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As a trainload of critters chugs around the onscreen alphabet, kids click on a letter, and uppercase and lowercase versions fly, bounce, or pour onto the scene in a Sesame Street moment. The letters dissolve to a garden scene for G, an orchestra for O, and so forth. Click on the onion in the orchestra pit, and a kid's voice intones "Onion!" while the squirrel holding the thing begins to cry piteously. There are similar scenes for every letter of the alphabet--though designers cheated a bit and combined X, Y, and Z. Kids can also paint different alphabet-emphasizing pictures, play a sounding-out/letter-matching game, and look at instructions on how to write each letter. A separate section of activities includes find-the-hidden-letter games, dot-to-dots that teach alphabetizing, and mazes that must be conquered by matching objects to their beginning letter. Finally, and most delightfully, there's a movie theater where kids can watch a couple of priceless animated shorts: one is a James Brown-esque ditty belted out by a chicken, listing the (alphabetized) items that make Hearty Chicken Alphabet Soup so special. Anchors, basketballs, and carburetors are a few of the secret ingredients.
The animation in Alphabet Express isn't smooth, but the audio is lush: O's orchestra section is replete with the dissonant sound of strings tuning up before the symphony; the tired old ABC song gets a hip-hop makeover; a host of different (and non-annoying) kid and adult voices pronounce letters and guide visitors. Even if this weren't a strong CD-ROM, it'd be worth checking out, just to learn the remaining ingredients in Hearty Chicken Alphabet Soup. (Ages 3 to 6) --Anne Erickson
| PLATFORM: | Macintosh, Windows |
| AGE GROUP: | 24 months - 4 years, 24 months - 4 years, 24 months - 4 years |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | School Zone |
| ESRB RATING: | Rating Pending |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, PC: Microsoft Windows 95/98 or higher, 24 MB RAM, 640x480 16-bit Color Video, 16-Bit Sound Card 486 DX-66 MHz or faster processor,, 40 MB free disk space, 4x CD-ROM drive, MAC: Mac OS System 7.5.5 or higher, 24 MB RAM, 640x480, 16-bit Color Video, 16-Bit Sound Card, 40 MB free disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive, School Zone Interact, Mac and PC |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | 08701 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 076645087010 |
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Customer Reviews of School Zone Alphabet Express Preschool
Alphabet Express 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.
Great Product
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.
Excellent Learning Software for Pre-School / Kindergarten
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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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."
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.