat: It was a cold, dark night story creator

Collins Big Cat: Playing Story Creator

Maths...

A fun and innovative way to practise maths, with 12 chapters covering over 140 maths worksheets and an endless supply of problems, it is by far one of the most comprehensive maths workbooks in the app store.

Basic maths including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions, geometry, parallelogram, triangle, trapezoidal, perimeter, area and more.

Maths Skills Builder-South Africa

Aligned to curriculum documents, divided into topics. Shows what area students need to focus on.

iTooch 5th Grade Math

Over 40 exerciHelpful tutorials/mini lessons with diagrams to explain concepts.

Science

Build a Body

Learn about the body’s major organ systems with Spongelab’s stunning Build-a-Body series. Choose organs from the organ tray, drag and drop them in their correct position within the body to build each system. Complete all systems and then assemble them into a complete body.

This is an interactive application for teaching the life cycle of a butterfly. The lesson can be done as a whole class or one-on-on. The application has been designed with the teacher in mind and includes easy to follow instructions.

WWF Together

Experience the world's most amazing and endangered animals in one app. This interactive experience brings you closer to the stories of elephants, whales, rhinos and other fascinating species.

Life Orientation

My Life Skills Box

This app teaches your child the necessary skills for three very important environments: everyday life skills, social skills and playing with functional objects. The application stimulates the child’s imagination.

My virtual pet

All the fun of owning a pet right in your hands. Raise, feed, teach, clean, train, perform numerous tricks and play exciting mini games with your adorable little dog, cat or hamster.

Bullying

This app teaches children about bullying and that we are great no matter our size, shape or colour.

Afrikaans...

English Afrikaans Dictionary

This English-Afrikaans Dictionary contains over 23 000 translation articles. The dictionary is offline and does not need Internet connection.

Sign Shapes

For remedial students. Flashcards in Afrikaans and English

Rotsvas - ABC

Phonetically accurate, with examples of words, write with SA font.

Social Sciences

One Globe Kids

Spin the globe and learn about children around the world. Each new friend invites you to play games, learn a new language and share food - safe, international travel from your living room for world explorers from 3 to 99 years.

Physical Education

Range of apps for P.E teachers wanting to utilise technology

The Arts...

Doodle Buddy for iPad

Finger paint with thousands of colours and drop in playful stamps. Doodle and stamp all over your own pictures. Lots of cool drawing tools: paintbrush, glitter, chalk, text, stencils, smudge and more.

iPastels

This app will let you create beautiful digital works of art. Simulating soft (chalk) pastels, oil pastels and colour blending, the iPastels app tries to be as realistic as possible.

Sand Paper

This app combines fun stories with education and can remind you of colourful and great childhood memories. The fairy tales are familiar to all. Special sound effects and background music makes sand scattering more fun.

With more schools opting for 1:1 student-to-iPad access, there exists a tremendous opportunity for a transformative shift in classrooms where students are empowered to navigate their own learning.

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Language Arts...

Math...

Practice/Drills

Application

Reading

Phonics

Spelling/Word Study

Images, videos and interactives from NASA

Images and videos from NSF

Pop words

Bluster

Candy Count

Sparklefish

Geoboard

Math Sprint

Times Table Quiz

Storia

Phonics Fun 1

Phonics Fun 2

Phonics Awareness

ITooch Elementary School

Virtual Manipulatives

Number Line

10 Frame Fill

Scholastic Reading Time

Counting Money

Sight Word

List

Reading Monsters 1

Read Me Stories

Phonics Fun 3

Telling Time

Number Line

Pizza Fractions

Phonics

Tic-tac-toe

Number Rack

Number Pieces

Chicken Coop Fractions

Flash to Pass

Spelling

City

Sentence Builders

Music...

Kid Synth

Art and Gym to come...

Language Arts...

Writing

Teacher Apps...

Cursive Writing

Sentence Maker

Alphabet Tracing

Class Dojo

Common Core Standards

The P.E Geek

Write About

Sock Puppets

Schoology

Socrative

Teacher

Tal Slome

Starter Kit

Daccord, Tom. "5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With IPads (And How To Correct Them)." Edudemic (2012)

The toolkit is meant as a starting point!!

June 2013 - 900,000 apps

Life of a Monarch butterfly

Math Animation

Splash Maths

DISCLAIMER....

Objectives

Management...

Materials and

App finders..

Just so everyone knows my intentions with my presentation...I am in no way an expert on apps!

These are things that have been shared with me or things that I have found on the internet where anyone else could find them as well. If I have not given someone credit, I am sorry!! It is not my intention trying to steal anyone's ideas - I am just a teacher with her IPad!

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• Maths
• English
• Science
• Afrikaans
• Life orientation
• Natural History

Finding good apps...

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and ratings

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* Word of mouth