  Adventure Workshop 6: Preschool-1st Grade
Adventure Workshop 6: Preschool-1st Grade - PC Software
Start your child’s education off strong! Familiar characters such as Reader
Rabbit and Arthur guide your young learner through beginning reading, art,
critical thinking and problem solving and more. Introduce your child to an
exciting on-screen learning environment brimming with award-winning adventures
that will build essential skills while having fun. Children learn best
amid familiar scenes and settings, and that's exactly what you'll find in
Adventure Workshop. A brilliant addition to your educational software
library.
Product Title Included
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StarFlyers Alien Space Chase
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Kid Pix Deluxe 3
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Reader Rabbit Reading
- Arthur's Schoolhouse
Product Features
- Send your child on a trip to 26 Letter
Lands and the Word Factory with games, puzzles and songs along the
way in Reader Rabbit’s Learn to Read Phonics!
- Give them a creative outlet with Kid Pix
Deluxe 3, where they can draw, animate and even add sound to their
pictures and stories.
- Keep kids busy for hours as they travel to
outer space during StarFlyers Alien Space Chase – with eight fun
games, they won’t even realize they’re learning!
- Introduce your child to kindergarten skills and real-life topics like
cooperation and counting money with Arthur and Friends in Arthur’s
Kindergarten.
Product Overview
StarFlyers Alien Space Chase
Yikes! Pets are loose at school...help the StarFlyer!
Zoom off with the StarFlyers to distant planets and see this problem transform
into an extraordinary space-hunt for Alien Ambassadors —who look a bit like
pets. Use quick-thinking and logical-reasoning skills to uncover clues and
collect galaxy seeds. Celebrate by trading galaxy seeds for astro-prizes—amusing
animations and printable activities. The Alien Ambassadors are depending on you
in this smart, fun-packed adventure. Children build critical thinking skills in a
planet hopping adventure!
Features:
- 8 brain-tickling games
- 12 printable activities
- 3 levels of challenge
- Kid-friendly help movies
- Smart arcade-style fun to enjoy again and again!
- Feel the Adventure with an Immersion
TouchSense – enabled mouse.† (mouse not included
- In the Real World: Wellingdon School
students expect a great Show-Your-Pet Day . . . until Victor
Wexler strikes and all the pets get loose.
- The Fantasy World: Alien Ambassadors
are missing! StarFlyers to the rescue! Solve puzzles to rescue
them - and save the intergalactic election.
- Fly the SnoozeCruiser: Collect tools and valuable galaxy seeds. Stow
them in the dashboard, and trade your galaxy seeds for prizes at the Astro-Prize
Center!
Skills Learned:
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Hypothesis formulation and testing
- Spatial reasoning
- Memory and sequencing
- Creativity
Kid Pix Deluxe 3
Kid Pix and the Kid Pix family of products have inspired kids to express their
natural creativity with innovative, fun, wacky and totally unique art tools. We
now bring this sense of fun and creativity to the online environment. Kid
Pix Deluxe 3 is the most comprehensive set of fun and innovative, computer-based
art tools and projects ever created. Kid Pix cultivates children's natural
creativity and builds self- confidence and pride of accomplishment - critical
components of personal development.
Kid Pix Deluxe 3 is loaded full of fun projects that kids of every age will
enjoy: Young kids will love experimenting with realistic art tools like
paint brushes, chalk, crayon, marker pen, finger-paint and airbrush.
Transform any picture by adding dramatic special effects with just one click of
the mouse. And they can get HUNDREDS of ideas from picture starters and
simple craft projects. Bigger kids will enjoy adding graphics and special
effects to imported photographs, emailing homemade animated pictures, creating
their own comic books, slide shows, and movies with music and sound effects.
Every child can be a creative whiz with Kid Pix. Kid Pix takes kids beyond
electronic coloring books and cartoon cut-outs, providing THOUSANDS of fun tools
that offer unlimited ways for kids to express their originality and reach their
creative potential.
Features:
- Almost 100 Wacky Brushes, including a spray can that sends animations
dancing across the page.
- Super sharp graphics you can move, shrink, enlarge or flip.
- Turn a whisper or a giggle into a line or a squiggle with Sound Art.
Even kids too young to use a mouse can create a masterpiece with this tool.
- 100 Animated Stickers to bring artistic creations magically to life.
- Realistic Art Tools in 1000's of colors
- 30 Crazy Mixer special effects
- Over 1000 Stickers and Stamps
- Over 200 paper textures and backgrounds
- More than 150 Fill Patterns
- Over 100 Sounds you can add to your picture.
- More than 20 Wacky Erasers
Reader Rabbit Reading
Learn letters, words and sounds with more than 100 interactive games and puzzles
featuring Reader Rabbit. Children will learn to read words and sentences,
practice and apply skills, and become a successful reader.
Skills Learned:
- ABC's
- Pronunciation
- Reading Comprehension
- Vocabulary
Arthur's Schoolhouse
Join Arthur and friends on a guided tour of the alphabet, phonics and
more. Featuring a full year of skills and lessons aimed at early reading
success.
Skills Learned:
- Phonics
- Math
- Creativity
- Problem Solving
Windows Requirements
- Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 SP4, XP SP1
- Kid Pix Deluxe 3 requires XP Compatibility
mode to run on Windows XP *
- Pentium 233 MHz processor or faster
(Pentium II 300 MHz or better for XP)
- 32 MB RAM (128 MB RAM for Windows XP)
- 400 MB of free hard disk space
- 8X CD-ROM drive or faster
- 16-bit monitor capable of 800 x 600
resolution
- 2MB DirectX compatible video card
- Windows compatible 16-bit sound card and
speakers
- Windows compatible keyboard and mouse
- Microsoft DirectX 8 (included on CD)
- QuickTime 5 (included on CD)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (included on the
CD)
- Microphone is needed for Sound Art and for
recording sounds (not included)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
- Printer Support: Works with most popular
printers (Monochrome and color) supported by Windows
- 33.6 Kbps modem or faster and Internet service provider account required
for Internet access
*Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program
on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
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