Pencil-Pal First Grade + CD

Description

Help your child master first grade skills with this super software and workbook combination. 

Together, they provide the perfect pairing of traditional practice and today’s high-tech tools to deliver Two Great Ways to Learn™.

First Grade Pencil-Pal Workbook – This big 128-page, boldly illustrated workbook is loaded with engaging activities for hours of learning and practicing essential first grade skills. Addition, subtraction, sets, beginning and ending sounds, and long and short vowels are just a few of the focus areas. Dozens of riddles, quirky facts, and ideas for projects and experiments offer many additional hours of creative play and learning.

Workbook Features & Benefits
• Early reading, language and math skill practice
• In-book Answer Key
• Creative ideas for applied learning

First Grade Pencil-Pal Software – Meet Captain Bingham Bear and the rest of his crew! This clever craft has plenty of exciting activities stowed on board. Kids open an onscreen hatch or porthole and discover a behind-the-scenes adventure. In the learning game, children fish for answers to practice math and language skills. After seeing a question displayed, they try and catch the underwater sea creature bearing the correct answer. First grade learners can also solve dot-to-dot puzzles and watch them spring to life, while learning letter and number sequencing. Other activities include a drawing area for creating artistic masterpieces and an onscreen coloring book page with a variety of colors/patterns/backgrounds, Jokes and riddles, plus 8 short movies, add to the fun. With the help of First Officer Findley Fox, Parker T. Pelican, and Tallulah Toucan, your child will venture into addition, subtraction, counting money, telling time, and more. To experience this software, see the video clip below.

Software Features & Benefits
• Easy navigation
• Creative learning strategies
• Playful, animated “guides”
• Interactive whiteboard-friendly

Combo Skills: vowel sounds; short vowels; long vowels; beginning sounds and letters; letter sequence; number sequence; spelling and rhyming; telling time; greater than/less than; addition and subtraction; counting coins; working with sets; beginning fractions; problem solving; listening; following directions