iPad apps, only the best ones. Please share your favourites.

Interactive books (click on the images)

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Dr Seuss
Interactive books, everyone a hit. Many in the series


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Jack and the Beanstalk
Interactive book.

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Forest Friends
Children enjoy listening to the movie as the text comes up. More free stories available


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Beast Nian
Interactive books from different cultures read in many languages. Others in the series.

Tried and tested since Aug 2010


Handwriting

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iCanWrite
Only let's you form the letters the right way, thus reinforces correct formation.

Sight words - Spelling

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Spell blocks
Sight words by level, corrects.

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Chickenary
Make words from random letters from three letters upwards.

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Boggle
Make words from word dice.

Maths-number

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Math Series
Find missing number in sequence from one upwards.

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100's Board
You can use it in lots of ways.


Story making or book making

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Build a story
Ready made scenes and characters but can write your own story and email it.


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Storybuddy
Can create own stories and illustrations and publish to email account.

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Ten Frame
Simple frame for all kinds of number work.

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Numerate
Simple counting programme.
teachers don't like it, the children gave good reasons for keeping it!


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Strip Designer
Can use this to make stories or print out  blanks and illustrate. It also has Goggle Maps.

Word processing

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Pages
Word processing on an iPad is proving quite easy for 5-6 year olds.

Drawing

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Drawing Pad
*A favourite as the children can tweet pictures to their twitter feed on the blog. Easy to use, lovely results.

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Sum Stacker
Problem solving
Watch this app developer his new apps are looking good.

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Mathomatix
Talks to children-no need to read. Order numbers to 30. Compare sets to 10. Vocabulary: more, less,the same. uses objects to visualise addition and subtraction.

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i(heart symbol)Fireworks
Create your own fire work display, good for motor control, cause and affect.

Science

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Frog dissection
Award winning app. Children love opening up the virtual frog and exploring the organs. Not as nasty as it sounds!

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Planets
3 million downloads. Simple app very visual. Great research tool for young children.

Problem Solving/strategy

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Align Four
Connect four of the same colour, challenging if you play the computer!

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Crazy Color
Remember the color sequence,
good for visual processing

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**Trace**
Hugely popular with the children. Problem solving leveled game. Has some laws of physics slow up, fast down. Great collaboration and language development noted.

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NASA
incredible free source of information. Great Twitter feed which gives amazing updates and pictures. Solar system visuals and information are very good.

Music

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Aura Flux
Children can create there own music using the graphics.


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Bloom
Create music and artwork at the same time,very soothing.

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Gears
Incredible problem solving at many levels.


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Finger Stomp
Create your own stomp band.

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Rogo
Problem solving , we thought this maybe to hard for our 5-6 year olds... no they worked it out faster than us!

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Singin Fingers
Make sounds as you draw and create a musical picture.