Building Block for Preschool Success Product Features Disney's Mickey Mouse Preschool is set in a funky 50's style roadside diner, just off a busy highway. It's a fascinating and inviting world for your child to explore, full of hustle and bustle. There's a diner, a workshop and body shop, gas pumps and even an old car upon blocks. Preschoolers will explore a supportive learning environment in a roadside pit-stop off the highway near Mickey's home. While interacting with Mickey and his friends, kids are learning about 123's, ABC's, colors and shapes and other age appropriate skills. Disney's Mickey Mouse Preschool is filled with activities that build self-confidence by means of continuous positive reinforcement from Mickey and his friends. Skills Learned •Letter Recognition •Number Recognition •Early Reading •Phonics •Counting •Math Readiness •Matching •Music Appreciation •Early Music Concepts •Opposites •Listening Skills •Strategic Thinking •Cause and Effect •Observation •Computer Mouse Skills Key Benefits The active learning philosophy seeks to make learning fun and interesting by allowing children to exercise creativity while mastering key skills. There is an emphasis on exploration and discovery. Children learn an activity by playing it, without needing elaborate instructions. There are opportunities to develop problem-solving skills that will equip children to be lifelong learners. Full of humor and surprise, the activities engage the child and allow him/her the power of choice. The Mickey Mouse Learning series uses active learning principles to stimulate learning in an entertaining and positive environment. Different children have varying abilities at different ages. In addition, a particular child's development can change radically in a short time. Disney's Learning Series dynamically and intuitively adjusts to the abilities of the child playing the game so that it is fun and not frustrating for the 2 year old, and still as fun, yet challenging, for the going on 4 year old. Activities Include Tune-Up Time In the busy auto shop, a mechanic is at work as a tune plays on the radio. Your child is free to explore the different noise and music combinations as they click on the various objects it he workshop. Click on the mechanic and he'll grab a tool or piece of machinery and keep time to the rhythm. There are also a bunch of objects in the garage that will make interesting noises if they are clicked on. Clicking on the radio causes the station to change creating a new noisy mechanical symphony! Skills Learned: •Music •Creativity Goofy's Body Shop Goofy's a very creative mechanic, but in this busy Body Shop, he could sure use some help customizing an endless line-up of cars. Your child can creatively participate by choosing which color to paint the different kinds of funky tires. Hitting the go button causes the car to be pulled out of the body shop on the conveyer belt and a new chassis will enter, ready for customizing. Skills Learned: •Creativity •Colors Knock the Can Donald Duck is in the back of Daisy's diner hanging up the laundry when his three favorite nephews,, Huey, Dewey, and Louie show up, ready for mischief. Even though they promise their uncle they'll stay out of trouble, as soon as he leaves they launch into a round of their favorite game - Knock the Can. All they need now is a bunch of empty cans and someone to help them aim the garden hose! In this action packed arcade style game, shapes, numbers and other objects appear on a sandwich board at the side of the screen. Tin cans are lined up along the fence, each displaying a different symbol. When your child aims the crosshair and sprays water at the tin can with the matching symbol, it gets knocked off the fence. When all of the objects on the sandwich board have been hit, a new set of objects appears on the board to match. Skills Learned: •Letter Recognition •Letter Matching (upper; lower to lower; upper to lower) •Number Recognition 1-20 •Shapes •Colors •Mouse Skills •Prediction (spatial) •Spatial Visualization Gas Pumps Ding! Ding! Here comes another customer wheeling into Goofy's Highway Pitstop. Your child gets to direct the eager young attendance running the gas pumps, selecting the right amount and color of gas. By listening to the customer's request, your child decides what the car needs before it heads back onto the highway. There goes another satisfied customer! As the cars roll in, listen to the customer's request. By clicking on the various dials on the pump, you can select the color and amount of gas to dispense. Once the amount and color have been selected, the nozzle will start to vibrate. Clicking on the nozzle will cause the attendant to spring into action. Skills Learned: •Colors •Color Mixing •Number Recognition 1-20 •Following Directions •Listening Skills •Short Term Memory Huey, Dewey, and Louie's Opposite Car An old car up on blocks provides the perfect setting for this exploratory activity in which your child will learn about such concepts as opposites and cause and effect. Joined by Huey, Dewey, and Louie, they can try out all the knobs and dials under the watchful eye of Mickey. Try clicking on the radio, the turn signals, look in the rear view mirror, twirl the odometer, click the turn indicators, turn on the air conditioning, turn on the wipers, honk the horn, and open and close the glove compartment. Clicking on any of these items will produce a response from the three "backset drivers." It's a fun and safe way to explore a place that fascinates most children - the inside of a car. Skills Learned: •Opposites •Cause & Effect •Left/Right •Counting to 100 •Prediction •Discovery/Surprise Daisy's Diner Welcome to Daisy's busy roadside diner. Today's blue plate special is - fun with a side order of games! Pull up a seat at the counter. The placemat in front of you becomes the activity center with pages that can either be printed out for the play off the computer later or can be played on the computer, using the screen as the palette. Skills Learned: •Letter Identification •Number Identification to 20 •Patterns •Same/Different •Phonics •Logic •Vocabulary •What doesn't belong? •Relative Sizes (small/medium/big) Product Features •Over 40 essential developmental skills for preschoolers •Identifying and recognizing letters, numbers, shapes and colors •Introduction to early math and language arts •Explore cause and effect and problem solving •Subject matter reinforced with printable worksheets Windows System Requirements •Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) •300 MHz Pentium II or faster processor (800 MHz for Vista & 7) •128 MB of RAM (512 MB for Vista & 7) •200 MB free Hard Disk space •800 x 600 monitor, 16-bit color •32 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible Video Card •16-bit DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card and speakers •8X CD-ROM drive

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