School Zone Alphabet Express Preschool

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $15.45

Features:

• Alphabet Express introduces skills that help children learn to read and spell. This award-winning program combines games, songs and more for hours of fun practice. System Requirements: MAC REQUIREMENTS Mac® OS X 10.4 10.3 10.2.8, PowerPC™ G3 233MHz (or equivalent). 128MB of RAM. 640x480 32-bit color video. 50MB of available disk space. 8x CD-ROM drive. PC REQUIREMENTS Window

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Learning Software for Pre-School / Kindergarten [Posted on 2007-03-21]
My four year old daughter is attending a pre-school where they learn a new letter every week. I bought this for her to reinforce what they are doing at school.

I taught Kindergarten for a short while and I can tell you without a doubt that this program is excellent for very beginning alphabet awareness.
The program won't teach them if they don't know anything, but with a little help or with a little knowledge of a few letters they can really get going. I love it.

There are several games to play from mazes, to matching letters with pictures. These games are a little more advanced, so even Kindergarteners and first graders should have some fun with it.

The part my daughter is working on right now is the very basic core of the program. Each letter has a picture loaded with clickables. Each clickable starts with the letter you are focusing on. It will even say the name of the thing you click on so you can hear the sound. My daughter is beginning to associate the things she clicks on with that letter and she is putting nouns that start with the same letter together in categories. She'll say, "I want the one with the bear and the boy and baseball."

After the clickables, there is also several paint pictures they can play with which are great. All the nouns that start with that letter are on the page and they can use the paint brush on the screen to paint everything. Using the mouse is something else my daughter has had some problems with and this is really giving her practice and she is really improving.

There is also another game where they match pictures of things to the letter that you are working on. It's pretty amusing to watch. When you get something right, a fireman dog climbs a ladder and pulls an elephant's tail to make him put out a fire. The elephant puts the fire out a different way each time.

I also love the fact that the little letter is used and referred to as well as the big letter. Even the matching games use both the big and little letters - separately even, so it reinforces the knowledge that they are different letters with the same sound and not just two letters stuck together.

We have really enjoyed this game and I can see us getting a lot of use out of it. I walked my daughter throught it once together and then after that she was plaing on her own.

Great Product [Posted on 2007-05-13]
My daughter is 3 1/2 years old and she loves playing with this. She has really mastered the mouse and moving around from screen to screen. I can definitely see an increase in her letter recognition and her curiosity to know what letter do things start with. She asks to do her alaphabet all the time.

Alphabet Express  [Posted on 2007-11-13]
My grandson really enjoys this program so I'm happy. The graphics and audio are outstanding and the programs are easy to navigate through. The only thing I don't like is after each little exercise you have to go back to the main menu to start another one even when you stay in the same program/category. Anyway, it has captured my grandson's attention and I have seen vast improvement in his letter recognition and he is starting to spell words now. I think his favorite program is finding the hidden letters in the picture...he's gotten pretty good.

Our twins love it! [Posted on 2008-04-07]
I don't have much experience with other kids' educational games, but this one has certainly captured the attention of our 4 year old twins. It's colorful, fun, and educational. The price seemed right.

Fun, Fun, Fun [Posted on 2008-05-13]
I bought this in a four pack at Marshall's for [...]. Alphabet Express is my 3 1/2 year old's favorite game. It makes learning fun. Buy it but look for a deal! :)

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