Features Back to the top•Six easy-to-play games with clear, animated instructions
•An exciting array of activities to print
•Zak, a friendly on-screen guide, makes learning fun
What Will My Child Learn?

•Number recognition
•Logic
•Counting
•Mathmatical language
•Shapes and Sizes
•Speaking and Listening
•Letter recognition
•Letter sounds
•Spatial awareness

Key Features:
Four easy-to-play games
Exciting activities to print
Lots of songs, rhymes and animation
White Bear and Little Penguin make learning fun
What Will My Child Learn?
Upper and lower case letter recognition
Rhyming words and spelling patterns
Alphabetical order
Letter and sound phonics
Developing vocabulary

This CD-ROM provides parents with a valuable tool for familiarising toddlers with the key topics covered in their first years of school.
Key Features:
Six easy-to-play games with clear, animated instructions
An exciting array of activities to print
Zak, a friendly on-screen guide, makes learning fun
Songs, rhymes, and animation keep children engaged and entertained
Ability to play at own pace builds confidence
What Will My Child Learn?
Recognize shapes and colours
Match and count
Watch, Listen and Respond
Build Vocabulary
Recognize Sounds and Respond to Music
Sort and Classify

Learning for Pre-school includes:
My First Number
My First Getting Ready for School
My First Starting to Read
My First Dictionary
My First Toddler School
Five easy to play games and exciting activities introduce children to the key concepts of counting and sorting. Featuring loveable characters White Bear and Little Penguin, the program builds children’s confidence and skills with songs, rhymes and animations.

Features:


Includes a progress tracker to measure results
Levels of difficulty can be altered
On-screen help automatically adjusts to your child’s response
Covers key number concepts including number recognition, counting, mathematical
language, shapes, sizes and spatial awareness
My First Getting Ready for School
Parent Assisted Learning is the principle behind this fun-packed CD-ROM designed for parents and children to use together. It provides parents with a valuable tool for familiarising pre-school children with the key topics covered in the first year.

Features:


Helps your child with logic, counting, numbers, letters, shapes, sizes, speaking and listening
Six easy-to-play games with clear, animated instructions
Lots of activities to print out
Zak, a friendly on-screen guide, makes learning fun
Songs, rhymes and animations keep children entertained
Ability to play at own pace build confidence
My Starting to Read:
Four easy to play games and exciting activities introduce children to fundamental reading and vocabulary skills. Featuring loveable characters White Bear and Little Penguin, the program builds children’s confidence and skills with songs, rhymes and animations.

Features:


Includes a progress tracker to measure results
Levels of difficulty can be altered
On-screen help automatically adjusts to your child’s response
Covers key reading concepts including letter sounds & phonics, upper and lower case letter recognition, alphabetical order, rhyming words and spelling patterns, developing vocabulary.

Stockcode: gsp06kidspreschoolpk

Product Features
Ages 4-6 depending on the needs of your child
Over 600 activities covering 3 years of schooling
Integrated Speech uniquely combines sight and sound for maximum learning potential
Reading readiness & learning to listen, introduction of basic sounds
Also sound to letter correspondences and small controlled vocabulary of simple words
Simple, kid-friendly animated interface that enhances self-directed learning

Ten great titles-fantastic value all curriculum based.
123-CD V2-Maths
All around the House-ICT
Tizzy's Toybox V2-Basic skills
Stripy Tiger and Spotty Shark's Munch Box-Basic skills
Paddington Bear-First Steps in Geography
ABC CD V2-Literacy
Izzy's Island-Basic skills
Tizzy's Busy Week-Basic Skills
Young Macdonald's Farm-Basic skills

Join Clifford and his friends in 4 BIG adventures!

Clifford Reading

Learning to Read with Clifford is BIG Fun! Exploring Clifford’s fun-filled neighbourhood, children discover entertaining reading activities that continually introduce new letters, sounds, and words. After completing a level, children earn a bonus book they can read on their own using the skills they have just learned, whilst visiting exciting places and collecting tickets that are redeemable at the prize booth for special surprises!

Special Features:

Over 100 reading lessons
15 printable activities
7 adjustable levels
Interactive and printable bonus books
Automatically adjusts to focus on skills that your child needs to practice
Clifford™ Musical Memory Games

Use Your Thinking Skills to Bring Music Back to Birdwell Island! Bring music back to Birdwell Island after a storm breaks the radio tower. Join Clifford and his friends as you make instruments, learn new songs and much more whilst practicing memory, logic, and early maths skills. After you put together all of the instruments, create your own music with Clifford’s BIG band!

Special Features:

19 entertaining activities and challenges
Engaging story motivates children to play
Activities adapt according to your child’s progress
Features popular characters and voices from the hit TV show
Automatic help allows for independent play
Clifford™ Thinking Adventures

Build Skills on Your Way to Clifford’s BIG Party! Children direct this skill-building journey through Clifford’s neighbourhood looking for ways to make his party BIG fun! Throughout the adventure, entertaining activities encourage each child to use their thinking and reasoning skills as well as their imagination. In addition, children are presented with challenges that require them to use their problem solving skills to complete various steps. The celebration begins once children have everything they need to throw a party BIG enough for Clifford!

Special Features:
18 entertaining activities and thinking challenges
3 adjustable levels
Printable Clifford photo album
Automatic help allows for independent play
Save games to replay later
Clifford™ Learning Activities

Clifford and Pals Make Learning BIG Fun! A popular magazine is looking for a special community of dogs to feature in their next issue and Clifford, T-Bone, and Cleo want to make a BIG impression! Children develop important skills with Clifford and friends as they travel around Birdwell Island helping their neighbours and playing fun learning activities. Once children complete a scrapbook for the magazine containing snapshots of their skill-building adventures, they enjoy a musical celebration at the pier!

Special Features:
10 entertaining activities
3 adjustable levels
Activities adapt according to your child’s progress
Printable Clifford posters
Features popular characters and voices from the hit TV show
Automatic help allows for independent play
Includes comprehensive Parent Guides for all 4 titles!

Features

Suitable for ages 4-6
Windows and Mac compatible
18 entertaining activities and thinking challenges
Three adjustable levels
Printable Clifford Photo Album
Automatic help allows for independent play
Save games to replay later
Comprehensive Parent's Guide provides helpful hints
Features popular characters and voices from the hit TV series

Includes: Arthur’s Reading Games and Arthur’s Thinking Games

Packed with Learning and Fun!




Arthur’s Reading Games




Join Arthur and D.W in an exciting reading adventure packed with hours of fun and learning! Arthur’s Reading Games features four exciting reading games, including the interactive story, Arthur’s Reading Race by Marc Brown. Each of the four learning activities is filled with several puzzles and hidden surprises, helping kids learn and develop core reading skills in a fun and stimulating way!



Arthur’s Thinking Games



Join Arthur and D.W in six exciting learning adventures and 30 different activities packed with hours of fun and learning! Each of the multi-skilled learning activities is filled with several puzzles and surprises, helping kids develop these critical thinking and logic skills in a fun and stimulating way. Playing and learning with Arthur and his friends has never been so much fun!

Features:

Stimulating Activities
A huge variety of Fun Exercises
Screens that Monitor Progress
Manufacturer’s Description:

A step on the ladder to success….

Welcome to step one of Dorling Kindersley’s powerful curriculum-based learning system. Woody the pencil takes you on an incredible learning adventure involving:

Stimulating Activities

A huge variety of Fun Exercises

Screens that Monitor Progress

Developed with experienced teachers, this disc provides the essential literacy and numeracy skills to help your child excel.

Systems requirements OS X 10.4 or higher; Intel and PowerPC based machines
PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz or Intel Core 1.5 GHz

This title is step one of Dorling Kindersley's powerful curriculum-based learning system. Woody the pencil takes children on an incredible learning adventure teaching them a variety of skills from reading to numbers and shapes.
What does this disc teach?
Listening & Reading

The Alphabet
Phonics & Simple Spelling
Making Words
Reading Simple Words
Building Vocabulary
Handwriting
Numbers & Shapes
Counting
Matching Amounts
Reading Numbers
Understanding Shape
Understanding Size
Building Shape Patterns
Memory Development
Where? When? What?

Time - Clocks & Calendars
Ordering Events
Comparing Past & Present
Position, Direction & Movement
Sorting Objects
Nature & Living Things

Features

Learning Ladder Preschool: Follows Government Numeracy and Literacy initiatives
Provides a complete learning programme, across all the vital subjects - reading, writing, maths and the world around us
Children win stickers for correct answers, encouraged by a lively host, making the disc extremely motivating
Progress reports chart children's progress in each of the topics
Learning Ladder Years 1 & 2: Supports Key Stage 1
Stimulating activities
A huge variety of fun exercises
Monitor progress
Essential literacy and numeracy skills
Supports the school curriculum

Product Features
Includes:
Learning Ladder Pre-School which covers symmetry, numbers and shapes
Learning Ladder Year 3 which teaches reading and writing
Learning Ladder Year 1 & 2 which covers reading and writing

Includes Reading and Counting, Learning Ladder, and My First Numbers

Key Features:
Over 1,000 words, each with animation and definition
Four easy-to-use word and sound games
Facility to personalize the dictionary
What Will My Child Learn?
Learn the meaning of words
Practice spelling
Develop an awareness of relationships between words
Build vocabulary
Learn mouse control and letter recognition
Gain knowlegde of alphabetical order
Get a solid grounding in reading and spelling
Recognize sounds

This software provides parents with a valuable tool for familiarising pre-school children with the key topics covered in the first year of school.

Enjoy Reading and Counting with your child.
101 Games to help children read and count

102 games to help children write and calculate!

Have fun with:

Counting
Reading
Creating
Memorizing
This is the second disc in the Play & Learn mini-series. You'll find it packed full of amazingly fun activates - all designed to encourage and entertain children. Using sounds, pictures, letters and numbers, the games feature lots of inviting ways to Play & Lean!

Educational Benefits

Develop key literacy and innumeracy skills including:

Counting and simple calculations
Reading and writing
Memory recogniing
Memory recognition
Logical and lateral thinking
Creativity
Easy controls mean minimal adult supervision needed.

Encouraging sound effects and animation keep children entertained.

Virtual rewards help to build confidence and skills.

103 ways to have fun with science!

Have fun with:

Electricity
Lights
Magnets
Gravity
This is the third disc in the Play & Learn mini-series. You'll find it packed full of amazingly fun science activates - to encourage and entertain children. In the virtual lab of the future you'll discover activities and tests that are designed to put the fun back into science! You can do on-screen experiments in total safety with water, electricity and more!

Educational Benefits

Experiments cover key science curriculum topics including curriculum topics including:
Gravity
Liquids
Air and Motion
Heat and Electricity
Sound, Color and Light
Magnetism
Easy controls mean minimal adult supervision needed.

Scientific principles are clearly illustrated and stated for reinforcement.

Teach Kids Numeracy, Reading, and Writing in a fun way.

Learning is fun with Charlie the cat!



Leap to an early understanding of letters, numbers, shapes and colours in Charlie’s colourful classroom bursting with animation and song. Packed with twice the learning activities of most other educational programs, Jump Ahead Preschool has 10 irresistible puzzles, games and play areas



Phonics

Identify first letter sounds, find the beginning letters of words and match similar pictures with Kathy Koala



Letters, Numbers, Shapes

Develop visual memory by finding identical pictures, letters, numbers or shapes.



Sequencing

Connect numbers and letters in the correct sequence by clicking on the dots.



Listening Skills

Listen to verbal values and apply deductive reasoning to find where Phillipa the fish is hiding.





Parent Guide

Children are encouraged to learn:

Colours and shapes
Counting quantities
Differences
Letters and numbers
Listening skills
Music/Songs
Numbers
Patterns and sequences
Phonics
Pre-reading
Spacial relationships
Visual discrimination
Vocabulary

Learning is fun with Hopsalot!

Today's a big day in CloudTown because it's the birthday of Guthry, the Gloomy Giant. Guthry is sad because he thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday. But that's not true! As it turns out, everyone in CloudTown is secretly getting ready for a surprise party for Guthry, and they need your help. A mountain of cakes, presents, and balloons must be hidden in the Giant's house before everyone can yell "Surprise!"

Writing Numbers Fly your very own plane as you write numbers in the sky.

Addition Add up stamps on the giant’s birthday card, then paint them with patterns.

Counting Put the Hat Snappers in the correct order by looking at the numbers under their hats.

Measurement Too-Loose the Tailor uses all sorts of things to measure rainbow ribbons. Help him cut strips long enough to wrap Guthry’s birthday presents.


Features



Features include:

11 skill building activities
8 learning songs
Multiple difficulty levels
Adaptive Learning Technology™
Tutor Technology™
Progress Report
Printable Workbook

Description
Learning is fun with Hopsalot!

Mr Hopsalot the Rabbit is on his summer holiday and he has some exciting plans. Join him as he travels around the world visiting family and friends to search for clues to help him find the treasure buried in the carrot patch. On your travels you will be able to sing in a party, play penguin hockey, write jazz lyrics, burst a birthday piñata, surf at the beach and many other fun activities that will help to develop early reading skills.

• Case Letters - Match lowercase letters with their upper-case partners to help deliver Grandpa’s mail across the murky swamp.

• Vowels - Hit the piñata by matching vowel sounds with the letters displayed. Make enough matches and the piñata will burst open, spilling goodies everywhere!

• Sentence Building - Bebop is a great musician but sometimes he needs a little help with his lyrics. Complete his rhymes to get the songs swinging!

• Sounds and Letters - Before each activity you’ll practice your phonics skills by identifying objects that begin with certain letters and numbers.


Features



Features include:

• 7 skill building activities

• 6 sing and learn songs

• Over 1500 vocabulary words

• Multiple difficulty levels

• Tutor Technology™

• Progress Report

• Printable Workbook Parent Guide - Children are encouraged to learn:

• Basic grammar

• Computer mouse skills

• Consonants and vowels

• Listening skills

• Phonics and letter sounds

• Reading

• Rhyming

• Sentences

• Spelling

• The Alphabet

• Upper and lower case letters

• Vocabulary

• Word Building

Description
Join Mr. Hopsalot on a fun-filled exploration of the French language

Designed especially for children aged 5 to 8 this program offers a simple age-appropriate introduction to French vocabulary, culture and music in a friendly atmosphere that relates to everyday surroundings.

What’s Cooking? Learn the French words for everyday household items by playing hide-and-seek with the mice.

Colours Identify colours in French by helping to paint 15 pictures, and then print out your finished works of art!

Numbers Un, Deux, Trois. Count fun items into a magic hat.

Clothing Learn French terms for clothing while helping to dress the bears, then print out your silly clothes combinations!


Features



• I0 skill building exercises.

• Over 200 vocabulary words.

• Two levels of learning - explore and challenge modes.

• The ability to revise, practice and consolidate vocabulary.

• Four songs and a memory game.

• Multi-sensory, appeals to a variety of learning modes, visual, aural and linguistic.

• Progress Report.

• Adaptive Learning Technology™.

Parent Guide: Children are encouraged to learn:

• Music

• Colours and shapes

• Common phrases - such as greetings, emotions, the weather, days of the week, telling the time

• Comprehension

• Computer mouse skills

• Numbers and counting

• Songs and music

• Vocabulary for everyday objects – articles of clothing, toys, animals and household items

The weather has taken a wacky turn its raining raingear! Soar up the Cloud Nine with Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion in their fabulous Dreamship to help them fix this crazy problem! Play activities in spelling, maths, art, vocabulary and science!



Eleven replayable fun and educational activities that teach:



· Adding and Subtracting

· Counting and Money

· Reading comprehension

· Spelling and Vocabulary

· Developing phonics skills

· Problem solving

· Identifying animal traits and habitats

· Art and Creativity

· And much more!




Help Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion rescue their fabulous Dreamship from a gooey mountain of cheese! Our heroes must find their ship before the sneaky Pirates get there first. Play activities in language arts, science, maths and more!



Eleven replayable fun and educational activities that teach:



· Adding including carrying

· Subtracting including borrowing

· Counting by multiples

· Creating equations and identifying fractions

· Spelling and vocabulary

· Sentences, Punctuation and Capitals

· Developing Phonics skills

· Using diagrams to find information

· Art and Creativity and much more!


gsp06kidsks1pack

Help Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion rescue their fabulous Dreamship From Balloon Town.
Ten replayable fun and educational activities which help Numeracy and Literacy.

Help Reader Rabbit and friends throw a birthday party for Sam the Lion.
This software is designed to help children build early skills in logic and thinking.

Visit Reader Rabbit at the Circus and join in all the fun.
Fifteen action packed games and activities aimed at introducing young people to the world of numbers.

Different children develop at different speeds. Subsequently Disney Interactive have designed a series of learning titles to encourage the development of each individual child’s learning capabilities and to make learning interesting and enjoyable. With emphasis placed on exploration, discovery and personal choice, children develop problem solving skills that equip them for life.



Help Mickey cover stories for his newspaper by exploring his hometown which is filled with activities that build self-confidence through fun learning.



Key Features:



· Develops over 40 essential skills including early reading, sequencing, and addition

· Enhances memory, listening, creative and critical thinking skills

· Skills personalised to your individual child’s needs, for endless hours of exploratory fun learning

· Fun-filled worksheets extend learning fun beyond the computer

· Helps develop social and problem solving skills

Different children develop at different speeds. Subsequently Disney Interactive have designed a series of learning titles to encourage the development of each individual child’s learning capabilities and to make learning interesting and enjoyable. With emphasis placed on exploration, discovery and personal choice, children develop problem solving skills that equip them for life.



Pooh is holding a special birthday celebration for Eeyore. Journey through the Hundred Acre Wood and round up Tigger, Piglet and all the others to join the party, gaining key learning skills along the way.



Key Features:





· lncludes learning themes about reasoning, thinking, helping others, auditory discrimination and creativity

· 20 adjustable age appropriate skills

· Print out educational workbook pages, customisable lD cards, bookmarks and much more

· Progress report provides feedback on skill progression

Eat Your Words!

Part crossword, part word search and part arcade puzzler, Bookworm™ is a wickedly addictive game that will test and improve your vocabulary. Connect letters to form words and feed Lex, the hungry bookworm. Longer words boost your score, but you’ll need to think fast – fiery tiles will burn your library to the ground!

Two entertaining game modes with a huge number of levels.
Exciting power-ups.
Enhanced graphics, music and special effects.
Save your high scores in the Hall of Fame.
Gain new tiles as you advance through the levels – go from Book Burner to Bookworm Supreme!
Unlimited ‘Deluxe’ version – no Internet connection needed

Features

Encourages critical thinking
Fosters listening and memory skills
Reinforces good social skills
Colour and shape matching
Includes Salty, Harvey and Elizabeth
Ages: 4 to 6

Single User Licence

This fantastic resource is designed to introduce young children (age 3-7+) to many of the important green issues in today's society including:
Food Miles, Packaging, Eco Habitats, Limited Resources, Global Warming, Shared Responsibility Litter, Healthy Eating, Fair Trade and much more.

Along with these 'non fiction' film clips, the CD includes Talk/Task/Text activities designed to reinforce all that you have seen and talked about. The format will be identical to that of the 'Saving Energy' title.

The resource is ideal for use on a class whiteboard with younger children or can be used in a computer suite with older children.
Comprehensive teacher's notes and guidance are given for both Foundation Stage andKS1 Literacy. You will also find a Photo Bank, Whole School Assembly ideas and much much more.

DVD FILM
Inspire your children with this Greengrocers role-play pack. Visits a traditional Greengrocers shop showing clear labels, prices and names. Customers call in with their shopping lists for fruit, vegetables and salads. See Colin counting and weighing items and giving change from the till. Also watch a delivery arrive and see it checked against the order.

Duration: GreenGrocers 10 mins, Fruit and Vegetables 5 mins

CD HANDBOOK
40 pages: includes Role-Play Guidance, Writing Frames, Still Photographs, Signs, Notices and Badges, Key Vocabulary plus Healthy Eating Discussion Points and EYFS Planning Sheet

DVD Film:
Inspire your Airport Role-Play by watching a family arriving at the Airport, checking in with their passports and tickets, weighing their baggage and waiting in 'Departures'. See the family go through security and passport control, before they board the aircraft. Watch the Air Stewardess checking boarding passes and showing passengers to their seats. Inside the cockpit the Pilot signs the final check list and prepares for take-off.

Duration: 14 mins

CD HandBook:
75 pages: includes Role-Play Guidance, Writing Frames, 10+ Still Photographs, Signs, Notices and Badges, Key Vocabulary and EYFS Planning Sheet

DVD Film:
This fantastic resource is split into two, and takes your children through this popular scenario. The Birthday Party - includes everything from writing invitations and lists, telephoning and booking an entertainer, and counting and blowing out candles. The Entertainer - meet Mr Sunshine and watch him sing songs while the children play instruments and interact with puppets.

CD Handbook:
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DVD FILM
The film allows children to see the clear sequence of events involved in visiting a real Toy Shop. Watch as different customer come in to stores, scan the shelves and choose the perfect present or toy to keep. The footage shows the shop keeper taking payment and packing the toys in bags. This Play Pack will give your children the real world understanding on which to base their imaginative role play.

Duration: 10 mins




CD HANDBOOK
65 pages: includes Role-Play Guidance, Writing Frames, Roles and Resources, Still Photographs, Signs, Notices, Key Vocabulary and EYFS Planning Sheet.

DVD FILM
Inspire children with this Train Station role-play pack. Starts with a taxi dropping off a passenger at the railway station. Watch her as she checks the train time-table, buys her ticket and finds the correct platform number for her departure. See other passengers arriving and departing on trains and enjoying refreshments from the station café. Finally, watch the lady board the train as the guard blows his whistle.

Duration: 6 mins

CD HANDBOOK
55 pages: includes Role-Play Guidance, Writing Frames, Roles and Resources, Still Photographs, Signs, Notices, Key Vocabulary and EYFS Planning Sheet.

Story World 1 and Story World 2 help youngsters from three-years-old upwards to learn English through play. Children can watch a favourite illustrated story unfold on screen, they play games based on it. Helps youngsters to increase their vocabulary and improve their powers of concentration, while having fun at the same time. A perfect way to introduce young children to computers. The Story World 1 disc features Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Incy Wincy Spider and Humpty Dumpty. The Story World 2 disc features Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hickory Dickory Dock and Jack and Jill

This double StoryWorld CD-ROM set from EuroTalk Interactive includes: Goldilocks and the Three Bears & Little Red Riding Hood.
English fun for kids! Ages 4-10
StoryWorld brings to life well known children's stories and songs to help kids build on their knowledge and use of the English Language.
Favourites like "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" have been adapted to include games and activities, providing encouragement with the aid of Gold Stars and printable certificates. Supplement that with Audio CD tracks and online help for non-English speakers and you have an altogether more stimulating way of involving your kids in spoken and written English.
System Requirements:

Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Mac OS system 7+
16MB free memory
CD-ROM

Software designed for a child be introduced to Numbers, Letters, Music, and Art in a magical 3D world.

Join Finley the Fire Engine and friends in Friendlyville as you play your way through 8 fun games and activities! Featuring Poles and Ladders, Soccer Maze, Meet the Cast plus many more, each game is designed to help children develop early learning skills while in the company of everyone’s favourite shiny red fire engine, Finley.


Product Features
8 fun activities and games
Including Poles and Ladders
Soccer Maze
Meet the Cast
Print and Colour
Spot the Difference
Wordsearch
Sequences
Pairs

Breed hens, ducks, turkeys, pigs, sheep and cows and sell your farm produce to build the most successful and beautiful farm ever!

Start off with one, single little hen, an empty field and a few pennies. Once your hen starts laying eggs, sell them to the Shopkeeper so you can start buying new animals at the Penny Fair, to grow your farm bit by bit. Be careful to feed and look after your animals well though, or you risk them going elsewhere!

In time, you can expand your farm by adding items like a henhouse, a pond, a drinking trough, sheep barn and so on. And, little by little, you can earn bonuses, like a windfall, a rooster, a dog, a tractor, and more!

Features


Take care of each animal individually

Sell the produce on your farm and buy new animals

Expand your farm with new buildings to add more animals

See your farm in action with a special screensaver

Product Features
The fun way for kids to learn to play piano!
Over 100 lessons taught by former Juilliard School of Music instructor with animated character, Pam the Piano
Animated keyboard shows kids where to put their fingers as the music plays
Teaches proper hand positioning, names of notes, how to play accompaniments, how to read music and more!Connect your keyboard to your computer for interactive feedback on your playing
Includes audio and MIDI tracks with adjustable speed and music tracking to highlight notes as they’re played
Built-in Digital Metronome helps kids keep a steady beat
Creative, interactive games make learning fun and exciting
Digital recorder allows kids to play into the computer’s built-in microphone (or an external one), and review their performance
Full-motion videos featuring split-screens and close-ups guide kids through songs and playing techniques

Product Features
The fun way for kids to learn to play guitar!
Over 60 lessons featuring popular songs – teaches over 30 guitar chords!
Teaches guitar tuning, chord strumming, tablature notation and playing melodies
Animated Fretboard shows kids where to put their fingers as the music plays
Full-motion videos featuring split-screens and close-ups guide kids through songs and playing techniques
Gary the Guitar guides children through lessons by a professional instructor
Digital recorder allows kids to play into the computer’s built-in microphone (or an external one), and review their performance
Built-in Digital Metronome and Automatic Tuner help kids keep a steady beat and stay in tune
Chord Dictionary to help kids learn the basics
Creative, interactive games make learning fun and exciting

Features & Benefits
Add a little magic to your numeracy lessons with 123 CD V2, a fully updated version of the best-selling original.
Each of the 10 focused activities are fully narrated and, with Wizit the friendly wizard on hand to help, all your pupils will be able to confidently explore the complexities of counting and other essential early number skills. Also included in this program is the exciting new Teacher’s Toolkit, a powerful tool designed to allow you to use this software for whole-class teaching on a whiteboard or large screen.



Contents
Teacher’s Toolkit designed for interactive whiteboard use
Inclusion and Support features
Comprehensive Teacher Options
Record Keeping
12 activities

Features & Benefits
One of a new series of CD-ROMs designed to support imaginative role play activities based on a child's own experience. Suitable for 3-7 year olds, At the Doctor's encourages individual and co-operative play, giving children an opportunity to express their feelings as a wide range of different characters, and develop mathematical vocabulary.
The CD-ROM has been designed in such a way as to prompt dialogue and fire the imagination of a child.



Contents
Embeds ICT in role play
Stimulates an interest in ICT
Reflects real life experience

Features & Benefits
Food is delicious and there’s such a variety to choose from these days: so it’s a pity that many young children are picky eaters with a very limited food vocabulary. Our two fun characters, Stripy Tiger and Spotty Shark will introduce the children to lots of different things they might like to try. Hygiene and exercise are not forgotten and sharing a meal at the table as a social event is also encouraged. It’s all about balance, so we haven’t forgotten to include a Birthday Treat in the Munch Box!


Contents
Entirely text free
8 Activities
2 Approaches
Mouse and single switch access

Features & Benefits
These days the majority of households have a wide range of electrical appliances that make our lives much easier in all sorts of ways, and significantly affect the way we live; as individuals, families and as a society. All Around the House provides educators of young children with a wide selection of simulated household appliances, to help you safely and securely introduce the concepts of these appliances. Children will love helping Arnold the Alien to watch his favourite TV channel, or make a phone call. They can even cook him a delicious sandwich! As well as the key features and functions of the appliances, there are rich opportunities for problem solving, discussion and, in particular, health and safety awareness.


Contents
Interactive simulations of 18 everyday household items
Explore and Play modes
Fully animated with clear audio
Supports independent use, group use and role play

Features & Benefits
At the Post Office is designed to encourage imaginative role play based on children's own experiences. Suitable for 3-6 year olds, it encourages individual and co-operative play, giving them an opportunity to express their feelings. The CD-ROM has been designed in such a way as to prompt dialogue and fire the imagination of a child.


Contents
Effectively integrates ICT into the foundation stage
Stimulates an interest in ICT
Reflects real life experience
Offers an extensive range of teacher support materials

Number Bunnies introduce number recognition, counting and sequencing.

Any range of ten numbers up to 50 can be selected: 1 to 5, or 35 to 44, for example. This range can be used in three different activities:

Click and count the bunnies – counting

Match the number to number of carrots, fingers, a 5-bar tally score, dots on dominoes, or simple numerals – number recognition

Pop the numbered bunny back into its own hole – sequencing.

When each task is completed, the Number Bunnies count themselves back into their burrows.

There are ten different Number Bunnies in the traditional Resource style: high quality graphics and a mixture of fun and purpose.

Numbers can be presented and practised in ascending or descending order, or randomised. You can save up to six set-ups to suit all abilities and assist in differentiation and progression.

Includes optional switch access and background fade. Ideal for whiteboard use.

Ages: 3+

Features & Benefits
Action Stations with Midge is a specially designed program that aims to develop children’s vocabulary of action words. The program contains 150 action words in 7 differentiated word lists. Each action is performed by the friendly and entertaining Midge, a blue creature that lives in a burrow and likes to show off!
As children progress through the three activities they will become familiar with a range of action words, developing confidence from simple exploring opportunities through matching exercises to assisted spelling tasks.

All the activities are switch accessible and the powerful Explore tool, ideal for use on an interactive whiteboard, enables teachers to model concepts, explore ideas and create their own activities.



Contents
150 animated verbs in 7 differentiated word banks
Three progressive activities
Reward game
Explore tool – perfect for whiteboards
Full narration of all instructions

For beginners, wait till the moles poke their heads up and just roll the mouse pointer over them to pop them back into their holes.

Once skills have developed in controlling the action of the mouse, the user can be given the additional task of using the mouse button to click the moles away. The double-click speed can be adjusted to meet the child's needs.

You can then include practice in dragging and dropping as the users pick the moles out of their holes and drop them onto handy deckchairs. Start with rolling the mouse over the moles and then move on to clicking, dragging and dropping.

Develop speed and accuracy by trying to beat the clock and increasing the number of moles.

Up to six preset activities can be defined, easily selected by children from the pictorial front screen menu.

Muppet Babies Collection - 4 CD Set

The Muppet Babies Collection is a fun, bright, educational and simple for little people to use with all the encouragement they need from the much loved Muppet Babies. The perfect products for preschool and nursery aged children (ages 2 to 5 years). Watch your children learn and develop new skills with the help of Kermit and his friends. Jammed packed with a variety of fun interactive games, plus with printable worksheets the fun is endless!

The set contains:

Muppet Babies™ Thinking and Sorting

Teaching children essential first skills it helps them to recognise basic shapes, patterns and colours. Children will have hours of fun with Kermit and his friends identifying different parts of the body, dressing up Skeeter and Skooter, colouring pictures with the ‘magic’ wand and singing their favourite nursery rhymes. Kermit is always on hand talking the child through each exercise providing tips and positive feedback throughout. As there is no time limit, children are encouraged to keep going until they get to the correct answer and once each exercise is finished the child is awarded with a medal or certificate.

Muppet Babies™ Shapes and Colours

Children will enjoy hours of fun with Kermit and friends as they match shapes, decorate pictures, colour, and sticker. Plus sing along with Kermit as he teaches children their ABC and favourite nursery rhymes. In the land of shapes and colours, children will begin to associate objects within their environments as they learn how to build a house, visit space, go to the beach plus much more. As there is no time limit in which to complete activities, children are encouraged to keep going until they get the correct answer and once each exercise is finished they will be awarded with a medal or certificate! Bonus printable worksheets make this a must for all preschoolers and nursery school children!

Muppet Babies™ Animals in Nature

Kermit and friends take children on an exciting new adventure as they learn about animals on the farm and in the forest. Animals in Nature is bursting with stimulating interactive colouring, singing and gaming activities, plus with approximately 20 printable worksheets the fun never ends! Teaching children to develop essential recognition and coordination skills the Muppet Babies encourages toddlers to identify animals in their own environment, their behaviours and the sounds they make. Throughout each exercise Kermit is on hand to provide positive feedback and helpful hints, and with no time limit he encourages children to keep going until they get the correct answer.

Muppet Babies™ Air, Land and Sea

Watch your children learn and develop essential coordination and recognition skills with all the encouragement they need from Kermit and his friends. Children will be able to take part in a variety of stimulating, educational activities such as colouring pictures, and singing songs plus with printable worksheets the fun never stops! Kermit never misses a moment, working alongside your little one he provides positive feedback and helpful tips throughout each exercise. As there is no time limit in which to complete activities , children are encouraged to keep going until they get the correct answer and once they complete each exercise they are awarded with a medal or certificate.

It is incredibly easy to use even for the youngest of children, as they can control the game with the mouse, or by simply clicking any button on the keyboard.

Key Features

•Masses of fun educational content for toddlers
•Keyboard and mouse control
•Bright, colourful, educational
•Friendly characters to encourage and motivate
•Skills developed include:
?Hand-eye coordination
?Object Recognition
?Vocabulary
?Visual & Auditory Skills
?Concentration & Confidence
?Creativity Skills
With simple activities for children in preschool and nursery school, Muppet Babies™ PC activities will capture children's imagination with a series of educational activities that delight and entertain. Each CD and learning activity is designed to be played a multiple levels so Muppet Babies™ PC activities can grow with children. Suitable for ages 2 to 5 years.

Muppet Babies™ are trademark of Jim Henson Company

OPERATING SYSTEM Windows™95/98/ME/2000/XP

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Pentium™ PC or Higher 16 MB RAM 30 MB Hard Disk Space per application Sound Card CD-ROM Drive 16 Bit colour display or higher Speakers or Headphones

Features & Benefits
Little Brown Bear on the Farm develops essential ICT skills for early learners (children aged 3 to 5) as they explore the fun-packed farmyard.
With full narration, simple, bright graphics, enchanting musical introduction sequences and an intuitive design, Little Brown Bear on the Farm is sure to be enjoyed by the youngest children.



Contents
Clicking with the mouse
Dragging and dropping items on the screen
Dragging the mouse cursor across the screen
Moving the cursor then clicking to cause something to happen

Product Features
Award-winning software, designed specifically for children aged 3-5 by trusted experts in childhood education
16 Exciting Activities encourage children to have fun and learn
Teaches Fundamental skills such as reading, maths, categorisation, shapes, colours and creative expression
Activities include: word families, numbers & counting, comprehension, creativity and painting
Multiple Skill Levels – automatically adjusts to match a child's skill level, allowing them to play at their own pace
Promotes early learning, language development, social development and self-esteem
Provides children with individualised feedback and support
Includes classic Sesame Street videos and all your favourite Sesame Street characters providing helpful hints!

Product Features
Designed for young children – all activities professionally designed to emphasise parent-child interaction
Covers key developmental categories – Music, Colours, Shapes, Letters, Numbers, Seasons, Animal Sounds and more
Bright colours, music, and animation encourage interactive learning
Automatically adjusts to match your child's skill level
Promotes early learning, language development, social development and self-esteem
Easy Mouse Activities respond to the slightest movement of the mouse, no clicks required!
Keyboard Activities – Any touch produces delightful sounds and surprises, reinforcing the concept of cause and effect
Early Learning – Prompting the child to engage in play, exploration and imitation
Promotes Parent-Child Bonding – Which is the foundation for other interpersonal relationships
Creative Activities keep young children engaged and help parents take an active role in their children's development.

Product Features
Award-winning software, designed specifically for children aged 2-4 by trusted experts in childhood education
Teaches Fundamental skills such as reading, maths, categorisation, shapes, colours and creative expression
Promotes early learning, language development, social development and self-esteem
Includes 25 Engaging Activities that grow progressively challenging as each area is mastered
Provides children with individualised feedback and support
Automatically adjusts to allow them to play at their own pace and appropriate skill level
Activities include sorting and grouping, letter identification, art and creativity
Teaches Computer and Mouse Skills – with suggested activities to help your child develop their skills
Includes 8 classic Sesame Street videos and all your favourite Sesame Street characters providing helpful hints!

Join Percy, the friendly caterpillar, as he encourages the player to join in with a selection of fun activities in Percy’s World Of Words.

The title features fully narrated text and 3 levels of difficulty to enable the player to develop their word and phonic skills. The activities, that can be used unsupervised, include topics covering spelling, rhyming words and a variety of phonics for the age group, such as initial & final phonemes and blends.

As well as printable worksheets, this title also features an extensive teacher’s section.

Key features:
Quick and easy to set up.
Exciting activities that children will enjoy playing.
Printable activity sheets supplied on the CD help to develop Literacy and learning skills away from the computer.
Add your own words, spelling lists and speech – Ideal for extra practice

With the friendly caterpillar, Percy, children are encouraged to develop their counting and number recognition skills, through a series of fun activities.

An animated on-screen number book, introduces the user to numbers up to 20 and recognising numbers. The activities are designed to build on the child’s skills, with 3 difficulty levels, to cover the themes of counting, comparing numbers, sequencing numbers and ordinal numbers.

Suitable for unsupervised use, the title is fully narrated, includes printable worksheets and has an extensive teacher’s section.

Key features:
Features an animated on-screen number book.
Covers counting, recognising numbers, number sequences and ordinal numbers.
Colourful, engaging animations to encourage learning.
Fun and easy-to-use unsupervised.
Learn to recognise numbers and count to twenty

Designed to encourage children at Key Stage 1 to learn and recognise monetary values and handle money in everyday situations. Colourful graphics, animations and spoken instructions throughout make this program ideal for unsupervised use in the classroom.

The activities include practice on recognising different coins, encourage purchasing items using the correct coins, practice converting between differing amounts of money, giving correct change and recognising prices in a shop, including on a shopping list.

Percy's Money Box also allows you to choose between 5 different currencies: British Pounds, Euros, or US, Australian or Canadian dollars.

Key features:
Explore all aspects of using money in everyday situations.
Fully configurable by the teacher.
Fun animations and sounds included.
Can be configured to use British pounds, Euros or American, Canadian or Australian dollars.

Percy helps children to get to grips with the basics of using a computer in Percy’s Computer Club.

Through a selection of fun, yet easy-to-use activities, the basic skills of mouse control, clicking, double clicking and dragging can be practised, along with using the keyboard. In addition, an illustrated animation demonstrates different parts of the computer.

This title is ideal for unsupervised use, as it is fully narrated and features 3 levels of difficulty. Also included are printable worksheets and an extensive teacher’s section.

Key features:
Fun games that cover: Moving the mouse; Clicking; Double clicking; Clicking & dragging; and Keyboard practice.
Children can watch video clips about the parts of the computer.
Printable activity sheets are included on the CD and an extensive options section.
Improves basic computer skills and knowledge.
The title includes three levels of difficulty and is fully narrated

In an easy and fun way Percy the caterpillar invites children to explore the letters of the alphabet and the sounds, and at the same time will encourage them to recognise various objects that start with the same initial letter. Graphemes and phonemes are also covered as Percy looks at the pronunciation and spelling of simple words.

From then on the children assist Percy with activities that are packed with photographs and speech, which will help them recognize the letters alphabet and begin to read a variety of words.

The games include activities that allow children to choose the correct letter for the objects displayed, to match sounds with letters and to decide which letter is missing from simple words.

The game includes options to have letters to be pronounced by either their names or their sounds, Z pronounced as 'Zee' or 'Zed' and the option to use lower or upper case letters. Individual letters can also be turned on or off to allow for full customization whatever your literacy strategy. What's more, the title features an extensive teacher's section and printable worksheets for use away from the computer.

Key features:
Includes printable worksheets
Fully narrated throughout
3 levels of difficulty
Investigate alphabet order
Learn spelling and pronunciation

Children can join Percy the caterpillar to practice skills involved with time. As a program designed for Key Stage 1, spoken instructions, colourful graphics and animations make this ideal for unsupervised use in the classroom.

The six activities feature both analogue and digital clocks and encourage the player to participate in activities that involve reading the time, setting a clock to given times, finding a clock with a given time, placing events in the correct order and working out time differences.

The 3 levels of difficulty cover reading the time to the hour, the half hour and the quarter hour. Furthermore the teacher's section provides the ability to control whether children learn 'quarter-to' times, 'quarter-past' times or both. In addition, the teacher's section feature options to control the programme, certificate printing and printable worksheets to use away from the computer.

Key features:
Quarter-hour activities can focus on quarter to, quarter past or both.
Printable activity sheets included to use away from the computer.
Covers 1 hour, ½ hour and ¼ hour time increments.
3 levels of difficulty.
Fully narrated throughout for unsupervised use.

Stimulating graphics, speech and sound effects accompany a range of educational activities that will enable children to build a solid foundation in early mathematics.

The friendly caterpillar, Percy, asks the children to help him complete interesting activities that involve simple sums using both numbers and pictures, dividing objects into sets, comparing objects of different sizes and sorting them into sequences. The games combine to consolidate the skills of counting, grouping, comparison, sequences, simple addition, subtraction and number recognition.

This software can be easily used unsupervised and is also suitable for use with touch screens.

Key features:
Printable worksheets for use away from the computer.
Fun activities and exciting animations.
Covers simple counting, addition and subtraction.
Three levels of difficulty and fully narrated.

Features & Benefits
Paddington Bear: First Steps in History is full of captivating activities designed to introduce young learners to the fascinating world of history. Children can explore Paddington’s passport, read through his diary, investigate the contents of different people’s suitcases and much more!
With the help and support of Paddington Bear, children will learn about famous people from recent history, develop an understanding of their own and their family’s history, become aware of the differences and similarities between past and present, and begin to use historical vocabulary.

© P&Co Ltd 2007



Contents
Understanding the concepts of past and present, old and new
Appreciating the lives and contributions of famous people
Understanding past and present in their own and other people’s lives
Sequencing daily events
Understanding how people grow and change
14 engaging activities at two levels of difficulty

Features & Benefits
Help Paddington Bear to locate his missing marmalade pots, write postcards to Aunt Lucy and pick an outfit – you can even read all about the places he has visited in his scrapbook.
Paddington Bear: First Steps in Geography is an engaging resource full of activities that will inspire young learners to develop a greater understanding of the world around them – both near and far! Children will also develop their basic mapping skills and explore the natural wonders of the Earth, whilst developing key geographical vocabulary.

© P&Co Ltd 2007



Contents
Understanding different localities and developing a sense of place
Interpreting and using simple plans and maps
Understanding the concept of the Earth, and the different animals and features on it
Appreciating the lives of children from different cultures
Understanding weather – the cause and effect of different types
14 engaging activities at two levels of difficulty

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Enter the interactive world of Inky Mouse and her friends as they practise all the five skills in Jolly Phonics. With 20 fun activities to explore, children will be able to practise and revise their own knowledge. The games are available in different levels: easy, medium or hard - ideal for children at all levels of early reading.

The main menu features Inky's home where all games can be accessed. There are seven zones, each teaching a particular skill. By clicking on each of these, children will be taken through a number of fun and enjoyable games.

Levels of games:

Easy - Suitable for a child who is just starting to learn to read and write.

Medium - Suitable for a child who has learned most letter sounds and can read and write simple regular words.

Hard - Suitable for a child who knows all the letter sounds can read and write longer regular words, and who is learning the alternative spellings of vowels.

A comprehensive compilation of resources which can be used to create additional classroom materials. Contents include action and sound pictures, reward stickers, word bank, a bank of dictation sentences, over 150 images for use in creating templates, colour images of the Jolly Phonics characters, letter formation practice sheets, posters of lower and upper case letters and tricky words.

Product Code: 17451
Product Description:
70 selected pieces to enable children to build Popoid people and animal characters along with many other imaginary Popoid creatures.
Key Stage : 1, F
Age Range : 3+
Learning Objectives : Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Designing and making Skills

Product Code: 18747
Product Description:
An award-winning product, this set includes decorated pieces and makes building life-sized models quick and easy for little hands. Made from a unique material that is safe, durable, soft and washable, this is a big set with a high degree of flexibility. The LEGO SOFT pieces are six times the size of ordinary LEGO bricks. The 2 x 4 stud brick is 191 x 95 x 58mm. Contains 36 2 x 4 stud bricks in mixed colours (red, yellow, green, blue), 28 2 x 2 stud bricks in mixed colours, four eyes, two mouths and fourteen roof tiles in two sizes. Can be washed with mild detergent at 40°C. Contains 84 pieces
P&T

This Little Book has a wide range of suggestions for using plastic bottles and other containers for exploring all areas of the curriculum. The ideas can be used with babies and right through to Reception, giving a sense of discovery and awe and wonder to exploring the world.

Little Books are packed with advice and ideas for all those working with children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. They are particularly suitable for use between 36 and 60+ months. They are carefully planned to meet the objectives for each stage of development and reflect the latest thinking on the education of young children. Little Books make an excellent start to an exciting journey through learning.

One easy store plastic container full of 100 varied characters. 20 each of 5 characters. Ideal for sorting activities and small world play.

Dipping your hand into the cookie jar becomes a learning experience! Cookie Shapes explore early geometry and algebra skills including shape recognition, matching and patterning.



Set of 40

This giant poster will clearly be seen from anywhere in the classroom or home! Speech sounds are presented with visual analogies to reinforce the corresponding graphemes (spelling choices). Contains two main sections - and covers all 44 sounds of spoken English. Contains 1 x A0 poster (1189 x 841mm).

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Real life photography of everyday objects helps to reinforce phonemic awareness. Includes 4 blue consonant cubes and 1 red vowel cube with images representing objects that start with different letters. Includes activity guide. KS1/P1-3.

These brightly coloured, double laminated daisies display the full alphabet and digraphs. In the middle of the daisy is the grapheme and each petal displays seven word examples with the spelling pattern highlighted in white. On the reverse side is the symbol with three matching pictures and words. Includes 30 daisies.

Pond the patient, well-paced and picturesque program for primary and pre-school pupils – presents four activities for early number work:


Teddy Bears’ Picnic
One-to-one matching: is there enough food?


Little Ducks
Count the ducks there are two colours. How many are yellow?
How many are brown? How many altogether?


Butterflies
There are two types of butterfly, but they always move.
Count up or count down.


Fishes and Frogs
There are two types of fish. How many of each and how many altogether. How many frogs and fish? How many more frogs than fish? How many fewer fish than frogs?


Pond covers one-to-one matching, counting up to ten (and counting down) and more than/fewer than. The level of difficulty of each activity can be set to suit individual needs.

Supplied with high-quality recorded speech in English, other languages may be added at any time to support EAL and MFL (see Show me more and Talk·2·Talk).

Optional Talk·2·Talk languages: English, French, Gujarati, Polish, Spanish, Welsh.

In addition, Pond provides optional single- or double-switch access and a background fade for those who need the main elements to stand out more clearly.

Features & Benefits
An exciting CD-ROM containing three award winning programs that have been carefully designed to meet the needs of younger learners:
Mouse Studio is an inspiring art package which allows pupils to create their own masterpiece using a variety of artist's tools.

Mouse Music is a highly entertaining interactive program that includes a wide variety of games and fun musical activities.

Mouse Island is packed full of challenging puzzles and games designed to develop number skills.

Features:

The Garden of Dreams - Once the princess of your dreams is ready, explore the magical worlds of Ariel, Jasmine and Belle, discovering and collecting the new dresses and accessories.
Star of the Story - Create a princess story book, with you as the star, and share it with family and friends.
Secret Tower Design - millions of princess looks using gowns, accessories, jewellery and hairstyles on your personal 3D model

Manufacturer’s Description:

Become a Disney Princess!
Dreams can come true and in Disney's Princess Fashion Boutique II, you really become a princess! With Belle, Ariel or Jasmine as your Princess guide, make a 3D model of yourself using My Virtual Model™. Select from different hairstyles, skin tones, body models and then import your own face.

Disney Interactive Princesses

Al over the world Disney Princess and their fairy tales inspire little girls to dream. Now Disney Interactive can help their dreams become reality, with a range of interactive princes products developed to inspire and enchant, with the promise of something magical.

It all begins Once Upon A time.






Systems requirements Windows 95/98/Me/XP/Vista
Pentium class processor, 233 MHz
32 MB RAM (512MB for Vista), 60 MB free hard disk space
8X speed CD-ROM drive

Product Features
Feates Cinderella, one of Disney's most lovedprincesses
Decorate an array of fairytale settings with furniture, fixtures and accessories in this interactive Doll's House
With a wave of the fairy Godmother's wand, watch Cinderella, her friends and surroundings come to life
Download new decorations from the Disney's Cinderella Doll's House website.

Join Nemo and Dory for an underwater scavenger hunt!



On this brand new adventure, play Pearl’s Garden Eel Bingo, ride with Nemo in the turtle hopping game, and enjoy many other fun activities. Collect clues with Nemo and Dory and take photos of sea creatures, which will come to life in your personalised album of Undersea Sticker Fun.



Features:

Easy mode available with extra help for younger players
Four levels of fun learning activities with mini learning games
Rich adventure screens with lots of clickables to explore

Features:

Befriend and interact with your favourite Princesses Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White and Jasmine
Play as your own customisable heroine princess character, selecting her name, dress, accessories, hair, skin tone and eye colour
Utilise unique, themed magic as you explore and adventure through four enchanted Princess worlds
Earn rewards for exploration and achieving goals to keep motivation high
Experience a variety of mini-games that complement the adventure gameplay
Enter into Belle’s world and meet Belle and Lumiere as an unlockable bonus
Have you always wanted to be a princess? …. Step into the Kingdom of Kindness and you can be



Enter the Disney Princess universe from the animated classic films of Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and Aladdin in Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey. Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey allows you to meet and interact with the beloved Disney Princesses. Players can customise their own unique heroine character and take part in a fun-filled adventure through four unique levels to help the Princesses restore order in their enchanted kingdoms and overcome evil. Each Disney Princess has a different story and magical world for you to explore as you discover what it means to be a true Princess - courage, friendship, trust and discovery. Fun for all ages Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey provides younger children with beautiful, colourful levels to explore, and offers an element of adventure for older children.

Features & Benefits
In the creative world of Stripy Tiger and Spotty Shark, children are encouraged to experiment with colour and pattern using a series of outline images. This text-free product is designed to engage young children with the computer, develop creativity and help them to become independent users. Picture Box contains simple images to help your children build confidence as they produce beautiful pictures, time after time. Background music is included to create different moods which quickly absorb the children in their own world of colour and pattern.


Contents
Totally text free
Three levels of complexity
45 clear, simple images
Whiteboard compatible
Mouse, spacebar or single/dual switch access and other inclusion features

These fantastic resources provide a specially designed learning programme to help the budding left-handed writer. The series is suitable both for children who are just starting to write, and where bad habits are already becoming evident. Left-handers can need extra help in developing handwriting skills. Without special guidance, they can develop difficult and tiring writing styles and their writing can become messy, leading to frustration and loss of self esteem. This new comprehensive range of activities and techniques can change that. The worksheets are available in a manual or CD-ROM form, containing 83 worksheets with techniques and practice for left-handers, with teacher guidelines. The photocopiable manual has icons on each page reminding the user exactly how to hold their pencil or pen, and how to position their paper in front of them on their work surface. The CD-ROM is a site licence that can also be used on interactive whiteboards. A4 manual contains 98 pages.

Lucy Lamp Light's Lotto

Make first phonics fun to learn with this children’s board game for ages 3+. Based on the popular lotto/bingo, this card-matching game for up to six players is ideal for developing memory and letter recognition skills. The bright game boards and cards feature the Letterland alphabet characters keeping fit, dressing up and more. Contains full instructions and additional fun ideas for use at home or school.


Size: 200 x 280mm Extent: 6 game boards, 48 lotto cards

Start with the best and get My First ABC, My First Word and My First Number in one

Introduction
Start with the best - the perfect collection to encourage your child's developing mind and help them learn essential first concepts.

The slipcase includes My First Word, My First ABC and My First Number and each book is packed with bright, bold photographs and clear word labels to encourage early learning.

Reviews
Customer Review:

Review by: fiona campbell, 03 December 2008

'I bought these books first 7 years ago for my son they were great with real pictures. Now I am buying them for my nephew.'

DK

Introduction
Packed with bright, lively pictures and large, simple text - this is an ideal book to stimulate recognition and encourage talking and naming. Chunky format is great for little hands.

An essential, confidence-building tool for any child's bookcase
Small, chunky format with hard-wearing board pages - tough enough for any toddler
The best-selling My First series - now brighter, bolder and better!

Introduction
A is for apple, B is for ball; can you draw all the letters? And can you follow the rocket round the moon?

With lots of activities and fun things to find together, your toddler will love learning about letters using this interactive board book.

The chunky pen, wipe clean pages, and special slate mean practice makes perfect!

Introduction
Can you count the creepy crawlies? How many sandcastles are there to see? Draw another wheel on the big truck!

With lots of activities and fun things to find together, your toddler will love learning to count using this interactive board book.

The chunky pen, wipe clean pages, and special slate mean practice makes perfect!

Have hands-on fun helping your toddler learn about colours and shapes with this no-mess wipe clean book and pen set

Introduction
With lots of activities and fun things to find together, your toddler will love learning about colours and shapes using this interactive board book.

Read it together and help them sort the red and blue triangles; they can trace, match colours and even join the dots, then wipe it clean and try again!

The chunky pen, wipe clean pages, and special slate mean practice makes perfect. Plus, there are special pages for children to draw whatever they like!

Tackle basic literacy skills with this excellent value CD-ROM! As children work through the 5 different games they will match objects of things that go together, count out the number of syllables in words, match images of nouns that rhyme, recognise high frequency words and identify the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. The games are fun, easy to use and children will love the challenge of trying to earn silver and gold medals as they play. Each child's results can be recorded and a ceritifcate can be printed to show their achievement. Use on an interactive whiteboard, PC or Mac.syllables in words, match images of nouns that rhyme, recognise high frequency words and identify the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. the games are fun, easy-to-use and children will love the challenge of trying to earn silver and gold medals as they play. Each child's results can be recorded abd a certificate can be printed to show their achievement . use on a PC/Mac or interactive whiteboard.

Description
This rewarding Bo Bear activity utilises the 'Look, Cover, Write, Check' technique of practising and reinforcing spellings. Pre-set word lists can be presented, selected from the high frequency 'sight recognition' words for Key Stage 1. Other lists are topic based, or can be created to suit the needs of the child.

Features
Intuitive and transparent structure that promotes child-centred learning
Enables whole class, group or individual teaching and learning
Supporting teacher resources.
Benefits
Delightful learning environment with charming characters
Engaging and motivating.
Flexible units of work that can be easily integrated into existing lessons to introduce, revise or consolidate, according to teachers needs
Mapped to the curriculum

These colorful cubes are perfect for all kinds of hands-on language activities - from letter recognition to simple word building! You get a set of 96 chunky, easy-to-handle wooden cubes with big, bold lowercase letters on every side - all in a handy storage tub. Cubes measure 3/4". Great for recognizing and naming letters, sequencing the alphabet and beginning spelling.

Twenty key Bible stories from the old and New Testament are simplistically retold. With bold and engaging illustrations and only a few words on each page, this is an ideal introduction to the stories. Suitable for Early Years/KS1. 256 pages.

Have hours of endless fun with this set of 200 nursery bricks. Build houses, use with Coko Carriages, these bricks will provide ours of creative fun and activity for children. 3 years +. Complete with gratnell tray for easy storage. Includes: bricks, wheels, windows, doors, people, arches, carriages and roof pieces.

Giant Alphabet Puzzle

Designed for young children at home or at school, this sturdy alphabet puzzle is just right for small hands. Each large jigsaw piece holds visual clues to help your child decide who comes next in the Letterland alphabet and there are objects things to find in every puzzle piece. Develops letter recognition, alphabetical order and hand-eye coordination skills.


Extent: 200mm x 280mm Format: Miscellaneous print

It is designed for 3-6 year olds and as well as featuring fun activities, also includes printable worksheets, wallcharts and an extensive teacher's section. It is fully adaptable for use in the classroom, allowing the teacher to choose between letter sounds/names and upper/lower case throughout the program. The activities allow children to watch an animated alphabet book, identify alphabet sounds/names, match pictures with letters, work out the missing letter in words and practise sorting letters into the correct order.

Build foundations in basic maths including counting, adding, subtracting, patterns, sequences and sorting with this all-new title, specially designed to work with the NC for mathematics at KS1. The friendly caterpillar, Percy, asks the children to help him complete interesting activities that involve simple sums using both numbers and pictures, counting, dividing objects into sets and completing sequences.
This software can be easily used unsupervised and is also suitable for use with touch screens. Like the rest of the Percy range, this is complemented by an extensive teacher`s section and printable worksheets to use away from the computer.

Capture toddlers' interest in books with this expertly selected set chosen to appeal and engage this age group. (Contents may vary).
15 books

Touch, feel, look, listen and watch spaceships come to life on the page in this interactive book for space loving toddlers

Introduction
Look at all the things spaceships can do; feel how shiny the rocket is and float onto the flight deck of the space shuttle. Then press the button and just listen to the noises they make - Zoooooooom!

Join in the fun with your child as they lift flaps, pull tabs, touch and feel textures, listen to sounds and learn all about the wonderful world of spaceships using all their senses.

A systematic teaching programme that ensures fast and early learning of phonics, this intensive 22-week synthetic phonics course is completely up to date and matches the new 2006 Government guidance on teaching phonics. It contains step-by-step notes providing support and examples as well as teaching order and materials but the course also allows for flexible delivery. Whilst they are learning, children will also have fun with the included phonic poems and games. Ideal for teaching ages 4-7.

I Go To School uses the vocabulary and activities you might find in a typical school day. Using 4 picture pages and 12 sentence pages, the pictures in this book resemble a visual schedule. Aside from matching, identifying, labeling, creating sentences and learning to read, the students can also use the pictures to answer simple questions. If the student is verbal they can respond verbally, if non-verbal he can point to a picture

This Colour Coded Mini Mouse helps young pupils easily identify which button to click and helps distinguish between their left and right.

With a scroll wheel that lights up this mouse it's fun and easy to manage.

Size 90mm

Description: Children will have fun learning the sounds of the alphabet with these soft but sturdy, lightweight bean bags. Each of the 26 bean bags (70 x 70mm) is richly embroidered with a picture representing the sound of a letter of the alphabet – from apple to zebra. Plus, the short and long vowel sounds and the hard and soft sounds of c and g are represented by special ‘double sided’ bags. Includes a handy cloth storage bag and a ‘Tip Sheet’ with lots of active, hands on games that reinforce phonemic awareness.

Description: These Tricky Word magnetic strips enable children to build tricky words from magnetic letters with support from colour-coding, which shows the parts of the word that are regular and the parts that are tricky. Here, the colour-coded part represents phonic regularity while the letters in black represent the tricky part of the word. Each strip is double sided with an outline on one side and a template on the other. This pack covers all the tricky word examples from the Letters and Sounds programme, and two blanks for your own use.

Ideal for teacher demonstration, these giant magnetic letters make it easy for children to recognise and name lowercase letters even from across the room! The jumbo foam letters are each backed with a powerful magnet. Set of 26 letters in 5 colours. Each letter approx 12 cm.

Description: This brand new CD-ROM for the foundation stage uses art, music, pattern and play to introduce the language and movement of letter shapes, prior to writing. Includes excellent activities to develop essential fine and gross motor skills, and provides plenty of opportunity to develop speaking and listening skills.

A really practical everyday resource.

Save time searching for letter resources with this bumper collection of 52 'wooden' robust pieces.

Beautifully illustrated and stored in a canvas bag.

Great for supporting the phonic activities and meeting the needs of the new strategy.

52 pieces approx. L12cm.

Reinforce the recognition and understanding of the multicoloured alphabet with these super size letters. Great for alphabet order, phonics games, display etc. Size H50 cm. 10mm thick EVA foam. Colours may vary.

Decorate your classroom with this beautifully made Fairtrade bunting.



Made from cotton with appliqued letters in various patterns.

Features 26 lowercase letters. (Not a toy).

Ages: 3-5, 5-6
Description: Tackle basic literacy skills with this excellent value CD-ROM! As children work through the 5 different games they will match objects of things that go together, count out the number of syllables in words, match images of nouns that rhyme, recognise high frequency words and identify the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. The games are fun, easy-to-use and children will love the challenge of trying to earn silver and gold medals as they play. Each child’s results can be recorded and a certificate can be printed to show their achievement. For PC and Mac. Compatible with Switch.

Featuring over 120 key words, this attractive sticker dictionary is designed to help young children learn the shapes and sounds of a-z. With lots of stickers to put in the right places, there’s no end of things to talk about and fun to be had! Size 220x280mm / 8.7”x11” 16 pages
Item Code: T38 ISBN: 9781862092723

encorage your child to read simple words independently with the help of the friendly characters. They'll have fun learning to read and spell regular words and there are some common sight words included too.

with bulit-in writing and revision activities, this bright activity book isideal for children learning about the alphabet at pre-school or school. They will learn the wonderfully simple sounds trick for linking a-z letter shapes and sounds and alliteration and object-matching.

This colourful book is packed with activities to help children identify the beginnings, middles and endings of words-a key skill in learning to spell whole words.

When Old MacDonald retired to Spain and his daughter took over the running of the farm, he could not have imagined the funny things that would happen. Young MacDonald has planted Singing Strawberries, encourages the animals to play hide and seek, breeds exotic chickens and has even imported a Patchwork Pig.
Children will learn visual and auditory skills as they engage with wonderful characters such as Wonky the Donkey and Minty the Sheep.

Totally text free
Four activities with visual focus
Four activities with auditory focus
Three levels
Simple, configurable teacher options
Custom pointers

Splodge, the lovable blue paint splat, accompanies children as they search the early years classroom for his missing friends, who have been scattered by the mischievous Peter Paintbrush.
Along the way, Splodge and the children encounter a whole host of thought provoking cross curricular challenges, including mending the toy making machine, creating the correct sequence to blow Billy Boat across the water tray, and decorating fussy Panda`s cake.

The perfect introduction to adventure software, Here`s Splodge includes a cast of colourful characters, engaging activities and a sense of fun that early learners will find irresistible

Features & Benefits
Wibble, Wobble and Flump the dog live in their wibbly wobbly house where they make, play and problem solve all day long. Wibble creates machines in his shed that make caring for Flump easier. Wobble and Flump experiment with art, music and dance in Wobble’s studio, whilst Flump needs to find solutions to all sorts of problems when playing in the garden. The CD ROM has been designed to develop many essential early-learning skills, whilst ensuring that young children can use the program independently and confidently. The 18 short, fun, open-ended activities provide a variety of learning opportunities, including creativity, problem-solving and mathematical development


Contents
Text free
18 thought-provoking, fun, activities
Flexible use – from whole class to independent
Covers the new Early Years foundation stage guidance
Many open-ended scenarios

A beautifully illustrated photographic dictionary with over 800 words and pictures.It includes British and American vocabulary and spelling, as well as a range of graded reading, writing, and speaking activities.

Introduction
This 2-in-1 game, developed in association with a leading early learning consultant, will help young minds practise counting skills and give them a head start as they begin school.

It’s a race against time around the pop-up board. Who’s going to fill their basket first? You’ll need a lucky throw of the dice to win! And who’ll match their numbers before all the other players in their race around the board.

Perfect for two to four players, includes one amazing pop-up board, four double-sided bingo boards, 32 shopping cards, four counters and one 12-sided die.

Makes learning to count as easy as 1, 2, 3.

This fun music CD contains 4 absorbing learning areas, delightful music and amusing characters: Roly; Red Mouse and Blue Mouse. Each section encourages participation and experimentation with musical sounds, rhythm and melody. The simple but challenging activities cover the Early Learning Goals and KS 1, so children develop a range of essential skills. They can sing along to popular tunes, compose their own fun songs, test their click and drag skills and improve word recognition. Navigation is kept simple with a chunky cursor to help children move around the screen.

Contains Colouring Book, Jigsaws, wordsearch, Snaop and much more. As seen on TV

Product Features
8 great games on one CD-ROM
Colouring Book
Word Search
Sliding Tiles
Snap
Jigsaw
Pairs
Spot the Difference
Meet the Cast

Features & Benefits
It’s 3005 and planet Earth is now a lifeless planet. Humans have moved to a new planet called Earth II and want to create a virtual reality zoo that contains all the life that lived on Earth. Your mission, Operation Minibeast, is to travel back in time and using maps explore 5 different habitats in order to collect information about and scan images of different minibeasts. You will be able to view close-up photographs and illustrations, access a database, a branching database and field book containing detailed notes about each minibeast you encounter.


Contents
33 common minibeasts featured
Delightful images, illustrations and animations of each minibeast
5 habitat areas covered: woodland, around a pond, field, garden, vegetable patch and orchard
3 engaging missions that vary in complexity
Field book reference resource and full branching database

Features & Benefits
This cross-curricular encyclopedia is designed specifically to help young children to develop their early referencing skills and encourage their naturally inquisitive minds. Filled with engaging graphics, video snippets and colour photographs, the encyclopedia covers 16 topic areas spread throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, with over 1,000 facts that are interesting and relevant to this age group. The intuitive menu structure, combined with a simple to use search facility encourages children to explore the different ways of using an encyclopedia. As they work, an on-screen record is kept of the route the children take, enabling them to backtrack at any time.


Contents
16 engaging topics
Over 1,000 useful facts
Bright graphics, photographs and video samples
Easy to use
A-Z search facility

Take a walk on the wild side with this interactive, pop-up-and-play adventure

Let’s go to the zoo! See prowling polar bears, take a jungle tour with tigers, and feed giraffes as you find out all about their amazing lives.

Play the ‘find-my-home’ game and discover all about animals' natural habitats. Then take out the 18 animal play pieces and create your own adventure in the spectacular pop-up scene.

All packed in an easy-to-carry case, perfect for taking to friends’ houses.

It’s a truly wild experience.

A beautiful picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Rachel Lockwood’s wonderful illustrations will delight children aged from four to eight, and will help them to discover and identify the most common birds in their everyday surroundings. Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird’s identity. The reader then turns the page to find out more.

Features & Benefits
The abc-CD V2 uses beautifully designed illustrations and animations together with speech and music to help infants learn the sounds and shapes of the alphabet.

The CD features four carefully graded activities that teach children to visually discriminate between letter shapes, to recognise the different letter sounds and match the shapes and sounds together.


Contents
Four activities
Demonstration Mode ideal for use with a whiteboard
Range of features to aid inclusion and support
Morphing graphics
Shapes and sounds

Features & Benefits
Polka Dot Park: Growth is an exciting and flexible science resource that enables young children to develop their understanding of living things with the help of three engaging characters: Polka, Dot and Bob the Hedgehog.
There are nine realistic scenarios for children to explore, for example planting seeds in the potting shed, feeding a baby in the picnic area or caring for baby animals in a stable. Children can be guided through activities by Polka, the friendly adult rabbit, or they can learn through exploration with Dot, whose activities are narration-free and thus perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. Bob the Hedgehog’s short, focused activities can be used to consolidate understanding of key processes and vocabulary.



Contents
Nine problem-solving activities, each with three modes of use
Nine consolidation activities
Familiar settings and scenarios
Develops scientific vocabulary
Perfect for interactive whiteboards

Help your child become a Premier student! The Premier series follows the National Curriculum to strengthen your childs knowledge and understanding of key English skills at home. Each book simply guides your child through each subject, with clear explanations and plenty of practice using: Examples to demonstrate each topic Step-by-step activities to process ability Full-colour fun illustrations to engage your child Flashcards to aid further learning and revision. The Premier series is written by experienced authors, who are specialists in the primary curriculum.

Help your child become a Premier student! The Premier series follows the National Curriculum to strengthen your child’s knowledge and understanding of key maths skills at home.

Help your child become a Premier student! The Premier series follows the National Curriculum to strengthen your childs knowledge and understanding of key English skills at home. Each book simply guides your child through each subject, with clear explanations and plenty of practice using: Examples to demonstrate each topic Step-by-step activities to process ability Full-colour fun illustrations to engage your child Flashcards to aid further learning and revision. The Premier series is written by experienced authors, who are specialists in the primary curriculum.

Help your child become a Premier student! The Premier series follows the National Curriculum to strengthen your child’s knowledge and understanding of key maths skills at home.

Nine classic stories retold with beautiful illustrations and a sprinkle of story magic

Listen to the 60-minute CD with your child and have great fun following the words on the page together.

All the best-loved characters are here, from Little Red Hen, The Lion and the Mouse to The Three Little Pigs.

Make bedtime every child’s favourite time.

An attractive early picture dictionary, containing over 180 key words all set within the familiar Letterland context. Ideal for both pre-readers and beginner readers. Packed with talking points and amusing details to entice children back to this book time and time again. Size 255x255mm / 10”x10”, 32 pages.

Fun activities and FREE paper and pattern for budding artists

Make your art look the part. With these fun and easy-to-follow activities, you can paint and create all kinds of fantastic projects, from marble magic to cool t-shirts.

Create your own borders, patterns and printed pictures, get amazing effects with crayons, design a dragon kite and use the FREE paper and pattern to make a brilliant bag. Plus, spiral binding means it's easy to keep your page.

Get creative and make something fabulous for family and friends.

Fun activities and FREE craft paper for budding artists

It’s time to get crafty! With these fun and easy-to-follow activities, you can make all sorts of cool creations, from paper pottery to whacky decorations.

Create fantastic photo collages, inviting invitations for parties, grow your own paper garden and make amazing effects with the FREE craft paper. Plus, spiral binding makes it easy to keep your page.

Get creative and make something fabulous for family and friends.

***Also available in the same series-Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6-all the same cost. Plaese email or ring to place order.

Developing Citizenship is a series of seven photocopiable books that provide a wealth of activities to support the teaching of Citizenship and PSHE in the Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Following the proven, successful Developings formula, the activities in this series will help to give children the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead the confident healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible citizens.

Developing Citizenship Year R includes activities which focus on right and wrong, myself and people around me, independence, developing awareness of places and cultures, and exploration.

Enter the interactive world of Letterland and meet the a-z characters. Songs and animation help pupils to learn the alphabet sounds and correct handwriting strokes. There are assessed activities for:
• a-z letter shapes
• a-z letter sounds
• Long and short vowel sounds
• Building regular words

The software is available with network capability and teacher controls to:
• Create multiple classes
• Select letters and activities for each class
• Monitor results for each pupil
• Shut down software on all student computers from teacher's PC
• Display the same view as the class (e.g. on an interactive whiteboard)


Minimum system requirements: PC Only Windows® 98 and above, 750MHz Pentium III or equivalent, 64 Mb of RAM, 8x CD-Rom drive, 800 x 600 screen resolution, Sound Card

Single User Licence. COL approved. eLCs can be used to purchase this product.
T70

You’ve met the a-z characters, now let’s see what happens when they come together to make a new sound in a word. This great new edition introduces 21 popular digraphs in full colour scenes. The story logic for each new sound is given and children are encouraged to search the scenes looking for the target sound in initial, medial and final positions in words. Phonemic awareness and vocabulary development has never been so much fun!

There’s soon to be a party for everyone in Letterland but first you have to find and invite them!
Clues will help you to discover all the characters hidden in the Letterland scenes. When you find a character, you get to play a special game as a reward. There are also songs with actions
for each character so you can sing and dance along.
This great new software from Letterland is specially designed for use at home. The a-z shapes and sounds are introduced in such a fun way that children don’t even know they are learning!

PC only

Letterland Living Code Cards is a new teaching resource for focusing on phonic structure, language development, word building, and spelling in a child-friendly way. With this software you can display a-z and over 40 digraphs and trigraphs. Listen and watch as the Letterland characters animate stories that explain the sounds you hear in words, making learning memorable, logical, and fun. Create your own revision/consolidation support with the `Quick Dash` facility to develop mastery of all the phonemes. Then start blending sounds together, with and without pictogram support, in the `Word Building` facility. Ideal on a whiteboard or with a smaller group around one computer.

Features & Benefits
Climb aboard The Science Express and journey to Barnacle Bay where pupils can learn all about Physical Processes with the help of Daisy and Doug.
Doug leads pupils to five engaging activities that are designed to develop scientific understanding and investigation skills, for example, pupils can find out about forces on the mini golf course, test the slopes of the Super Slide or investigate light sources in the lighthouse. In addition, Daisy’s short, focused activities enable pupils to practise and consolidate their understanding of key concepts and vocabulary. All activities can be played in narration-free ‘on your own’ mode which makes them perfect for teacher-led work on an interactive whiteboard.



Contents
Closely linked to NC objectives and QCA units for science at Key Stage One
Five investigation activities covering all aspects of Physical Processes
Five short, focused consolidation quiz activities
Characters offer full, supportive narration
Develops scientific vocabulary

A small boy builds a snowman which, for one magical night, comes to life. This heartwarming story is based on the much-loved animated film of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman.

An activity book based on the animated film of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman. Children of all ages will enjoy exploring the fun and excitement of Christmas with this festive book packed with things to do and make.

Imagine how tired Father Christmas is after his long night's work. What he needs is a relaxing holiday - but he quickly finds not everything goes according to plan. This delightful story is based on the animated film of Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas

A colourful sticker book packed with stories and activities, based on the animated film of Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas and designed to provide hours of fun.

Features & Benefits
Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition is a stimulating and enchanting resource that introduces early learners to essential basic literacy and numeracy skills. The CD-ROM contains 12 simple, interactive activities that, whilst fun to complete, will develop children’s understanding of concepts such as sequencing stories, identifying letter sounds, matching numerals with sets of items and much, much more! Each activity has three levels of difficulty, allowing them to be used with a range of ability groups.


Contents
Comparing and sequencing
Matching and sorting
Counting and sequencing
Positional language
Shape and spatial awareness
Opposites
Rhyming words

(With Download Patch )

Tizzy has just moved into a new house, but it`s in a bit of a mess! Can your children use the computer mouse to lend a hand for a new task each day?
While helping Tizzy to organise her home, children will develop and extend their basic computer knowledge and mouse control skills - and have a lot of fun in the process! The perfect starter for children working towards independent computer use.

• 7 focused activities, encouraging progressive development of mouse control skills
• Animated Help feature within each activity
• Animated introduction to computers feature
• Fun Sing Along feature
• Teacher Options
• Full narration throughout

Features & Benefits
Bring some magic to your classroom with Type with Tizzy, a highly interactive program designed to help children develop keyboard familiarity and competence. With help from Tizzy, children work through the carefully structured activities, each one helping them to gain a greater understanding of the functions and layout of the keyboard. The engaging scenarios and fun characters ensure that learning with Tizzy is guaranteed to motivate everyone!


Contents
19 focused activities
Configurable on-screen text, keyboard
Comprehensive Help feature within each activity
Optional interactive on-screen keyboard

Features & Benefits
An integrated set of seven, fun-to-use ICT tools, Tizzy's First Tools can be quickly adapted to meet all your classroom needs.
Whether writing, painting, presenting or making charts, pupils are ably assisted by Tizzy the magical clown. Independent use is supported through colour-coding, simple interfaces and on-screen help. Developed in conjunction with application experts Softease, Tizzy's First Tools is a must for every infant classroom.



Contents
Write - first word processor
Paint - creative art package
Chart - simple chart and graph making
Publish - super templates for infant DTP activities
Also includes Move, Decide and Present

Features & Benefits
Click and Write with Tizzy is a specially designed set of Clicker 5 grids to develop and reinforce skills introduced in the popular Sherston program Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition.
The CD-ROM contains 11 simple interactive activities that, whilst fun to complete, will develop children’s understanding of concepts such as prepositions, identifying letter sounds, matching numerals with sets of items and much, much more! Each activity has three levels of difficulty, allowing them to be used with a range of ability groups.



Contents
Simple sentence construction
Prepositions
Counting
Simple number sentences
Story sequencing
Opposites
Colours and sizes
Letter sounds
Rhyming words

A collection of Clicker 5 grids to support the Sherston program, Izzy`s Island. Each of the activities include a set of Clicker grids to develop and reinforce the skills of that activity and are available at three different levels.
Clicker 5 is required.


Number recognition and counting
Descriptive language
Sentence building
Creating repeating patterns
Rhyming words
Story sequencing
Letter knowledge and names

Features & Benefits
Click and Write with Izzy is a specially designed set of Clicker 5 grids to develop and reinforce skills introduced in the Sherston program Izzy’s Island.
Your pupils sail away with Izzy and her friends to an island where they will find 10 engaging activities (each differentiated at 3 levels) to help them develop essential basic skills, including sorting, counting, listening and much more!



Contents
Number recognition and counting
Descriptive language
Sentence building
Creating repeating patterns
Rhyming words
Story sequencing
Letter knowledge and names

Fizzy`s First Numbers helps children practice and develop essential counting skills within the number range 1 to 9.
A bright, colourful Main Menu provides intuitive access to nine activities. Activities include recognising numerals 1 to 9, reciting the correct sequence of number names, counting sets of objects, finding the correct set for a given number name and much more.

Key features
• Teacher Options include the facility to set the number range
• Each activity has accompanying resource sheets
• Records pupil progress
• Overview feature explains the main contents and features via a series of narrated screens

Fizzy`s Number Skills supports the introduction and understanding of many essential mathematical concepts through a series of appealing, well-designed activities.
Behind each gate in the number world garden lies an engaging learning experience in which one stage of a basic concept is introduced and explored, using age-appropriate narration and scenarios that will captivate young children`s interest.
The twelve activities cover concepts relating to early addition, early subtraction and comparing and ordering numbers, within the number range 0 - 10.

Features & Benefits
Integrate ICT into your number lessons and have some Fizzy fun with this bright and colourful Bee-Bot mat. With three number tracks (numerals, dot patterns and sets of items), this is an ideal resource for collaborative activities.
Children will enjoy working together to create and revise number-based routes for the Bee-Bot to follow, while developing essential skills in estimation, direction, number operations and simple control.

The accompanying cards include basic mathematical symbols and vocabulary that can be used to create patterns, operations and sequences to control the Bee-Bot’s movement. A versatile resource that facilitates truly inspirational ICT work!

Cleo talks numbers is an interactive game delivering audio visual activities, designed to help children learn the complexities of counting, sequencing and calculating.
Cleo, a friendly talking crab, guides and supports children through fun activities which will help them to develop basic number skills. Objectives link directly to the NNS. The program is ideal for independent activities, but can also be used to support whole class teaching - either as a mental warm-up or during a plenary session to reinforce learning - and is a superb revision aid.

Description: This book provides a fantastic collection of graded games and activities for children aged 5 – 7. Activities are divided into 2 main areas: understanding spoken language and using spoken language. The first area includes following instructions, getting the main idea, thinking skills, developing vocabulary and understanding inference. The second area includes narrating, describing, explaining, predicting and playing with words. Each activity has a clear aim and simple instructions, and requires minimal equipment. This A4 spiral-bound book contains 312 pages.

Features & Benefits
Our Class allows students to collect data about themselves and add it to their class’s database. Users create a face to represent themselves in the program and then gather 10 pieces of personal data and view these as pictures on their own data file.
Information is viewed as tally charts, pictograms, pie charts or bar charts and interpreted to answer simple questions at two levels of difficulty. The teacher can monitor students’ attendance, moods and the status of their personal data file as well as allowing the class to create fun fancy-dress scenes. This tool meets key criteria for maths and ICT and supports PSHE in the classroom.



Contents
Collect 10 items of personal data
Collate data from up to 40 students in each class
Present data as tally charts, pictographs, pie charts or bar charts
Answer questions about the data at 2 levels of difficulty

Children complete activities with special stickers and a pencil to practise the writing and handwriting skills introduced at school in Key Stage 1.

Features & Benefits
Number Run contains five activities, each designed to help young children enjoy number work and provide a strong foundation for mathematical development. Easy-to-use settings allow teachers to adapt activities to use different number ranges and question types. No reading skills needed – all instructions are spoken or presented visually. Number Run addresses the early learning goals for counting and calculating (Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage) and prepares children for maths at Key Stage 1.


Contents
Five fun, interactive activities
Three levels of difficulty
Individual activity settings can be changed to suit pupils’ needs
Text free
Bright, colourful graphics

Features & Benefits
Polka Dot Park: Growth is an exciting and flexible science resource that enables young children to develop their understanding of living things with the help of three engaging characters: Polka, Dot and Bob the Hedgehog.
There are nine realistic scenarios for children to explore, for example planting seeds in the potting shed, feeding a baby in the picnic area or caring for baby animals in a stable. Children can be guided through activities by Polka, the friendly adult rabbit, or they can learn through exploration with Dot, whose activities are narration-free and thus perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. Bob the Hedgehog’s short, focused activities can be used to consolidate understanding of key processes and vocabulary.



Contents
Nine problem-solving activities, each with three modes of use
Nine consolidation activities
Familiar settings and scenarios
Develops scientific vocabulary
Perfect for interactive whiteboards

Come and play Hide and Seek in our house: There are five rooms and a garden where the mouse might be hidden. This game helps children develop their IT skills including mouse control. Other activities cover skills such as sequencing, numbers, matching pairs and word recognition

More than ten graded activities for learning about numbers the activities start with `zero` or `one` and go up to five, ten or 20. Bold numbers and colourful pictures are used to illustrate the numbers and quantities children interact with.
A host of flexible and easy-to-use options are at hand for setting up the software for groups of children or individuals. Scally`s World of NUMBERS will suit older children and those in Adult Basic Education as the animation can be turned off.

Features

Introduces children to letters and letter blends with 16 carefully graded activities
National Literacy Strategy-based software
Designed for 3-7 year olds
Foundation & Key Stages 1, Scotland to P3
Speaks initial letter names or sounds, initial consonant clusters, and whole words
Stunning graphics and real speech motivate children
Also suitable for special educational needs

Comes with all the tools you would expect from any good art pack, including draw, fill, symmetrical painting, maths shapes, various stickers including images of animals, food, toys and furniture to stamp on your work.
As well as 20 outline pictures to colour in, two kinds of puzzles are provided - `sliding block` and `click to swap` and each can have between four and sixteen rectangular pieces. Jigsaws can be solved on screen or printed out.

Available for delivery to the UK and most countries in Europe. See Delivery Restrictions.


Features

Early years software that develops communication, cognitive and reading skills (2-9 years old)
This is an upgrade to Topologika's best-selling Speaking for Myself CD-ROM
Includes flash cards, talking stories, nursery rhymes, games and diversions
Sign supported text and picture symbols for communication throughout!
Produced in collaboration with the Down's Syndrome Association (DSA), DownsEd, Mayer-Johnson and Signalong
Nursery, Key Stages 1 & 2, Scotland to P5
Designed for children with special educational needs (SEN) but equally rewarding for any young learner

Filled with colourful characters and engaging activities, Izzy's Island has been designed specifically to fulfil the learning and development requirements for 3 to 5 year olds. The carefully-structured activities are supported by age-appropriate narration, attractive graphics and intuitive screen designs.

Features & Benefits
This highly original retelling of the traditional, much-loved tale enables young children to explore the world of Goldilocks and the Three Bears through adult and child-led learning opportunities.
The story itself can be used in two different ways, with or without text and narration, providing a rich and flexible resource that supports and encourages young children in their own storytelling. In addition, each of the five activities focuses on a key language skill within a carefully-designed, fully-narrated scenario.



Contents
Fully-narrated interactive story
Facility for child/teacher to tell the story
Three engaging click and explore scenes
Five focused, interactive activities
Fully-narrated throughout
Clear Teacher Options

Features & Benefits
This highly original retelling of the traditional tale enables young children to explore the world of The Three Billy Goats Gruff via both adult and child-led learning opportunities. The story itself can be used in two different ways, with or without text and narration, providing a rich and flexible resource that supports and encourages young children in their own story telling. In addition, each of five engaging activities focuses on a basic language skill within a carefully-designed, fully-narrated scenario.


Contents
’Story Time’ and ‘Story Play’ sections
5 activities
Fully-narrated interactive story
Facility for child / teacher to tell the story
Click and Explore a scene

Features & Benefits
Embed ICT into story telling and much more with this superb crosscurricular resource. Children will love using this mat to take Bee-Bots on a colourful journey to explore Goldilocks’ house.
Using the location, item and direction cards, children can create numerous routes for the Bee-Bot to follow, developing collaborative problem-solving and early mapping skills as they go.

Picture cards can be ordered to retell key sequences from the familiar story whilst the useful prompt cards provide the starting point for many other cross-curricular activities. With great potential for structured tasks or free exploration, ICT has never been this much fun!

Features & Benefits
It's a busy time for Teddy! There's a lot to do before the Teddy Bears' Picnic - the invitations need to be written, the shopping must be chosen and paid for and Teddy wants help selecting a snazzy outfit. Once everything is prepared, Teddy has to be directed around a map to the picnic site. Then a 'picnic postcard' must be created and, finally, all the tired teddies want to record what they enjoyed most about the day on a pictogram.
Seven carefully structured activities, each at 3 levels of difficulty, encourage the development of ICT skills and understanding through focused numeracy and literacy activities. Fully narrated, the activities can be accessed individually or as part of an exciting, linear adventure.



Contents
Data handling/representing information graphically
Reading and using high frequency words
Separating/blending phonemes, including vowel phonemes
Recognising coins & solving simple money problems
Supports QCA ICT scheme of work

This program provides a specially-designed sequence of exercises to help budding left-handed writers.
Handwriting remains vitally important - despite ubiquitous keyboards - but for the left-handed, development of good writing habits needs more assistance. Without help, left-handers` writing is often messy or smudged. This can lead to frustration - especially when writing essays or exams - loss of self-esteem, and under-achievement. With regular practice, though, left-handers can write just as well as right-handers.

The LHWS program meets this need through 83 highly-illustrated, printable worksheets, in various cursive styles, running from fine motor control, through letter and word formation to full handwriting exercises.


Extra help for left-handers to avoid the frustration of `messy writing`.
Choice of cursive handwriting fonts.
83 printable exercise sheets.
Fine motor control - to letter and word formation - to full handwriting style.

This series contains three fun, interactive CD`s perfect for Early Years and Foundation Stage. In each program, children can select from two different activity types to complete simple two-piece puzzles that animate when answered correctly. With appealing graphics and age specific vocabulary, pupils will develop close observation, matching and classification skills.

This series contains three fun, interactive CD`s perfect for Early Years and Foundation Stage. In each program, children can select from two different activity types to complete simple two-piece puzzles that animate when answered correctly. With appealing graphics and age specific vocabulary, pupils will develop close observation, matching and classification skills.

This series contains three fun, interactive CD`s perfect for Early Years and Foundation Stage. In each program, children can select from two different activity types to complete simple two-piece puzzles that animate when answered correctly. With appealing graphics and age specific vocabulary, pupils will develop close observation, matching and classification skills.

Maths designed for children aged four to seven, providing activities that can be used to support the teaching of the National Numeracy Strategy. Supports the development and assessment of children learning basic ICT and number skills through a series of repetitive exercises, games, matching, counting, adding and comparing shapes and numbers up to nine.
Has a full screen display and responsive buttons, designed especially for young children to develop skill in mouse movement and pointer control, providing a structured way of developing basic number skills. Various options to suit the level of ability and age of the individual child.