Kids first pick up their virtual walkie-talkie and meet up with Frankie the Dog at the Camp Headquarters. Level One focuses on pre-reading skills such as letter recognition and letter sounds. Level Two reinforces letter, word, and sound relationships Level Three contains activities that are more advanced and involve word building, story sentence completion, and more. A wonderful option involves playing the game either with a traditional mouse interface or by using a microphone and voice commands. Voice recognition technology can be tricky at times, and some kids can get frustrated when they are saying the correct thing, but the software is simply not recognizing it.
Children periodically earn merit badges when playing the activities.
As each letter is selected one of approximately 6 different words associated with each letter will fall down, and kids watch as 2 squirrels scramble to catch these pictures in their basket. Casey the Cat invites kids to create 3-letter words by clicking on a choice of letters on turtles, spelling a word one letter at a time. Pierre the Bear allows kids to explore the sounds that vowels make by clicking on each letter-shaped vowel flower bed. The Bees Game involves collecting honey from the beehives while learning about vowel sounds. Cecil the Mouse's activity area focuses on rhyming.