LeapFrog ClickStart: My First Computer

ClickStart: My First Computer and Put the Keys to Learning at Your Child's Fingertips!

ClickStart My First Computer has a wireless keyboard, mouse and learning console that plugs right into your TV, transforming it into your child's very own computer.

Turn your TV Into A Learning PC!
ClickStart My First Computer introduces computer and preschool skills by turning any TV into a child’s first computer. Designed especially for young learners, ClickStart My First Computer provides a safe computer learning environment.

This inventive learning tool has a child-friendly wireless keyboard, a console and a child-sized mouse that converts for right- or left-handed play. Four included games introduce essential skills for school and basic computer literacy.

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Skills

• Colors: By grasping the concepts of color, shape and pattern, infants and young children begin to recognize and organize visual information.
• Animal names and sounds: Learning about animals and their sounds is a fun way for infants and toddlers to develop language and listening skills.
• Letter names: Young children typically recite or sing the alphabet before they recognize individual letters. By preschool they begin to identify letters by name and shape.
• Letter sounds: Before they can learn to read, children must learn letters and their sounds. Once children associate printed letters to sounds, they can begin to sound out words for reading and spelling.
• Uppercase and lowercase letters: While children typically recognize uppercase letters first, lowercase letters are essential for learning to read because they make up 95% of text.
• Phonics skills: To learn to read, a child must understand the letter-sound relationship and distinguish individual sounds, or phonemes, within words. Crucial to reading, phonics skills help children sound out new words (If I can read "pot," then I can read "hot" and "spot").
• Creating with technology: Technology expands a child's opportunities to communicate and create.
• Shapes: Identifying and manipulating shapes lays the groundwork for geometry by giving children concrete experience with angles, symmetry and relative sizes.
• Numbers: To begin their study of math, children must distinguish numerals from letters and shapes to understand that numbers are symbols for amounts.
• Counting to 10: As language skills develop, some toddlers display the ability to count things up to five by applying number names to items in order. Preschoolers often recite numbers to 10 (but not always in the right order.)
• Matching: Matching develops early logic and reasoning skills and is a component of early math and literacy. Children match like objects, shapes, patterns, pictures and stories, letters to sounds and pictures to words.