JumpStart World Kindergarten
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend JumpStart World is the smart, fun way to achieve success in school! Kids' educational games are designed to instill confidence, joy and excitement around learning. Welcome to JumpStart World Kindergarten, an evolving 3D learning environment full of whimsical lands, lively activities and friendly characters.… Product details and pricing info |
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25 Customer Reviews Posted
- Better than others that I tried. My son loves it!
- My son loves this game! It's designed so much better than the others that he has (and he has Disney kindergarten Bundle, Clifford Thinking Adventures, and Franklin).While other games are entertaining (especially Franklin goes to school), Jump Start World has way more games than other CDs and the graphics are great!My son is currently on the second module and I am definitely getting the rest for him. He can play for hours and even though the game only has the first 2 units on the CD, it's still more than other CDs offer.And the need to get the lessons mastered to progress to the next level really makes him learn!
- 2008-01-23, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great Learning Tool
- My five year old had played JumpStart games in the past so we got this for him for Christmas. It really makes learning contagious as it's so much fun he doesn't even realize he's learning new things as he goes.
One small warning, however. This game only provides the first couple modules of content. After that JumpStart hits you up for a subscription or a lump sum payment for the additional content. Once your child starts playing the game it's pretty hard to stop and not pay for the expansions. - 2008-01-18, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Your one stop for PC edutainment!!
- I started searching the net for preschool software after being sorely disappointed with LeapFrog's Clickstart computer. I wanted my son to learn how to use a mouse and keyboard but the Clickstart was simply too easy for him. I stumbled across this game while searching here on Amazon. I went to their website and downloaded the free trial and tried it out before I let my son play it. It took me over 2 hours to complete all the learning games and that was only playing each one once, and obviously I was speeding through them much faster than a child of the recommended age would. This convinced me that the title would provide many hours of fun for my son, so I decided to let him try it.
He LOVES it!! Now, he's just shy of 3 so not quite yet preschool age, but he picked up on the controls immediately. He is able to navigate with the arrow keys perfectly while walking around the world and in the learning games. In the games that require the mouse, he still needs my assistance in moving the mouse but he is all too eager to point out or say the answers and I click on them for him. (Working on finding him a child-sized mouse to alleviate this!)
Everything about this game entrances him. The graphics, the sounds, the adorable characters and voices, everything is top notch and he feels like a big boy playing games like mommy and daddy, and the best part is, he's learning at the same time!!! The joy on his face when he gets new gems after completing a game is priceless.
One slight gripe of mine is that they didn't disable the windows key, so my son will accidentally hit it once in a while, minimizing the game. He doesn't yet understand how to bring the game back up but I'm always sitting right beside him when he plays so I fix it for him before he gets annoyed.
I love that you can create your own custom certificates to reward your child for their progress. Each time they receive a super gem, they can go to their mailbox and receive a certificate that you make on the parent website. I do wish they could receive the certificates more often because I have a feeling it will take my son at least a few weeks to earn a super gem but we can reward him in our own ways in addition to the super gems.
I also love that the program keeps track of your child's progress and emails you frequently about how they're doing so you know what they need to work on.
You do have to pay for the additional adventure packs (8 bucks each) which is a bit steep. I wouldn't have had much issue if they were a few bucks cheaper, but the way I see it, there are so many activities for him here that buying him a new adventure pack for 8 bucks every month is much cheaper than buying him another full priced game that will only hold his attention for a few days.
I highly recommend downloading the trial. It lets you play all the way through the first adventure and will give you a good idea of what to expect. If nothing else, let your child play the trial for a few weeks and if they master the first area, you can then make the decision if you want to purchase the full game. It's a steal for 20 bucks, in my opinion!! - 2008-01-11, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Dissapointing
- I bought this with very high expectations but was sorely disappointed. The concept is awesome and if it worked they would be an industry leader. However, we encountered several bugs in the game that made it completely non-functional in certain learning games. If all the games were not accomplished the program would not let the child progress to the next unit. So we reached a point that the game was completely static and unable to move on. We contacted the customer service department and while they were able to fix a few things that were screwed up they stopped answering our e-mails when we got to a bug that couldn't be addressed.
- 2007-12-19, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Beware of Subscriptions
- I liked the product; my daughter learned a lot. Now I am trying to cancel, because every time she uses it, our credit card gets charged $7.99. I had to search for how to cancel; the website says cancel by calling a long distance number (not an 800 number). The number has a long, long wait on it. I have better things to do with my time.
Buyer, beware. - 2007-12-03, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
