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- Designed for young children – all activities professionally designed to emphasise parent-child interaction
- Covers key developmental categories – Music, Colours, Shapes, Letters, Numbers, Seasons, Animal Sounds and more
- Bright colours, music, and animation encourage interactive learning
- Automatically adjusts to match your child's skill level
- Promotes early learning, language development, social development and self-esteem
- Easy Mouse Activities respond to the slightest movement of the mouse, no clicks required!
- Keyboard Activities – Any touch produces delightful sounds and surprises, reinforcing the concept of cause and effect
- Early Learning – Prompting the child to engage in play, exploration and imitation
- Promotes Parent-Child Bonding – Which is the foundation for other interpersonal relationships
- Creative Activities keep young children engaged and help parents take an active role in their children's development.
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Designed specifically for ages 1½ -3, Sesame Street First Steps entertains children with sing-a-long songs, cause-and-effect explorations and a vital introduction to letters, numbers, colours, objects, shapes, seasons and animals.
With a learning style based on almost 40 years of research created by the trusted leader in early childhood education, Sesame Street First Steps provides parents with an easy and fun way to help their children learn through play.
First Steps promotes Parent-Child interaction, considered the single most important factor in a child’s development in the early years, in turn helping to develop:
Early Learning – by prompting the child to engage in play, exploration and imitation.
Language Development – by providing the child with lots of experience hearing language in context.
Social Development – by teaching the child social skills, like taking turns.
Self-Esteem – and feelings of competence.
Strong Parent-Child Bonding – which is the foundation for other interpersonal relationships.
Filled with bright colours, delightful music and carefully designed activities, Sesame Street First Steps provides parents with an exciting new way to play with their children:
Easy Mouse Activities – No clicks required, these fun and age-appropriate activities respond to the slightest movement of the mouse.
Keyboard Activities – Any touch will produce delightful sounds and surprises, helping to reinforce the concept of cause and effect.
Creative Activities – keep young children engaged and help parents take an active role in their children’s early development.
Areas of Development include:
Music
Colours
Shapes
Language
Animal Sounds
Animal Names
Seasons
Numbers
Letters
Engaging Activities!
12 Delightful Activities to help children learn through play, including:
Big Birds letters, shapes and numbers with familiar objects to help you introduce letters, numbers and shapes.
Elmo's goofy gallery
Silly songs with Zoe, Ernie and Elmo – sing favourite songs like “Wheels on the Bus”
What's that? With Big Bird, Zoe and Ernie
“Do what I do” games and songs with Ernie,Natasha, Big Bird and Zoe – Children often learn by imitation.
Animal sounds with Zoe
Seasons with Zoe
Musical Rooms – make music with your child by colouring objects and watching them come to life!
Colouring Book – colour familiar objects like balls, blocks, teddy bears and more!
Peek-a-boo with Elmo, Zoe and Big Bird
You can make a difference too!
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organisation behind Sesame Street, puts the proceeds it received from sales of its products right back into Sesame Street and its other projects for children at home and around the world. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org
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SESAME STREET FIRST STEPS
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Lots of fun for my 2 and 4 year old daughters, very american thou
Autumn = Fall
Fire Engine = Fire Truck
Tipper Lorry = Dump Truck
Bucket and Spade = Pan and Shovel
other than that its very good.
Autumn = Fall
Fire Engine = Fire Truck
Tipper Lorry = Dump Truck
Bucket and Spade = Pan and Shovel
other than that its very good.
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Seemingly made by people who hate children and parents
4 Oct 2009
There are lots of good computer programs for young children out there. Those programs have clearly been tested with actual children and parents and even educators have been consulted on what works and what doesn't.
Sesame Street: First Steps is not one of those programs.
This is a slapped-together program done by a team that clearly has no parents on it, was quality checked by no one and pushed out onto a public that, unfortunately, trusts anything with the name Sesame Street on it.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE PROGRAM.
First, children are able to use only the mouse or the keyboard while a given section is running, not both. Why not both? Just because. Now, try and get a toddler to understand this -- I certainly don't.
Secondly, because apparently the programmers believe all children need constant orders being barked at them by pixelated Muppet drill sergeants, the on-screen characters tell children what to do at any time there's not keyboard input.
"Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard," Zoe orders. Without pausing for breath, she immediately repeats this until a child presses a button. "Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard."
The moment the child stops pressing the keyboard, she starts back up again. This continues until the parent quits the program in disgust. All the other "games" work in an identical fashion.
And Zoe? The songs aren't silly and pressing the key during, say, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" just puts up one of three identical graphics in the sky, none of which are silly or even amusing to small children.
Now, if you want a program that will let your kid play on the computer and get hand/eye coordination going (especially with the mouse, which is an abstract concept for kids at first), get some genuinely silly things going on, do it at a child's pace (and allowing for things happening away from the keyboard without some cartoon harridan going ballistic) and even lock down the computer with a screensaver to protect parents' programs and data, the Giggles Fun Time for Babies programs do all that. There's still more chatter from the on-screen cartoon dog than I'd prefer, but it's not a constant refrain when other things might be going on in the house (and bearing in mind a young child's attention span).
Do NOT get this program. I cannot imagine what prompted other people to give this good reviews, but this is honestly the worst "toy" I've come across in my child's lifetime.
Sesame Street: First Steps is not one of those programs.
This is a slapped-together program done by a team that clearly has no parents on it, was quality checked by no one and pushed out onto a public that, unfortunately, trusts anything with the name Sesame Street on it.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE PROGRAM.
First, children are able to use only the mouse or the keyboard while a given section is running, not both. Why not both? Just because. Now, try and get a toddler to understand this -- I certainly don't.
Secondly, because apparently the programmers believe all children need constant orders being barked at them by pixelated Muppet drill sergeants, the on-screen characters tell children what to do at any time there's not keyboard input.
"Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard," Zoe orders. Without pausing for breath, she immediately repeats this until a child presses a button. "Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard. Remember how to play Silly Songs? Press the keyboard."
The moment the child stops pressing the keyboard, she starts back up again. This continues until the parent quits the program in disgust. All the other "games" work in an identical fashion.
And Zoe? The songs aren't silly and pressing the key during, say, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" just puts up one of three identical graphics in the sky, none of which are silly or even amusing to small children.
Now, if you want a program that will let your kid play on the computer and get hand/eye coordination going (especially with the mouse, which is an abstract concept for kids at first), get some genuinely silly things going on, do it at a child's pace (and allowing for things happening away from the keyboard without some cartoon harridan going ballistic) and even lock down the computer with a screensaver to protect parents' programs and data, the Giggles Fun Time for Babies programs do all that. There's still more chatter from the on-screen cartoon dog than I'd prefer, but it's not a constant refrain when other things might be going on in the house (and bearing in mind a young child's attention span).
Do NOT get this program. I cannot imagine what prompted other people to give this good reviews, but this is honestly the worst "toy" I've come across in my child's lifetime.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Great idea, badly implemented
20 July 2008
It's a great concept and was a promising start... When my little girl started playing it she was delighted with the Elmo 'peek a boo' game, but after a couple of turns, it flicks over to Big Bird and then Zowie. That was really annoying when she just wanted to play with Elmo. And I could see her getting frustrated with having to wait for the sound files to run. After every peek a boo there is a comment that runs too long. In general this game is really clunky!! Too many sound files holding up the game. My kid presses the keyboard keys 10 or 15 times before the game reacts, and it reacts with jumpy staggered playing because of all the key strokes. I have to try and keep her hands away from the keyboard while the game continually loads and chokes. I haven't had the game for a week and I think she is already bored with it. I have it installed on both Windows and a Mac machine and it it just chokes and splutters... on the Windows machine, if she presses the Windows logo key it opens the start menu and the game doesn't run. Also when that happens,if I'm not quick enough to keep her hands away she opens some other program or window!! She is only 1 1/2 but some of the games require she hit the numbers keys! The letters don't work.. nice try, but a very disappointing result.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A Truely Terrific Toddler Program
21 Jan 2008
I bought this for my 20 month old daughter in hopes of finding a simple, engaging program. Sesame Street's First Steps exceeded my expectations. The features that I especially like are the Parent's initial choice between keyboard or mouse activities. My daughter gets to choose from 8 keyboard activities and four mouse activities. All of the activities have verbal prompts from: Big Bird, Elmo, Ernie and Baby Natasha. The graphics are better than the Reader Rabbit Toddler program. Now this is a very basic, cause and effect type program. The baby pushes a key or moves the mouse and they get immediate rewards. There is the option to repeat each or move on to another screen. My child especially likes the silly songs and "Do As I Do" activities. She gets to imitate hand motions to some of her favorite songs and learn new ones. I am very pleased with this program because my child ends computer time happy, she can follow the directions (with adult supervision) and successfully complete the activities.
Parent Bonus: Once the program is installed you don't have to put the CD in to use the software!
The only cons are that when in the keyboarding mode, the Windows key will bring up your start menu in the middle of the game window. But most of the other games out there do that too.
First Steps got it right--and I can see this being fun for a long time!
Parent Bonus: Once the program is installed you don't have to put the CD in to use the software!
The only cons are that when in the keyboarding mode, the Windows key will bring up your start menu in the middle of the game window. But most of the other games out there do that too.
First Steps got it right--and I can see this being fun for a long time!
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