Today instead of an app about math I’m going to tell you about a website called Reflex Math that helps students with their math fact fluency. Reflex adapts and creates individualized instruction for everyone who uses the website. The students who use the site will find fast-paced games and rewards. Teachers can use the site [...]

Sprinkle Junior is the children’s version of the popular app Sprinkle. In this app players will put out fires by controlling a water gun. There are twenty-two levels to complete and each has different obstacles and puzzles that must be cleared in order to reach the fires. There is no time limit for these levels, [...]

Today I have a math app that uses the finger counting method called “chisenbop“. This method lets you count all the way to 99 using your 10 fingers. You can also perform two-digit addition and subtraction problems with your two hands. The first time I used the Finger Math app I had no knowledge at [...]

Scaredy Squirrel is the main character in a series of children’s books by Melanie Watt. Like his name implies, Scaredy has a few things that he’s afraid of, well, actually more than a few. I’ve never read the Scaredy Squirrel books but they sound charming and based on reviews they appear to be a big [...]

Sight Words Hangman puts a twist on the classic game of Hangman. Instead of guessing hidden words children must correctly identify sight words to prevent the hangman from appearing. There are over 250 sight words to choose from, organized into 27 lists. A list is selected and children are shown four words. The app says [...]

The brand new app from Oceanhouse Media, Dr. Seuss Band, is just plain fun! I had no idea what to expect from this one and it has me charmed. The first thing you’ll do is create a Seussical instrument. You’ll find a trumpet, french horn, clarinet, flute and trombone all with a Seuss twist. You [...]

Have your children (or maybe you?) tried out Scribblenauts before? We have the Nintendo DS game but my kidswere excited to hear that there is an iOS version as well. They’ve been trying it out for me over the past week and have been enjoying the game quite a bit, especially my seven year old [...]

Color Frenzy is part game, part camera app. Using the iPhone’s camera you’ll be matching the colors of real objects to the colored tiles that appear in the game. Your screen will be filingl up with the colored squares and your job is to clear them off the screen. To do this you aim your [...]

Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 is the follow up app to Simplex Spelling and it takes the original app and only makes it better. Simplex Spelling was marvelous to begin with and I think the dedicated focus on phonics makes this app a powerful teaching tool. Here’s how it works. There are 42 lists in Simplex [...]

Here’s something different for this giveaway! Something more tangible than a promo code….. The aMAZEing Labyrinth board game from Ravensburger has recently come to the App Store and to celebrate I’ve been given 5 copies of the board game to give away to my readers. For every game that I give away Appency is going [...]