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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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Join Curious George as he plays exciting arcade games! He's hunting down circles, targeting triangles and having the time of his life with patterns, shapes and letters! Come join the fun in a series of skill-building games especially designed for active learners.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Preschool Computer Lab Teacher = Thumbs Up!, November 10, 2005
By JoAnn Dodson (Plano, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Curious George Preschool Learning Games (CD-ROM)
I have taught computer lab to preschool children for two years and have used this program both years with much success. It is a great game for my older 3 year old students and my 4-5 year old students. The boys love the rocketship shooting shapes game, and everyone thinks the pie fight is funny. The puzzle game is also popular.
The only problem that I have had with this game is that the menus can be hard for a young child to navigate if he is unfamiliar with it - some require reading (ie "start" or "play"). But once they have an understanding of how to make the games work, they do wonderfully.
I have also noticed that the only way to exit the pie fight game is to lose - if you keep answering correctly, it will play almost indefinitely (more than 10 minutes in a preschoolers' mind is FOREVER). You should see the look of confusion when I tell a child that he must LOSE the game in order to play something else - they are so programed to only WIN!
Overall, I recommend this game to anyone with preschoolers.
Note: I have successfully used this program on both Windows XP and Windows Professional 2000. Works great on either platform.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Encourages New Skills, Reinforces Others!, July 17, 2002
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My just-turned-four-year-old *loved* this CD! We checked it out from the library, and after playing it with him, and seeing how much he learned & how much he loved it, we bought it. The Jukebox game encouraged the emerging skill of rhyming. The Star Patrol reinforced shapes, and encourged learning some new ones (hexagon, etc.). The Pie game was his favorite. This game encourged sorting (same, different, slightly different). We've played many a CD-rom, and this one, by far, is the easiest on parents. No annoying sounds or voices. And the animation looks just like the book, so it's familiar and soothing. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A review of the first edition, May 28, 2001
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We checked this out from the library (actually it is an early version called "Curious George Early Learning Games") and our 2 1/2 year old daughter loved it. She finds the error signs amusing (eg. a pie in the face) . We like it because the voices a re smooth and non-irritative; they are normal speech in appropriate pitch, and therefore easy to understand. Furthermore, the words flow together well, without the typical computer pauses. Best of all, this program has a very nice puzzle game, which plays to one of our daughter's strengths.
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