Help Kids Learn to Tell Time With This Excellent App

Interactive Telling Time is a beautiful Android app that will help children learn to read clocks. The app comes in a free version and a paid version. The free version is free of advertising and has two games. The paid version is also ad-free, but it has five games and a quiz.

In both versions of the Interactive Telling Time students practice setting the clock to specific times and stopping the clock at specific times. By completing the activities correctly students earn fish and other aquatic life to put in their virtual aquariums.

Interactive Telling Time can be used in seven languages. The app settings also allow you to use 12 hour and 24 hour time formats.

Create a Child-friendly Android Phone with Kytephone

Kytephone is a free Android app that turns your Android phone into a child-friendly smart phone. The app allows parents to create a child-only section on an Android phone. That child-only section without entering the correct password. Kytephone gives parents a record of which apps their children have used, calls made, pictures taken, and where the phone has been (location data must be enabled).

Kytephone is obviously designed for parents, but I do know of some schools that have issued Android phones to students. In those cases using Kytephone could be a good way to monitor how the phones are used by students.

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Pair Up – A Nice Android App for Pre-K Students

Pair Up is an Android app that is designed for children of Pre-K through Grade 2 age. Pair Up has three activity categories; Visual Perception, Quantitative Reasoning, and Associative Thinking. Each category has two activities for students to try.

In Visual Perception the activities are Same Shape & Color and Complete a Square. Same Shape & Color asks students to identify patterns by matching images of the same color and shape. Students are presented with one image and their choice of four images to match to the original by dragging and dropping them into place. In Complete a Square students have to try to make a square by matching pieces together.

Quantitative Reasoning’s activities are School Abacus and Same Quantity. In School Abacus students are given a number and they have to identify the abacus that the matching quantity displayed on it. Same Quantity presents students with a picture that has represents a quantity and students have to pick another picture that displays the same quantity as a the original image.

In Associative Thinking students can play Who Eats What? and Who Lives Where? In Who Eats What? students see a picture of an animal and have to select from four pictures the food that animal eats. In Who Lives Where? students have to identify the habitat of animals and people. For example, when students see the goldfish picture they should select the fishbowl as the habitat.

Use Famigo to Create a Kids-only Section on Your Android Device

If your school is using Android devices and you’re looking for a way to keep young students from leaving the set of apps you’ve selected for them, Famigo Sandbox is an app that you should check out.

Famigo SandboxÂ is an Android app that allows you to create a “kids-only” section on your Android phone or tablet. With Famigo Sandbox installed and activated when you hand your phone to your child your child cannot accidentally access your contacts, dial the phone, or access apps that are not in the Famigo Sandbox. Famigo Sandbox also provides you with recommendations for new apps for your child to try. Learn more about Famigo Sandbox in the video below.

TheÂ FamigoÂ website offers categorized reviews of thousands of Android and iOS apps and games for kids. You can search Famigo by age group, app type, game type, and whether or not the app is free or paid.

Handwriting Practice is as Easy as 123 ABC

123s ABCs is a free Android app for handwriting practice. The app allows students to practice drawing uppercase and lowercase letters by tracing the template on the screen. The 123 aspect of the app has templates for tracing letters. The app also has basic shape templates to trace. Students can practice on each template as many times as they like. If the first attempt isn’t to a student’s liking, she can simply shake the phone or tablet to erase and try again. 123s ABCs also has an audio option that students can activate to hear each letter, number, or shape read to them.

123s ABCs is a nice little app that young students could use to practice identifying and writing letters and numbers. I probably wouldn’t have students use it on phones just because I think they would need more screen space to draw on. 123s ABCs is better suited to tablets than phones.