Early Years

Learning System

Consider your child and the future

The early years are critical in a child's development - a time when they learn basic skills that will be the foundation for their future learning.

Computers play an important role in this process which is why Acorn have worked closely with leading experts on educational software to design a pack especially for pre-school children. Early Years has a range of programs that will help children to develop literacy, numeracy and familiarity with computers at the same time as having lots of fun!

Early Years features:

• Explore with Flossy the Frog
  Encourage children to Explore with Flossy the Frog, a graphical adventure where the child is in control of what happens. The delightful pictures encourage questions and the various objects in the pictures all have different actions and effects when clicked on.
• Mouse in Holland
  In a similar vein to Explore with Flossy the Frog, Mouse in Holland allows a child to explore the life of Martin Mouse, who lives in a windmill. Scenes include a Dutch countryside, canalside Amsterdam and an Art Gallery as well as inside the Windmill.
• Doris the Dotty Dog
  Develop reading skills with the latest talking book technology. This Talking Story - with still pictures and animations concerns Doris, a well intentioned pet dog who never does anything right. The application can be used in several ways - by a teacher or helper with a child who is not yet reading, showing the words and seeing the animations - by a child on their own developing their reading vocabulary - individual words may be spoken if they are not known - or by encouraging debate about why Doris did what she did and what the long suffering family would have wanted her to do instead.
• Gemini
  Shape and pattern matching is a key skill for young children. This fun to use game contains many different card sets, from simple shapes to photographic pictures making it suitable for use with a wide age range.
• Amazing Maths
  Making maths fun is the best way to learn. Here you have to find your way through the maze while being posed arithmetic problems by the computer. You can decide the difficulty of the questions asked, both in terms of the numbers and operations used. Amazing Maths is the ideal way to reinforce basic mathematical skills.
• Paint Pot
  Paint Pot is a book accompanied by a disc that explains how you can make the most of Paint, Acorn's art package. Simple examples of many of the program's facilities are given. Also included is a library of animals and sea creatures that can be used to build a jungle or an undersea picture.

  Ideas for lots of projects using Paint are provided - which should keep children fascinated for hours - with no risk of spilling paint on the floor!

• Talking StartWrite
  StartWrite is a fully featured, but simple to use word processing package with which children can start to develop keyboard skills and communicate their ideas in written form. As letters and words are typed they can be spoken by the computer thereby providing immediate stimulus and feedback to the child. Pictures created by a painting package can be dropped onto the page and writing added below. StartWrite also gives you an excellent home office.

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