Granada Learning Leaps & Bounds Series

Leaps & Bounds 1

Your kids will make progress by Leaps and Bounds with this whimsical program. A simple interface leads young users through 6 activities that will stimulate their imaginations and help them develop pre-reading skills. Each activity has lively, colorful characters, catchy music, and fun surprises. Left-to-right tracking, visual and auditory discrimination, prediction, concentration, and memory are just some of the skills your kids will truly enjoy developing. Throughout the program kids practice mouse skills and improve their fine motor control. Mouse clicking lets them hear animal sounds, stimulate actions, make a tune, uncover clues, and match animated characters in pairs. This program will capture the attention of even the most demanding pre-schooler.

Features:

• 6 Stimulating activities
• Develops left to right tracking and other pre-reading skills
• Colorful characters and catchy music
• Develops mouse control and fine motor skills
• Captures the attention of any pre-schooler

Leaps & Bounds 2

The first Leaps and Bounds was such a hit, they had to create a second one! More energetic, colorful characters delight pre-school children with dancing, bubble-blowing, and other antics in 6 fun-filled activities. A simple user interface and text-free activities are designed to help early learners develop vital pre-reading skills. Children improve hand-eye coordination as they manipulate the mouse and target objects that pop up in surprising places. Left-to-right tracking prepares children for beginning reading. Stimulating movements and sounds help kids improve visual and auditory discrimination. This program is so much fun for kids, they'll be eager to tell you all about the progress they're making!

6 more fun activities for pre-schoolers develop:

• Visual and auditory discrimination
• Fine-motor skills and mouse control
• Left to right tracking
• Critical pre-reading skills

Leaps & Bounds 3

Colorful elephants carrying whimsical creatures on their heads lead children into six fantastic activities. Opportunities for experimentation, problem-solving, language development, fine-motor skill development, sound discrimination and more abound in this third title in the popular Leaps and Bounds series. Children experiment with an on-screen machine to figure out how to make sausages and then squeeze them into a hungry monster's dish.

Visual discrimination skills are sharpened in the Make a Body activity, where children can choose from 3 levels of difficulty to create a series of matching cartoon-style bodies. Funny animations and sounds play automatically as rewards. Kids create a symphony of music with the Monster Band, a collection of pink blob-like characters distinguished by things like a trumpet nose, a twanging tongue, and a huge tapping shoe. Experimenting with rhythms and sounds is incredibly entertaining and enlightening with the Monster Band. Help the gardener keep his flowers alive in the Watering the Flowers activity. The flowers have their own sound effects, which lower as the flowers begin to droop. Sprinkle them with water from the gardener's watering can to bring them back up. Children can hone their hand-eye coordination as they take the dog out in Dog's Long Walk. Navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen allow kids to move the energetic dog from left to right and up and down so that he can investigate a variety of objects and occasionally go for a dip in a pond.

Finally, old characters from Leaps and Bound 1 and 2 reappear in Noisy Painting, where black and white outlines can be filled in with brilliant colors using an on-screen paint brush. Children dip their brush into the color of their choice, and are treated to sound effects as they complete each painting. This latest edition to the popular series is bound to be an immediate hit with kids, and adults may find themselves drawn in too!

Musical Leaps & Bounds

Turn on The Moody Jukebox, Let's Dance, and The Singing Blobs in this new CD-ROM from the highly popular Leaps and Bounds series. Music and listening activities are the focus of the 6 well-planned, engaging activities. Musical Leaps and Bounds encourages children to respond, explore, experiment, express, and communicate their ideas in imaginative ways.

Musical Leaps and Bounds helps kids:

• Improve listening skills
• Lengthen concentration span
• Enhance visual and auditory memory
• Develop mouse skills and hand-eye coordination
• Develop confidence and self-esteem

In My Band, listen to a mixture of timbre, dynamics, and texture using instruments ranging from a guitar to tubular bells. Sequence singing characters however you like to compose new tunes and choreograph dance routines in Let's Dance. The concept of pitch is introduced in Up and Down with a series of amusing monsters. The taller the monster, the higher the sound he makes! Kids move characters closer or further away to make corresponding sounds get quieter or louder as they experiment with dynamics in Mixing Desk. Create scary, serene, angry, happy, and other songs in Moody Jukebox, where the influence of musical textures and dynamics on mood is demonstrated. The Singing Blobs are fun characters that each play a unique note when clicked, and a sustained note when the button is held down.