Crayola Animation Studio [Download]

Crayola Animation Studio [Download] Review

Crayola Animation Studio [Download] Feature

• Children learn basic animation and computer skills and quickly learn the program features with the animated Program Tour
• Learn animation techniques with fun activities in the Activity Guide
• Hundreds of pre-set colors or mix unique colors on digital palettes
• Import any standard digital file and export in standard file formats for use in other programs
• Twelve realistic art tools simulating real art media

Crayola Animation Studio, for kids aged 6 to 10, brings artwork to life! It combines sequences of images to generate moving images, using a film frame metaphor. See the previous frame as a shadow when you are drawing the current frame. Create exciting moving images in minutes.

Go Fish [Download]

Go Fish [Download] Review

Go Fish [Download] Feature

• Real Go Fish rules
• Play against the computer AI
• Fast animated action
• Detailed game rules included
• Kid safe and mother approved!

Play the classic card game Go Fish on your computer. A great game for kids. Compete against the computer's AI players for a real challenge. The object of Go Fish is to make “books”, 4 cards of the same value. Classic card game fun for all ages!

Frog Frenzy [Download]

Frog Frenzy [Download] Review

Frog Frenzy [Download] Feature

• Over 20 frog hoppin' fun levels
• Save your best scores in the High-score table
• Addicting game-play with super-cool power-ups
• Best-selling PC retro arcade game
• Kid safe and mother approved!

Classic retro-arcade Frog hoppin' fun! Guide Froggy through treacherous traffic and across bodies of water to reach his goal. Grab power-ups along the way to make the journey easier. It's your job to keep Froggy safe! A classic best-selling game.

My First Math Adventure: Adding & Subtracting 1.1

My First Math Adventure: Adding & Subtracting 1.1 Review

My First Math Adventure: Adding & Subtracting 1.1 Feature

• For Ages 5 - 8
• Help your child develop essential early math concepts
• Windows 3.1/95/98
• Macintosh OS 7/8

The second, companion title in the My First Math Adventure series. Working at their own pace, children develop problem-solving skills by utilizing math skills in a practical way by following the adventures of White Bear and his hilarious sidekick, Little Penguin.

JUMP START TYPING

JUMP START TYPING Review

JUMP START TYPING Feature

• For Ages 7 - 12
• Combines arcade-style game play and challenging activities
• Make learning to type fun and easy.
• Train with over 30 lessons; Skill levels automatically adjust
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Platform:  WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA Publisher:  KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE Packaging:  JEWEL CASE Rating:  AGES: 7-12 Become an Extreme Key-Boarder While Playing Cool Games!  Designed specifically for kids JumpStart Typing combines arcade-style game play and challenging activities with timed typing lessons and technique movies to make learning to type fun and easy.Rockin' Rock Climbing Key your way to the top while avoiding obstacles!Ultimate Skateboarding Practice your typing as you master skateboard tricks.Radical Snowboarding Type the correct letter combinations as you race down an icy slope! A special diagnostic evaluation determines your child's base typing abilityMovie clips teach correct hand placement posture and other typing fundamentalsTrain with over 30 lessons!Skill levels automatically adjust to your child's growing abilitiesPlay arcade-style practice games to improve speed and accuracy System Requirements for Windows Windows Vista XP 2000266 MHz or faster processor64 MB RAM (128 MB for Vista or XP)100 MB free hard disk space640x480 monitor 16-bit colorWindows-compatible sound card & speakers12X CD-ROM drive

READER RABBIT PER PRESCHOOL DLX 2CD JC

READER RABBIT PER PRESCHOOL DLX 2CD JC Review

READER RABBIT PER PRESCHOOL DLX 2CD JC Feature

• Join Reader Rabbit and his friends on a wonder-filled ride to new and exciting places. [Ages 3 - 5]
• This educational play world is filled with letters, numbers, shapes and more!
• Skills Learned: Letter Names & Sounds; Phonics & Early Reading, Numbers & Counting
• Matching & Sequencing; Spatial Relationships; Simple Arithmetic; Shapes & Colors; and More!
• A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology adjusts to your child. [Windows 95/98/Me/XP, Mac OS 7/8/9]

With the Personalized Learning Center disc, you can check each player's progress on any program that uses the Learning Company's A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology. You can also print out workbooks, activities, and reward certificates that are customized for each individual player based on his or her progress information.

Join Reader Rabbit and his friends on a wonder-filled ride to new and exciting places. This educational play world is filled with letters, numbers, shapes and more! These activities keep your child engaged and entertained for hours. Reader Rabbit Personalized Preschool is an excellent way to prepare your child for Preschool and beyond!

Reader Rabbit Personalized Preschool features A.D.A.P.T. Learning TechnologyTM-a dynamic system that continually adjusts the program to match your child's growing abilities.

A. Assesses Abilities
D. Develop Skills
A. Adjusts Levels
P. Provides Help
T. Track Progress

Learning is always stimulating and never frustrating. A.D.A.P.T is the most effective way to build skills, confidence, and a life-long love of learning.

Skills Learned:

• Letter Names & Sounds
• Phonics & Early Reading
• Numbers & Counting
• Matching & Sequencing
• Spatial Relationships
• Simple Arithmetic
• Shapes & Colors
• Memory & Listening
• Patterns & Classifications
• Logic & Prediction
• Listening Skills
• Vocabulary Building
• Creativity
• Music & Songs

Features:

• 60 Interactive & Printable Activities
• More than 35 Skills Covered
• Sing-along Songs
• Four Skill Levels
• Automatic Help
• Parent's Progress Reports
• Customized Workbooks & Rewards
• It's perfect for ages 3-5!

Windows System Requirements:

• Win

  
  

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat Review

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat Feature

• Learn about animals (habitats, eating habits and classification); weather, clouds; the solar system; earth science; the human body and its systems; electricity and magnetism.
• Targets: 6 to 10 years old
• Four (4) levels of difficulty
• A marvelously 3D universe, seen from the perspective of a mouse.
• This story-based title is a wonderful mix of educational and entertainment.

This wonderful title from the award-winning Mia series allows children from 6 to 10 years old to learn about animals, their habitats, their eating habits and classification; the solar system; the human body; the clouds; the planets; the water cycle and much more ! With four (4) levels of difficulty, it offers a story, a quest and an adventure while using a unique navigation that provides real-time control of the main character, Mia. The title features a marvelously rich 3D universe, seen from the perspective of a mouse, feature-film quality animation, colorful and endearing characters and educational activities that are both enriching and entertaining. The activities give the children a chance to test their knowledge about or learn for the first time age-appropriate scientific concepts and scientific terminology. The Mia series has won over 130 awards including Best e-learning program from the United Nations. Story: Mia has borrowed her mother’s fancy new hat without her permission and it has been snatched by the evil rat Romaine and his cousins. Mia needs your help to retrieve the lost hat, and then find her way back home. Some Awards: Winner - Upper Elementary Science Category - Bessie Awards (USA); Grand Prize, Educational Software category -

Polar Games

Polar Games Review

Polar Games Feature

• Ball Control in mid-air with your mouse
• Play 18 gorgeous holes of the Polar Country Club
• Experience Santa's cool swing
• Score bonus points and shoot further with power rings
• Unlock 8 Polar characters with your high-score

Platform:  WINDOWS 98/ME/2000/XP Publisher:  MUMBO JUMBO Packaging:  RETAIL BOX Rating:  EVERYONE Includes 2 Polar Bear Games: Polar Bowler and Polar Golfer.Polar Bowler:Join the coolest group of characters to ever hit the lanes from some Arctic fun.  Polar Bowler has crazy action and loads of friendly characters straight from the Arctic North.  You control the action as you steer Polar Bowler around obstacles and watch him plunge head first into the pins. Test your skills and bring y our friends.  Multiplayer mode will provide you with hours of excitement to last though those looong Arctic nights.FeaturesThe funniest and most entertaining bowling game yetUse arcade-style power-ups to multiply your score and knock down pinsSteer your Arctic buddy around obstacles while collecting power-ups7 challenging lanes and 6 characters to choose from4 player can compete to find out who is the champion of Polar BowlerPolar Golfer:Fore! this is the coolest golfing game you will ever encounter.  Choose from 8 of the wildest golfers to ever hit the links.  Now you really can "be the ball" as you steer and slide the ball from the tee to the hole.  Fly through bonus rings for a boost of power a free stroke or more points to help you take the championship.  Play against the computer or challenge up to four of your friends.  This game is a hole in one for fun!Features:Control the ball in mid-airPlay 18 challenging holes at the Polar Country ClubScoop up bonus points and shoot insane distances with Power RingsChoose from 8 different outlandish charactersCompete with up to 4 players to become the Polar Golfer championSystem Requirements: Windows 98/2000/ME/XPPentium 650 MHz or better128 MB RAMDirectX 7 or later3D Hardware Accelerated Video Card with 16MB RAM

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures [OLD VERSION]

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures [OLD VERSION] Review

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures [OLD VERSION] Feature

• Save Mrs. Mac?s macaroni crop from a cheese avalanche using your math skills!
• Pirate Maze Reading Construct sentences, tell the time, and identify shapes to complete the Pirate maze!

Reader Rabbit and his friend Sam the Lion are innocently piloting their Dreamship through the sky when--from out of nowhere--a Pie Rat ship attack knocks them for a loop. The ship crashes into a sticky mass of cheese on a high mountaintop, while Sam and Reader Rabbit fall into the sea below. In Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade: Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures, players must get the intrepid adventurers back to the ship before the Pie Rats take it over.

Aimed at children in the second grade, this Reader Rabbit program offers a challenging series of educational games. Players must climb Mount Cheesemore, for example, by completing a series of math formulas. The challenge is to place the cheese blocks correctly, in such a way that all the formulas are balanced. Getting one or two of the numbers to tally may be easy, but completing the third can be quite the test. In another game, crossing a fast-flowing river depends on the user's ability to make compound words, or to identify synonyms and antonyms.

The games are perfect for children studying or previewing a second-grade curriculum. They are set at a perfect range of difficulty, simple at first, but with an automatic increase in toughness as players master the spelling, science, and math skills presented in the activities. At higher levels, parental assistance may be required to complete the puzzles. What's more, players must complete some tasks in order to get to others--there is no way to skip out on the language or science drills if you want to rescue the Dreamship.

This is not to say that the game is low on entertainment value. It is filled with bright characters and charming animations. As a setting, Mount Cheesemore provides pleasant and consistent goofiness. The educational content is not understated--children will know they are working--but the game environment is fun and offers plenty of enjoyment and variety along the way. --Alyx Dellamonica With seven cheese-ilicious activities you’re infor a giant slice of adventureProduct InformationWhen the fabulous Dreamship crash lands into gooey Mt. Cheesemore Reader Rabbitand Sam must find it before the bungling Pirates get there first. Our heroesneed your help using skills in grammar reading science fractions and tellingtime. With seven cheese-ilicious activities you’re in for a giant slice ofadventure!Skills Learned Creating equations Identifying number patterns Counting by multiples Comparing number values Identifying fractions Telling time Building vocabulary Synonyms & antonyms Building compound words Reading comprehension Constructing sentences Using punctuation & capitals Identifying insect anatomy Problem solving Drawing & paintingProduct FeaturesCheese Brick SpellingUse your spelling and phonics skills to help Larry Laidback fix the cheesebricks transporter!Pirate Maze ReadingConstruct sentences tell the time and identify shapes to complete the Piratemaze!Cheddar Cheese EquationsSave Mrs. Mac’s macaroni crop from a cheese avalanche using your math skills!Features Auto-adjusting skill levels Progress tracing reports Printable activitiesWindows Requirements Windows 98 Me 2000 XP Vista 166 MHz Pentium or faster 32 MB RAM 100 MB free hard disk space 640x480 monitor 16-bit color SoundBlaster compatible sound card & speakers (stereo recommended) 8X CD-ROM drive Internet access recommended Color printer recommendedMacintosh Requirements Mac OS 8.6–9.2 OS X PowerPC 180 MHz or faster 32 MB RAM 100 MB free hard disk space 640x480 monitor thousands of colors 16-bit stereo sound 8X CD-ROM drive Internet access recommended Color printer recommended

Typing Quick & Easy 17

Typing Quick & Easy 17 Review

Typing Quick & Easy 17 Feature

• Built-in Typing Plans
• Touch-typing strategies
• Over 50 comprehensive lessons
• A wide variety of test material

Typing Quick & Easy 17.0

The Fastest Way to Improve Your Typing Skills!

Typing Quick & Easy is the ultimate typing teacher! By combining effective instructional techniques with easy-to-use menus, you’ll learn touch-typing quickly and easily. Typing Quick & Easy also adds fun and challenging exercises to the learning process with timed tests, eight exciting typing games, and interesting articles for transcription practice.

Easy, Fast & Fun

• Built-in Typing Plans
• Touch-typing strategies
• Over 50 comprehensive lessons
• A wide variety of test material
• Timed & non-timed tests
• Instant feedback on WPM & accuracy
• Progress reports by key, finger, hand & row
• Over 250 practice articles
• Eight, high-quality typing games
• Over 50 music soundtracks
• Beginner, Learned Keys & Advanced levels

Analyze the results of your typing exercises by specific keystrokes.

Award-Winning Typing Techniques

Typing Quick & Easy tailors the learning experience to your needs. Whether you’re new to typing or you just need to sharpen your skills, Typing Quick & Easy has the right lesson for you.

Learn to Touch-Type

Quickly learn the correct finger-to-key positioning and begin typing without looking at the keys.

• Includes positioning for standard keyboards, split keyboards & the 10-key numeric keypad.
• Proven touch-typing teaching methods incorporate double key-stroking, instant feedback & a step-by-step educational design.
• Watch your WPM increase as you type & use music to develop your typing rhythm.

Increase Speed & Accuracy

Build speed and accuracy through typing tests of varying length and difficulty. Tests are designed not only to evaluate your new skills, but also to help you improve skills in specific areas.

• Build your speed with timed typing tests & your stamina with non-timed tests & lessons.
• Choose from a variety of tests including random words, complete sentences & other specially designed tests.
• Assess your level of advancement using tests such as the Expert Touch Typist Test.
• Create personalized lessons & tests using your own material.

Engaging Interactions

Effective Results & Feedback
After each typing lesson, test, and article transcription, you receive immediate feedback on your speed (WPM) and accuracy percentage. Each result is saved for further review.

• View or print results to pinpoint strong & weak areas.
• Examine all or a portion of your saved results to determine speed & accuracy trends.
• Assess specific keystroke data by hand, finger, row & key.

Evaluate your progress & pinpoint areas for improvement.

Games Enhance the Learning Experience

Eight exciting typing games challenge you to improve your typing skills.

• Xtreme Typing
• Flotsam Fighter II
• Wild West
• Sea Adventure
• Diamond Glider
• Erik the Viking
• Gone Fishin'
• Cliffhanger

Interesting Articles Keep You Practicing

• Magazines offer a variety of articles & short stories.
• With over 250 interesting articles to choose from, there is something for everyone.
• You can even personalize & organize your own articles.

Typing Quick & Easy is the ultimate typing teacher! By combining effective instructional techniques with easy-to-use menus, you'll learn touch-typing quickly and easily. Typing Quick & Easy also adds fun and challenging exercises to the learning process with timed tests, eight exciting typing games, and interesting articles for transcription practice. Timed & non-timed tests Instant feedback on WPM & accuracy Progress reports by key, finger, hand & row Over 250 practice articles Eight high-quality typing games Over 50 music soundtracks Beginner, Learned Keys & Advanced levels.

Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs

Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs Review

Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs Feature

• Fun and Educational
• 4 Levels of Difficulty
• Colorful and endearing characters
• New game, new story, new activities

Mia's Reading Adventure is an interactive adventure where children recognize words and their spelling, add vocabulary, learn grammar, practice phonics and rhymes. For ages 5-9 years old.

Reading Blaster 6 - 8

Reading Blaster 6 - 8 Review

Reading Blaster 6 - 8 Feature

• Reading Blaster 6 - 8 Version 1.0

Rocket to Planet Reading! The Mumbles have invaded Earth and hidden all the books! Use your reading skills to help Blaster, GC and Mel find the clues they need to recover the missing books.

Kids Learn:

• Sentence structure
• Compound words and contractions
• Syllables, prefixes and suffixes
• Punctuation and capitalization
• Antonyms, synonyms and homonyms
• Past and present tenses
• 2,000 vocabulary words

...and more!

Geyser Valley

• Block the geysers by counting the number of syllables in each word.

Volcano Drop

• Travel down the volcano using your alphabetizing skills.

Juice Shack

• Choose a fun story to read!

System Requirements for Windows

• Windows Vista, XP
• Pentium II 450 MHz or faster processor
• 64 MB RAM
• 10 MB free hard disk space
• 800x600 resolution, 16-bit color
• DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with 32 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• 12X CD-ROM drive
• 56K modem or better, browser and ISP required for online features

Operating System: WINDOWS 98/XP/VISTA

JumpStart Study Helpers Spelling Bee

JumpStart Study Helpers Spelling Bee Review

Turn studying your spelling words into a game!Product InformationHow do you get your child to study for spelling tests? Make it into a game! With JumpStart Study Helpers your child simply enters his weekly spelling wordsinto the computer and starts playing.  With arcade-style activitiesplaying the games means your child is practicing the words and improving theirtest scores!Product Features Easy input allows your child to enter spelling lists for individual learning Five grades of content from 1st – 5th Grade 6 levels automatically adjust to your child’s growing abilities Incorrect words are recycled in the games for more practice 1700 Pre-Programmed Words included for additional practice Includes all critical spelling rules (e.g. "i" before "e" except after "c") Bilingual instructions in English and SpanishWindows System Requirements Windows 2000 XP Vista Windows 7 (32-bit) 266 MHz or faster processor 64 MB of RAM (128 MB for Vista or XP) 100 MB free hard disk space 640x480 monitor 16-bit color Windows-compatible sound card & speakers 12X CD-ROM drive