Mouse Fun For Kids Published by Kevin DeVizia Age Group: Age 2 to 5, Age 4 to 8, Age 8 and Up Type: Language Arts, Social Studies License: free to try, $5 to register

MOUSE FUN FOR KIDS

There are 2 versions of this game - one with Letters & Numbers, and a second that also covers Shapes & Presidents, but requires Speech Manager to be installed. In each game, an answer to a question must be chosen from 4 choices on the screen.

ABC (Letters) requires picking a capital letter from 4 shown in blocks on the screen. 123 (Numbers) asks for identification of a number between 1 and 10. Shapes demands a colored shape, for example a circle, square or pentagon. Presidents asks to pick a named U.S. President from a choice of 4 portraits.

The game is aimed at younger kids, with lots of positive reinforcement - 'You're very smart' - but the Presidents section could be useful for older ones as well.

If you run the program and don't hear a voice telling you what to click, quit the program and use cmd-I, choose 'memory' and increase the amount of memory given to the program by 1,000.

Download Details

Requires:
Color Mac, Speech Manager (Shapes & Presidents version)

Download Sites:

US : Letters and numbers mousefun.hqx 725 K

US : Letters, numbers, shapes, Presidents mousefunps.hqx 780 K