JumpStart 1st Grade

Brand: Vivendi Universal

Features:

• Build Essential 1st Grade Skills Children discover 18 fun-filled activities that teach geography, science, early reading comprehension, music, and more! Eight interactive books feature 50 illustrated stories for reading fun. Skills Taught , Vowel sounds , Reading , Story comprehension , Addition and subtraction , Simple fractions , Counting money , Units of measure , Arts and c

Format: CD

Details: Review

Children explore three areas of a school (a classroom, a cafeteria and a playground), where they find a variety of playful animations and 15 activities. Clicking on the teacher’s desk leads to a report card feature, providing a snapshot look at each child’s progress (activities played and percent correct). Our testers loved the program and delighted in the wide range of activities. The multiple difficulty levels are able to successfully hold the interest of most children, and the activities are generally highly engaging. In Serving Up Fractions, children race a timer to fill as many lunch trays possible with just the right amount of food, as requested by a line of students (“1/2 pudding, 1/4 chicken, please”). The more trays filled correctly, the more points earned. Children change the level of difficulty simply by clicking on a level gauge located in the corner of the screen. Points can be used to earn milk caps (or Pogs), which are used in a trivia-style game out on the playground. We had to work for 40 minutes to earn just one cap (there are 30 possible). Other useful activities include the Time Game, which is a board-style game where children practice reading a clock to advance, and a game called Frankie’s Dog House, in which kids must follow spoken clues to dig up buried answers to math and reading questions. Our test families felt that the set of short stories with accompanying comprehension questions is limited in design. Sentences, not words, are highlighted, and the quality of the animations are poor compared to a Living Book. Overall, however, this is a very well designed, useful set of activities that make an excellent supplement to any 1st grade curriculum for school or home.
Teaches: addition, subtraction, reading, money, time, music, art, following directions
Age Range: 5, 6, 7 Copyright © 2000 Children’s Software Revue — From Children’s Software Revue® — “Subscribe Now!”

Product description

Build Essential 1st Grade SkillsChildren discover 18 fun-filled activities that teach geography science early reading prehension music and more! Eight interactive books feature 50 illustrated stories for reading fun.Skills Taught Vowel sounds Reading Story prehension Addition and subtraction Simple fractions Counting money Units of measure Arts and creativity Music position Science Ecology GeographySpecial Features: Adjustable levels of difficulty Motivating reward system Progress reportsSystem Requirements:Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP Pentium II 233 MHz or faster 32 MB RAM (64 MB RAM for XP) 100 MB HD Space 12x CD-ROM Drive 16-bit color with 256 Color Capability Windows-patible sound card Macintosh® PowerMac® G3 233 MHz or faster OS 8.6 9.2 32 MB RAM 100 MB HD Space 16x CD-ROM Drive 16-bit color with 256 Color Capability Format: WIN 98ME2000XP Genre: CHILDREN Age: 876930001918 UPC: 876930001918 Manufacturer No: KA-20258

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Join Frankie and friends in an interactive 1st-grade classroom that’s loaded with games and activities. Learn over 90 different educational skills in 18 activity modules that teach reading, science, math, and more. The software is designed for multiple age groups or multiple children within a family. The content-rich programs for age-appropriate levels allow children to progress at their own pace.

UPC: 020626710893

Package Dimensions: 10x142x45