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Software and Games : Software Categories : Children's Fun & Learning : Ages 3-4
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Avanquest Software
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Softkey
This is another excellent product in the Reader Rabbit range, which supports the National Curriculum and is specifically designed to help children progress through each stage of their development, in this instance from 18 months to three years. All the games have been tested by children, parents and teachers, to ensure that the educational content and the make-up of the games is appropriate to this age group, while at the same time guaranteeing that they are effective and fun. The appropriate skills taught and practiced via this CD-ROM include learning the alphabet, counting, learning shapes and colours, memory skills, matching, patterns, mouse control, songs and rhymes, listening to music and sounds, early vocabulary and following directions. It is not necessary to click on the mouse to play the game, as touching the keyboard or a simple swipe on the mouse is sufficient. There are opportunities to print out lots of activities and songs and personalised certificates to support your child's learning. The accessible graphics make the program easy to use and the characters and stories are full of fun. The CD-ROM is also very easy to load--a rewarding experience for adult and child.--Susan Naylor
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Focus Multimedia Ltd
Every child is naturally curious and we all know that children like to play. The Jump Ahead Toddlers (ages one-and-a-half to three) CD-ROM has been specifically designed and produced to capture a child's imagination and to engage their attention by providing fun activities that will stimulate their young minds, making them want to play them again and again.Throughout, children are encouraged to learn letters and numbers, shapes and colours, learn about animals, to discover music and musical instruments, basic vocabulary, listening skills, mouse control, songs and rhymes, IT skills, hand-to-eye co-ordination and many more useful life skills. The music is bright and lively, the graphics are colourful and the whole is explicit, clear and easy to understand. The CD-ROM is easy to load and particularly helpful is a special mode to keep children from accidentally exiting the program. Help will obviously have to be given to the very young, as the program is aimed at children from 18 months to three years old, but before long, the child will want to do the activities by themselves. There is also a pamphlet that has basic information regarding installation and other technical hints and tips, which should be read before beginning.
This is one of a range entitled "Children", a range of "educational entertainment that not only keeps the little ones quiet, but teaches them essential core skills and tentatively introduces them into the realms of computing." --Susan Naylor
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Knowledge Adventure
Join Frankie and friends in Frankie Pet Friends, which includes lots of activities, all aimed at making learning fun. Intended for use with pre-school children (aged three to five years), the CD-ROM could also be successfully used with older children needing to practice certain skills.Parental help and guidance will obviously be needed for the target age range, and it is strongly recommended that parents read the excellent information contained in the manual on the CD-ROM before beginning—it's straightforward, comprehensive and very easy to follow. There's the opportunity to take part in an assessment test, to predetermine a child's skill level. On completion, a diagram of results is shown, indicating skill levels in letter recognition, phonics, colours and shapes, spatial awareness, sizes and patterns, number recognition, counting and quantities, and prereading rhymes, which are all subsequently practiced in the games with Frankie and his friends. Parents can also adjust volumes, view progress, and set curriculum levels.
Children are asked various questions and dependant on the choices made and their learning style, they can be helped to learn using the unique talents of either the Word Smith, the Artist, the Athlete, the Musician, the Maths Whizz, the People Person or the Explorer.
Homeless pets have been rounded up--let your child choose the pet he wants to help, then earn rewards for the pets such as food, toys, songs and brushes, as you play. Get the pet all ready for adoption, and when it has been fully cared for, join Frankie on the Hot Air Balloon, and look for a new home for your charge. The games are accessed in the pre-school classroom, and include picking a pet, playing with magic chalk, making bubbles pop, playing at shape tag, taking perfect pictures, making balloon animals and animal masks, making music, hearing rhymes, playing with the pets in their playroom, and playing in the cloud maze. These enhance phonics and listening skills, upper- and lower-case letter recognition, following directions, spatial awareness, colour and shape recognition, sorting and sizing, classification, patterns, number recognition, visual discrimination, counting one to 10, quantity recognition, early PC graphic and mouse skills, musical appreciation and composition, rhymes, pre-reading skills, all of which are necessary for overall development in later years.
This is an excellent program that is extremely well thought out and easy to install. The games are stimulating, the graphics bright and clear, the music catchy, the instructions are easy to understand and the variety is endless. At times, it was a little slow to respond (tested on a standard home PC) but, all in all, it works well and makes discoveries exciting and learning fun. --Susan Naylor
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
Learning Ladder Preschool is an excellent CD-ROM packed with a wide range of activities for 3-5 year olds. Woody the Pencil guides children through the different activities, which are very well explained.Children will enjoy becoming familiar with the mouse and navigating around the room making toys move and change. They will also enjoy doing the different activities such as painting the colouring book, having a go at recording their voice, listening to a story, doing puzzles and much more.
By clicking on the different bears children can carry out activities related to words, numbers, time, directions/space, shapes and nature/objects. Each of these areas contains 18 different games for children to play, so there is plenty to keep them occupied. There's also a good range of activities, many of which support the Early Years Curriculum at school. For example, there are activities that work on identifying sounds in words and on ordering, counting, matching, etc.
Children are rewarded with stickers when they complete an activity correctly and they will love collecting these in the sticker book. This would be an excellent buy for parents who want to introduce their child to using the computer in a fun and educational way. --Amanda York
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Avanquest Software
Crafted with brilliant colours and the lazy-summer-day pace of the celebrated series, Teletubbies 2: Favourite Games delivers the goods for the toddler set. From the first scene, where the baby-face sun rises across the computer screen, kids will be entranced. Parents will like it too--mostly for the developmental skills the teletubbies teach.The CD-ROM is based around five games, including "Tuning In," "Gymnastic," and "Making Tubby Custard" (which features appropriately silly sound effects). "Hide and Peep" takes the traditional hide and seek game and adds bright red curtains. "Roly Poly" was a particular favourite; when you click on a teletubby it sends Laa-Laa, Tinky Winky, Dipsy, and Po rolling down gorgeous green hills.
A very big pointer triggers the game's actions, and children should be able to use it easily in developing computer skills. These games also help children to learn how to match (from the hiding game) and create ordered sequences (in the case of the custard game). In addition, the game designers have built in considerate additions for the recommended age group, two to four years old. For example, to quit the game parents need to hit the escape key--a good choice for little fingers that might otherwise click an exit icon by mistake. Charming and colourful--like the television show come to life--Teletubbies 2: Favourite Games will please and delight. --Simon Priestly
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Avanquest Software
Dorling Kindersley has produced yet another outstanding and completely new interactive learning system-- My First CD-ROM: Getting Ready For School--to help children develop key pre-school skills while providing parents with advice and information on child development. It has been written in consultation with Sue Robson, a renowned early years' teacher, educational consultant and author, who is a senior lecturer at the Roehampton Institute.Meet Zack, a Jack-in-the-box and friendly on-screen guide whose aim is to make learning fun. Hear his clear explanations and animated instructions on how to play the six easy games. Each one can be adapted to suit your child's level of understanding and their fine motor skills. For example, choices can be made between using the mouse or the keyboard, or selecting different speeds or levels of difficulty, choosing between hearing letters as phonetic sounds or as names, and so on. This flexibility enables games to be adapted over and over again as your child's skills develop, so building and developing a child's confidence.
The package is designed for 3-5 year-olds, under parental supervision, or for slightly older children to use on their own. Progress can be monitored and difficulty levels can be adjusted according to age and ability. The games aim to acquaint and help children with the key topics covered in the first year at school, and include number recognition, logic, counting, mathematical language, shapes and sizes, spatial awareness, speaking and listening, letter recognition and letter sounds. Work sheets can be printed out which can extend learning beyond the PC. Buy this package for your youngster, and lay firm foundations with its highly effective approach to parent-assisted learning. --Susan Naylor
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SoftKey
Your children will thoroughly enjoy the software version of Dr Seuss's classic Green Eggs and Ham.While Sam's story is best-suited for toddlers and pre-schoolers, older siblings can still enjoy playing the included games for a time or two as well. Required mouse skills are basic, so even younger users should be able to play on their own. Clear, bright images are nearly identical to the original book illustrations, with the simple animation providing new excitement as the story builds to its "surprising" climax.
With Dr Seuss's excellent combination of phonics and word repetition, your children will receive a great introduction to crucial early-reading skills. --Jill Lightner
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Knowledge Adventure
It's summer holiday time and the Adiboo Choo Seaside Adventure CD-ROM invites young children to join Adiboo Choo and his friends in travelling to the seaside for adventure and learning games on the beach.On the golden sands, with a colourful boat moored in the sea, children are encouraged to play and learn with crabs, fish, buckets and spades, and shells. All learning games have seaside themes and are clearly introduced and explained by Adiboo Choo's two fun friends, Pompom and Chipin. To start a game, children simply click on one of the main objects on the beach. When they've clicked on a seashell, children can start to create a simple necklace of attractive shells by dragging and clicking with their mouse buttons. Adding to the realism, these actions will even create small imprints in the sand as they do it, and traditional seaside sounds such as seagulls and waves add to the experience.
All the activities in Adiboo Choo Seaside Adventure are clearly introduced and it is easy to leave a game if you've had enough. Children are encouraged and praised throughout--when fishing you have to put a number of fish in a net and happy smiling fish appear when a task has been successfully completed. Shape and colour recognition and counting skills are taught in a fun way, and a detailed accompanying booklet for parents means they can be assured that basic skills are being taught. Also available: Adiboo Choo Countryside Adventure. --Justin Hunt
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Knowledge Adventure
In the Adiboo Choo Countryside Adventure CD-ROM the cheerful alien invites young children to jump aboard the Boocopter, his colourful flying house, to fly them to the countryside for interactive fun.Travel with Adiboo Choo and his friends to visit the Guessing Barn where you click on animals to hear the noises they make and guess what they are. In addition to teaching skills such as recognising sounds, Adiboo Choo Countryside Adventure also encourages children to show consideration for others. There's a game in which you help a lost little rabbit find its mother by clicking and dragging with the mouse. Huge red cartoon-like hearts appear in the sky when they are both successfully reunited.
If they tire of being in the countryside, children can explore Adiboo Choo's magical house. Simple clicking triggers off all kinds of entertaining learning activities--a click on the rocking horse starts a cowboy game and you have to fetch a hat for Adiboo Choo. And when they go into the toy box in the corner of the room, children can hear well-sung nursery rhymes and learn the actions that go with them.
Adiboo Choo Countryside Adventure is a well-structured and entertaining CD-ROM for children aged 2 to 4 and has been developed in collaboration with nursery school teachers to ensure basic skills are taught. Some parental supervision is required but parents are likely to enjoy themselves as well. Also available: Adiboo Choo Seaside Adventure. --Justin Hunt
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Sherston
This delightful set of three CD-ROMs wil encourage your child to develop basic and early literacy skills, to develop vocabulary and use close observation to distinguish between images. On each of the CD-ROMs children can select from two different activity types (Which piece? and Which pair?) to complete simple two-piece puzzles that animate when answered correctly. Activities are self-correcting, so your child wil enjoy a feeling of achievement whatever his/her ability. Mini Matchers 1 has three topics to choose from: Who's Hiding (encourages familiarisation with simple prepositions), Things That Go Together (for example flowers and a vase), and Opposites. Mini Matchers 2offers the choice of the following three topics: Whose baby? (matching baby animals with the right mother), Whose tail? (match an animal to its correct tail) and Whose home? (match an animal with its home). Mini Matchers 3 has three topics to choose from: Find the Letter (practices recognition of lower and upper case letters of the alphabet), Find the Word (learn and consolidate spellings of common words) and Find the Rhyme (begin to learn about rhyme) There's a whole host of fun, learning experiences in this pack! Highly recommended.
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Softkey
Children who love everyone's favourite penguin will adore Pingu and Friends. Packed full of the slick graphics the BBC excels at producing, very young ones will love the package just because they can watch one of their favourite characters at work. Children who can master the mouse or keyboard, however, will get much, much more out of the games.Dance with Pingu and his friends, and repeat their sequences to build pattern and sequential reasoning; snowball your friends and improve hand-to-eye co-ordination, aim and fine motor skills (but don't hit the washing or grandma, or you will be in trouble!); improve your memory in "Pingu Pairs", a kind of ice-age Pelmanism that is graphically superb and a definite highlight of the whole package.
Just the menu screen is delightful: an icy scene that allows you to select your games and changes hue as snow falls come and go. All in all, this is a fantastic package worthy of the BBC name. --Lucie Naylor
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Avanquest Software
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Avanquest Software
If your child is getting that Fimbling Feeling, try Fimbles Fimbling Fun, one of an excellent range of CD-ROMs and console games produced by the BBC. It includes lots of songs, stories and video clips from the popular TV programme. Let your child join the Fimbles and their friends for fun and enjoyment in a world of make believe.There are lots of learning situations, all designed with fun in mind. Objects must be found: a suitcase, a pebble, a feather, a shimmy shaker, and blue footprint, all of which lead to various activities, including a music game, a maze game, a collage, a suitcase game, stories, tickling games, songs and discovery sequence videos. All these wonderfully exciting activities will lead children to meet Florrie, Pebble, Ribble, Rockit, Roly Mo, and Baby Pom, and if any help is needed, Bessie is always on hand to tell children what everything on the screen does.
Also included are activities designed specifically for adults to play and do with children, so that the learning and fun can be developed after the CD-ROM has been switched off. These include printing out and colouring in, finding games, and more. All of the games can be played at different levels of skill and difficulty to cater for a range of abilities. The BBC has developed this CD-ROM in line with the national curriculum at the foundation stage, and recommends that it is suitable for children aged 2 years and above. Skills which can be practiced and developed include mouse control, listening, following directions, observation, cause and effect, and creativity.
Accompanying the package is a first-rate, colour instruction booklet which is extremely well set out and it should be read by parents or helpers before play is commenced. --Susan Naylor
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Sherston
This is one of Sherston's most popular titles ever and winner of a Practical Pre-school Silver Award! It's used in thousands of playgroups, nurseries and reception classrooms in UK schools.Ideal for early readers and non-readers getting to grips with a range of basic literacy and numeracy skills. The CD-ROM contains 12 simple interactive activities which, whilst fun to complete, will develop children's understanding of concepts such as sequencing stories, identifiying letter sounds, matching numerals with sets of items and much, much more. Each activity has three levels of difficulty allowing them to be used with a range of abilities. Re-versioned in 2007 to include two brand new activities, new graphics, narration and sound effects PLUS a Inclusion Tab to support children with special educational needs (for example you can choose to use the space bar rather than the mouse to make selections, or change the colour and size of the font). If there's only one early learning program you can afford to buy for your child, Sherston recommend it's this one!
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Sherston
Take a trip to Rainbow Street by Sherston and meet the people who help us to stay healthy and safe. This carefully constructed CD gently supports young children in developing their understanding of different roles in society and why these roles matter, whilst also helping develop vocabulary, listening, observation and thinkiing skills. The CD covers fire-fighters, police, paramedics, doctors, nurses and dentists. in the Visit Rainbow Street section children can : choose a house choose a person to live in it choose a job for that person choose a place where that person works choose a way they might help us and we might help them In the Play Activities area, there is a choice of four activities: dress a person in the right uniform to match their job listen to a description of what someone does and match it to the right person sing along with the Rainbow Street theme tune and respond to other music Find the right person from a series of clues Children can use the spacebar instead of a mouse if they are not yet able yet to control a mouse.
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Sherston
Splodge, the lovable blue paint splat, accompanies children as they search the early years classroom for his missing friends, who have been scattered by the mischievous Peter Paintbrush. Along the way, Splodge and the children encounter a whole host of thought-provoking cross-curricular challenges, including mending the toy-making machine, creating the correct sequence to blow Billy Boat across the water tray, building a roundabout for the playground and decorating fussy Panda's cake. Windows PC compatible. Perfect for children aged 3 to 5 - educationally sound and fun!
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Sherston
Sherston's Monkeys, Ducks and Frogs is a delightful program with 21 fun-filled activities to improve basic counting skills. With the help of three popular songs (Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, Five Little Ducks went swimming one Day and Five Green and Speckled Frogs) children will learn to count up to five, practice one to one correspondence, develop their mouse skills, recall sequences of animals and much more! Develops counting, listening, problem-solving skills as well as practising fine motor skills by using a mouse or a switch to interact with tasks. The design of Sherston's Monkeys, Ducks and Frogs ensures that there is a vibrant stimulus on which young children can focus and which will maintain their interest. The songs, graphics, animations and sound effects mean that although pupils believe they are just playing and having fun, they are also participating in a wealth of learning! Highly recommended for ages 3-5 Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 compatible
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Avanquest Software
