JumpStart 1st Grade

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful and creative
Review: This software allows three different levels to fit each child with quite a few activities ranging from music, reading, math, and geography. It rewards a child with a token to play another game and collect more tokens. My son loves this game and has played it for many hours all ready. It improved his reading and math skills until he is in the highest level in his grade. I strongly recommend it for all 1st graders and some kindergarten children.

Rating:
Summary: Great learning adventure!
Review: We started out the JumpStart series with the Toddler version and have been hooked ever since. It's really the only series that my son has asked for by name. He got the 1st Grade version for his birthday this fall and even with alot of false starts due to computer problems (our old hardware is faltering resulting in several re-installs after he had barely gotten started), he is still absolutely hooked on it. If he had his way, he'd be on that computer all day playing! And he's learning too! The game starts you out in the classroom where you can play either the science bean bag game or a game dealing with opposites and synonyms. It took him awhile to find the other games (you have to leave the classroom) but soon he was in the hall learning to tell time by stamping hall passes and then on to the kitchen to learn about measurements and fractions, the playground where he worked with numbers and words (would you believe he's already learning about nouns, verbs, and adjectives!), and finally into the lunch room to dish out some alphabet soup (spelling) and his ultimate favorite, the snack machine where he's learning math. At barely 6 years old and only in kindergarten he's now up to doing addition on 2 digit numbers (with some help from mom, but still...)! This is definitely a great learning game!

Rating:
Summary: Great learning adventure!
Review: We started out the JumpStart series with the Toddler version and have been hooked ever since. It's really the only series that my son has asked for by name. He got the 1st Grade version for his birthday this fall and even with alot of false starts due to computer problems (our old hardware is faltering resulting in several re-installs after he had barely gotten started), he is still absolutely hooked on it. If he had his way, he'd be on that computer all day playing! And he's learning too! The game starts you out in the classroom where you can play either the science bean bag game or a game dealing with opposites and synonyms. It took him awhile to find the other games (you have to leave the classroom) but soon he was in the hall learning to tell time by stamping hall passes and then on to the kitchen to learn about measurements and fractions, the playground where he worked with numbers and words (would you believe he's already learning about nouns, verbs, and adjectives!), and finally into the lunch room to dish out some alphabet soup (spelling) and his ultimate favorite, the snack machine where he's learning math. At barely 6 years old and only in kindergarten he's now up to doing addition on 2 digit numbers (with some help from mom, but still...)! This is definitely a great learning game!