Elementary Advantage 2010

[ReviewAZON asin="B001V9TH44"]Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Elementary Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his or her full academic potential.

Establish a solid Language Arts foundation with fun lessons that focus on the building blocks of the English language. Click to enlarge.

Develop fundamental math skills through fun and interactive lessons and exercises. Click to enlarge.

Investigate and understand the mysteries of Earth, space and all living things in a fun-filled scientific adventure. Click to enlarge.

Learn basic Spanish through interactive lessons that reinforce spelling and pronunciation fundamentals. Click to enlarge.

The ADVANTAGE Approach to Effective Learning:

ADVANTAGE uses a unique approach that combines interactive lessons, exercises, and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate students in reaching their full academic potential.
  • Engage
    Interactive learning experience engages the student

  • Reinforce
    Standards-driven lesson plan reinforces classroom learning

  • Support
    Study aids & reference tools support the learning experience

  • Motivate
    Brain-building games add fun to studying

Student Benefits

  • Learn At Your Own Pace
  • Build Critical Skills
  • Identify Problem Areas
  • Review Lessons As Needed

Student Resources

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Edition
  • iPod study materials

Study Break Extras

  • Brain-building games

Core Curriculum

Math
Develop fundamental math skills through fun and interactive lessons and exercises.

  • Basic Math
  • Algebra
  • Measurement & Geometry
  • Data & Probability

Science
Investigate and understand the mysteries of Earth, space and all living things in a fun-filled scientific adventure.

  • General Science
  • Nature & Living Things
  • The Human Body
  • The Solar System

Social Studies
Travel the globe and discover interesting facts about the United States and other countries across the world.

  • Map Reading
  • Major Landmarks
  • Oceans & Continents
  • Government & Population

English
Establish a solid Language Arts foundation with fun lessons that focus on the building blocks of the English language.

  • Digraphs & Dipthongs
  • Sentence Structure
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Reading Comprehension

Foreign Language
Learn basic Spanish through interactive lessons that reinforce spelling and pronunciation fundamentals.

  • Alphabet
  • Numbers
  • Common Words
  • Phrases & Greetings

PLUS: Brain-Building Games and iPod Study Materials!

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Grammar Made Easy

[ReviewAZON asin="B000BFPE5A"]In a fun game-show format, Grammar Made Easy teaches, practices, and tests children's understanding of grammar in a way no textbook can! This program goes beyond simple diagrams and introduces parts of speech and sentence structure in innovative and captivating lessons.[/ReviewAZON] Read more »

Reader Rabbit Personalized Math 4-6 Deluxe

[ReviewAZON asin="B000DIMTEY"]Explore the Amusement Park with Reader Rabbit!Product InformationReader Rabbit Personalized Math builds children's early math skills whileenhancing their appreciation for numbers.  Children explore basic numberconcepts in a series of imaginative games.  As they play children developskills in counting adding and subtracting as well as skills in recognizingnumber relationships patterns colors and shapes.The program also encourages children to discover higher-level math conceptsand to develop an awareness of mathematical relationships - all while havingfun!  The activities allow for different learning styles including visualauditory abstract and concrete association.  Because the concepts arepresented in several levels of difficulty children learn at their own pace. Skills Learned Counting Addition Subtraction Number Recognition Matching & Memory Decision Making Greater Than/Less Than Sequencing & Ordering Identifying Sets Measuring Solving EquationsActivities Include  Math Racer Game Matching groups of objects with Arabic numerals Recognizing the number of sides of various shapes Testing knowledge of addition and subtraction facts for numbers from 1 to 10 Matching equivalent expressionsLog Ride Manipulating objects to gain "hands-on" experience in math Exploring multiple solutions to a given problem  Combining sets of one - and two-digit numbers to arrive at a desired sumRoller Coaster Finding and completing a pattern of numbers Finding and completing a pattern of shapes and colorsCalliope Counting Game Associating number symbols with their spoken names by hearing the numbers in song Exploring and counting numbers from 1 to 8 Discovering and creating musical tunes Identifying numbers and reco[/ReviewAZON] Read more »

Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer: Lost and Found Adventure

[ReviewAZON asin="B002CJ1J4S"]Play & learn with your favorite preschool character. Dora is the top rated preschool phenomenon that develops fundamental skills. With five fun and interactive games, Dora the Explorer Lost and Found Adventure gives your children an introduction to a whole new world of learning and discovery. Together with Dora and her friends, Boots, Map, and Backpack, children learn the basic essential skills of language, problem solving, math, and reading in an educational, diverse, and wholesome environment.

Interactive Games Entertain & Educate Your Kids

Dora the Explorer Lost and Found Adventure gives your children an entertaining introduction to a whole new world of learning and discovery.

Dora the Explorer Builds:

  • Fundamental Skills: Colors, shapes, numbers, matching, and size recognition
  • Cognitive Ability: Deductive reasoning, thinking, memory, and perception
  • Creativity: Art, music, imagination, exploration, and more
  • Language Development: Letters, words, vocabulary, basic Spanish, and more
  • Self Esteem: Competence, self-confidence, and a sense of self worth

Play to Learn
Master fundamental skills in a fun, interactive, and engaging environment. Interactive games entertain and teach children 2-5 years old.

Help Dora fix the path to Star Mountain. Click to enlarge.

Learn how to count as you help Dora find the stars at the circus. Click to enlarge.

Explore and Learn
Discover colorful and interesting places with Dora’s Explorer Stars and engage in fun activities along the way.

Swiper has hidden the picnic treats. Can you help Dora find them? Click to enlarge.

Collect stars to unlock pictures; then print and color. Click to enlarge.

Build Essential Skills
Get an enjoyable introduction to preschool concepts, such as colors, shapes, and numbers, and enhance your mouse skills.

Discover colors and shapes with Dora and Backpack. Click to enlarge.

Find items that have been swiped using your mouse. Click to enlarge.

Special Features
Includes 2 fun and engaging mini games--The Nutty Forest and Super Swiper--to teach and entertain children.

Dora is a Preschool Success!*

  • #1 Program on all commercial TV with kids 2-5
  • #1 girl character Q score with moms of kids 2-5
  • #1 program with Hispanic kids
  • #1 overall TV franchise in consumer dollars every year since 2008

*(1, 2) Nielsen 2008; (3, 4) Marketing Evaluations, Fall 2008, Regularly Scheduled Programs.

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Zoombinis Logical Journey

[ReviewAZON asin="B00005LBVU"]"Not too long ago, Zoombinis enjoyed the good life. Though they all looked slightly different--different eyes, noses, hair, feet--such differences meant nothing to the Zoombinis. And so they lived happily on Zoombini Isle, making small, useful products, which were prized the world over." So begins an unsuspectingly addictive CD-ROM, featuring uncommonly fun reasoning games that require serious problem solving and math-thinking work. Yet the perils that face this cheerful society are not as fearsome as the amount of time you'll potentially spend on this pursuit. Beware the chubby, chattering Zoombinis if you don't want to get hooked to your computer for at least 90 minutes a session!

Adored by educators and parents alike, Zoombinis Logical Journey challenges children to employ such basic fundamentals of mathematical thinking as organizing information, reasoning of evidence, finding and making patterns, and systematic testing of hypotheses. The journey follows four puzzle-filled trails, each exploring related mathematical ideas. The fundamental data and variables for all this work are the variations in the Zoombinis' features. Their "feet," for example, can be shoes, skates, whirligigs, or coiled springs (the sound effects for these items are particularly great), while their "eyes" may be heavily lidded, enhanced by eyeglasses, blocked by dark shades, or limited to just a single eyeball. Sorting and arranging these variables in order to solve puzzles requires concentrated effort from the players, and the game rewards them well with inventive scenarios that evolve in fabulously curious ways as skills are gained. This may not sound like much, but when Arno the Pizza-Eating Tree Troll, who has been yammering for the perfectly topped pizza his entire lifetime, suddenly demands a perfectly topped ice cream sundae, too, it is a staggering, giddy surprise.

The product is full of so many little joys, it's hard to demand improvements. Still, it'd be a great thing if version 2 would feature something other than the monotonous, ping-ping-ping soundtrack that's featured here. But that's minor. In the end, the creators' promise that this CD-ROM will "encourage kids to develop a lifetime habit of associating fun with learning" is dead-on. (Ages 9 and older) --Jean Lenihan [/ReviewAZON] Read more »

My First Math Adventure: Adding & Subtracting 1.1

[ReviewAZON asin="B000KN44YA"]The second, companion title in the My First Math Adventure series. Working at their own pace, children develop problem-solving skills by utilizing math skills in a practical way by following the adventures of White Bear and his hilarious sidekick, Little Penguin.[/ReviewAZON] Read more »

Reader Rabbit Kindergarten (Jewel Case)

[ReviewAZON asin="B0007XOTSY"]Reader Rabbit has been captivating children for over 20 years with the finest interactive learning products in both schools and homes. Build your child's essential learning skills with Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Learning Series. Develop Important Learning Skills: - Early Reading - Letters & Numbers - Simple Arithmetic - Critical Thinking - Problem Solving BONUS: Reader Rabbit Math CD!*[/ReviewAZON] Read more »

Scholastic Math Missions

[ReviewAZON asin="B0002J6HWE"]Save Spectacle City by disrupting Randall Underling's plan to drive all the stores out of business and take over the city. The citizens are counting on you to solve real world math challenges in the uniquely entertaining stores and make them successful again. For your help, you'll earn money to open your own arcade where you'll choose a name, pick arcade games to play, set prices and more! Free Inside! Snap It Up! A fun, fast-paced card game that builds identification, counting, addition, and subtraction. Includes 85 cards![/ReviewAZON] Read more »