iPad apps in 4th Grade

My students have been 'encouraging' me to share the apps we use in class with their parents so they can download them at home. Today I sent out some suggestions to parents and thought I would share them here of examples of apps 4th graders are using at our school:

Hungry Fish

Hungry Fish is a great game to practise addition number bonds. The number of levels also means that you can use it for your Grade 1 or your Grade 4 student to help them practise their number facts.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motion-math-hungry-fish/id483049169?mt=8

Lattice Multiplication

In unit 5 we have been looking at different multiplication methods and this is an excellent way to practise the lattice method of multiplication and again there are a variety of levels to explore.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lattice-multiplication/id351024204?mt=8

Name that Number

Practice basic number and order of operations with this Every Day Math app. Everyday math have a number of apps, some of them free and some of them paid. Do a search for Everyday Math Beat the Calculator, Top It and Basball Multiplication are other ones we have used in class.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/everyday-mathematics-name/id414295469?mt=8

Make me Proud

This is an interactive storybook that you can edit and add your own voice. We will be using this app with our reading buddies in Grade 1 over the next few weeks.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/you-make-me-proud-iphone-edition/id483586124?mt=8

Book Creator

This is a highly user friendly book maker. You can take your own photos and film with your iPad and then straight away add them to a book. Add text, add speech and sounds and you have created your own interactive book which you can share.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for-ipad/id442378070?mt=8

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore

This interactive story app is my favourite app and the Grade 4 students love it too. We have shared this story on the IPad with our reading buddies and everyone loves it.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fantastic-flying-books/id438052647?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Numberlys

Hot off the presses! This was just released on Friday and I just got to see it today. It is a long but very clever story about how letters of the alphabet came into being. Like ‘Morris’ it is half short movie/ half short film and is an excellent interactive app.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numberlys/id491546935?mt=8

Toontastic

A very user friendly cartoon maker to make animated stories. The children have loved using this to create their own cartoons.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toontastic/id404693282?mt=8