How to play Curious George Learns Phonics on Mac

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Game summary

Curious George joins the circus in this fun phonics adventure! George is up to his usual antics, sending circus animals flying through the air in dashing acrobatics, laughing at the clowns' jokes, playing music, and chasing down letters and their sounds. Six games and activities teach children to recognize letters, sounds, and to sound out words as their build basic reading skills. We teach the way children learn. As children learn about letter names, the sounds in language (phonemic awareness), and letter sound associations (phonics), they learn the basic skills of reading and writing. Children explore at their own pace and discover the joy of learning while they play games and activities that teach phonemic awareness and phonics. There are gentle challenges and fun, magical rewards. Bring a school learning environment into your home. We use the latest research and reinforce skills developed in the widely-used Invitations to Literacy Program to help you teach your child to read. Features Astonishing Animal Acrobats -- Animals fly through the air doing acrobatic stunts in this rhyming, alliteration, and blending game! Phonics Fun House -- Clown around and see if you can make words out of letter sounds! Peanut Pickup -- Help George and Eddie the Elephant find their way around a maze of initial consonant sounds! Comedy Clowns -- Find loads of laughs while testing your wits and your knowledge of initial and final consonant sounds! Sammy the Musica Seal -- Help Sammy make music while building knowledge of vowels and their sounds! Story Theater -- Practice reading and sounding out words with Thea and her entire troupe! Print 10 original storybooks -- featuring the Story Theater productions!
First released: Mar 2006

Play Curious George Learns Phonics on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Curious George Learns Phonics on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Curious George Learns Phonics installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Curious George Learns Phonics like you would on any PC.
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