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Joy Kite
Grade level: Kindergarten

This app helps students learn and understand shapes and problem solving. This app is helpful for reaching a diverse group of students. This app can be used by students who already know shapes and how to identify them, as well as, students who don't know their shapes.

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Hours of shape and puzzle fun with a PBS Kids favorite. Read Common Sense Media's Cyberchase Shape Quest! review, age rating, and parents guide.

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Joy Kite
Grade level: Kindergarten

This app introduces students to coding. Students use characters from popular shows and direct the characters choices. They create scenes and backdrops for their characters.

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Kids can learn how block programming works as they drag commands into place. They'll work with motion blocks and triggering blocks as well as control blocks, such as repeat for looping, to control the characters in their story. They'll develop creatively as they create their own narratives by directing the characters and create original drawings to incorporate into their programs. There's no step-by-step instruction, however, and no training modules, so it's more about the creative process. PBS KIDS ScratchJr does a nice job of combining storytelling, art, and coding to give kids a fun introduction to programming.

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Joy Kite
Grade level: Kindergarten

This app gives the students a list of words. The students are then supposed to match up words that rhyme or  have the same prefix or suffix. The app provides 800 words for the students to utilize.

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Kids can learn to recognize rhyming words, homophones, synonyms, adjectives, prefixes, and suffixes. They'll strengthen vocabulary skills through exposure to 800 words, and they can learn to work cooperatively in team mode or competitively in versus mode. Bluster! makes sometimes-dry vocabulary practice fun by adding the game element.

Clear, concise instructions show kids how to play. It can be difficult to discern where to swipe to scroll through the word lists (hint: below, not on, the list), which can slow kids down.

McGraw-Hill Education's logo appears at the bottom of the screens throughout play. You can buy additional word packs for $0.99 each via in-app purchase.

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Joy Kite
Grade level: Kindergarten
This app teaches students grammar through the use of cartoons and fun songs. There are several topics for the students to learn. For example: adjectives, contractions, nouns, and pronouns. Once the student has completed a topic they can then take a quiz to evaluate what they have learned.

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Kids can learn about basic grammar terms: adjectives, contractions, nouns, pronouns, punctuation, sentences, and verbs. They can listen to and view examples of each term in the animated songs, then practice their understanding of each in the Quick Check quizzes. Grammar Jammers Primary Edition engages kids with basic grammar vocabulary in a memorable, fun way.

Very easy to play, with a well-organized user interface built around tapping. Kids must be able to read brief instructions or have instructions read to them to play the Quick Check quiz.

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Joy Kite
Grade level: Kindergarten

This app encourages kids to create their own story. They can engage with story telling by dressing their character and charting a course for their ship. It focuses on details and comprehensive thinking

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Kids can learn a bit about storytelling and imagination, though this app is mostly just for fun, with some very basic ways kids can contribute to Arthur's story through limited prescripted choices.

Very easy to use. Just listen to the instructions and options, then tap on desired choice.

There's a Get More Arthur Stories icon on the app's main page, and at the end of the story, if a player taps More Stories, a message about More Arthur Stories on ... Curious World appears. Tap Download Free and there's a parent gate. Answer the math question properly, and you're moved out of the app and into the App Store where you can download more stories by this developer.

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Skip to Content The parents' guide to what's in this app. Kids can learn a bit about storytelling and imagination, though this app is mostly just for fun, with some very basic ways kids can contribute to Arthur's story through limited prescripted choices. Very easy to use.