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- Supports Key Stage 1 of the National Curriculum
- Stimulating activities
- A huge variety of fun exercises
- Monitor progress
- Essential literacy and numeracy skills
- Supports the scholl curriculum
- Ages 5-7
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Learning Ladder Years 1 and 2 is an extremely good CD-ROM aimed at children aged 5-7. It presents a huge number of activities that would help to support the school curriculum.
Children can navigate their way around the playroom, which will develop their confidence with the mouse. Children will enjoy making things move on the screen. There is also a range of fun activities, such as painting and copying the tune.
The program also helps to consolidate and reinforce what children are learning in literacy, numeracy and science at school. There are games involving identifying sounds, making words, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and much more. Children are rewarded with stickers as they complete activities correctly, which they will love collecting and putting in their own sticker book. --Amanda York
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DK - LEARNING LADDER YEARS 1&2
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
We have found this series of CDS invaluable to support our daughter's English home learning programme. She finds the exercises challenging enough, though some can be a little easy, but this only helps increase her confidence. As her day to day activities are conducted in German, we are anxious that her English language and other skills proceed at a good pace and have found this series to be excellent. We have ordered the rest of the series to carry on supplementing her development.
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
My kids enjoyed some of the activities, but they did them only because they knew they'd get a sticker at the end rather than because they took a great deal of notice of the activities themselves. The younger of the two persevered with an activity even if he didn't know what he was doing until he got the sticker, therefore a cut off point should have been included (i.e. they shouldn't be allowed to go on if they have made more than 5 mistakes). Some of the activites seemed too simple and others too difficult - there didn't seem to be any natural progression and too much of the same kind of thing. They have had more fun and a lot more value for money from some cheaper software with poorer graphics. Also the framework of the classroom is pretty uninteresting. Not a patch DK's Explorer CD-Roms. and I bought this one on the strength of those being so good. Having said that my kids, especially my younger son (4), have used it several times without me suggesting it, so it can't be that bad!
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
After enjoying the first in the lerning ladder series this one came as a bit of disappointment.
There is far too much 'window dressing' in the rooms. Alot of the items do nothing except make a noise, which for my 4 year old has become dull. Navigation around the tasks is laborious, and variety when you get there is not that great. It still looks nice but considering this is supposed to enthuse up to 7 year olds, you may want something a little more structured.
There is far too much 'window dressing' in the rooms. Alot of the items do nothing except make a noise, which for my 4 year old has become dull. Navigation around the tasks is laborious, and variety when you get there is not that great. It still looks nice but considering this is supposed to enthuse up to 7 year olds, you may want something a little more structured.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Useful for an English speaking child not living in the UK
My Daughter was very keen to learn to read and write in English although she goes to school in Switzerland and speaks, reads and writes German all day. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dr. Dawson
Monitoring/Progressing Education
It is difficult for most parents/grandparents to fully appreciate the School Curriculum. We need this appreciation to be able to support our child during their education. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2009 by Brian Forbes
Learning Ladders Age 5-7
My 5 year old daughter loves 'Learning Ladders' - she asks to use the computer so that she can work through the stages and is motivated by the stickers awarded when a task is... Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2009 by Nicola Hysted
Effective and works on MAC
Just to let anyone know who is interested, this CD-Rom does work on Mac. I have a recent Mac, and when I put the disk in, my OS 9 system kicks in. Read more
Published on 5 July 2006 by Amber
Don't buy
Needed to spend ages re-configuring my PC to actualy get it to run. This program objects to standard Windows settings.
Published on 4 May 2006 by C. Ffelan
Too old to bother with
If you're happy enough to search the software company's website for some clues, fiddle around with your PC's virtual memory settings a few times and reboot the... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2006 by David Bannister
fantastic
i bought this CD ROM because they use it in school. My 3-year-old loves it, it goes on when he comes in from school and stays on with him playing visits to it throughout the day. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2003 by "emmastephens22"
Disappointing
No instructions, no help. The 'friend', Woody tells you nothing and is nothing more than an irritation. The exercises are not explained. Eager children quickly loose interest.
Published on 16 Sep 2003 by Timothy Hay
Learning Ladder: Years 1& 2
We bought this for my son when he first started School. It is our belief that it has helped him no end with his spelling and ability to solve mathematical problems. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2003
Learning Ladder Years 1-2
I was sorely disappointed by this CD. I bought it on the strentgh that it was a DK product but found that there was no help documents, no instructions. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2002 by n_betts
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