Category Archives: Elementary School

Mouse in a House Gone Free

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Mouse in a House app (Free) is an iPad game geared to young children who are learning basic shapes. Each shapes is hidden in one of seven different rooms of the mouse house (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, ovals, diamonds, stars). … Continue reading →

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Study Smarter – Take Notes And Highlight Text Within iBooks [iOS Tips] | Cult of Mac

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

See on Scoop.it – Apps for Special Education Ebooks are all the rage these days, and your iPad is a perfect device for reading them. Textbooks, too, are becoming de riguer for many students in college and even high school, … Continue reading →

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Clicker Docs App

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Clicker Docs app (25.99) for iPad, developed by Crick Software , is a new iOS app that provides differentiated writing support for struggling writers. As one of Crick’s  two new apps,  Clicker Docs  provides  text only word banks and word prediction options offering support for primary … Continue reading →

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Visual Spatial Awareness Apps and Games

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Visual perception is often a skill that OT’s assess and work on with children and adults. There is also a high correlation between visual perception and mathematic abilities, skills students need to achieve in school (The Free Library. N.p., 22 … Continue reading →

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Leo’s Pad 1 & 2

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

 Leo’s Pad is a relatively new app for preschoolers created by Kidaptive and designed by Stanford University featuring interactive and animated appisodes of adventures in science. Leo’s Pad Appisode 1 (free; iPad) has been available since mid December with Leo’s Pad … Continue reading →

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Educational Apps for Sale…

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Educational Apps for Sale  (part of Digital StoryTime) has a few great deals on iPad apps previously reviewed but now at reduced prices:       Book Creator for iPad – (Was 4.99 now 1.99 ) This app allows unlimited creation of books … Continue reading →

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Wince – Don’t Feed the Worry Bug! eBook App

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Wince- Don’t Feed the Worry Bug! (2.99) is one of a number of iPad/iPhone e-book apps written by Andi Green at iMagine Machine featuring the Worry Woo characters who deal with emotional wellness and self-awareness.  Wince, one of the Worry Woo characters,  in this eBook starves … Continue reading →

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Kindergarten Reading – New App from Duck Duck Moose

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Duck Duck Moose is an award winning developer of  preschool and kindergarten educational apps with familiar apps as their Wheels on the Bus, Old MacDonald, Draw and Tell, Park Math and Word Wagon to mention a few of their interactive apps. Duck Duck Moose’s  most recent app, … Continue reading →

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Book Creator for iPad

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Book Creator app for iPads is on sale for $1.99. I thought this was a deal at 4.99 buying it in quantity at our school as a book making app for use with a variety of grade level students.  Although there are many … Continue reading →

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Block a Doodle Do & Line-Up – Visual Spatial Apps from BusyThings

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Block-a-doodle-doo app for iPhone/iPad ($.99) by Busythings.co.uk  is cute game where you move a chicken riding on a gator looking mobile device through cars and trucks on the street.  The user has to problem solve to plan a course to get the chicken through the street … Continue reading →

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