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JumpStart World Kindergarten | 
| From: Knowledge Adventure
List Price: $9.99
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Seller: affordablebooks
Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1961
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
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: 20218
UPC: 876930001680
EAN: 0876930001642
ASIN: B000I82J6W
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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Product Description
The new way to achieve kindergarten success!Product InformationJumpStart World is the smart fun way to achieve success in school! Kids'educational games are designed to instill confidence joy and excitement aroundlearning that correlate to state and national curriculum standards. Theexpansive “learn and play” design responds to your child’s own learningpace and helps them build skills in critical thinking reading and math.The ultimate new dimension in learning: Choose: Choose your character Explore: Race swim and play Learn: Build math and reading skills Win: Earn cool badges Nurture: Care for your own pet Customize: Personalize your worldWelcome to JumpStart World Kindergarten an evolving 3D learning environmentfull of whimsical lands lively activities and friendly characters. JumpStart World's personalized learning system actually responds to your child'sprogress so kids learn at their own pace and there is always a new challenge tokeep them motivated. IncludesThe first two Adventure Packs are included with your JumpStart WorldKindergarten.*Each Adventure Pack includes: For Kids: Over 30 learning games and missions Over 15 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*Note: Additional details are provided in the product box as to how tosubscribe to additional monthly Adventure Packs in which the Manufacture candeliver automatically via a download to you once you sign up and pay asubscription fee - t
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Welcome to JumpStart World Kindergarten, 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. | 
Over 60 learning games and missions
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Unique 3D design and immersive play
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Kids can make the world their own
| The Smart, Fun Way to Achieve Kindergarten Success
Your child's adventures start at Camp JumpStart! Get ready to become the Ultimate JumpScout by earning the first two JumpScout badges. Kids learn about friendship and teamwork as they meet the characters, discover the learning arcades, the art studio and My Cabin, and play and learn together. 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 60 learning games and missions that teach more than 30 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 30 learning games and missions
- Over 15 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 make the world their own: They can create art in the Art Studio to decorate the world, customize their cabin, or make a Me-shirt for their character to wear.
- New lands and new challenges open up according to your child's progress.
- Children can choose from over 15 pets to adopt and care for--groom, feed, and buy hats for their pet to wear.
- Race other JumpScouts in tournaments for trophies in Dinosaur Raceway.
- Play fun games with JumpStart characters--Hops likes Hide and Seek and Kisha likes to race.
- Kids earn Super Gems at the Math and Reading Arcades. They can then trade in their gems for special rewards.
- Kids earn badges on their way to becoming the Ultimate JumpScout Explorer.
- 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: Sorting, Shapes, Graphs, Counting, Measurements, Calendars
- Reading: Rhyming, Phonics, Letters, Sounds, Listening Comprehension
- Critical Thinking: Spatial Awareness, Visual Discrimination, Directions
- Social Skills: Friendship and Teamwork
- 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
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Great Program September 12, 2009
Grandma (Mesa, AZ)
Jump Start Kindergarden is an awsome program. My Grandson is 4 years old and has had many hours of enjoyment and has learned so much!!
 Cha-Ching! August 10, 2009
Peter G Levine
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a beautiful scheme. You hedge the emotional contact between parent and child to sell more product. How do you do this? You design a product that requires the parent to fight through a series of Internet-based questions, sign-ups and personal information -- in order that the child may play the game. Which drags you and you kids back to their online pitch to buy more games. Yay! And, every time you put the game on a new PC you get to go through it again! Also, you darned well better remember your password! I sent Jumpstart a nasty email at one point (regarding another game. And yes; the definition of insanity is making the same mistake over and over.) They sent me one of their games that did not require web access or signing up. So why not make it that way for all their games? The claim is that if you interface the website you'll be able to track your kid's progress. But if it requires web assess, what do you tell your kid when you need to load it on your laptop? In an airport. On vacation. You can't because -- no wifi, no gamey. And if tracking your kid were so important to Jumpstart, why not make an optional "I want my child's progress to NOT be tracked by Big Brother Jumpstart? Let me track it on Excel on my hard drive or some other way?" Why? Because if they don't track it, you don't go back to their site and buy more games. That you can't play. Because you don't have the password, Because you bought the game a year ago. Cha ching!
WARNING: Paid Subscription needed to Unlock Software April 20, 2009
R. Morley (MA, United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As another reviewer mentioned there are 12 levels and the intro encourages each "Jump Scout" to earn all 12 badges. What they dont tell you is that you can only access the first 2 badges, then you need to pay $[...]/month or $[...]/year to unlock the remaining 10 levels. Lastly, whenever you exit the program it contines to "advertise" the paid subsription for about 30-40 seconds, to further try to "hook" the kids/parents into the paid subscriptions. Both of my kids were really dissapointed when I told them that they would be unable to get past level 2. I was aware that the software allowed more games to be accessed with a paid subsription. What I didnt know was that the software is basically crippled without the subscription. Maybe I am "Old-Fashioned" but I thought that if I paid for the software I would get more than just some "trial software".
Caveat Emptor!
Jumpstart blackmailing parents to buy a subscripton. March 23, 2009
Susan Powell (Meadville, PA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
All of the Jumstart World 3D Adventures require you to purchase either a yearly[...]or monthly subscription[...]to have access to the other levels that are not included in the original CD purchase. Please note that I said it gives you "access" to the other levels of the game. Once you quit Subscribing your child can NO LONGER PLAY any parts of the game that they previously downloaded & played during the subscription period. After you unsubcribe your child only has access to the first 2 levels again that came on the CD. You have to have high speed internet access available at all times in order to play these games. You can't use them on the laptop in the car or on the plane. You can't play them while your internet connection is down for pete's sake. Why would anybody pay that much money for something you WILL NEVER ACTUALLY OWN?
Not educational software to grow with March 7, 2009
A. Morrison
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was looking for some good educational software to combine fun and learning for my then 4, now 5 daughter. While some of the learning games included were excellent, the packaging and other issues make it unsuitable for me. Just throughout, it feels like I'm being hit with sleezy/deceptive tactics, which is a major red flag for anything getting near children.
- As noted, trial version (2 of 12 levels). Remaining levels for $8/mon, $75/yr too expensive.
- Registration required to use, personal information requested, some required, only 2 profiles included, results of game uploaded to their servers
- Several of the games contain arcade elements too difficult for the age. "Move and shoot" type games not what I want in this type of educational software, and is in general do difficult for little still coordinating hands.
- The tease/hook elements in the movies and sprinkled throughout a trial version ("Your challenge it become an ultimate jump scout" "I'm going to earn all the badges" "He must have been really special to earn every badge" - BUT THIS VERSION ONLY GIVES YOU 2 of 12) are inappropriate, especially for children. The hooks are trying to get the children hooked on this software's rewards and buying more, rather than on learning. You can see entrances to other subscriber only areas and features, which is like showing a kid a locked candy store.
- Software requires CD present to use. If you install a new internal hard disk that changes your CD drive letter, you need to reinstall or do registry hacking to be able to use again.
- Packaging feels deceptive - The above is not made clear. Most galling of all is the "XX million parents trust Jumpstart" - I presume since I bought it, I'm now included in whatever future XX million parents they advertise, and I do NOT trust these guys.
Short is this is not an educational solution I want my children to use, which is disappointing, because it has promise and several good elements.
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