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Amazon.com Land Before Time Preschool Adventure, by Sound Source Interactive, lets kids think, laugh, and learn. It takes them back to the age of the dinosaurs, where they join the baby dinosaurs on a journey as they count, sequence, categorize, and identify numbers, letters, and objects. Product description Think, Learn and Laugh in The Land Before Time Kindergarten Preschool Adventure Make tracks through The Land Before Time! Join Littlefoot and his dino pals as they increase matching skills, reinforce alphabet, shape, and number recognition, and more! Complete activities and receive seeds for The Great Valley Harvest Party! Activities Include Ducky's Leaf Drop: Count the leaves and guide them to their correct landing position. Chomper's Island Hopper: Match the patterns and lead Chomper to the last island. Littlefoot's Log Surf: Collect the floating objects in their designated order and help Littlefoot arrive on dry land safely! Seed Certificates: After you successfully complete an activity, print a colorful seed certificate with your name on it! Counting skills Distinguishing between upper and lower case Sequencing numbers and objects Categorizing numbers, letters, and objects Color identification Windows 98, Me, XP Pentium II 266 MHz or faster 32 MB RAM 32 MB free hard disk space Display with 16-bit color 16-bit DirectX compatible video card with 2 MB memory Windows compatible sound card & speakers 8X CD-ROM drive Printer recommended Mac OS 8.6–9.2.2, OS X 266 MHz PowerPC or better 32 MB RAM 32 MB free hard disk space 800x600 display, thousands of colors 8X CD-ROM drive Printer recommended From the Manufacturer Kids' best-loved young dinosaur friends take players through seven compelling story-based activities that help them practice essential preschool skills. Games and puzzles reinforce shape, letter, color and number recognition; sequencing and counting; categorization; and more. With each activity, players help the little dinos on their mission to find special seeds to replant the Great Valley. Review Children older than three years are sorely underestimated by this collection of six early learning activities. Four- and five-year-old kids will quickly complete even the toughest game levels and then ask "where's the rest of the program?" Here's the scenario. Kids join the gang from the Land Before Time movies as they gather special seeds to grow food for hungry dinosaurs. In order to win the seeds, children play the six games which include Ducky's Leaf Drop, a counting challenge, and Chopper's Island Hop, a pattern game. There's also a jigsaw puzzle area, a sorting game and an activity where kids match colors, shapes and letters. Testers' favorite activity was the seeking game where they explore the environs to locate objects and then return them to their proper places. This activity requires a bit more brain power than the rest. The program's graphics are colorful and the overall design is such that even very young children will be able to play successfully. The theme of helping the dinosaurs appeals to kids as does the seed collection incentive. Unfortunately, the activities lack depth in terms of both content and difficulty level. Older preschoolers will play once for about an hour and that's it. There are many missed opportunities for teaching- shapes and letters are not identified by name. The timing of feedback is off, particularly in the categorizing activity. Additional activities with stronger content and educational value would make the program more valuable. Teaches: early learning, shapes, colors, alphabet, counting Age Range: 3, 4, 5 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe Now!"