Customer Reviews

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures [OLD VERSION]

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We bought this title for our 6-year old daughter. She was definately captivated by the animation and storyline. There are a multitude of goal-oriented activities which help reinforce math, spelling, language, and science skills. The game becomes more challenging as questions are answered correctly. Kids will be guided through activities without any help from adults.The only drawback was the amount of repitition necessary for achieving final goals. Some children may lose interest in a particular activity before the goal is met. All in all, Reader Rabbit 2nd grade is a great learning tool that kids will enjoy.

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures
Review by GMC, first grader

I like Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures because I like the cheesy pie-rats. In the game I went inside a mountain, and opened the doors by fixing messages and clocks. I also had to get French bread by making compound words and synonyms, and antonyms. My favorite part was making bugs. I really liked the big monster that came out at the end when we had to find the crackers with the right fractions.

While playing the game I learned that opposites are called Antonyms. I also learned that insects have three parts, head, abdomen, and thorax.

The part I did not like was the mining section where it moved so fast I had to get Mommy to do the work. It did not have a setting to slow it down at all.

Parent note, the cars I had to help with gave me a headache!

My children loved the adventure game so much that they were willing to do the math required to solve the puzzles. It made a great review for them to use over the summer.

They even wanted to play the game again after finishing it the first time.

They have loved Reader Rabbit so much that they play "bad pie rats" and "bunny games" when they build hideouts. Somehow, Reader Rabbit has become the main theme in their pretend play.

Reader Rabbit keeps them interested when they are very little. They still like the programs in 2nd grade but not as much as when they were younger. The characters apeal to younger children. Still anything that helps is good.

As the title suggests, my kid will keep playing this game for hours if I don't set time limits. However, I think he liked "Reader Rabbit 1st Grade" even more (or maybe that was just because it was his first real computer game). The story and some of the situations in both of them are wacky, but that doesn't bother kids one bit.

One caveat: We do not have any video games to compete with this. I am guessing that kids who do may not have as much interest or patience for this or other educational computer games in general. Specifically, I suspect that my son's friends who have Nintendo DS, Wii, or PS2, etc. (which I deliberately avoid getting) prefer the faster pace and instant gratification of those games.

Bottom line: My son likes the Reader Rabbit games, and he has learned a good deal from them. Maybe it's a coincidence, or a reverse cause-effect, but he seems to do better than average in language arts and math at school. The concerns I have about this or any kind of computer or video game is that it keeps the kid sitting in front of a monitor instead of moving about, playing using his own imagination, or reading books.

My son enjoyed the software. The sender was very fast. I will order from them again.