Leapster Educational Game The Backyardigans

Appropriate for Ages 4 Years to 6 Years

Leapster® Game: The Backyardigans&trade

Learning Skills

  • Phonics Skills
    • Phonics Skills

      Before they can read independently, children must learn the relationship of letters to their sounds and be able to distinguish individual sounds, or phonemes, within words. Phonics skills help children sounds out new words (If I can read "pot", then I can read "hot" and "spot").

  • Word Building
    • Word Building

      To read and write, children must understand how individual letter sounds blend together to make words. Experimenting with building words, such as changing mat to cat to rat, helps with reading and spelling.

  • The Alphabet
    • The Alphabet

      Knowing the letters of the alphabet is one of the first steps toward learning to read and write. Introducing letters to young children helps them learn to recognize the different shapes and names - an early indicator for reading achievement.

  • Vowels
    • Vowels

      Spelling begins with regular short vowel sounds (cap) and long vowel sounds (with silent e, cap becomes cape). Finally, children learn the rules and patterns of vowel pairs (ee), digraphs (ai in train), dipthongs (oi in boil) and r-controlled vowels (farm, bird).

  • Logic and Reasoning
    • Logic and Reasoning

      Logic and reasoning start to develop by the time a child is around 18 months old. Children use logic in everyday situations to solve problems and draw conclusions.

  • Memory Skills
    • Memory Skills

      Memory skills are essential for learning. It is fairly easy to help your child train their memory using memory games, poems and particular memory strategies.

  • Recognizing Patterns
    • Recognizing Patterns

      The ability to extend, complete and duplicate patterns by determining the specific attributes of those patterns is a logical reasoning skill that forms a basis for future work in math. Recognizing patterns is also important for learning to read. Many high frequency words have similiar components (the sound "an" is in can, and hand). Recognizing these patterns helps children work out a new word faster.

  • Shapes
    • Shapes

      Identifying and manipulating shapes lays the groundwork for geometry by giving children concrete experience with angles, symmetry and relative sizes.

  • Early Number Sense
    • Early Number Sense

      As early as 6 months, babies begin to understand the concept of numbers, noticing small groups of one, two or three things. As children develop number sense they learn to count by ones, skip count and count backwards, gaining the foundation for operations. Children who have good number sense find learning operations like addition and subtraction much easier.

  • Number Recognition
    • Number Recognition

      To begin their study of math, children must distinguish numerals from letters and shapes and understand that numbers are symbols for amounts.

  • Sequencing
    • Sequencing

      Even toddlers can often recite number names in order, but the ability to compare and order numbers in sequence indicates a practical application of number concepts.

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Leapster® Game: The Backyardigans&trade

Expand your knowledge of numbers and letters when you delve into an exciting world of imaginary play with the Backyardigans. Travel with friends Pablo, Uniqua, Tyrone, Tasha and Austin around the globe on their learning adventures.

 

You can venture to the Frozen North, chase the perfect wave at Tiki Beach or explore the Sandy Desert. The Backyardigans reinforces important early reading, math and memory skills. Young learners can easily play at their own pace and ability.


All Leapster games work with all Leapster Learning Game Systems (Leapster, Leapster L-Max™ and Leapster TV™).


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