Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

This is the most complete learning tool for kindergarden kids. DON'T EJECT THE SOFTWARE FROM THE COMPUTER BEFORE EXITING THE GAME. If you do so then the software could make chages in your computer setting. However, for me if you look for a complete learning tool for your little todler this could be the best one. The cd that likes me more is the phonic quest cd.

If I could give this program fewer than 1 star, I would. First and foremost, the program will not run at all unless it is run under an administrator account. Perhaps you have created a limited account for your little monster, knowing that if they were set up as administrator, they could load any program or virus downloaded from the internet, add and remove user accounts, change passwords, delete files, and otherwise wreak havoc on your computer... THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT RUN UNLESS you set your 5 year old up as computer administrator. Other titles (such as the SIGNIFICANTLY better Reader Rabbit) work fine on limited accounts.

Even if you log in as administrator so that your kiddo can use this program, it is disappointing across the board. It is hard to use, the games are not fun, and I can honestly not think of a single redeeming feature that is not present in the SIGNIFICANTLY better Reader Rabit series. DO NOT BUY!!!

This is absolutely our favorite educational software package. Great graphics, different levels of play, and so much to do!! It's easy for kids to remember which games are on each disc, and it's very easy for them to start up the disc they want and navigate through the software.

Within each game there are different levels to play according to ability. The Phonics Quest is challenging (in a good way) and not overly difficult so it's perfect for early readers - and even our preschooler has fun playing that game - though for him it's hit or miss (as he doesn't read yet). He loves the mom dragons and their cute babies, which players need to match up according to phonic sounds.

It runs very well on our older XP PC; although if it's left unattended for awhile the screen size reduces and you might need to hit "esc" to exit. But that's no big deal and doesn't take away from the quality of the software.

This is definitely a winner - super cute brightly colored graphics, numerous great games, and very easy for even a young user to navigate. This is overall high quality software. Enjoy!!

We love 2 of the 3 CDs. The Phonics one is a bit dark (sorcers with mean faces, dragons, crystal balls, and pentagrams). Mickey Kindergarten and Pooh Kindergarten were really top notch. The Pooh Bear one is our favorite.

The kids really only played with the Pooh game. They still do in fact. The game is a resource hog, and frequently bogged down our computer, but it's an older system so....

my 2.5 years old love the phonic quest, and pooh kintergarden. Not so much for Micky kintergarden. He will spend hours on computer by himeself and I just enjoy some me time :)

I don't really know where I stand on this bundle... My daughter really likes the games (she's 3). But I can only get two of the three discs to work with my Windows XP... The regular Mickey Mouse one wont work at all and the Winnie the Pooh disc says there's an error every time you change the scene, you press "Ok" and it continues fine, but it's annoying. The Mickey's Quest disc works perfectly, though. My husband says that there's a quick lil' thing he can do to fix these issues... but it's been about a month and he hasn't gotten to it... soooo.... =(
Idk, I don't like it because of all the issues, but my daughter loves to play it.