Curious George Preschool Learning Games
Binding : CD-ROM
ProductGroup : Software
Manufacturer : Simon & Schuster Interactive
Brand : Simon & Schuster
Label : Simon & Schuster Interactive
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Interactive
Model : 0743503856
Platform : Macintosh
Studio : Simon & Schuster Interactive
Lowest Used Price: USD $6.95
Lowest New Price: USD $4.24
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.
Amazon.com Review
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
Amazon.com Product Description
The ever-so-mischievous monkey is at it again. 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. Each game requires the listening skills and the critical-thinking skills that build a foundation for reading. Children explore at their own pace and are gently challenged to build critical-reasoning and reading skills in a magical environment. This product is especially designed to make learning to read fun. Activities include Jingles Jukebox (poetry), Pie Fight (pattern matching), Star Patrol (shapes, letters, colors), Super Fruit Catch, and The Puzzler (puzzle making). As a special bonus, you can print your own Curious George storybook.
Can't escape! (2008-02-22)
My 4 year old is just learning to use the computer. The games in this software are creative but the navigation is not user friendly. First, it uses only a small square in the center of your screen. You choose a game from the delightful menu but you cannot get out and back to the menu if you want to move on. The games are much too long for my son's attention span and I had to use the task manager to quit the program if when I wanted to leave without finishing the game. I am very new in the kid software realm and could have been missing something but this was much tougher to use than any of the others I've bought.
Serious script and play problems (2007-08-27)
It feels like the programmers rushed this game to market without putting it through beta testing (the testing where people who act as real players put the game through its paces). The failure to remember game progress and the need to completely exit the game at certain stages are incredibly annoying for both parent and child.
Amusing, But Problematic at Times (2007-03-10)
I just bought this game this afternoon for my four year-old twins. They like it, but it has a few issues that are HIGHLY irritating. For one thing, I wish the initial game-choosing menu was a little more clear. We found the Fruit Catch game by accident. Also, on some games, it uses 100% CPU resources! This is bad, especially on the already hot-running small-form factor machine I have set up for them. And most irritating of all, on many games there is no way to stop and try another when your kid wants to try something else. I've actually had to do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete application termination just to get out, and then I have to start the program all over again to play a different game (another review mentioned this glaring design flaw). No wonder they are no longer making this game! It's packed with problems. However, it is entertaining and my girls seem to like it well enough.
Preschool Computer Lab Teacher = Thumbs Up! (2005-11-10)
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 (i.e. "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.
curious george ..laughing while learning!! (2003-11-24)
I bought this and my 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 boys they love it!!! the puzzles are great, star shooting game of shapes is great for hand eye coordination and the pie game is awesome they are learing letters, matching, size differentation, all the while laughing!
Curious George Preschool Learning Games
Binding : CD-ROM
ProductGroup : Software
Manufacturer : Simon & Schuster
Brand : Simon & Schuster
Label : Simon & Schuster
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Platform : Macintosh
Studio : Simon & Schuster
Lowest New Price: USD $4.24
- Jingles Jukebox -- You're a poet and you don't know it!
- Pie Fight -- A hilarious pattern matching game served up with plenty of whipped cream!
- Star Patrol -- Learning about shapes, letters and colors is a blast!
- Super Fruit Catch -- Catch fruit in seconds flat or watch it go splat!
- The Puzzler -- Choose your challenge from 4 to 16 pieces!
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.
Preschool Learning Games (2007-01-10)
We purchased this as a gift for our son (Age 4). He loves curious George and he is really enjoying this computer game. It's great to see him learn new skills while having fun and not having to be concerned with content.
