JumpStart 1st Grade

by Vivendi Universal

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004TJ00
• Item model number: 71089
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 5, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,571 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #73 in Software > Children's Software > Early Learning
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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The revised JumpStart 1st Grade CD ( a classic program for developing early elementary skills) is now being bundled with a second program called JumpStart Around the World. This geography CD is meant to serve as a reward and incentive program for children playing the main JumpStart CD. The more activities the children complete, the more travel tours they can take. The program also works as a stand alone product. Unfortunately, while the main CD is very good, this new CD doesn't add much to the experience. Kids must play arcade games to reach their travel destinations. Once there, they can see a brief slide show of the country. The strength of this package is the JumpStart 1st Grade CD, which offers ten strong activities that teach math, reading, science and more. This is a great program that makes the package worth purchasing.
Teaches: reading, math, spelling, phonics, time, grammar, money
Age Range: 5-7

Product Description

In this interactive classroom filled with animation and song. Take field trips to the beach and zoo. Read 50 illustrated stories from 8 interactive books with the help of Ms. Flores your teacher. In all, discover 18 activities teaching geography, science, early math, reading comprehension, music and more!

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Customer Reviews

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buried Treasure - lots of fun, lots of learning, July 16, 2000

By 

Michael Gering - See all my reviews

This review is from: JumpStart 1st Grade (CD-ROM)

The Jump Start series is very entertaining. My son started with Jump Start Toddlers when he was three. He has since gone through the Pre-school, Pre-k and Kindergarten. At five he is busy with First Grade and with Second Grade, although Second Grade is still too difficult.

The children are introduced to basic skills, in this case addition, subtraction, fractions, measuring, quantities, telling time, parts of speech, phonics, reading comprehension, basic science, music, art, synonyms and antonyms, counting money. Each skill is learnt with a game, Spelling Soup, Vending Machine, Lost and Found, and Bean Bag Science to name a few of the many activities. Each game is well constructed, has three levels, and the ability to track progress should this be desired.

Typically each Jump Start has a meta-game, in this case, clues for a treasure hunt. The treasure hunt is slick and adds to the enjoyment.

Though we have spent many hours on first grade reading and first grad math, we spent more time on first grade than on both these other activities together. Lots of fun, lots of learning.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A few too many "bells & whistles", October 23, 2001

By 

Debbie (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JumpStart 1st Grade (CD-ROM)

I have enjoyed Jumpstart programs for years. This is my most recent purchase. My 5 year old daughter enjoys it, but is frustrated at times. A few things that bother her are: The dog's collar (control buttons) appears and disappears at the bottom of the screen when she doesn't want it to (whenever the cursor is at the bottom of the screen it pops up); she can't bypass the introduction segment and must watch it every time; and she has some trouble physically navigating the boat to find the treasure. However, she really likes all the actual learning games.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning adventure!, November 27, 2000

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"cfarinelli" (Massachusetts, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JumpStart 1st Grade (CD-ROM)

We started out the JumpStart series with the Toddler version and have been hooked ever since. It's really the only series that my son has asked for by name. He got the 1st Grade version for his birthday this fall and even with alot of false starts due to computer problems (our old hardware is faltering resulting in several re-installs after he had barely gotten started), he is still absolutely hooked on it. If he had his way, he'd be on that computer all day playing! And he's learning too! The game starts you out in the classroom where you can play either the science bean bag game or a game dealing with opposites and synonyms. It took him awhile to find the other games (you have to leave the classroom) but soon he was in the hall learning to tell time by stamping hall passes and then on to the kitchen to learn about measurements and fractions, the playground where he worked with numbers and words (would you believe he's already learning about nouns, verbs, and adjectives!), and finally into the lunch room to dish out some alphabet soup (spelling) and his ultimate favorite, the snack machine where he's learning math. At barely 6 years old and only in kindergarten he's now up to doing addition on 2 digit numbers (with some help from mom, but still...)! This is definitely a great learning game!