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This is a curriculum-based free-play program that is packed with fun, educational activities. The activities cover important kindergarten skills such as letter identification, measurement, sequencing, simple spelling and more. The stars of this software title are Ben and Becky Brightly who get involved in each activity in more ways than you can imagine - they morph into all sorts of things, including fish and airplanes! In one early adding activity, these blue-haired kids stre-e-etch their arms and legs out to become perches for birds. Smart Stars are FUN to collect - they pop up on the screen after successful game-playing, and kids love to click on them and watch their antics as they drop down, bounce, and even parachute, into their BrainBank. In order to play the special SuperStar of Smarts activity, kids need to have earned SmartStars of each color. Becky and Ben's house is filled with "clickables" as well as 16 activities. In Twin Time Telling, kids compare analog and digital time readings. Kids estimate and measure Becky's height using such things as ice cubes and carrots. A maze activity has children navigating Ben through a garden, but there is an interesting twist to the game - when Ben meets up with an obstacle (food) on the course, kids must decide what animal Ben should transform himself into in order to gobble up the hindrance. Becky turns into an airplane to get to the activity in the sky, where kids must rearrange letters in their proper alphabetic order on a cloud. Clicking on the Think'n'Go icon will take players to a screen that allows faster access to the different rooms and activities. This program is busier than most Kindergarten titles on the market, and it tends to be somewhat more challenging too. |
