JumpStart World 2nd Grade | 
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Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 349
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 7.91666666667 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 100722
Model: 20228
UPC: 876930001765
EAN: 0876930001741
ASIN: B000I84DUM
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The smart, fun way to achieve success in school | | • | Personalized learning that responds to your child's pace so that kids stay challenged and motivated | | • | Interactive learning design provides new play experiences every time your child signs on | | • | Parents get activity tips, helpful ideas, and progress reports | | • | Unique 3D design and immersive play |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Welcome to JumpStart World 2nd Grade, a series of 12 Adventure Packs or learning units that actually progresses in response to your child's own learning pace. It's super-personalized, wildly imaginative and really fun, but don't let that fool you--it also teaches critical skills correlated to state standards so kids get a real jumpstart in life. | 
New areas of the world to discover
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Over 90 learning games and missions
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Kids can import photos to decorate their world
| The Smart, Fun Way to Achieve 2nd Grade Success
Calling all Heroes...JumpStart World needs your child! A mysterious villain called Color Meister has removed the color from Camp JumpStart! To bring the color back, your child earns the Shield of Training and Shield of Challenge by playing learning games and completing the Color Meister's challenges. Your child will make new friends and visit new places, all on the way to becoming a True Hero. Stay Connected
As part of your JumpStart World experience, we've designed a Parents Corner where you can get additional tips and ideas to help your child enjoy learning even more. - Get educational tips and creative ideas from our monthly gurus and experts.
- Search hundreds of Parent Tips to help turn everyday moments into learning opportunitites.
- Get instant access to tips and activities that reinforce your child's learning.
Reward Your Child
Studies show that children learn better when parents are involved. The Super Gem Reward Store allows you to reward your child's performance with customized certificates. - Delight your child with rewards that only you can create.
- Create Rewards that your child can redeem: A Trip to the Park, Going Out for Ice Cream, Going Ice Skating, and many more.
- Use our simple tool to create your own rewards to honor your child's learning achievements.
Get Your First 2 Adventure Packs Today:
- Over 90 learning games and missions that teach more than 50 skills
Subscribe to Keep the Adventure Going:
- Get a new Adventure Pack automatically downloaded to your computer for just $7.99 each. Based on your child's progress--at least one each month. 12 total Adventure Packs per grade.
Each Adventure Pack Includes:
For Kids:
- Over 45 learning games and missions
- Over 25 skills
- New areas of the world to discover
- One new badge to earn
For Parents:
- Progress report e-mails and Parent Tips
- Access to the Member's Website and online access to educational experts
- Access to the Super Gems Reward Center
See what your child can learn in JumpStart World | | At the heart of the JumpStart World is the Learning Curriculum containing hundreds of lessons around key skills to help your child advance progressively. | 
Take a tour of the specially designed 3D world | | New studies show that children who learn in rich media environments retain knowledge longer. JumpStart World surrounds your child in a 3D world with learning and fun, as it rewards and recognizes each achievement along the way. | Key Features of JumpStart World:
- Children pick a character and explore a world full of exciting places.
- Unique 3D design and immersive play make kids feel like they're inside a world of adventure and learning.
- Challenging missions teach math, reading, spelling, vocabulary, science, art and more.
- Kids can import photos to decorate their world. They can create billboards, cards and special pictures.
- New lands and new challenges open up according to your child's progress.
- Kids visit the Science Lab where they can watch cool movies from JPL (NASA).
- Play fun games with JumpStart characters like Treasure hunting with Pierre.
- Complete Color Meister's puzzles and challenges to bring the color back to JumpStart World.
- Kids earn Super Gems at the Math and Reading Arcades. They can then trade in their gems for special rewards.
- Kids earn Shields on their way to becoming a True Hero.
- The World changes with the seasons and holidays using a real-time calendar.
- Parents receive personalized progress reports and activity tips.
Ages
Skills Taught
- Math: Addition, Subtraction, Money Fractions, Tally Charts, Time
- Reading: Parts of Speech, Comprehension, Antonyms, Word Building
- Critical Thinking: Problem Solving, Patterns, Attributes, Classification
- Social Skills: Preparations, Perseverance, Cooperation
- And much more!
Benefits
- Empowers Children to Succeed
- Builds Confidence
- Rewards Achievements
- Enhances Social Skills
- Stimulates Creativity
- Engages Parents
Research: The Building Blocks of JumpStart World
Research has shown that children's "play" can encourage and improve their ability to learn. JumpStart World keeps children motivated to "play and to learn" because JumpStart World recognizes each achievement along the way. The result is non-stop play and learning that will involve the entire family.  | Children and Technology White Paper
(.pdf - 84k) | | | | | JumpStart World White Paper
(.pdf - 124k) | | |
Product Description
Jumpstart World 2nd Grade is an adventure in world travel complete with secret missions. Seven learning modules on three adjustable difficulty levels cover number relationships and representations, basic math operations, consonantblends and digraphs, capitalization and punctuation, contractions and compound words, vowels and word structure, money and time, and fraction concepts.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Worth it, even though it does require monthly subscription September 2, 2007
Thomas (Houston, Tx)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was skeptical that I could get my 2nd grader excited about playing any educational games, since he considers himself so much older now and above all those "baby" games. However, he absolutely loves this and has played only this since he got it, he doesn't even seem to mind that it's educational, since the learning exercizes are presented as fun little challenges that have to be mastered to get a gem (which he loves to spend on pets and stuff). It does get expensive, since it requires a $[...]/mo subscription to go beyond the first two units, but for the excellent study practice and atmosphere of fun learning it provides, I really think it is worth it. You just can't put a price on a child enjoying himself so much while he is learning. Be prepared to shell out for the subscription tho, since my son did work thru the 1st unit in 4 days which means in a week he would have played thru the entire included units that you get for the $[...] purchase price. That is a little disappointing - that the $[...] doesn't really buy you much, but again, the fact that my son is really enjoying himself while doing something educational (as opposed to just video games) is worth it.
Diana LOVES IT January 31, 2008
Koreen Weber (Sacramento, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
my daughter can't get enough it is worth every penny, she is learning like never before, this system is even teaching her about saving money and to keep trying, it is also helping her self esteem. I did not expect to have to pay for each unit but I would recomend this product.
Grandchild adores it!!!!! October 13, 2007
JLSPRING
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased it to encourage her to do more difficult tasks in learning. Little did I know how infectious this would be. We saw that it had 12 levels to complete and the tasks plus lessons to achieve them were fun and viable. She completed 2 and was going for 3... couldn't do anything but play the existing 1-2 levels. My naive awareness was that I had purchased a game with 12 levels.
WELL... now my grandchild is hooked and we need to move on. You go to the website and sign up as a member to buy the other levels. I will say the better deal was to buy all the next levels at once, download them and move on. It cost more to buy one as you need it.
This is a great game. Everything works as it should, Graphics are amazing. You are able to put your own photo pictures around the town on the billboards or other adventure sites. A blimp flies around and you can add your own banner wording. It has become a family time game... because it is so interesting to watch how she learns, how she improves with following instructions, and how she is so excited to move on to another gem or earn a new badge. We even ask if we can do some of the races or adventures, because they are so cool.
She has Tuberous Sclerosis and this game has been a great fit for her learning disabilities and encouraging her to try harder. The math and reading tasks have really pushed her. We highly recommend this one.
Not just a computer game! July 3, 2007
MelGrace (Jackson, MS)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
My 7 year old son was excited to see he had a new 'computer game'. What he and I did not realize was how much fun he would have learning while playing! Highly recommend.
 One of the best educational games ever! May 19, 2008
Tiare Solorzano (Citrus Heights, CA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
For starters, let me just say that we are a big computer family. Our three children have experienced many computer learning games, from Reader Rabbit to Putt-Putt.
Nothing can begin to compare to Jumpstart World.
Two of our children play JSW Second Grade regularly: our first-grade daughter, who is highly gifted and homeschooled, and our third-grade son, a bright student who attends school. Our third grader, as we expected, finds the learning games to be quite easy, but still engaging. He is still motivated to play and progress, however, because the 3-D environment and games are so exciting.
Our first grader does quite well with the learning games, though they are likely too advanced for many first grade students. As a homeschooling parent and prefessional tutor, I am very impressed by the amount of real learning that this game encourages. This is much more than just edu-tainment.
The gameplay itself is adventurous and interesting, and requires that children master learning games in order to complete various "missions." The children can also trade in learning game points, or "gems," at a special store, where they can purchase a variety of things, like flowers that they can grow in their own garden, pets which the children can name and train and play with, etc.
Our children received this game last fall. It is May now, and they still request to play often. We purchased all of the learning packs at once, which saved money over the monthly plan, and our first grader is on the next-to-last pack, largely because she plays it almost daily. I only wish there was a Jumpstart World Third Grade.
The reasons I gave this product four stars instead of five are:
1) The price to purchase additional learning packs is too high for many families.
2) The company should make it very clear on the box that internet connection, a great deal of hard drive space, and a graphics accelerator really are needed for this game to work. Not a problem for this computer-geek family, but perhaps a rude surprise to some other families.
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