LetterReflex

This is a great app that can help with all those nasty letter and word reversals!

Geoboard

 

Geoboard

Children can stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons. They can make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles and fractions. This can be used with young children who are still doscovering properties of shapes, right up to intermediate phase children who are learning about congruence and angles.

Sparklefish

 

 

 



Sparklefish

This is a funny audio story compilation that you can record voice ads, stories and many other audio clips. It is a good tool to get children to use correct parts of speech. This can be used in small group teaching, or as a whole class activity for application of parts of speech.

Timed Comprehension and Reading

Timed Reading & Comprehension Practice

This app allows readers practice fluency and comprehension. Each level consists of 5 short engaging stories for each Grade. It will you how many words per minute the reader is able to read, therefore marking improvement as the reader progresses. This would be useful in a one to one context.

Mental Maths

 Emma's Mental Maths

This is a fun way to improve mental maths skills! There are multiple levels to move up and you are only able to move up to a new level once you have mastered it. This is a great tool for early finishers in the classroom.

Fractions

 

 

K12 Equivalence Tiles

This is a very useful whole class teaching tool, or small group teaching tool.
The tiles let you compare the the values of fractions, decimals and percents up to 1 by using draggable tiles of varying values.

3D building blocks

Tap tap blocks

This is a great app to use as a whole class or in small groups. From an early age, children can build on the concept of perimeter and area.
Simply tap any block to add a new block to add at that spot. Rotate your 3D blocks with just one finger.

Spelling

Third Grade Spelling

This game can be used in group context to revise phonics. The children can even be timed to see how quickly they can get the words.
One player starts the game. The letters are out of order, a clear human voice states the word and the player needs to rearrange the letters to spell the word correctly.

Spelling

 

Second Grade Spelling

This is a very easy to understand app that can be used in small group teaching for revision of phonics.
The player starts the game, and a clear voice will give the player the word to spell. They need to manipulate the letters and move them into the correct sequence to spell the word.

IPads in education

'Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time' --- ancient proverb. Have a look at this website, there are amazing resources here.

Using video in science

Show Me is an interactive white board app that allows me to demostrate a topic. While I am drawing, I can record myself explaining a topic and then I can share that video with my class - and with other classes too.
Tom Campbell

Educational Uses: Chris Groom

iPad: Educational Next Steps from Sally Bowes

SlideShare

SlideShare is fabulous for sharing presentations, documents, PDFs, videos and webinars- all available via a standard internet browser

K9 Web Protection Browser

K9 Web Protection Browser is a free safe browser. For families with small children, you are able to disable Safari and make K9 Web Protection Browser your default browser.