Disney Learning Kindergarten featuring Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh can teach children fundamental learning skills while fueling their creativity and imagination. A life-long love of learning is reinforced through stimulating activities that inspire a child's creative thinking skills. Also included, Disney's Phonics Quest, join Mickey on a quest as the sorcerer's apprentice to uncover the magic of phonics fun! Mickey's quest begins as he opens the sorcerer's magic book and loses six of the Sorcerer's belongings. He then takes a challenging journey to retrieve the lost magical items. As each challenge is mastered, Mickey regains one of the Sorcerer's belongings so he can triumphantly return to the castle. Children will have fun searching for the missing items while mastering phonics skills along the way!

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 child at the lower age range, and still as fun, yet challenging, for the older child. The program makes adjustments automatically, without the child being aware that they are playing at a specific level. The goal is to have children playing at the level that presents challenges best suited for their abilities.

Product Titles Included:

• Disc 1:  Disney's Mickey Mouse Kindergarten
• Disc 2:  Disney's Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten
• Disc 3:  Disney's Mickey Phonics Quest

Skills Learned:

• Number Patterns
• Color Recognition
• Early Reading
• Word and Sentence Structure
• Vocabulary Building
• Matching Images to Phonetic Sounds
• Memory
• Sequencing and Addition
• Categorization
• Spanish and French Words
• Rhyming
• Listening and Observation
• Spelling
• Deductive
• Reasoning
• Homonyms
• Syllable Recognition
• Vowels
• Consonants
• Music Appreciation (Create and Record Your Own Music)
• Telling Time

Product Overview:

Disney's Mickey Mouse Kindergarten

Kindergartners investigate Mickey's hometown Main Street while they help Mickey cover stories for his newspaper.  Kids can learn about Language Arts, Math, Following Directions and other age appropriate skills.  Disney's Mickey Mouse Kindergarten is filled with activities that build self-confidence by means of continuous positive reinforcement from Mickey and his friends.

Activities:

• Place the correct letter to help guide Goofy to safety!
• Zap robots and practice counting, adding and identifying number sets.
• Find out how the activities in Disney's Mickey Mouse Kindergarten CD-ROM enhance your child's development
• Teach Donald dances by filing in the right numbers.
• Fine tune your listening skills while helping the hotel guests.
• Help Goofy by completing words and sentences.
• Match the time on Mickey's wristwatch to the time on the town clock.
• Follow the auditory clues to solve a mystery.
• Print newspaper activity sheets and learn Internet style navigational skills.
• Create animated works of art with neon-colored bars.

Features:

• Over 40 essential Kindergarten developmental skills
• Vocabulary, sentence structure, early reading and spelling
• Sequencing, addition, and sets
• Enhances memory, listening, creative and critical thinking skills
• Developing perception, observation and listening skills
• Developing social skills and problem solving skills
• Fun-filled worksheets extend learning fun beyond the computer
• Skills personalized to your Kindergartner's needs for endless hours of exploratory learning

Disney's Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten

Christopher Robin has gone off to school and Pooh decides he should very much like to go to school, too!  Join Pooh in this wonderful learning adventure as Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore and friends come together to hold school in the 100 Acre Wood.  Experience the magic of learning as Pooh and his friends offer lessons on the alphabet, simple arithmetic, problem solving and much more!

Activities:

• Letter Recognition - Learn to identify, read and spell simple words under Owl's guiding wing.
• Simple Arithmetic - Pop Roo's balloons to practice counting, adding and subtracting numbers.
• Sorting and Classification Skills - Help Rabbit sort his shapes by size and color.
• Listening, Following Directions and Strategic Thinking - Give Tigger a hand in reading his compass in a hunt for buried treasure.
• Visual Creativity - Explore the seasons by creating your very own Thoughtful Spot.
• Musical Composition - Create musical sounds with instruments, then record and play back the tunes.
• Creativity - Print educational workbook pages, plus stickers, flashcards, customizable ID cards and bookmarks.

 Features:

• Strengthens 25 age appropriate skills
• Adjustable levels enhance individual skill levels
• Progress report provides feedback on skill progression
• Educational workbook pages, stickers, and flashcards can be printed with Avery printable supplies

Disney's Mickey Phonics Quest

Join Mickey on a quest as the Sorcerer's Apprentice to uncover the magic of phonics fun! Mickey's quest begins as he opens the Sorcerer's magic book and loses six of the Sorcerer's belongings. He must venture out and retrieve the lost magical items before the Sorcerer returns to the castle. As each challenge is mastered, Mickey regains one of the Sorcerer's belongings so he can triumphantly return to the castle. Children will have fun searching for the missing items while mastering phonics skills along the way!

Activities:

• The Quest Begins - Join Mickey on a quest for the missing items
• Consonant Blends - Use phonics clues to help Mickey match the baby dragons to their correct mother
• Homographs and Irregular Spelling - Run a printing press with Donald and learn how words can have multiple meanings
• Reading Comprehension - Complete words to answer Genie's riddles and unlock the magic doors
• Rhyming - Organize Maine's music by filling in missing words and rhymes
• Word Building - Assemble rocks in Fete's Quarry to solve word problems
• Single Letter Sounds - Help Goofy sort the armor for the town guard by letter sounds and syllables
• Spellbinding Journey - Three paths of adventure lead to the town, mountains and forest
• Rewards for Advancement - Before each new quest, and enchanted frog reveals a word to be used throughout the quest for dazzling results

Features:

• Super-charge reading skills with Mickey
• 6 exciting phonics based skill building activities
• Personalized learning experience, as each activity progresses through one to four levels of difficulty
• Replayable so each Phonics Quest is a unique experience
• Assessment chart to track your child's progress
• Education tips provided to improve reading skills

Windows Requirements:

• Windows 95, 98, Me, XP
• Pentium 200 MHz processor
• 32MB RAM
• 30MB free hard disk space (Mickey)
• 35MB free hard disk space (Pooh)
• 80MB free hard disk space (Phonics Quest)
• 8X speed CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit Windows -compatible sound card
• 16-bit color Windows -compatible video card
• Java-compatible Web Browser (e.g., Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.08 or later)

• Macintosh OS 8.6 - OS X (Classic Mode)
• G3 processor, 233MHz processor
• 64MB RAM (128MB for OS X)
• 35MB free hard disk space (Mickey)
• 35MB free hard disk space (Pooh)
• 80MB free hard disk space (Phonics Quest)
• 8X speed CD-ROM drive
• Thousands of colors video display