Description:
Curious George stops getting into trouble in his Preschool Learning Games to direct young children in their own discoveries. This CD-ROM teaches kids shapes, colors, pattern recognition, rhyming, and more, while offering fun animation consistent with the beloved storybooks. Games such as star patrol, pie fight, and jingles jukebox help up to eight different users develop new skills, and extras like the progress report help parents track their child's learning. This program stresses many of the same skills that other preschool software programs cover, but with an additional element of challenge: the different skill levels offer basic to advanced lessons that support continued learning and add to the longevity of the program. For example, star patrol not only supports early-learning concepts like shape and color recognition but also introduces geometry--trapezoids and the like--a subject not ordinarily introduced to preschoolers. And, to keep the program fun, the games are smartly animated with humorous, pie-in-the-face antics. This CD-ROM may not cast George in his traditional mischievous role, but he defiantly adds to standard educational-software fare with his fun and playful learning activities. The animation is extremely entertaining--we see everything from George getting sent into space to pies flying not only at onscreen characters but also at players! The necessity of reading the directions aloud dictates parental involvement, as do the parental controls, which include the ability to track a child's performance. --Madeleine J. Miller
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