Customer Reviews

JumpStart 2nd Grade

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A fun, animated, interactive learning tool which helps children learn while entertaining them. It takes the "pain" out of learning and really holds their attention. My son really believed he was writing to pen pals with the software and it made it more fun for him. It covered the basics of spelling and grammar plus some math skills, geography and more. The kids like to see their own progress as they advance through the different levels.

I feel kind of weird writing this review because I don't even know why I looked it up in the first place, but I thought it might be interesting for potential buyers to get a perspective from someone who's played the game as a child.

I played through this game with my younger brother when we were in elementary school. We both LOVED IT to pieces. The characters are entertaining, the games are engaging and informative, and of course, fun. I loved the loose story and the quest for stamps and have nothing but fond memories of the entire experience. Indeed, I think it says something when even now, many years later, I still look back on this game and smile. I can still remember the music and characters' voices and all the fun times my brother and I had together going through the puzzles.

I think games like this really helped instill a love of learning in both my brother and myself. We went on to play Jump Start Third and Fourth Grade - both fantastic games in themselves - and really, I know part of it might just be me being a nostalgic 90's kid in general, but I don't feel like there are enough games like this these days. Too many games are based on marketable characters and merchandise. Here's an old classic for you. It's just for fun and learning. :)

This is good game that will prepare your child for the 2nd grade but may not work with Windows XP Home Edition.

My daugter just finished her 1st grade. I needed to give her some challange for the summer, so I bought this softwear. My wife loved it, because now my daughter spend a lot of time on it instead of driving my wife crazy. Plus, my other daughter (she'll be in 1st grade) is learning a lot form her sister by just watching her. My daughter comes to me with some questions (why? / how?) which helps me explain things to her visaully. I also bought Jumpstart woorkbook for both of my daugters and they work great.

We homeschool and we use this as an extra for my daughter. she spends at least an hour at a time on it. And it has great games that teach her. definately recommend.

I'm not xactly a kid anymore, but this is easier.
Anyway, I LOVED this game when I got it from school, it helped me a little and even after I FINISHED 2nd grade, I played it through 5th grade just because it was fun. My little sister also had a fun time with this game when she was in 2nd grade, I highly recommend ths for kids :)

I love ALL Jump Start Learning Activities. I bought the Kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade. My son loves these programs also, he can't wait to get started on 3rd Grade. I'm so happy to see my son playing with this educational game and I'm sure any parent would want to see their children excited about learning.

We find this 2nd grade Jumpstart to be very fun and entertaining. My daughter (twin #1) loves the log ride (math and vocabulary) and football field math. Daughter #2 likes the bone vault (vocabulary and math) and the classroom where she can do art and vocabulary. We all giggle about some of the silly rhymes. Both also like the record player. They do not like the save the universe game, as it is hard to hear the clues. They give it two thumbs up.

In addition to our most recent purchase of JumpStart 2nd Grade, we have JumpStart Artist, Explorers, Advanced Kindergarten, Languages and Field Trip. My children love them all. JumpStart 2nd Grade, however, is not intuitive--even for an advanced kid. My son and I could not figure out how in the world to organize the computations in the math "ice cave". After several "guesses" we figured it out. Unfortunately the only instruction the game gave us was to use the columns on the left and top. There are no "help" functions so if you don't get it, you're on your own. And the games themselves aren't very challenging -- it's the figuring out how to play them that offers the most challenge :) It would be great if they had different levels of play. I still love JumpStart products...I'm just not a big fan of this particular one.

We've been buying JumpStart games for the computer since before my eldest daughter started kindergarten. Now that she's headed for 2nd grade, we upgraded and she's been learning braille and doing more math and reading. It's great to see her engaged on the computer with a game she's learning things from!