List of apps for school

This link is from another school district.  If you scroll down past the first few the school paid for there is a pretty extensive list of free ones that are worth checking out. An especially nice feature of this schools website is that they are grouped by grade level.  Enjoy! :)

http://www.stmel.org/domain/5

New App~Chirp

Check out this link for an easy way to get kids where you want them to go on the internet!

http://www.mrswideen.com/2013/10/you-must-try-this-app.html

3rd Grade Apps

After loading the new operating system, I stumbled on a few apps to try in 3rd grade:

• Spelling City/Vocabulary app (FREE)
• Write About This app (I tried the free and upgraded to the paid $3.99 because it offers a better choice of photos and prompts. Students can record their voice after responding in the journal area. There may be a slight glitch in the audio recording.
• Splash Math 3 app - An interactive ocean setting. You will need earbuds, headphones or the volume set low as this app applauds every effort made by the student. (FREE)
• Slice It app - A fun symmetry game and a visual puzzle to train the brain. (FREE)
• iTooch 3rd Grade app ($9.99, I broke the iTunes gift card on this one) One stop shopping app for 3rd graders: includes language arts, math and science. Good value for money.
• Preze for iPad app (FREE) - This offers a different venue for presentation. Students like the "movement" during their sharing.
• Google Earth app (FREE) - Students in 3rd grade study maps and this is a great way to share the Earth's topography. Finding their street and house/apartment in Menomonie is a WOW factor!
  
  
  

iPad mini storage ideas

I was thinking that the dish rack might work best until we received our "croc" covers. The metal rack works well for the five minis. They sit securely on each shelf and we cover them with a polar fleece square for dust. The fleece also works for cleaning the screen. The octopus power cord sits in a basket next to the rack.

Early Literacy Apps

Here are a few collections of Early Literacy Apps and links to lists of additional apps. Some apps collect data through written visual literacy reflection, interactive mobile assessments and some data can be collected through observation and verbal prompts and then Document through a Google Form checklist. 

Write About This Free 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/write-about-this-free/id601382666?mt=8

Fluency Finder  $6.99 

http://www.fluencyfinder.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fluencyfinder/id537046445?mt=8

The Answer Pad 

http://theanswerpad.com/

Socrative 

http://www.socrative.com/

Apps we use in Kindergarten 

http://mattbgomez.com/apps-we-use-in-kindergarten-2013-update/

Reading Fluency 

Collection http://www.schools.utah.gov/CURR/star/Documentation/AppsforEarlyLiteracy-final.aspx

One Minute Reader 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/one-minute-reader/id465317539?mt=8

Additional Apps

http://web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/techcurr/core/ccsstech_k.HTML

http://commoncoreapps.weebly.com/ 

http://www.adigitalkindergarten.com/2012/11/telling-story-meeting-kindergarten.html

http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/main/100-apps-for-teachers/

IPad Mini Storage Idea

Here is a look at how I am going to begin to stay organized with my IPad Mini Devices! The dish rack idea is working so far...

Good Morning,
    I am just writing to check in with everyone on the IPad Mini adventures in my world.  I have discovered some great apps for Grade 5, I think. 

• Thought I'd share this link to TWO WRITING TEACHERS. I know you probably have your routines in place for the year with Daily 5, but you might find this interesting. It is an article that uses the App Evernote in Writer's Workshop!
  
  http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/evernote-mere/

•  I also discovered a great free mathematical thinking app called "5 Dice."  It is developed by a teacher named Justin Holladay.  He also offers a course for teachers to create their own apps, at http://teachercreatedapps.com/.  
• Here are more games that he created, just haven't had time to look into them at all.
• 5 Dice: Order of Operations Game
• Grid Lines: Ordered Pair Game
• Ordered Fractions: Comparing & Ordering Fractions
• 4 Dice: Fraction Games
• Tangram Chess

•  I also like another free math app called "Thinking Blocks: Model and Solve Word Problems. Kids have to think about the parts of word problems and build models that will help them to solve them.