The KinderTown review team of early childhood education experts, parents, and kids spent the last month reviewing their favorite educational apps for 4 year olds. They’ve narrowed it down to their favorite five apps in various educational categories including math and language. The full list is below.
For more best educational apps for kids lists, check out KinderTown’s Best Apps for Kids: Annual Parent Guide.
Best Apps for PreK (Ages 4-5)
Language: Wee Alphas
A to Zs learned with cute animated characters. This app thoughtfully embeds letter seek and finds, while helping kids make connections between letters, sounds and words. The artistry of this app makes it fun for the whole family.
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Language: My A – Z
Create your own personalized A to Z flashcards! Take a picture, give it a label and organize it under the correct first letter. Kids love to flip through their A to Z organized picture book!
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Math: Motion Math: Hungry Guppy
Feed the fish combinations of numbers 1 to 5. Even before kids are rote counting they can start to make the connection that when you put 1 and 1 together you get 2 with Motion Math: Hungry Guppy.
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Discovery: Draw and Tell
Expand your child’s artistry and storytelling with Draw and Tell. Kids create drawings and coloring pages using many of the tools provided in the app. When they are done, kids record their story or share a message about the drawing with the simple tap of the in-app recording feature.
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World: Rounds: Franklin Frog
Science concepts come to life in the Nosy Crow’s Rounds series. Learn alongside Franklin Frog as he develops through the complete lifecycle. Then keep learning from Franklin’s son, grandson and so on.
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