LEGO My Style: Preschool
© 2000 LEGO Media International
This terrific program presents unusually well-designed early reading, math, music and art activities in a highly entertaining setting. Five familiar DUPLO characters— the monkey, giraffe, elephant, panda and pony— serve up the fun games in four wonderfully rendered scenes. We counted at least 16 activities for kids to play, each one presenting a slight variation on an early learning skill. At the Math Farm, for instance, children bone up on math skills by painting by number, matching chickens to their number posts, telling number stories and completing number puzzles. As kids successfully play the games, they earn pieces to LEGO characters which they can play with at any time. Games are saved, and while we couldn't find evidence of progress reports in this early version, difficulty levels automatically advance. The excellent reward system, the solid and numerous activities and the humorous and friendly characters quickly draw kids into the games and keep them there. The kids are still playing the program heavily after two weeks of testing.
$19.99, Win, Mac OS (CD-ROM)
Teaches: counting, classification, numbers, letters, art, music, logic