Trudy's Time and Place House Ages 3-6

by IBM

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S8IF
• Item model number: 1543
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,557 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #19 in Software > Children's Software > Science & Nature
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Early learners explore geography and time concepts

Trudy's Time & Place House teaches important concepts about geography, mapping, directions, and time-telling. Five playful activities enchant students with lively music, engaging manipulatives, and a variety of characters. This is the fourth title in the award-winning Early Learning Series.

Explore & Discover and Question & Answer modes provide opportunity for independent and structured learning.

Positive, gentle feedback enhances learning and guides students to success

Product Description

In Trudy's Time & Place House, children enjoy exploring geography and time with Trudy's whimsical friends! Invites kids to build time-telling skills; develop mapping and direction skills; and "travel" the world learning about continents, oceans and landmarks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trudy's Time and PLace, February 14, 2001

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"vern5" (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trudy's Time and Place House Ages 3-6 (CD-ROM)

Once again Edmark keeps our kids happy with another outstanding product. I've seen kids from 3+ to 7 play this. Several different activities with both Q/A mode or explore mode keeps kids with varied levels of skills busy, entertained and learning. The games "grow" with the kids. Both educational and loads of fun, it's a must for all homes.

We have enjoyed it so much, we continue to buy it for gifts.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific introduction to time and geography for little ones, July 7, 2003

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audrey (white mtns) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trudy's Time and Place House Ages 3-6 (CD-ROM)

This is our first Edmark product, but it won't be our last. This is a fine program with easy controls, a user-friendly interface, and fun educational activities. Kids can work on five tasks in one of two modes. For example, in Jellybean Hunt, your perspective is as an ant on a grid-patterned tablecloth. Jellybeans are scattered at various locations. In exploration mode, you can use arrows designated as relative directions (forward, left or right) or absolute directions (labelled N, S, E and W), to find jelly beans; in task mode, you are asked to get a particular jellybean using a specific arrow set.

Other tasks include: (1) a world map that asks you to identify large land masses or bodies of water and take pictures of them (and clicking on specific places brings up pictures and facts about that place); (2) analog and digital time telling; (3) a scene with dials for seconds, minutes, hours, days and months -- when you click on a dial, the scene is sped up in those increments; (4) a proto-Sim City where kids can place design elements (towns, hills, rivers, roads, etc) on a grid that maps to a sandbox, where the elements take shape.

These activities are well designed and educational as well as fun. As someone who has used Reader Rabbit, Jumpstart and many other children's software titles, I think this compares favorably, and heartily recommend it for your child. Very nice!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Much Too Complex for 3 year olds, April 29, 2004

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Gen X Mom "kierstlove" (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trudy's Time and Place House Ages 3-6 (CD-ROM)

Although my daughter asks to play with this a lot (cute characters) she gets frustrated immediately with the navigation. Perhaps I'll hold on to it until she is 4+, but the material is too mature for her at 3 & 1/2.