1 Second Everyday is an app that stitches the moments of your life into a single continuous chronological movie.

This has been one of the highest recommended app for several years and this is the first time I have ever seen it go free! Normally the price ranges from $2.99-6.99.

Hooked on Phonics First Grade starts where Learn to Read leaves off, at a beginning-of-the-year First Grade reading level. It’s for children who have completed Kindergarten (or the Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read app) who can sound out simple 3-letter words and are just starting to read on their own. It teaches new skills like beginning consonant blends (such as –ch and -sh) and first grade sight words. This app helps build fluency and develops confidence to foster reading success. 

From the creators of Bitsboard comes Spelling Bee PRO. This app contains over 10,000 spelling words that are organized by grade and skill level. It also contains a variety of spelling activities to strengthen students spelling abilities.

Make dolphins jump. Build a coral reef. Explore the deep sea. Create your own aquarium. These are just some of the fun things you can do with MarcoPolo Ocean, a “digital sandbox” for kids to play in that sparks their interest in the most unexplored part of our planet – the ocean.

Teachley: Fact Flyer helps 3rd-5th grade students gain math fact fluency in multiplication and division through the support of powerful, research-based strategies. Developed by teachers and educational researchers, Teachley's latest app provides scaffolded hints to help target fact fluency.

Autism Cooperation Station was designed to teach and train social skills in children of all ages, with a special eye towards autism spectrum disorder, where impairments in social skills can be particularly difficult for parents and caregivers to endure.

This app geared towards the Common Core 1st grade standard for fractions can really be used by any educator needing to help a student who is either learning or struggling to learn fractions.

This app is great to help students learn the important life skill of identifying and counting US paper currency. It is also updated to the newest images of the US paper currency.

Going a step above the Play Bank app, Cash Register uses paper and coin money. It also challenges students to give change to customers. This would be a great app to not only teach money recognition, but also employability skills.

Cutie Monsters challenges students to find the correct letter order in a bowl of soup. Students can either do upper or lower case letters. There is also a multiplier game making it great for classrooms where iPads are limited.

Who doesn't love a good puzzle? This app features several different puzzles and designs all for free. It can also be done in pieces of 9, 20, 36, or 56, making this a great app for multiple ages.

This is a simple app that allows you to select from multiple different types of paper to have students write on. Yup...that is about it. But hey, they are practicing writing so that is handy dandy!

This app is from the same developer of Writing Practice above. Actually, it is almost the exact same app except this one contains music bars and more detailed graph paper.

​So if you dig music or graph paper, you'll like this app!