2. Kids Boats
• By Pajama Apps
• $0.99
• Subject Area: Science: Climate Zones/Habitats
• Curriculum Connection: By navigating their boat down the rivers, students
use fine motor skills, problem-solving to steer, and explore animals in different
habitats: forest, arctic, desert.
• Ontario: Science & Technology Gr. 1-8 > Grade 4 > Understanding Life
Systems, Habitats, & Communities
• NYS: Science Learning Standard > The Living Environment > Key Idea 6: Plants
and animals depend on each other and their physical environment.
• Common Core: English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social
Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5 > Responding to Literature >
Making Cultural Connections
3. Reading Raven HD
• By Early Ascent, LLC
• $3.99
• Subject Area: Literacy
• Curriculum Connection: This is a fun app where the raven takes students
through literacy games. Geared to younger students, the app teaches
letters, vocabulary, and reading. It will reinforce literacy instruction.
• Ontario: Language Gr. 1-8 > Grade 1: Reading > Reading with Fluency
• Common Core: English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social
Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5 > Reading Standards:
Foundational Skills: Gr. 1 >Know and apply grade-level phonics and word
analysis skills in decoding words.
4. Fractions Add & Subtract
• By IssamQadan
• $0.99
• Subject Area: Math
• Curriculum Connection: To extend on the understanding of fractions, this app
helps users understand adding and subtracting proper, improper, and mixed
fractions. Students can watch tutorials to reinforce the steps of adding and
subtracting fractions.
• Ontario: Mathematics Gr. 1-8 > Grade 7 > Operational Sense > Use a variety of
mental strategies to solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of
fractions and decimals
• Common Core: Mathematics > Grade 5 > Number & Operations—Fractions >
Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions
5. iWriteWords
• By gdiplus
• $2.99
• Subject Area: Writing
• Curriculum Connection: This app teaching students printing through a fun
game. By dragging Mr. Crab along in order by number, students practice the
proper way to write letters of the alphabet. The app pronounces each letter, as
well as showing a picture of completed words. When you tilt your iPad to
discard the used letters, you move on to a new word.
• Ontario: The Kindergarten Program > Language > Writing > Write simple
messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, knowledge of the
correspondence between letters and sounds (phonics), and familiar words
• Common Core: English Language Arts &Literacy in History/Social Studies,
• Science, and Technical Subjects > Prekindergarten > Reading Standards:
Foundational Skills >Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic
features of print.
6. Aesop’s Wheel of Fables
• By Stickery PTE. LTD.
• $3.99
• Subject Area: Reading
• Curriculum Connection: Fables and folk tales are an important area of the
Grade 3 curriculum, and this app is a fun, interactive way for children to read
classic Aesop’s fables. The extra games and activities will keep students
engaged, as will the surprise wheel for which fable you will explore!
• Ontario: Language Gr. 1-8 > Grade 3 Reading: Reading for Meaning > Variety of
Texts
• Common Core: English Language Arts &Literacy in History/Social Studies,
• Science, and Technical Subjects > Reading Standards for Literature: Gr. 3
>Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures;
determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is
conveyed through key details in the text
7. Music Theory for Beginners
• By Musicroom.com
• $4.99
• Subject Area: Music
• Curriculum Connection: Teaching 22 music theory concepts through activities, and
quizzes that test students on their knowledge. This app teaches the basics of
elementary music theory in a fun way!
• Ontario: The Arts Gr. 1-8 > Grade 6 Music >apply the elements of music when
singing and/or playing, composing, and arranging music to create a specific effect
• NYS: The Arts >Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts >
Music >Students will compose original music and perform music written by others.
They will understand and use the basic elements of music in their performances
and compositions.
8. Colour Splash
• By Pocket Pixels Inc.
• $0.99
• Subject Area: Art
• Curriculum Connection: This app lets users turn a picture into black and
white, while leaving certain colours showing. This can be used to highlight
features in a pictures, show emotion, and teach students about colour in art.
Students will enjoy changing both their own pictures, as well as classic images.
• Ontario: The Arts Gr. 1-8 > Grade 4 Art > Fundamental Concepts >Colour:
monochromatic colour scheme; colour emphasis through variations in
intensity
• NYS: The Arts > Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts
> Visual Arts > understand and use the elements and principles of art
(line, color, texture, shape) in order to communicate their ideas
9. History For Kids
• By Abécédaire
• $2.99
• Subject Area: History
• Curriculum Connection: The audio clips highlight important features of different time periods of world
history and an interactive timeline allows students to explore history by era. This app is geared to
elementary students and features the most influential periods in history, including ancient civilizations, the
renaissance, and the two world wars.
• Ontario: Social Studies Gr. 1-6 > Grade 5: Early Civilizations > Use a variety of resources and tools to
investigate characteristics of a number of early civilizations, including their significant innovations and
technological advances. Show how innovations made by various early civilizations have influenced the
modern world
• NYS: Social Studies > Standard 2: World History > Key Idea 2: Establishing timeframes, exploring different
periodizations, examining themes across time and within cultures, and focusing on important turning
points in world history help organize the study of world cultures and civilizations.
• Common Core: : English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical
Subjects K-5 > Responding to Literature Recognize, interpret, and make connections in
narratives, poetry, and drama, to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, personal events, and
situations.
10. Sing Song Yoga
• By Sing Song Yoga LLC.
• $Free
• Subject Area: Physical Education
• Curriculum Connection: Song lyrics teach children how to do yoga poses. Users
can choose from pre-set yoga programs, or create and save their own from the
poses in the app.
• Ontario: Health & Physical Education Gr. 1-8 > Grade 3 > Movement Competence:
Skills, Concepts, and Strategies >perform controlled transitions between static
positions, using different body parts and shapes and different levels, with and
without equipment (e.g., move smoothly between yoga positions…)
• NYS: Physical Education > Standard 1: Personal Health and Fitness > Develop
physical fitness skills through regular practice, effort, and perseverance.
Demonstrate mastery of fundamental motor, non-locomotor, and manipulative
skills, and understand fundamental principles of movement
11. Learn Money: Counting Coins and Bills
• By StudyPad, Inc.
• $4.99
• Subject Area: Math
• Curriculum Connection: This is based on US money, and includes lessons and
quizzes for students to learn and practice counting money. When they answer
correctly, users get points they can use to dress up the monkey mascot, which
will help keep users engaged. This app is aligned with the Common Core math
standards and teaching students to identify coins and bills, as well as solve
math problems related to money.
• Ontario: Mathematics Gr 1-8 > Grade 1 > Grade 1: Number Sense and
Numeration > Identify and describe various coins, using coin manipulatives or
drawings, and state their value
• Common Core: Mathematics Gr. 1-8 > Grade 1 > Measurement & Data >Tell
and write time and money - Recognize and identify coins, their names, and
their value
