LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System - Pink

Introducing Leapster2 - the only preschool learning game system that offers personalized insights into what your child is learning.

Like the Leapster learning game system, the Leapster2 handheld offers a robust learning experience through built-in tutorials and learning levels that adapt automatically to your child's pace. Its touch screen and stylus help develop motor skills used in writing, while its compact design makes it easy for kids to play on the go. It's also compatible with all 30+ Leapster learning games, so kids can practice a wide variety of skills for school as they play and learn with their favorite characters.

Yet the Leapster2 system also offers a whole new layer of benefits by connecting to the computer. Your kids can play on the go, and then connect their handhelds to your home computer to collect fun rewards they've earned. A new online creativity studio also lets them upload art that they've created, embellish it or change it completely, and publish it to share.

With the new USB connection, you can also see your children's progress in recent games, get detailed updates on the skills they are exploring and share in their accomplishments. The Leapster2 system connects to the LeapFrog Learning Path, a free online tool that offers unparalleled insights into your child's learning.

Learning 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").

• 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.

• Consonants

  There are more consonants sounds than there are consonants in the alphabet. A consonant digraph is a pair of consonants that stand for a single sound (ch, sh, th, wh).

• Sight Words and Homophones

  Sight words are words that can't be sounded out and so must be learned by sight (the, he, she , was, and so on). Homophones are words that sound the same but are pronounced differently, such as to, too, and two.

• 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).

• Art and Design

  Creating art is an exercise in learning how to see. With increased confidence in their skills, children discover that art is a vehicle for self-expression.

• Shapes

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

• 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.

• More Than, Less Than

  The concept of more than/less than deepens a child's number sense by teaching him to compare numbers. Children begin with informal and approximate comparisons using the terms "more" and "less"; then they learn the terms and symbols for greater than (>), less than (<) and equal to (=).

• Number Recognition

• Sequencing

  
  

• Addition

  
  

• Subtraction