Left Brain Stimulating FREE Android Apps for Kids

I am so very delighted to share this list of android applications that I have compiled for kids to doodle on the t-pad (in my case), and surely spending their time more constructively. Most of them have are logical and left brain stimulation. I am working on my list for Right Brain Stimulating and will be my pleasure to share the same with  you :)


There is so much value in handing over your child with technology devices, provided you choose to lead them, inviting you to give  it a try :). The list below is not to be misunderstood as rank order...please. Also install them when  kids are away (i do it post my child is fast asleep) I play the same before having given  to my child.....


3 Reasons why I suggest Parents play with the apps first is...

1. Always introduce the game to your child with its protocols and control. Sit with your child and share the gist of what is the game expecting  of the player. And play a game/ level or two.
2. Your intuitive sense is enhanced, as to what kind of apps does your child enjoy / not enjoy / needs a companion for.
3. Lead your kids-  and for ever they will count on your leadership for Technology and its Tools, they are too young ( 6-12yrs) to be allowed to pave their own  paths with this subject.

CHERRY ON  THE TOP: INTEGRATION

 Music: I have loaded my tab with good instrumental music, hence all day the music runs in the background, definatley has a calming effect on the worked up logical mind

Religion: a prayer audio file is the first thing that is played when my child starts his dedicated hour with the pad

Math: Between me and my son ( just two of us now) we are maintaining a comparative score chart, we calculate the speed of performance / graduating level / difference between scores....

type the following applname in the google play store

A DOZEN ....Logic / Straegy Games

• Untangle Unlimited          KASHIKUME
• Early Bird                         BOOYAH, INC.
• Galaxy                             MAGMA MOBILE
• Slice It!                            COM2US
• Connect'Em Halloween
• Float Free                       ELEVATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Dalmax Nine Men's Morris
• Doodle Reverse Free     BALOFO GAMES
• Link It Lite                      BOOLBA LABS, LLC 
• Pentas (5x alter Tetris)   KIDGA.COM
• Tower Stacker                     EL BOXERS
• Cute Stars                               KASURDEV

How do I dare to teach? Its my turn to learn!

 
                ----Rs 50 a dozen V/s Rs 500 a dozen------
Lychee is one of our favorite fruit, for the whole family. And it's arrived in the market at a steep price of Rs 50 per dozen. Today as Veer and I took our daily walk to the market, he wanted me to buy them and I obviously refused saying its too expensive we need to wait for the prices to come down. Pat comes another question....Is the price Rs 500/- a dozen? That's the price mangoes have come home this season. Now I new that this was going  to be a long conversation back and forth...


While I suggested,to Veer that he go the the stall and find out the price, the talkative me could immediately see...
1) a discussion on ...expensive with relative to size of the fruit
2) a discussion on .... expensive with relative to beginning of the season
3) a discussion on ...expensive with relative to monthly budget on fruits
and so on...thoughts started converging in my mind to the answers that i should provide for his question.


Veer said Rs 50 a dozen, that is Rs 25 for 6 and Rs 12.50 ps of 3 and appox 4 rs for 1, that's a lot of money. For that kind of price we get our 1 kg of grains grounded at the mill. This is super expensive! I was SUPER AMUSED and smiling :)))))!
Phew the number crunching had sorted it out for me and I was super happy to be spared of an elaborate "boring" conversation that I had weaved in my head. What I learned today is catch-up few breaths before you answer your child's question, surely you will be surprised that he/she is much more capable to work out the answer and in turn teach you a thing or too!

Blocks Unblock Minds

Every time I have offered blocks to my students to play, i am amused at what gets built. Our Mumbai kids have visioned super constructions on their mind...let me put down a super-duper list.

1. this is my house and down there is the swimming pool, i can jump from my window into the pool
2. this is my school and adjoining it is my house, i can come home to eat lunch
3. this is my house and two floors higher is your house, we can come to your house to play blocks daily
4. this is my house and in the next tower is my father's office, when pa comes home for lunch, i will go to work in the office.
5. this is my house and i can slide down from here to my friends house.
6. this is my house and this is my mothers house and this is my fathers house.....ahaha ...i wonder what's gettting constructed here...hee hee " :-&  "
7. this is my tower and next to it is "Inorbit Shopping Mall" and inside the mall tower is my School.... ":-0" 

there are many more to this forever growing list :-))) but mind u, i don't see gardens or temple /church showing up in their planned cities...how worthwhile it is to celebrate this vision, i often wonder in pain.

Happy To Help!

The arrival of this gadget in 2012 has been a celebration. The kids at the school have been so happy using it. So many ideas to zoom on and so many interpretations of what they observed. This USB Microscope came at a super-expensive price from Kerala, only when i received it that i found that the it was available at a neat bargain of 40 $.

I used it in my classroom so it was mishandled too....but the excitement was uncontrollable, hence after approx 100 student hrs now the zoom button does not work at all. These art the few first ones the drosophila and the mosquito that were observed, and then kids and i went for an awesome journey under the microscopic world of living and non living things.

One day in the classroom I remember just rubbing my finger over the switch box and found a white clutter, i presumed it was the wallpaper with dust and nothing more, but yet gave it to kids to scan the dust cloud. We were superbly surprise to find a little termite wiggling on the white paper, if u know termites are white too, hence it was very well camouflaged....oh how the kids celebrated this find and we peered at it for over 20 mins! And one kid even exclaimed that..."the termite just pooped" i'm going to believe this as the microscope did give us a very good magnification. All in all, i am ready to buy my nxt one this Diwali and have begun to find my for importing this for myself and my many friends too!