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App Name/Cost
Early Learning Apps
Device
Description
Draw with Stars
$0.99
iPhone
iPad
Slide finger across screen to draw picture with musical stars.
Bubbles
$0.99
iPhone
iPad
Tap the screen to make a bubble. Tap again to pop it. Drag finger across the
screen to create a train of bubbles.
Slide and Spin
$0.99
iPad
Develops fine motor skills through sliding, spinning or pushing one of the 4
buttons to reveal the hidden surprise.
Build It up
Free (In App purchase $0.99)
iPad
Develops fine motor and visual perception skills and concepts of size, position
and order through assembling parts of an image correctly to create the whole
image.
The Playschool Art Maker
Free
iPad
Toddler Jukebox
Free (In App purchases)
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Develops fine motor skills through dragging and dropping favourite Play school
characters and art and craft items into 6 different backgrounds to create a
picture or narrate a story.
Collection of all-time favourite nursery rhymes.
Visual Perception
Art and Music
Boogie Bopper
$1.99
Develops fine motor skills and explore sounds, melodies and tempos by tapping
the coloured circles to play a familiar song or to create your own.
Fine Motor/Handwriting
Space Boards Pre-K
$20.99
Down Syndrome WA
iPad
Digital workbook with numerous activities to practice early handwriting skills
through tracking, tracing and matching of shapes, letters and numbers.
1
October 2012
Toca Train, Toca Tea Party, Toca
Birthday Party, Toca House, Toca
Hair Salon $1.99
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Fun and interactive way to role play, develop fine motor skills and create
opportunities for turn taking, speech and conversation.
Paint my wings
$1.99
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Fun and interactive way to paint butterflies and develop finger skills, painting,
and colour recognition.
Counting Bear
$0.99
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Learn numbers and hear their names as objects are touched.
Learn to Count with songs and
rhymes
$1.99
iPad
Learn to count sequentially by adding one more and in 2’s and 3’s whilst singing
along to catchy rhymes.
Pre-k math
$1.99
iPhone
iPod
Learn numbers 1 to 10, count in ascending and descending order, write
numerals, identify shapes and explore concepts of more and less.
Fish School
$1.99
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Learn letter names, count numbers 1-20, learn shapes and colours, identify
differences, and improve memory skills through matching images.
Preschool Monkey Lunchbox
$0.99
iPhone
iPod
iPad
Seven different games that teach about colours, letters, counting, shapes,
matching and differences.
Talking Baby Hippo
$2.99
iPad
Encourages early speech sounds through vocally interacting with the character.
We Sing & Learn ABC
$2.99
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Explore the alphabet through song and touching interactive letters and animals.
Mathematics
Speech and Language
Down Syndrome WA
2
October 2012
Itsy Bitsy Spider
$1.99 Also Baa Baa Black Sheep
iPad
Interactive musical books based on familiar nursery rhymes.
Old Mac Donald’s Farm
$1.99 Also The Wheels on the Bus
iPad
Interactive musical books based on familiar nursery rhymes.
Special Words
$14.99
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Teaches children to recognise written words using pictures and sounds. The app
has 3 games with increasing difficulty; Match Pictures, Match Words and Match
Both. The app allows additional pictures and sounds to be added to increase the
child’s interest and further develop their vocabulary.
Bob Books #1
Free
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Phonics based interactive game that helps children learn to read by introducing
new letter sounds through repetition and short stories.
Nighty Night
$2.99
iPad
Animated interactive story, which has narration on/off feature, encourages
reader to touch animals and to turn off lights.
Moo Baa La La La
Also Blue Hat, Green Hat and
Going to Bed
$4.49
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Animated interactive storybooks encouraging reader to touch characters,
objects and turn the page. Narration on/off feature.
Goodnight Safari
Free
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Readers are encouraged to help prepare animals for bed by tapping on baby
animals to complete their activity. Narration on/off feature.
Not Without Bear
$4.49
iPad
Charming story of a girl and her bear unfolding into an interactive game of hide
and seek with the reader.
Books
Down Syndrome WA
3
October 2012
Another Monster at the end of this
Book
$5.49
Down Syndrome WA
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
4
An animated Elmo takes Grover through the pages of a book in search of a
monster. Interactive features encourage reader to move objects on pages and
turn pages to continue story.
October 2012