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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Knowledge Adventure
EAN: 0876930001116
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD-ROM
Item Dimensions: 1.387.5355.25
Label: Knowledge Adventure
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Knowledge Adventure
Model: 20163
MPN: JUMP1STGRDADV
Platform: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98
Publisher: Knowledge Adventure
Release Date: May 01, 2006
Studio: Knowledge Adventure
Features:- Motivating reward system keeps children engaged
- 4-CD set helps kids practice and build essential 1st-grade skills
- Activities address 50+ fundamental skills in reading, math, and more
- Based on state educational standards; auto leveling adjusts to child's pace
- Learning Profiler determines child's learning style and adjusts play
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Product Description:
Jump Start Advanced 1st Grade ensures the mastery of fundamentals in reading, math and more. Prepare your child for 1st grade and beyond with this 4-CD set!
Disc One: Fundamentals- Build Essential 1st Grade Skills. Learn Skills in Math, Reading, Spelling and More. Includes an Introduction to 2nd Grade Concepts.
Disc Two: Music- Explore a Fascinating Musical World. Learn about melodies, rhythm, instruments, and harmony with fun toe-tapping songs!
Disc Three: Art Club- Create masterpieces using your imagination. Bring out your creativity with hours of fun activities. Create cards and banners.
Disc Four: Pet Playground- Adopt your own virtual pet. Teach it tricks, buy accessories and play pet games. Take care of your loveable. (Note: Pet playground CD is Windows only)
Over 50 Skills Taught!
Reading
- Phonics
- Consonants Sounds
- Short& Long Vowels
- Blends
- Digraphs
- Vocabulary
- Syllables
- Reading Comprehension
Writing:
- Sentence Building
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Parts of Speech
- Alphabetizing
Science
- Life Science
- Earth Science
- Nutrition
Math
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Counting Coins
- Fractions
- Skip Counting
- Sequencing
Social Studies:
Art:
- Colors
- Shapes and Patterns
- Creativity
Music:
- Melody
- Rhythm
- Instrument Families
Thinking Skills:
- Problem Solving
- Sorting by Multiple Attributes
- Patterns
Windows System Requirements:
- Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium II 266 MHz (Pen
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I homeschool our 6 year old son. I purchase a lot of educational material. This is junk.
There are 4 disks. The Music disk won't even work. I have installed it twice.
The Art Club is junk. Not clear how it works. Just click and paste onto backgrounds with no goal.
The Pet Playground doesn't work right either. Shows multiple game choices but only one game works but at best it doesn't award jewels consistantly. Often doesn't award them at all. Also pets aren't too clear. Cat barks???
Fundamentals is only educational thing in the box we bought. But clunky and sets bad example. Kids seem encouraged to nearly cheat to win race.
Overall bad choice. Bad software design. Not worth $19.99. If we had been able to try it first, would not load on his laptop, even if it was free. I think they may have sold my email address too. After registering the software, am getting 100s of spam mail
Reader Rabbit programs have been around for 20 years. They seem to be the better choice.
Rating:  -
The fundamentals disk is great the rest of it is just junk. The pets CD is a demo with no educational value at all. The music and art CD are lack luster and devoid of value. Might as well let your kids play Nintendo. I would recommend this program just for the fundamentals CD it tricks the little darlings into practicing there skills by making it fun. Learning through play. YeaH! I would just chuck the other three disks in the trash.
Rating: -
NOTE: This review is really on an older version, but the only difference I know between the two is that the older one has no Pet Playground disc. Thus, I have copied this review to this page because I think it will be helpful.
JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3-CD-ROM set, December 18, 2007
A Kid's Review
Hello, I'm StoryMaker, a JumpStart fan. JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade was among the first JumpStart games I've owned; only JumpStart Kindergarten (Deluxe, not Advanced, version) predates it. I think I (or someone else) got it for Christmas a LONG time ago. Since this particular version of JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade comes with 3 CD-ROMs, I will review each individually. (There is also a 4-CD-ROM version, BTW.) My review will be pretty long, 'cause it's really more like 3 reviews stuck together with little extra bits at the start & end. If you don't want to read all 3 parts, just read the first "Fundamentals" part and the bit at the bottom. Here we go!
#1: FUNDAMENTALS
This is, by far, the BEST CD-ROM in the set. It was originally sold individually as the original JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade. In this game, a little dog named Squirt is just riding his scooter peacefully when Jimmy Bumbles, a weasel & school bully, knocks him off and breaks his scooter. Luckily, Squirt's OK, but no longer has a scooter. However, the prize for winning the JumpStart Scooter Tournament (which is coming up) is a new Super Scooter! Unfortunately, Squirt can't really win it, because...uh, he has no scooter. More familiar JumpStart friends such as Frankie the dog and Hopsalot the rabbit are determined to win it for him. However, Jimmy has supreme scooter skills, and the only way the JumpStart pals can stand a chance against him is to add gadgets to their scooters. All of your JumpStart friends will be happy to give you gadgets to add, but they need some favors to be done. Also, some of the gadgets need to be obtained in special ways. Kids complete these tasks in the form of games to earn scooter power-ups.
This CD-ROM is very good. Not only are the games VERY fun, but they teach a wide variety of 1st Grade subjects - everything from math to early zoology. I think this is where I learned adding double-digit numbers, alphabetizing, and ordinals. My younger sister, Chocolate Dog, also benefited from it.
This game, like other JumpStart Advanced "Fundamentals" CD-ROMs, has a feature called the "All Star". At the start of the game, kids are instructed to "take a quiz & find out their learning style". As a young child, I found this confusing, and I think I ended up just clicking on my favorite character. That's the bad part. The good part: In the corner of the screen of the main game, there is a star. When clicked, a phone pops up. You can call up your JumpStart pals for info on all the subjects taught in the game. Each character gives different kinds of information. I usually find Hopsalot's straightforward answers to be most helpful. Sometimes, the scientific nature-loving CJ Frog is a help. It really depends, and I don't think kids just have a single learning style.
I think that JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade Fundamentals is quite good. There are a few things that bug me, though. For one thing, some games, such as Casey Cat's Phonics Soccer & CJ Frog's Spelling/Math Swamp Game, must be played over and over and over and OVER again to earn a single power-up. Because of this, we avoided them. Also, since many of the games are arcade-styled, you can sometimes get an incorrect answer simply due to obstacles, bad aim, etc. In additon, you can trade power-ups, which I think is good, but I had to go to the online user manual to find out how - it wasn't clear at all. However, this CD-ROM is overall the best one in the JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3-pack, hands down.
#2: MUSIC
Though Fundamentals is very high quality, this CD-ROM, "Music", takes a deep dive downward when it comes to quality. In this game, Hopsalot the rabbit gets sucked up into an heirloom gramophone. Totally bogus, huh? He is whisked away to the weird & wacky world of "The Land of Music". A big weirdo guy named Sir Sournote is causing trouble and making all the music sour. So duh, Hopsalot has to stop him.
Not only are the activities & games on this CD-ROM very BORING, but they are also very difficult. OK, so there's this game (actually, a lot of games) where you must repeat a beat. IT'S SERIOUSLY HARD. This game is for ages 5-8 and, even if you're way over the top of the age range, it is still difficult to get the beats right. And if you don't get the beats right, then the characters might insult you: "THAT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAD!"
This CD-ROM frustrates and annoys MUCH more than it teaches. Please DO NOT buy the individually sold version of JumpStart Music! You might find that your money is wasted! We have not played this LAME GAME in YEARS. If you ... Read More
Rating: -
Although this product says that you can use it on Mac OSX, it apparently does not work if you have above system 10.2.3. Since as of May 2007, almost no one would be running 10.2.3, this makes it effectively not Mac compatible.
We bought this product for our son, and he is very disappointed. I contacted Knowledge Adventure support, and they informed me that if we could only use it above system 10.2.3 if we had Classic OS Support on the computer. In fact we do still have Classic on the computer our son uses, and it still doesn't work. The available documentation tells very little even about how to install the game. I have not heard back from Knowledge Adventure regarding my second or subsequent emails. If I do, I will change this review.
Until then, it gets one star.
Rating: -
Very good collection of educational games. The concept for the Scooter portion is a little complex. It drives the user to exercise each type of game several times to collect items. You need to get one of each to complete a scooter and one of each to complete a track.
Portions of the scooter game are clumsy in their controls. For example: the scooter race - to control the scooter, you must tap the right and left arrow keys to turn in that direction, but the scooter does not auto center.. so if you tap twice left, you need to tap twice right to go straight again. It can be a little frustrating, but my kids are very adaptable, and they handle it well.
The 4th disk is a bit strange (Pets) It is a small demo version of a game which has not been released yet (spring 2007). It is fun 3D environment, but limited in features.
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