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Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures

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From: The Learning Company

List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $3.83
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 reviews
Sales Rank: 598

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Mac, Windows
Genre: Childrens Early Learning Software
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures
Age: 5 - 7.91666666667 years
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8 x 1.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.

MPN: LLREA2NDMDJ
Model: 380810
UPC: 772040808105
EAN: 0772040808105
ASIN: B00005LJDF

Release Date: June 25, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
With seven cheese-ilicious activities you’re infor a giant slice of adventureProduct InformationWhen the fabulous Dreamship crash lands into gooey Mt. Cheesemore Reader Rabbitand Sam must find it before the bungling Pirates get there first. Our hero

Amazon.com Review
Reader Rabbit and his friend Sam the Lion are innocently piloting their Dreamship through the sky when--from out of nowhere--a Pie Rat ship attack knocks them for a loop. The ship crashes into a sticky mass of cheese on a high mountaintop, while Sam and Reader Rabbit fall into the sea below. In Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade: Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures, players must get the intrepid adventurers back to the ship before the Pie Rats take it over.

Aimed at children in the second grade, this Reader Rabbit program offers a challenging series of educational games. Players must climb Mount Cheesemore, for example, by completing a series of math formulas. The challenge is to place the cheese blocks correctly, in such a way that all the formulas are balanced. Getting one or two of the numbers to tally may be easy, but completing the third can be quite the test. In another game, crossing a fast-flowing river depends on the user's ability to make compound words, or to identify synonyms and antonyms.

The games are perfect for children studying or previewing a second-grade curriculum. They are set at a perfect range of difficulty, simple at first, but with an automatic increase in toughness as players master the spelling, science, and math skills presented in the activities. At higher levels, parental assistance may be required to complete the puzzles. What's more, players must complete some tasks in order to get to others--there is no way to skip out on the language or science drills if you want to rescue the Dreamship.

This is not to say that the game is low on entertainment value. It is filled with bright characters and charming animations. As a setting, Mount Cheesemore provides pleasant and consistent goofiness. The educational content is not understated--children will know they are working--but the game environment is fun and offers plenty of enjoyment and variety along the way. --Alyx Dellamonica

Amazon.com Product Description
Explore Mount Cheesemore with Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion! When the fabulous Dreamship crash-lands into a gooey mountain of cheese, Reader Rabbit and Sam must find their ship before the bungling pirates get there first. Our heroes need your help using skills in grammar, reading, science, fractions, and telling time to climb cheddar cheese mountains and cross cheese rivers. With seven cheese-ilicious activities, you're in for a giant slice of adventure and second grade skill building.


Customer Reviews:
4 out of 5 stars Parental Advisory: Highly Addictive.   July 7, 2009
Watching out for You (Nashville, TN)
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.



5 out of 5 stars Reader Rabbit   August 20, 2008
Veronica M. Macklin
My son enjoyed the software. The sender was very fast. I will order from them again.


5 out of 5 stars Great learning game!   January 8, 2008
L. Callahan (Indianapolis, IN USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

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.



4 out of 5 stars Kid review.   February 2, 2006
PrincessPerky (NC, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

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!



4 out of 5 stars Offers a great variety of skills   March 12, 2002
Shannon Davis (Stoughton, WI United States)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

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.




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