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Apps For Children With Special Needs

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Mobile Montessori makes understanding number sequencing a snap with Number Sequencing: What Comes Before, After, & In Between? The activities featured allow children to fill in columns of numbers, in any order they choose, to complete the number sequences correctly. Sequencing is an essential yet basic concept needed to excel in their future mathematical education. Children will enjoy this app for the challenges it provides and the fun they will have learning. Simply touch a blue square and find the appropriate number in the tray to correctly complete the sequence at hand. The Montessori approach has withstood the test of time, and remains a favorite among educators as a painless and fun way to get kids learning and loving it!

To see the educational benefits of this app and the difference it can make in your child’s life visit A4CWSN for a comprehensive app video that showcases the best qualities available with the app. As new apps are added frequently, you’ll want to bookmark the page for future use. A great way to see the ease of use, educational value, and great quality within an app before you download and buy it. ~Lisa B.

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Word Sundae

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Word Sundae by CBC is a single or two player game that incorporates spelling, visual tracking, and fine motor skills to get kids enrapt in learning while having fun. How can one fill their bowl with the most ice cream and earn the most points? Simply tap on the letters to form words, submit words to fill your bowl, fill your bowl to earn points making sure to utilize the bonus tiles, point multipliers, and extra turns. The age select option provides a different scoring system for adults and children, allowing for fair play.  A fun and easy way to share precious time with your child and learning together as you go along.

Looking for quality educational apps for your family? A4CWSN provides a complete and ever growing reference center of app videos that allows you to see the benefits of an app before you buy it. Each video is a quick glimpse into the capabilities and educational value each app possesses. ~Lisa Baker

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WordWorld’s Pirate Ship

Ahoy there mateys! Ever wish you could hop inside your television screen and be part of a TV show? With WordWorld’s Pirate Ship, you wish has come true! PlaySquare, LLC has made interactive Touchable Television a reality, with this app. From beginning to end, your child will be involved in helping the characters on their quest and saving the day! After finding a message in a bottle, it is up to the user to follow clues and use their rhyming skills to sail across the deep blue sea.

Eight interactive scenes are geared toward users ages 2 through 5.  This appisode of PBS Kids’ WordWorld, focuses on the pirate theme, guaranteed to have all the young pirates squealing “Well, shiver me timbers!’

Features include:

*Building a Pirate S-H-I-P

*Digging for buried B-O-O-K treasure in the sand

*Finding rhyming words on the treasure map

*Building a K-E-Y to open the treasure chest

*Steering Shark across the ocean

*Jumping over falling coconuts to get to the tallest tree

To see this app and many other quality apps before you buy them sail on over to A4CWSN’s app video page and bask in the glory of gaining knowledge before you buy an app. Arrr! Let Gary do the work as you sit back and enjoy an entire library at your fingertips, no internet searching needed. ~Lisa B.

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Pteranodon Soars, by Oceanhouse Media is part of the Smithsonian’s Prehistoric Pals series. If you have a dinosaur lover in your house, this is a must have app to your library. Kids love dinosaurs, parents love Smithsonian! This interactive book shows the Pteranodon as she soars high above the ocean, needing to feed her babies she swoops down and scoops up fish to carry back to them. As a dark shape appears below the surface readers will be on pins and needles to see if she can escape the grasp of the Mosasauri lying in wait. Designed specifically for users ages 3 through 8, this app has features which include:

*Parental controls that keep the child in the app

*Highlighted narration that encourages literacy skills

*Tap-able pictures and words that help learn new vocabulary

*Ability to record your own narration, which can also be shared with others

*Easy to use navigation that allows the user to select a favorite screen

To see this and many more apps before you buy them, soar on over to A4CWSN for a unique library of app videos that allow one to get a feeling for how an app works and if it is the right match for your child or children’s personal learning wants or needs. Follow Oceanhouse Media on Facebook and Twitter. ~Lisa B.

Download on the App Store

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Free Self-Calming Chart Printable by Fernandez Design

Teach Self-Calming Skills

Click on the picture to download the free calming chart.

Fernandez Design • graphic & web design

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Hundred Board – A Montessori Approach to Math

Hundred Board - A Montessori Approach to Math by Mobile Montessori has just been updated to include; easier to read bold-face numbers, the ability to manually assemble the Hundred Board by using your finger to drag each individual number, and it is now also fully retina display ready.

Three lessons are included in this highly educational and appealing app using exact replicas of the board and number squares used in Montessori classrooms around the globe. Help your child master their numbers from 1 to 100 by presenting standard sequencing from 1 to 100, even numbers only, or odd numbers only. Using their critical thinking skills, sequencing abilities, fine motor, and eye-hand coordination skills your child scours the scrambled numbers to the right of the board to find the next appropriate number. Once they have chosen the right number, it will automatically move to its correct place on the board. This fun, yet challenging app, will keep children engaged as their master their counting skills. Parents will like seeing their child’s progression as their scores increase through repetition.

A4CWSN offers an app video to showcase the educational and fun value of this app for children just beginning or struggling to count. A4 is known for picking only the best quality apps, so be sure to browse the stockpile of new videos frequently added. There is something for everyone to be found. ~Lisa. B.

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Cursive Writing Wizard - Trace Letters and Words

By L’Escapadou

Cursive Writing Wizard by L’Escapadou, is a brand new, fully customizable writing app that allows children to trace and write letters and words, parents can also add their own words with audio. By tracing all 26 letters, complete with sound effects, kids learn in a pleasant and engaging way that will keep them focused on the task at hand. As tracing is completed the user can interact throughout 4 games designed to animate the letters. In 5 star play-mode, stars can be gathered, How many can you get? Kids will enjoy tracing their names. Family members and pets names, favorite TV characters names, anything you can imagine can be added to the list for your child to learn.

Allowing for unlimited users, this universal app also delivers comprehensive reports that show what the child has accomplished. Viewable tracings enable a parent, teacher, or therapist to address strengths and weaknesses to customize the app to suit a child’s learning needs. Letter size, and word difficulty can be adjusted as children work their way to mastering lower and upper-case letters, numbers and word lists; created especially for each child and enhanced with your own audio sounds.

To see this app before you buy it, A4CWSN has released a video that details the benefits your child can attain from using this particular app. Like the many apps in A4’s collection, it is chosen for its educational value, high standard of quality, and the user’s ability to manipulate and maneuver through it easily - no rocket science necessary! Be sure to browse through the compilation of videos as many different app genres are represented throughout. ~Lisa B.

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iSort Words By Dactyl Studios

iSort Words by Dactyl Studios is an app designed especially for young children to teach the concept of forming words. It contains 3 uniquely entertaining ways to instill word formation in even the youngest users. Push Sort, Swipe Sort, and Open Sort are three games that allow the fundamentals of word structure to be explored in entertaining fashion.

Focusing on word endings, children learn to use rhyming to sort and match which words go together. The colorful words are eye catching, and even the Speed Sort helps make understanding word structure and development as easy as 1, 2, 3!

Parents, teachers, and children alike will appreciate the ease of use, and quality of learning, and the absolutely captivating experience of this app.

A4CWSN has added this app to their preferred app video library. A great way to experience the app and its capabilities before you purchase it, be sure to explore the vast library of educational apps frequently for updated additions.

Follow Dactyl Studios on Facebook and Twitter. ~Lisa B.

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Seasons and Weather

By Mobile Montessori (Rantek Inc)

Winter, spring, summer, fall, need help with seasons, this app has it all. Jam packed with educational content about different types of weather and the seasons, children will love the fun and entertaining approach used to help them learn.

Broken into 3 sections to make learning easy:

Section 1: Explore what you can do, how to dress, and how the different seasons look and feel.

Section 2: Learn the basic concepts of weather such as snow, rain, sleet. You will also learn about different types of clouds and weather events such as tornados, hurricanes, and more.

Section 3: Through activities, practice what you have learned by coloring pages, sorting projects, and matching.

  *Approved and co-developed by an AMI certified teacher with over 40 years’ experience educating children, this app is a great tool for learning all about weather and what Mother Nature has to offer. 

  A4CWSN has made it easy to see what this app has to offer by creating a video, it’s a great way to browse before you buy knowing exactly what you are getting quality-wise. Be sure to look through A4’s impressive library of app videos, all hand-picked for quality and educational content. Presented in an easy and informational platform, making app buying decisions a snap!   Follow Mobile Montessori on Facebook and Twitter ~Lisa B.

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Match Blitz by Shiny Things is an action packed, fast paced educational app that helps with matching skills. As you progress through the game you will be surprised as visual perception, as well as memory and concentration skills are challenged and strengthened. These are all critical skills needed to promote reading and writing skills, as well as numerous other scholastic functions.

In multiplayer mode up to 4 people can compete to see who can find the matches first. At first look this might seem easy, but Match Blast detects the speed with which you answer and tailors the level of difficulty respectively. You’ll need a keen eye and quick fingers to spot the matching symbols before your competition.

Fun for all ages, as younger players can take their time and hone their skills and older players can enjoy the increasing intricacy of the puzzles as they progress through the game.

A child-proof parental section helps make sure the user stays in the game.

Taking pride in their product and the privacy of their users, all apps contain absolutely no in-app-purchases, ads, personal information, or data collection. There is also no integration with social networking site, making for a safe educational learning environment

A4CWSN has hand-picked this app to be showcased as a part of their app video library that allows you to see an app and learn how it works before purchasing it. Be sure to glance through other available videos to help grow your app collection. ~Lisa B.

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Toca Boca is an award winning game studio that makes digital toys for kids. Toca Pet Doctor is geared to children ages 2 through 6. Learning about animals and their care is a fantastic way to get users to use their imagination, boost critical thinking skills, and a compassionate approach to learning about various types of animals (15 to be exact) and not just your typical everyday pets.

Come meet them all in this beautifully illustrated, child-friendly app. You can help them heal by feeding a diet complete with flies, seeds, and even vegetables. When the animals are cured they fall back to sleep but as they love attention, can be waken up to play. The cast of characters include:

Bisse: a beautiful, yellow canary

Blob: a small, slimy snail

Brie: the sweet, cheesy mouse

Bun: the friendly neighborhood budgie

Charm: a very charming dog

Cid: the slithering snake (pronounced Ssssid!)

Dottie:  the colorful, spotted toad

Jess: the eight legged spider, with six pretty eyes

Molly: the spirited guinea pig

Pickles: the spirited pigeon

Pop: the spiked iguana

Rascal: the sly cat

Tarzan: the upside down turtle

Tofu: the vegetarian rabbit

Worm: the not so happy earthworm

Is there a potential Veterinarian in your house? As you can see there are a wide variety of animals guaranteed to get lots of smiles, giggles, and help keep your child fascinated to have fun while learning. And parents have no worries as there is no third-party advertising or in app purchases. If it comes from Toca Boca, it has to be good!

A4CWSN has made a video to show just how much fun your children will have and how easy it is to use this app. It is only one of an ever growing library of quality apps, designed to help you browse before you buy, enabling you to fill your personal app cache with all the essentials for your child’s personal needs. ~Lisa B. Follow Toca Boca on Facebook and Twitter. Download on the App Store

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Movable Alphabet by Mobile Montessori, allows children to phonetically sound out words, one letter at a time as they work on building words and increasing their vocabularies. With over 40 images of simple, everyday words, this app also includes audio pronunciations and instructions that allow children to sound out and practice what they learn. This is a great way for children to express themselves even before they can use a pencil and paper to write.

Utilizing a simple format, this app features buttons in a box above each letter that allow the user to hear the sound of each letter helping them to search for the sound they need to build their words. ~Lisa B. Follow Mobile Montessori on Facebook and Twitter.

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Marco Polo Ocean, the winner of the Children’s Technology Review “2014 Editor’s Choice Award” is a Free Play exploration app, meaning your child can explore any way they want, at their own pace, on their own terms. With five build-and-play activities to build and explore, the language and images of the ocean come to life in all their glory. To re-enforce vocabulary, ocean concepts, and physical attributes, Ocean is narrated in a fun and entertaining way.

The five activity/exploration levels are:

Coral Reef

Marine Mammals

Fish

Boat

Submersible

Your child can create their own aquarium, build a coral reef, make dolphins jump, explore the deep and shallow depths of the ocean and discover what lies beneath. Geared for children ages 3 and up, teaches basic science, technology, engineering, and math skills by focusing on the ocean landscape, fish and marine mammals characteristics, construction aspects of both boats (shipping vessels) and submersibles, and the wide variety of animals that call the oceans their habitat.

With the ability to interact with over 30 marine animals and fish, by tapping, dragging, and swiping where each animal lives in the ocean, this is an educational exploration of their natural behaviors and how they interact with one another. Get ready to explore from the shoreline to the deepest parts of the ocean floor!

*This is a large app and requires 1.1 GB of storage space.

Interested in a video of this app to see it before you buy it? Visit A4CWSN.com for a video showcasing the ease of use and the educational value of this app. With an ever growing library of hand-picked apps be sure to browse the other videos available, and be sure to check back often as new videos are frequently posted. ~Lisa B. Follow MarcoPolo on Facebook and Twitter.

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Numerosity: Play with Addition! By ThoughtBox

As a recipient of the Teachers with Apps Certified Badge, Numerosity: Play with Addition is all about making Math fun. Focusing on educating children ages 6 to 8 this app teaches improving numerical skills and reviewing addition concepts in a fun and entertaining way.

Kids will enjoy being able to work at their own pace and not being rushed into learning on someone else’s timeframe. With this app they will be discovering the rules of addition and mastering them on their terms.  Through experimentation they can progress from basic addition to more complex sums. With 20 levels of learning, friends can be challenged by creating a profile, can they beat your scores or will you remain the champion?

Skruff the Streetwise Dog invites you to play and learn with him, and even offers a certificate of achievement that can be printed out and shared with friends and family.

A4CWSN has made a video so you can see this app in action and learn firsthand what benefits it will provide for your children. Be sure to check out their library of videos for a glimpse into other hand-picked apps that might be just what you are looking for. ~Lisa B. Download on the App Store

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Monty’s Quest 2

This week celebrates the launch of a new app by Primary Apps. The mouse is back! Yes, Monty is back and ready for another never-ending quest for….yes you guessed it, cheese!

Get ready to learn multiplication tables in a brand new way in this sequel to Monty’s Quest. Once you are given a calculation to work out, the outcome depends on your answer. Get the correct answer and Monty happily moves one step closer to his much beloved cheese. Take too long to answer and he slides down, away from his cheese.

There are four levels of difficulty; Practice: where you can take your time and Monty suffers no consequences. Beginner: where you choose the multiplication table you would like to work on with the speed set to very low. Intermediate: where the speed is set a little faster. Expert: The stakes are high here; the speed is fast, can you get Monty to the cheese by achieving a perfect score?

Kids and parents alike will love this game. Kids will enjoy learning in a fun way, while parents will enjoy watching their children master their multiplication tables.

As with any App, a great way to help decide if this is the right one for your library is to head over to A4CWSN and see the video of Monty’s Quest 2 in action. Be sure to look at any other videos that might interest you, and check back often as new ones are added on a regular basis. Download on the App Store

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Barn Door Four by Learnitech

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Sight Words - Pre-Primer set 2