JumpStart World 2nd Grade | 
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List Price: $19.99
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Seller: diversitybuilder
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1226
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
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, consonant blends 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:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 17
 A Great Tool September 9, 2009
B. Crabb (Bel Air, MD USA)
This was a fantastic way for our daughter to keep up her academic skills over the summer. Jump Start is a rewarding and challenging game. At the beginning of the school year, she was nervous about 2nd grade being too hard, but she didn't have to worry a bit: she has accelerated in both math and reading. Jump Start played a vital role in her academic success! She continues to play it during her free time, and has acquired quite a few cute pets and accessories galore!
Loved but expensive June 21, 2009
Sanjoy Dutta (Menlo Park, CA)
My daughter is between 1st and 2nd grade, and this game has been keeping her motivated to learn through the summer.
She has had Jumpstart World Kindergarten and 1st grade in the past and has loved these games.
There is enough virtual play to keep it interesting and fun, yet enough math/reading exercises to actually learn.
Usually the first 5-6 levels are easy enough to let her play without help. The last levels provide some challenges, and sometimes may require some help from an older sibling or parent. As an example, on level 3: the games will test her on counting money, tallying, addition and subtraction of 3 digit +/- 1 digit numbers or +/- simple 2 digit numbers (10,20,30,etc.), organizing dates/months/calendars, asking questions about a simple story, phonics, etc.
We usually let her play about 30-45min max/day during the summer and only on weekends during the school year, and (based on her prior versions) she will probably finish all the levels within about 3-5 months.
If we could have all of the above for less than $40 the game would get 5 stars.
BUT for all the levels, this game is essentially $90-100.
ALSO you need a decent processor and RAM with a good broadband connection (we have a 1.73gHz processor+ 2MB RAM + 6MB/sec DSL wireless connection and it works fine, but occassionally the graphics can get a bit choppy.
 Piece of junk April 15, 2009
Sankar Arunachalam
I installed this piece of crap on my HP machine. After installing when the kids try to run this from their non admin account this won't even start. Errors out with 'Error setting up channels'. So this crap requie admin privliege to pry on your accounts!?! And the contact # published on the inset paper was disconnected and the number on their website goes to a dead end voicemail. No replies for my emails even after 48 hours. I also would strongly agree with other people's comment about the online (not just online but a broadband online) scam! Never buy this product and I would even say never buy anyother product from such a seller even if that product is really good!
 guilt-free weekday computer game September 11, 2008
M. Welch (Rapid City, SD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My kids love this. My son is in 2nd grade and immediately got addicted to the games. I also like the reports that Jump Start sends to tell me what he worked on. That service is new. I have used J.S. software for a long time and have found it good but not great. Anything that gets my kids having fun learning is a winner. My 6th grade daughter also likes the games and plays them for fun. She likes how you can unlock new things to do during the game as well as earn "gems" to decorate your cabin similar to the Nintendo games she likes. I'm going to look for new J.S. games for her level.
Deceptive product designed to sell you more July 3, 2008
BSR (Colorado Springs, CO USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My son is entering 2nd grade, and has enjoyed the Jumpstart K & 1st grade products. I had thought this was another standalone program, like the previous versions. It's not!
The box has a section on the bottom, with requirements, and mentions that you need a broadband connection, but doesn't say why.
When I installed, I could not continue without creating an account on Jumpstart's web site. I never register software products, and dislike giving out my personal information, as it usually results in more junk in my inbox or mailbox. Needless to say, I used a fake e-mail address and got past that.
Next thing you get is a pitch to sign up for monthly subscription at [...]/month. If I hadn't paid for the software in the first place, this might seem more reasonable. Having to subscribe to a service that charges whether your child plays or not isn't what I bought the product for.
I declined, and my son did enjoy the games once he was in. The load-up time was very long, however.
Now that it's installed, it wants my e-mail/password each time the program starts. And it's now not playing nicely on my laptop. About 30% of the time the program gets to a screen that says UPDATING and hangs. Other times, I get an error that Application Starter has had a problem and needs to exit. Usually I have to reboot clean, just to get it to run. This is XP Pro on a Dell laptop that usually has no issues with any software.... not sure what's making it unhappy.
Overall, I'm not satisfied with this program. I'll give it a few more days, but if my son's not playing it much, I will replace it with something from another company. This subscription thing feels like a bait-and-switch, so my next purchase of this sort of software will be from another company.
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