JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten

Brand: Vivendi Universal

Features:

• Provides superior interactive game play tailored to each child’s individual learning style
• Fun activities that encourage active learning through movement games
• Skill leveling that automatically adjusts game play and content to each child’s growing abilities
• Enhanced motivational game reward structure
• Advanced curriculum to better prepare kids for the next grade

Format: CD-ROM

Details: Amazon.com

Recognizing that there are many ways to learn and that children can use different intelligences to comprehend a skill or concept, the JumpStart Advanced series provides a personalized learning environment that suits how each child learns best. In addition, the JumpStart Advanced series offers greater play value with an enhanced motivational game-reward structure that empowers kids to create and express their creativity, along with fun activities that encourage active learning to reinforce skills beyond the computer, and advanced curricula to better prepare kids for the next grade. A valuable new feature in this series is more sensitive skill leveling that automatically adjusts gameplay and educational content to each child’s increasing abilities.
In JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten, players team up with Frankie and the JumpStart pals as they get ready for a wacky car race. As kids develop important kindergarten skills, they can earn scores of power boosters, such as super-stilt wheels, to customize their own crazy car and unlock five racing arenas. Loaded with arcade action, players will love zipping around colorful landscapes in a race against time to collect scattered treasures in the King’s Castle, Jungle Adventure, Pirate’s Isle, Candy Land, and Sports Town. Players can compete against their JumpStart pal or play cooperatively with a friend in two-player mode, and collect racing-cup trophies with each race they win.

Product description

Jumpstart Advanced Kindergarten Home Edition (1) for OSX/PMac/Win98/XP CD

Review

Conceptually, the activities are excellent in this multiple subject program. Letters are sounded out and assembled in phonics activities, objects are added and subtracted in concrete fashion in a numbers game, and a flower garden is used as a basis for a sequencing activity. The drawing and music sections are both excellent, although in these pleasant activities, the verbal feedback from the characters is a distraction. Kids earn carrots as rewards which can be turned in for rides in a hot air balloon. Children take a short preferences quiz at the beginning of the game which results in customized activities, though this feature didn’t seem to be working in the early version we looked at. Even without this feature, the activities are solid.
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UPC: 020626716567

Release Date: 04-06-2002

Package Dimensions: 38x196x159