![]() This app was an instant favorite of both the students and the teachers. (Thinning my own collection of apps is something I should perhaps address in another post…) So without further ado, here are the apps, both paid and free that I selected for our iPads. I didn’t want my students to be overwhelmed by screens and screens of apps, like I often am these days. The iPad I received from the school last winter is feeling quite cluttered as it sits loaded with almost 200 apps. While I could have installed as many free apps as I wanted, I was still selective as I considered which apps to include. In addition to the paid apps, I also selected a number of free apps to install on our iPads. ![]() That way I could still have money in case I came across any more “must have” apps over the course of the school year, which was (and is!) a very real possibility. I didn’t want to blow the budget right out of the gate, so I decided to set a $10/iPad limit. ![]() The school had given us $100 to spend on apps for 5 iPads. After looking at all of the nearly 200 apps that I’ve installed in the last year, and thinking about which ones would be absolutely essential, I came up with a list. Installing 5 copies of a $2.99 app on five different ipads starts to add up. Installing a 99 cent app on one or two iPads is relatively inexpensive. Configurating a set of iPads meant being more selective, and sticking to a budget. If it looked good, I’d download it and try it out with the kids. Up until this point, I installed apps willy nilly on the iPads we used in the classroom. Since configurating iPads with Apple Configurator is no small task, ( read about my experience here) and not something we intend to do frequently, we needed this selection of apps to last for quite some time. When we decided to use Apple Configurator to manage our iPads, one of the biggest ramifications was the fact that we would need to pick a set of apps that we felt we wanted to have on every iPad. Keep reading to find out what we think are the 21 Best Apps for Preschool and Kindergarten. We expanded our 5 Best Apps Series! Five wasn’t enough when we started using Apple Configurator. ![]()
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