LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System - Green

The best-selling educational handheld is now even better ! Kids can play and learn on the go, then expand the fun online with game downloads and rewards ! Parents can connect to see what their children are playing and learning.

The Leapster2 handheld offers a robust learning experience through built-in tutorials and learning levels that adapt automatically to your child pace. Its touch screen and stylus help develop motor skills used in writing. It is also compatible with all 40+ Leapster learning games, so kids can practice a wide variety of skills for school as they play and learn with their favorite characters.

A new online creativity studio lets you upload art that your kids have created so they can embellish it and print it to share. Parents can connect to the groundbreaking LeapFrog Learning Path to see their children progress in recent games and get ideas to expand the learning !

Teaches:

• Phonics skills : To read independently, children must understand the relationship between the sounds in spoken words and the letters that represent those sounds.
• Consonants : There are more consonants sounds than there are consonants in the alphabet. A consonant digraph is a pair of consonants that stand for a single sound (ch, sh, th, wh).
• Sight words : Sight words are words that cannot be sounded out (the, where, etc.), so they must be learned by sight and memorized.
• Vowels : Spelling begins with regular short vowel sounds (cap) and long vowel sounds (with silent e, cap becomes cape). Finally, children learn the rules and patterns of vowel pairs (ee), digraphs (ai in train), dipthongs (oi in boil) and r-controlled vowels (farm, bird)
• Art and Design : Creating art is an exercise in learning how to see. With increased confidence in their skills, children discover that art is a vehicle for self-expression.
• Shapes : Children learn to recognize the defining properties of shapes (such as a square having four sides of equal length and a triangle having three sides) and identify them in different rotations.
• Addition : Children learn to add, sometimes with objects, and sometimes with symbolic equations such as 4 + 3 = __.
• Subtraction : Children learn to subtract quantities from each other - with objects or symbols such as 4 - 3 = __.

PC Requirements:

• Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system
• Pentium III 500 MHz processor
• Monitor resolution of at least 1024 X 768
• Available USB port
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• 300 MB free disk space
• Internet connection
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 or higher
• CD reader

Mac Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4+
• PPC G4 or any Intel-based computer
• Monitor resolution of at least 1024 X 768
• Available USB port
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• 300 MB free disk space
• Internet connection
• Safari application
• CD reader

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