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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Software
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3086
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 7.91666666667 years
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 72046
UPC: 020626720465
EAN: 0020626720465
ASIN: B00008OE6J
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Some Shelfwear
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| Features:
| • | Auto leveling - Allows your child to learn at a pace that is just right for them. | | • | Learning styles - Experts have identified seven learning styles. Some kids learn best to songs, some to pictures and others to words and rhymes. JumpStart Advanced uses all 7 learning styles to teach everything from reading to spelling and arithmetic. | | • | Reading - Phonics, Consonant Sounds, Short and Long Vowels, Blends, Digraphs, Syllables, Vocabulary, and Reading Comprehension | | • | Writing - Sentence Building, Spelling, Punctuation, Parts of Speech, and Alphabetizing | | • | Math - Addition, Substraction, Counting Coins, Fractions, Skip Counting, and Sequencing |
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Product Description
JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade has more fun and enriching learning activities than ever in its new sports themed 3-CD set designed to prepare your child for 1st grade and beyond. With premium features and extensive content JumpStart Advanced keeps kids engaged and learning for hours and that can bring out the best in your child.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade April 21, 2004
Sara Thacker (Texas)
65 out of 77 found this review helpful
Amazon does a disservice to JumpStart products by putting all of the reviews for JumpStart products under this product. The Advanced 1st Grade product is fun. My son, age 7, enjoys playing it. My daughter, age 5, isn't ready for it yet because it is a bit more difficult than the other games she has been playing. I would recommend this program for anyone who has a child at or near the 1st grade level.
Great Beginnings October 3, 2005
C. Salcido
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have a First Grader who has difficulty being taught anything by family members so Jump Start First Grade is great for him. The program was easy for him to use and he stayed with it for over an hour the first time he sat down with it. Now he loves it and asks to play all the time. He really lit up when I told him once he learned all the things on the cd he'd be one of the smartest kids in his class and be able to help some of the other kids. I wish I would have gotten this during the summer before he started first grade
Jump Start Advance 1st Grade August 31, 2005
theologymom (Upland, CA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
In my opinion, this program is a little on the expensive side. Even so, many parents may find it a helpful supplement to reinforce basic skills.
Children take an assessment test the first time they use the program in order to determine what levels they need to begin at in each subject. This actually is a pretty good idea because the program can "grow" with the child. However, it will probably require the parent to sit with the child through the assessment in order to interpret the instructions.
The program can also supposedly becustomized to the child's individual learning style. I'm not real sure how effective this is, since, in my opinion, the computer environment is somewhat limiting in and of itself.
One good feature is that there are separate volume controls for the narration track and the music. Personally, I find the music completely obnoxious, so it's nice to be able to mute it. Otherwise, keep some headphones handy.
Overall, I think this is worth the money. And, by the way, it runs fine on both our OS X enabled Mac as well as our Windows XP machine.
Good Educational Product July 24, 2006
R. Dorris (St. Louis, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are using this for educational purposes, you need to go to the parent options portion of the software. I had my son and daughter take the assessment test. You can see how they do on the leveling section. Then if you go to the Report card, you can select what you want your child to work on. There are LOTS of options to pick from, sentence building, syllables, parts of speech, addition, subtraction, money, earth science, and on. I could really zone in on what my son was not good at, parts of speech, (identifing noun, verb, adjective) and sentence building. He kept scoring low on money also, but he would say it was easy. I watched him and realized he wasn't picking the largest coins first. Once he did that his score improved. I think the software is a great tool, BUT the parents have to spend a little time each day selecting which section of the software you want your child to do. Otherwise, they are just playing random games. But, picking out the sections only takes less than 1 minute. I am buying 2nd grade reading softwre today!
JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3-CD-ROM set December 18, 2007
Hello, I'm StoryMaker, a JumpStart fan. JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade was among the first JumpStart games I've owned; only JumpStart Kindergarten (Deluxe, not Advanced, version) predates it. I think I (or someone else) got it for Christmas a LONG time ago. Since this particular version of JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade comes with 3 CD-ROMs, I will review each individually. (There is also a 4-CD-ROM version, BTW.) My review will be pretty long, 'cause it's really more like 3 reviews stuck together with little extra bits at the start & end. If you don't want to read all 3 parts, just read the first "Fundamentals" part and the bit at the bottom. Here we go!
#1: FUNDAMENTALS
This is, by far, the BEST CD-ROM in the set. It was originally sold individually as the original JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade. In this game, a little dog named Squirt is just riding his scooter peacefully when Jimmy Bumbles, a weasel & school bully, knocks him off and breaks his scooter. Luckily, Squirt's OK, but no longer has a scooter. However, the prize for winning the JumpStart Scooter Tournament (which is coming up) is a new Super Scooter! Unfortunately, Squirt can't really win it, because...uh, he has no scooter. More familiar JumpStart friends such as Frankie the dog and Hopsalot the rabbit are determined to win it for him. However, Jimmy has supreme scooter skills, and the only way the JumpStart pals can stand a chance against him is to add gadgets to their scooters. All of your JumpStart friends will be happy to give you gadgets to add, but they need some favors to be done. Also, some of the gadgets need to be obtained in special ways. Kids complete these tasks in the form of games to earn scooter power-ups.
This CD-ROM is very good. Not only are the games VERY fun, but they teach a wide variety of 1st Grade subjects - everything from math to early zoology. I think this is where I learned adding double-digit numbers, alphabetizing, and ordinals. My younger sister, Chocolate Dog, also benefited from it.
This game, like other JumpStart Advanced "Fundamentals" CD-ROMs, has a feature called the "All Star". At the start of the game, kids are instructed to "take a quiz & find out their learning style". As a young child, I found this confusing, and I think I ended up just clicking on my favorite character. That's the bad part. The good part: In the corner of the screen of the main game, there is a star. When clicked, a phone pops up. You can call up your JumpStart pals for info on all the subjects taught in the game. Each character gives different kinds of information. I usually find Hopsalot's straightforward answers to be most helpful. Sometimes, the scientific nature-loving CJ Frog is a help. It really depends, and I don't think kids just have a single learning style.
I think that JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade Fundamentals is quite good. There are a few things that bug me, though. For one thing, some games, such as Casey Cat's Phonics Soccer & CJ Frog's Spelling/Math Swamp Game, must be played over and over and over and OVER again to earn a single power-up. Because of this, we avoided them. Also, since many of the games are arcade-styled, you can sometimes get an incorrect answer simply due to obstacles, bad aim, etc. In additon, you can trade power-ups, which I think is good, but I had to go to the online user manual to find out how - it wasn't clear at all. However, this CD-ROM is overall the best one in the JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3-pack, hands down.
#2: MUSIC
Though Fundamentals is very high quality, this CD-ROM, "Music", takes a deep dive downward when it comes to quality. In this game, Hopsalot the rabbit gets sucked up into an heirloom gramophone. Totally bogus, huh? He is whisked away to the weird & wacky world of "The Land of Music". A big weirdo guy named Sir Sournote is causing trouble and making all the music sour. So duh, Hopsalot has to stop him.
Not only are the activities & games on this CD-ROM very BORING, but they are also very difficult. OK, so there's this game (actually, a lot of games) where you must repeat a beat. IT'S SERIOUSLY HARD. This game is for ages 5-8 and, even if you're way over the top of the age range, it is still difficult to get the beats right. And if you don't get the beats right, then the characters might insult you: "THAT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAD!"
This CD-ROM frustrates and annoys MUCH more than it teaches. Please DO NOT buy the individually sold version of JumpStart Music! You might find that your money is wasted! We have not played this LAME GAME in YEARS. If you seriously want to get it, PLEASE get it in with JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade ~OR~ get one of the 4 different JumpStart Fun Packs: Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade and/or 2nd Grade. I've never played any JumpStart Fun Pack, but all of them but Preschool come with JumpStart Music. Not that anybody would actually want JumpStart Music...
#3: ART CLUB
JumpStart Art Club is the only disc that comes with JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade that was never sold individually. Indeed, it comes only with this pack (and the 4-CD-ROM version). It is sorta in-between Fundamentals & Music: not super good, not super bad, just in-between. In this CD-ROM, you make storybooks, crafts, banners & greeting cards starring your favorite JumpStart friends. It is pretty fun to make the crafts & entertaining to make all sorts of stories for the storybooks, but it is a very simple CD-ROM. There really isn't any animation in it, and all of the projects are simplified (the storybooks can only have up to 6 pages, you only design the front of the greeting cards, etc.). You never really "draw" in any of the projects - you mostly just use stickers. Coloring in spaces is the closest you ever get. Also, it really doesn't have educational value. It *sorta* teaches *a little bit of* creativity, but other than that, zero-zilch-nada. Overall, it's OK, MUCH better than Music, but definitely worse than Fundamentals.
Overall, JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3-CD-ROM set is pretty darn good. The Music & Art Club CD-ROMs aren't so great, though, so you might consider getting the original JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade with only the one Fundamentals CD-ROM. You might consider the 4-CD-ROM version, though I've never played it. Check out some of the other great JumpStart games & workbooks! Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"
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