Educational game for children

V.smile has early learners ages 3-5, junior thinkers ages 4-6, and master minds ages 6-8. This game system hooks up easily to a tv systems. It comes with a joystick, a writing pad, and writing pen, and has a microphone and has a storage component for the cartridges. The games that can be purchased for this system are educational and deals with teaching phonics, language, math skills, problem solving, spelling, telling time, and music and other educational things one learns in school.Children can get hours of enjoyment with this game and learn all at the same time. The games have different characters that children like to learn with such as dora, spongebob, spiderman, the bratzs, and other favorite characters. This product ismoney well spent. I have sat and watched my child play her v.smile and its interesting to see her play her games and really know whats she doing. I also, get a kick out of playing the games myself.So, this is one christmas present I really glad she likes.