Apps
While you used a pencil and paper for most of your education growing up, your children are probably highly skilled in using your smartphone or tablet. They seem to know instinctively how to slide it open, how to toggle from app to app and how to fix a problem with an app perhaps better than you can.
Because your children most likely beg you most days of the week to play with your phone, consider loading one of the following five apps on it to give them an educational experience along with their fun time. They may think they are only playing a game, but you will secretly know that they are learning their numbers, letters, colors or some other foundational skill.
Smash Your Food
Smash Your Food is a fun app for elementary-age children who love the look of robotics mixed with a little science. This app has won numerous awards, including the Healthy Kids Competition by Michelle Obama and the Red Ribbon Award for being a Top 10 App. The premise for parents is that Smash Your Food teaches children the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods and helps them make smart food choices. What children see is that they get to choose some of their favorite foods, put them in the food crusher and see the foods explode. After smashing the foods, children will see the fat, sugar and salt contents in them and be rewarded with points based on how healthy of a meal they ate.
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BusyKid
BusyKid is designed to help you keep track of your child’s allowance and to help your child keep track of his or her chores. Because it is more than just a chore chart, it also teaches your children responsibility and the value of earning, saving and spending money. In fact, BusyKid will even let your child invest in stocks or donate to charity, helping them to learn what real-world finance is like. You get a sweet deal with this app too because you are able to send your child money through the app, which has built-in reminders for you to pay your child’s allowance.AlphaTots
If you have two, three or four-year-olds in your house, you may feel the pressure to teach them the alphabet. Let Alpha Tots help you by using fun pictures and animations to teach your children action words that go to each letter of the alphabet. Examples include building robots for “B” and zapping aliens for “Z.” Also included are the alphabet song, upper and lowercase lessons and positive encouragement along the way.
Reading Rewards
Whether your child is just getting into reading or is struggling to read a book report book in tenth grade, Reading Rewards can help. On this app, kids and teens can record the books that they have read and how many pages they have read. They can also build a wish list for books they would like to read in the future. You can set up a reward system that allows your child to earn incentives, which could be anything from money to buy music to a trip to the dollar store.Math Bingo
Math Bingo uses animated characters to teach basic math concepts. In order to get five in a row, however, your child will have to solve basic arithmetic problems from one of three levels. This app has been awarded the Best Education App and has been ranked in the top 50 of educational apps for three years.
By  Dixie Somers | Embed |
Author Bio - Dixie is a freelance writer who loves to write about business, finance and self improvement. She lives in Arizona with her husband and three beautiful daughters. | |
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