Disney Learning Kindergarten Bundle (Pooh Kindergarten, Mickey Kindergarten, and Phonics Quest)

by Disney

Product Features

• Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten w/French & Spanish brings parents and young children a fun set of educational games they can enjoy together
• Play eight games and 25 learning skills like Eeyore's Musical Mix & Match, Owl's Memory Challenge, and Rabbit's Shape Sorting
• Mickey Mouse Kindergarten introduces fundamental learning skills as they play with Mickey
• As children play, they'll develop critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities
• Explore fun word games with Goofy and Tigger

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00029BQAC
• Item model number: 3706201
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #719 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #32 in Software > Children's Software > Early Learning
  • #85 in Software > Education & Reference

Product Description

Product Description

Disney Learning Kindergarten featuring Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh can teach children fundamental learning skills while fueling their creativity and imagination. A life-long love of learning is reinforced through stimulating activities that inspire a child’s creative thinking skills. Also included, Disney’s Phonics Quest, join Mickey on a quest as the sorcerer’s apprentice to uncover the magic of phonics fun! Mickey’s quest begins as he opens the sorcerer’s magic book and loses six of the Sorcerer’s belongings. He then takes a challenging journey to retrieve the lost magical items. As each challenge is mastered, Mickey regains one of the Sorcerer’s belongings so he can triumphantly return to the castle. Children 5-7 will have fun searching for the missing items while mastering phonics skills along the way!

Features:

• Deluxe 3-CD set featuring Mickey Mouse and Winnie-the-Pooh
• Pooh title introduces French and Spanish foreign language vocabulary, which improves pronunciation and sound discrimination and ultimately strengthens primary language skills
• Adjustable leveling allows each child to grow and learn at his or her own pace
• Educational workbook pages and flash cards for printing extend learning beyond the computer
• Progress report provides feedback on skill progression
• Promotes critical thinking and problem solving while enhancing memory, listening and observation skills
• Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse encourage foster self-esteem and confidence which instills a life long love of learning
• Storyline plays upon popular fantasy and adventure themes
• Emphasizes primary reading skills such as letter and sound recognition, vocabulary, spelling, word building, long and short vowels, consonant blends
• Employs Apple and Microsoft's speech recognition technologies within game play
• Teaches Phonics through Spiral Curriculum, where areas of learning are introduced at early stages and revisited again as students continue to explore higher levels of game play in alternate activities
• Reward based learning gives children positive reinforcement for getting the correct answers
• One – four adjustable levels of difficulty for hours of game play
• Skills progression chart

Product Description

Disney Learning Kindergarten featuring Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh can teach children fundamental learning skills while fueling their creativity and imagination. A life-long love of learning is reinforced through stimulating activities that inspire a child's creative thinking skills. Also included, Disney's Phonics Quest, join Mickey on a quest as the sorcerer's apprentice to uncover the magic of phonics fun! Mickey's quest begins as he opens the sorcerer's magic book and loses six of the Sorcerer's belongings. He then takes a challenging journey to retrieve the lost magical items. As each challenge is mastered, Mickey regains one of the Sorcerer's belongings so he can triumphantly return to the castle. Children 5-7 will have fun searching for the missing items while mastering phonics skills along the way! This software would make the perfect gift for a child on their way to kindergarten! Get a jump start on learning your letters and numbers! Knowledge is power, get started early! Product Requirements For Use: Windows Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me Pentium processor, 166 MHz or faster, 32 MB RAM or greater, 60 MB free hard disk space, 8X speed CD-ROM drive, 16 bit DirectX-compatible sound card, 16 bit color, DirectX-compatible 4MB video card, DirectX 8.0(included) Optional: Java-compatible web-browser (i.e. Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.08 or later. Macintosh OS 8.6 through 9.1 Imac, G3 or better, 32 MB free hard disk space, 4X speed CD-ROM drive Thousands of colors video display. Dimensions: 1.3"H x 7.6"L x 5.3"W Weight: .3lbs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good set of games (and it can run under an XP limited account with some tweaking), February 12, 2006

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G. Semel (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney Learning Kindergarten Bundle (Pooh Kindergarten, Mickey Kindergarten, and Phonics Quest) (CD-ROM)

My daughter likes the games, but some of them are pretty simplistic for a kindergartner.

As for letting your limited account "little monster" :-) run the game, I was able to get it running with one little tweak to the security settings for one folder. If an administrator adds Modify and Write permissions to the Users group on the program files\disney interactive folder, the game seems to run fine. As far as I can tell, the problem occurs when the games are trying to write the player.SAV file to a subfolder.

I'm not sure how easy it is to add these permissions on XP Home, but on XP Pro it's a breeze.

Hope this helps.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learning with Pooh, Tigger, and Roo!, October 22, 2007

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LadyHawke9973 "LadyHawke" (UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney Learning Kindergarten Bundle (Pooh Kindergarten, Mickey Kindergarten, and Phonics Quest) (CD-ROM)

My 4 year old sat down for the first time with this software at 3PM this past Saturday afternoon, and aside for a quick break for dinner (which was wolfed down because she wanted to get back to her "'puter"), she played non-stop until past 8PM.

Learning her numbers, addition, phonics, grammar, following instructions (Tigger's Treasure Hunt is great!)...you name it. I can't think of a single problem with this software. There are even 3 levels of difficulty within most of the games.

Was not as impressed with the Mickey Mouse disk, but only one real quibble, really. On the spash screen where you can choose what game to play, the Pooh Bear disk says what each game is when you hover your mouse over it...so you know what it is even if you're pre-reading. The Mickey Mouse game does not. The rest was just fine...and fine-tuning her listening/observation skills with the bell-hop game (hotel guests call the front desk asking for a bell-hop with blue pants, bowtie and no hat, and you have to choose the right bell-hop from what looks like the Goof Troop) is a WELL thought out game.

Am DEFinitely recommending it to anyone with a 3-5 year old.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars multi-age study pack, March 1, 2006

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Jean F. Rowland "Hannah's gramma" (on the lake) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney Learning Kindergarten Bundle (Pooh Kindergarten, Mickey Kindergarten, and Phonics Quest) (CD-ROM)

Both my 5 year old granddaughter, Hannah and 3 year old granddaughter, Hallie enjoyed the bundle. There are several levels, so it was challenging and enjoyable for both. It was very helpful with the subjects that were being introduced in Hannah's kindergarten class, such as the geometry.