As a parent like many others, I'd like to invest on my kids' education. But for kids of younger age i.e. when at their pre-school ago until grade 4 (age 4-9), parents have to learn what's the best for kids.
And I found that to find some stuffs with both educational and entertaining purpose wasn't easy. And most of the time, considering the money you are allowed to, it's even harder.
Recently I came across this new game developed by leapfrog, which is a big name for educational stuffs for kids. It is the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Game: Wolverine and the X-Men
My son is only four but loves the comic book heroes so I went ahead and got this game for him. He loves it! He started out finding the letter they would ask for and now he can spell many of the words. I like that it will ask him to spell a word and then for each letter of the word will give him four letter choices. So it says spell "bat" and the first group of letters will be t, j, b, g and he will select b. Then it will give him four more letters... this breaks it down for him. It also gives him a few tries so even if he's guessing he's got a shot at spelling it. He has a hard time distinguishing between the capital and lowercase letters but overall he enjoys the fighting and exploration and I am pleasantly surprised with how well he is doing. Parents can also customize the spelling list by connecting to the leapster website (I haven't tried this yet but intend too). I would definitely recommend this game to other comic book fans that want to "fight the bad guys" :)
Oct 19, 2010
To find a great game with educational purpose wan't that easy!
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