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The 26 letters of the alphabet equal 26 opportunities to explore,listen, and learn in Read more

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• CD-ROM
• PC: Microsoft Windows 95/98 or higher, 24 MB RAM, 640x480 16-bit Color Video, 16-Bit Sound Card 486 DX-66 MHz or faster processor,
• 40 MB free disk space, 4x CD-ROM drive
• MAC: Mac OS System 7.5.5 or higher, 24 MB RAM, 640x480, 16-bit Color Video, 16-Bit Sound Card, 40 MB free disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive
• School Zone Interact
• Mac and PC

Reviews (10)

Alphabet Express PreSchool
Alphabet Express is a wonderful learning tool for preschool children. My grandsons, ages 3.5 and 5, love it and are capable of using it without any help. They especially love the coloring.

did not work at all
Will not start up at all on any of my 5 home computers or any of the 34 lab computers that I run. Not the first time I have had problems with this manufacturer.

Still a little tough but fun
I bought this for my 3.5 year old and he still has trouble recognizing his letters (hence, the purchase).He enjoys the mazes and with help really likes the game, but he does need quite a bit of help to be able to play.We have not explored all the aspects of it yet (there is quite a bit to do), so I think that it is well worth the money.I have to push him to play this however - it is not his favorite.... ... Read more

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A diaper-clad rhinoceros, a troupe of Incredible Performing Hamsters,and a mambo-dancing moose are just a handful of the many light-hearted elementsthat make Read more

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Reviews (26)

No technical support and no upgrades
This game was bought for my son 1-2 years ago when he was a toddler.Now that he's four we started using it.There is an error in the piano game that basically teaches your child how to spell words incorrectly putting in lots of incorrect letters at random. The piano game features prominently in many of the exercises, so you basically have to do a work around throughout the entire process.
Great kids program!
My 5-year old had some initial problems learning this, as some of the stuff is rather unintuitive. You have to pick up letters, identify words, do some drag-and-dropping (which is not always easy for small hands handling a computer mouse) but once the steep learning curve is over, it's a wealth for any kid learning to read and write! Highly recommended!

A 4yr old learns to read with phonics
Thank you for such a useful, motivating little guide into learning how to read.My grand daughter is having fun too. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. First Grade   

Features

• CD-ROM
• Exciting, interactive, learning adventure with Mia the mouse
• 9 full-featured literary-skills activities each with 4 levels of difficulty
• Specially adapted, navigation engine for complete control over Mia
• Teaches spelling, vocabulary, reading, phonics, word recognition, and more
• For kids ages 5 to 9

Reviews (6)

Graphics are excellent but game sucks.
The creators of Mia's Reading Adventure would be better engaged creating movies and not children's games. There is just way too much expository and not enough interaction to make this worth your child's effort. If you're looking to teach your pre-k/k child reading skills I'd recommend the Blue's Clues games instead. Any older children would probably get as frustrated as mine did.

Content is ok but without state saving
I bought this CD for my 5 years daughter. She likes it but it is quite hard for her to progress. Everytime you need to spend a few minutes to listen to the sing without a way to get rid of it. There is no state save function in the game, every time you need to start from the begin.

useful as a game, but not to learn to read or help with the process
I thought this game would be useful to help my daughter start with the reading process, but that is not the case. As a game it's pretty entertaining, and it has very subtle clues that makes children have to think and look farther beyond.I would place the correct ages for this game between 6 and a half and eight and a half years old.
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It had to happen: software is now being bundled for your little bundleof joy.

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Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby and Toddler
This program is one of the best I have seen. I did like Jumpstart baby, but this is a great addition to my collection. Seems to function best in the Toddler mode for my 19month old! I give it 5 stars.

Great for Preschool Special Ed. classrooms
My kids just love this computer game! It is very easy to use; the kids just move the mouse around. They don't have to click the mouse. It is cute enough for adults to enjoy playing with the children. I have a very intelligent autistic boy who forgets to scream and have tantrums while he is playing this game. It even helps with socialization. I often see more than one child watching the screen and pointing to items while another child uses the mouse.

Good Game, when it works
I have installed it on Windows XP, and I've had problems with the video going crazy once in a while, like the colors all flip to their opposites.When it does work, my nephew, who is almost 3, loves to sit on my lap and we play.This coming from a little boy who'd rather run than walk any day.He is having fun and learning at the same time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. First Grade   

Features

• CD-ROM
• Join Clifford and his friends at the Birdwell Island carnival
• Participate in lots of different activities and carnival games
• 100+ interactive and printable stories
• Win up to 18 different prizes that you can use to decorate a float for the big parade
• 3 levels of play that automatically adjust to your child's progress

Reviews (8)

Trick your kids into learning
This game was purchased for a young girl aged 4 years 8 mo.She had very little computer experience, and a little phonic work in Pre-K.This game was right up her alley.Some of the tasks were easy, giving her a sense of mastery, but the difficulty level increases nice and slow and she didn't even realize.They mix in fun non-learning activities as a reward (decorating the float).As a result, her reading skills have significantly improved in the past month and so have her computer mousing skills.Haven't found a good typing game for a 4 year old yet, that's next.

Great Learning Game
This game is awesome and teaches kids phonics, letter recognition, matching, numbers, and they don't even know they are learning becuase they are having fun.They complete tasks and get fun prizes that boost self confidence.It helps kids navigate on the computer and gets them comfortable with a mouse.

My daughter loves this software game!
My daughter just turned 3 years old in October and she loves this game.It's very educational and fun at the same time. She was able to navigate through the carnival games right from the start so it's very user friendly.While she's known all her capital letters and the sounds each letter makes for some time now, she's learning to recognize the lower case letters and to spell 3 and 4 letter words from using this game.She's only had it for a few days but I can already see she's learning a lot from playing with it.I highly recommend this one for it's educational value. ... Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Exploring Clifford's fun-filled neighborhood, children discover reading activities
• 7 adjustable levels that continually introduce new letters, sounds, and words
• Over 100 reading lessons; 15 printable activities; interactive and printable bonus books
• Kids practice reading aloud by recording stories in their own voice
• Progress report allows you to track your child's development; for kids ages 4-6

Reviews (4)

Great software for my 3-year-old child!
This Clifford Reading software is really great for my 3-year-old child. She is able to play all the games herself and navigate around the screens easily without me helping her, which is great for when I have other work to do. We had a problem with the Richard Scarry software; there was just too much going on visually (great for books, confusing for click navigation) and this one is better in that regard.It is visually more obvious where you are to click or what to do, and the narration by Emily Elizabeth is clear and helpful. The games are cute. She loves the T-shirt stamper animation after correctly spelling a 3-letter word. Second favorite is "pop the balloon that says 'xxx'" and you have to correctly pop several word ballons that float by in order to dunk Clifford in the carnival dunk tank. What kid doesn't love being allowed to pop a bunch of balloons and then making a dog swim?This software makes learning the words really fun instead of frustrating. The beginning level is challening but not too hard; she can still win the prize tickets and get a prize/present from the big carnival claw-grabber prize bin. The prize/present unwraps itself and is a printable item like a coloring page, abc dot-to-dot, colorable finger puppets, etc. You can color these on-screen and/or print them out, and they are automatically saved for you in case you want to print them out later. Overall, I really love this software, it was a great purchase, and I am definitely buying it for all of the other kids I know as well as checking out all of the other Clifford titles. Great!!

Great first reading progam for pre-schoolers and kindergarten
As well as all the games which my 5 year old kids find addictive, there are also 26 mini lessons on each letter of the the alphabet and lots of mini stories to read. So there is some hard core education for parents to assist children and its not just all easy peasy games pitched at very young children.
Good...but...
My 5 year old daughter is enjoying this package, BUT...be aware that on Windows XP and Windows 2000 that the program has to be installed AND run as a user with administrative rights. Not exactly the kind of account I would choose to setup for a small child.
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Editorial Review

Gentle jungle murmurings overlaid with Robert Guillaume's gleeful voice give this solid, well-conceived typing program an unusual degree of appeal and staying power. While smacking bugs, catching grubs, and tearing away from dangerous enemies, kids are actually practicing the same fundamental skill-based keyboard activities as covered by such adult titles as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.Some terrific components of this program include shadows that display which finger should be used to hit each key, a clock ticker that counts the seconds in each two-minute game, and the blissful fact that hitting the space bar will fast-forward you past the opening and closing credits. The mysterious, leafy jungle setting is delightfully alive, yet you'll likely need to turn the brightness on your monitor way up to see all the vital buttons hidden in the dark corners of the scene.Be forewarned: to truly conquer touch-typing, you need to drive those keyboard strokes deep into the body's muscular memory. Endless repetition is the only proven method for this. That means that while this program boasts five unique activities (for example, Rafiki gives "lessons" while Timon and Pumbaa play "games"), it is all keyboard practice, again and again. Kids receive encouragement with an enticing visual environment, progress reports, certificates, and frequent enthusiastic comments from Guillaume, but it is ultimately going to fall upon the parents to see that their children continue with this when the going gets, well, Read more

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Good, but only up to Win98
I got this for my children and it seemed great.Very shortly thereafter I retired the old PC they were using and upgraded (to a PIII 500) so I could safely give them limeted Internet access.Part of that upgrade was to use Win2K Pro for web security.None of their Disney CDs are compatible above Win98.Good software but incompatible in the new millenium."Disney... surely you can do better than this." (And please do.)

YAY!!!
I love it! The best part in this game is the coloring studio. The dalmatians look good if you put more spots on them or black. This needs a sequel, only it will let you draw spots on the puppies.
This is the best...
This is the best typing program ever!! I loved that they used Timon and Pumbaa. It was so fun and entertaining for us kids, well still teaching us. I learned to type in a week or two because I could not stop playing it, it was so fun!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Lion King    2. typing, keyboarding   

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love it!
i have two kids ages 6 and 4 and we have had this game for over 4 years. we love it! we have had numerous other computer games but this one is right up there in our top two. my 4 year old still loves all the games (bubble castle and baby basket bingo are favs), and my 6 year old is still into the alphabet train. i love making music, the little ducks are my favorite! adorable sights and sounds in this game. beware though, the tunes from this are going to get stuck in your head for days, but are cute so it's worth it.:)

From a Grandmother's point of view
This program is totally interactive.My grandson -- who is two and a half and has a two and a half year old's attention span spent 25 to 30 minutes at a time playing with the shapes and bubble castle.A wonderful experience

Absolutely Wonderful
My grandson just turned 3.He loves this CD.It is easy for him to use because he doesn't need to click the mouse.It is still difficult for him to hold the mouse steady when he clicks.If the mouse moves, he doesn't get a response and then gets very frustrated.This CD eliminates that problem.The activities are great fun for him.He likes the coloring and the "bubble castle" best.I highly recommend this CD. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. colors, shapes, counting    2. alphabet, early reading    3. early math, logic   

Editorial Review

Reader Rabbit takes a road trip, and kids who go along for the ride willlearn everything from homonyms to alphabetizing with this occasionally inspiredCD-ROM. Kids can follow the Road to Imagination to 15 different reading lands,or visit Wordville Station for straightforward access to word games. Both ofthese multilevel elements are designed for kids who already have a grasp of thealphabet.Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Over 100 reading lessons
• 30 interactive storybooks
• Printable activities
• Record and playback
• 3-4 skill levels

Reviews (9)

Excellent learning materials
The material is excellent and the CD inexpensive. My daughters are excited and I enjoy reading/playing with them using the CD.

Reader Rabbit I can read with phonics is great!
My Children 3 and 5 love the Reader Rabbits.This RR is fun for my 5 year old, and I can help my 3 year old play it as well.

works fine on XP
Another reviewer here claims that I can Read With Phonics does not install easily on Microsoft Windows XP.NOT TRUE!I have XP and every Reader Rabbit game works perfectly on it.I own just about everyone out there, and my son (age 5) is a great fan of the reader rabbit software.This game does an excellent job of teaching reading and phonics in a fun way.If you have a child ready to learn to read, get this game!You won't regret it!And you can get it so cheap here on amazon, too.I paid a lot more a couple of years ago. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. First Grade   

Features

• CD-ROM
• When Mia's grandmother is about to win the art competition, the lights suddenly go out. When they come back on, Mimi is gone, and so are the sparklies she had won. Help Mia find out who did this and why!
• Children will get to practice their Spanish & French while tracking down clues
• Kids will have a fun time learning as they explore and use their detective skills to help Mia!

Reviews (5)

Excellent practice for young children!
Sept 15th, 2005
Pretty good product
This product is pretty good.My little boy is 5 and is just really wanting to learn Spanish so I bought this product to help him.The animation is spectacular but he got bored with it very quickly.

Easy to Play, Easy to Load, Easy to Love!
This game is great!After buying Mia Reading I thought it was a great idea to get my 2 girls to start learning Spanish since we live in a global village. They game was easy to load, easy to navigate and the level was perfect for beginners. The high quality 3D animation will blow you away. Even my husband who learned 3D animation at the Vancouver Film School was blown away. The best part is, that they love playing it as they think it is a game. They forget they're learning numbers and vocab and how to put together simple sentences. Well recommended. ... Read more

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Kids (ages 5 to 7) discover core learning skills in this delightful age-appropriate learning environment featuring Reader Rabbit and friends. Team up with Irvin-the-Inventor and the Cloud Queen to discover why it's raining umbrellas, raincoats, and galoshes. While traveling to Raingear Forest and Cloud Nine, kids explore seven fun activities full of adventure and discovery. Along the way, Reader Rabbit and friends cover reading, math, science, problem solving, and more, creating a forecast that calls for fun-filled learning.Read more

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Reviews (9)

Great product
I was afraid this was a limited version software for the price- but it wasn't. It was better than I expected, and my first grader loves it.

Kept my 6 yr old entertained
My six year old spent several hours playing this the first couple of weeks.I'd like to add that the game is fairly complex and he needed help. The thing I liked was he was learning while having fun!

Good but difficult to use
I bought this for my 6 yr. old grandson who just completed kindergarten. However, his favorite activity in kindergarten was computer lab so I decided to give him the opportunity to use a computer at home. I purchased Reader Rabbit 1st Grade. My opinion about the program is mixed.
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Reviews (7)

Preschool Computer Lab Teacher = Thumbs Up!
I have taught preschool computer lab for two years and have successfully used this software with my 1, 2 & 3 year old students during both school years.I love this software because no mouse clicks are required - only moving the mouse which greatly increases my students hand-eye coordination with the mouse.
Easy for kids to do and FUN
Reader Rabbit Toddler is the best software I have bought so far - its easy for my son to use (if kids cannot use the mouse yet most games work just by hitting keys) and has alot of fun activities. From the main menu you move a "Star flower" to one of nine fun activities - includingan alphabet train where you match the letter key to the boxcar to see it open;a musical meadow where you move a bee from flower to flower to hear them play;a bubble castle where you pop bubbles to free the animals - it has a variety of fun activities that my son has loved from 18 months to 3+.

Great fun but a bit buggy
This program is a lot of fun and has a variety of activities to delight little ones.Because the activities can all be done just by moving the mouse or trackball (without pressing buttons), even a very beginning mouser can manage it.Pressing (or pounding on) keys also causes things to happen on the screen, so even without using the mouse your child can have a great time if you are brave enough to let him or her pound on your keyboard (not necessarily recommended - my daughter made off with my Z last week!)Many of the toddler activities are simple enough to do that a younger child can enjoy them too (but they still have learning potential for the toddler).My only complaint is that the program seems a bit buggy.It periodically locks up my computer so I have to reboot, which is very frustrating for my daughter.Overall it's a lot of fun.Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Grade-based software teaches essential developmental skills
• Combines learning techniques and complementary learning aids
• Multi-subject CD with dozens of fun games and lessons
• Printable-activities CD with more than 100 projects
• Sing-along CD with original songs; 50+ flashcards and stickers

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Very educational for the kids
This program can be used with very little, if any, adult intervention. Graphics are large, clear and attractive, and the goal-oriented storyline is easy to follow and compelling. My kids were impressed by the many animal characters included in the program, and were often observed giggling at and speaking to them. Activities are easily understood and complete, but become a bit tedious, and their repetitive nature may annoy the less patient player. Featuring a "summer camp" theme, Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten is an entertaining, fully animated adventure in which the user must help friends Reader Rabbit and Mat the Mouse gather supplies for the campfire party at 'Camp Happy Tails'. As with the younger age titles in this series, to achieve this goal, the child must master 4 sequential levels of each of 4 skill-building activities.
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Reviews (2)

munch it up!
I absoulutley love Word Munchers.It is the coolest game.The fact you can play with or without troggles knocks me out.I also love how you can play by grade level.I'm in fourth grade, but sometimes I like to play 1st grade to cool off.

Word Munchers
This is a great product.We use this at our Elementary school.I love the fact that it is done by grade level which I find really helpful.The six kids that I have been working with really like the game.It isn't thateasy and can be very challenging for the kids.We have also Math muncherswhich is just as fun! ... Read more

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Kids travel to the strange and exciting Reading Lands with Reader Rabbit and his friend Sam the Lion. In Read more

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Kids (ages 5 to 7) discover core learning skills in this delightful age-appropriate learning environment featuring Reader Rabbit and friends. Find and repair the Dreamship before pilfering pirates get their first. While traveling to and exploring Mount CheesEmore Island, kids adventure through seven fun activities full of discovery and gooey cheese. Along the way, Reader Rabbit and friends cover grammar, reading, science, fractions, telling time, and more. It's a thrilling and filling adventure.Read more

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Reviews (21)

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade
A+ rating from my 7 year old boy.He's had other Reader Rabbit software and this one is right up his alley.There are plenty of levels for him to be challenged by and when you initially begin the program it gives the child an "assessment" so they know what level to start him off with.If he gets stuck in one level, he can skip to another part of the game doing something else and come back to what he was doing.It's perfect for a child who is high energy.This program is challenging, not too easy for him, which is good.He sneaks off to his room to play this program, just what he needs as an "educational treat."He loves the music and there's plenty of visual rewards!At any time, I can pull up and see a chart that tells me how far he's completed each task, that's really great.He will play this CD for an hour or more and not because I've asked him to.I've found his confidence level is higher now too, the CD has lots of verbal reinforcement and encouragement.I think the 2nd grade level is very appropriate too, some 2nd grade programs are too easy or hard...this one seems like it has a wide range to accommodate all second graders.I highly recommend this program for all children, especially active boys who love a challenge.BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT!

Works with Special Needs Kids
I was amazed that after only about 2 weeks of playing with this, my 2 year old son was actually able to figure out the games.He has severe language difficulties, sensory issues and behavior problems.Usually he could not sit long enough to play a computer game because there was not enough interaction for him.He loves this game and points to the computer all the time to try to tell me he wants to play.He is actually trying to "count" to 5 with the game and "sing" (in his own gibber-jabber language)some of the songs. There is no exact mouse clicking to frustrate him.Anything close works!This is an awesome game for toddlers to feel like the big kids and not be frustrated.

Fun program, nice songs
It is quite a stretch to call this 'pre-school'.My 4 year old quickly became bored with it, and the math sequence is interminable and goes on for what seems like forever.
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Features

• CD-ROM
• In Ready To Read, kids will enjoy great word activities while exploring the Hundred Acre Wood
• As they visit with Piglet, Tigger & the rest, they'll learn about rhyming, sentence construction, word recognition, problem solving, and deductive reasoning
• In Ready for Math, kids will enjoy seven activities that test their numerical skills
• They'll develop important skills like counting, number tracing, arrange sequences and more
• Kids will be rewarded by getting seeds and watching them grow -- they'll love it!

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Two winners in one package!
We purchased this for my 6-year-old when she was in kindergarten.Now she's in first grade and reading at a third-grade level.Pooh can bear a small part of the credit for that, as this bright, fun, joyous pair of CDs contains lots of good letter and word identification games that have helped her go from "I like Mommy and Daddy to read to me" to "Let me read to Mommy and Daddy."The math CD is just as much fun, but of course the game is numbers, not letters and words.These programs are perfectly on-target with the characters and with the teaching methods, and hey, everybody loves Pooh and his friends.Excellent package.

Repurchasing because I loaned it out!
I am a home childcare provider and was a teacher and all the children have loved these.The reading one has helped all my children with letter identification and sounds and the math is excellent as well for counting, one to one correspondence and more.I believe in it so much, I am buying it for my second child to use.These are the best of the Pooh learning games if you ask me!

The 3 kids love it!
We have three children ages 3, 3, and 5.All of them love it and I even enjoy taking a turn or two :).The games teachexcellent skills for school and stress math and reading in a fun and interesting way.The kids love earning items to be put in their garden and contraptions to be added to their treehouse.We have to set the timer so everyone gets a turn.Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• 3 beloved Dr. Seuss books on 3, fun-filled CD-ROMs
• Easy for kids to replay a favorite part, skip ahead, and learn hundreds of words
• Skills include: word recognition, vocabulary building, reading comprehension, and more
• Titles include Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and ABC
• For preschoolers û 1st graders; ages 3-7+

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Speech therapist & mom
We just bought this title for our three year old, and are so pleased!The animation is wonderful and the games & activities are age appropriate.There is enough action to keep the child interest, but not so much that they are overwhelmed.Lots of good stuff on these CDs -- vocabulary, spelling, word recognition, etc...As the interactive characters read the story, the text is highlighted and some of the words switch to pictures (the word ham becomes a ham).Overall, this is a great piece of software for young children that grows with them.I imagine we will get several years of use out of this title

It makes him laugh!Awesome three disc set.
All of these discs are full of wonderful surprises!Especially the Green Eggs and Ham disc.It's classic, loveable Dr. Seuss that can be read to the child or the child can interact with the characters.Highly Recommended and a lot of fun!

Doesn't work on XP Pro
Tried to install it 10 different ways under XP Pro. (256 colors, low resolution, etc.). Still no joy. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Rain gear is falling from the sky all over Readerville. Can you find outwhy and stop it? In this adventure game, kids direct Reader Rabbit and Sam theLion on a quest to find out why the gear is falling over the land, and then putan end to the emergency.Read more

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Reviews (8)

Wonderful reading cd-rom!
My 7 year old daughter goes to a reading tutor, who recommended this CD-Rom and uses it with her students.My 7 year old loves it, and so does my 5 year old. I would highly recommend Reader Rabbit 1st Grade.

My daughter loves this
If she loves it then it's right for your children as well. Get this computer program as soon as possible.

Very enjoyable
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Subjects:  1. First Grade    2. Computer software (programs)    3. Kids (Children)