Features

• From a trusted leader in early childhood education
• Customized learning environment with individualized feedback and support
• Automatically adjusts to appropriate skill levels
• Teaches 30+ skills including pre-reading, early math, shapes, and more
• Refined learning style based on over 30 years of research

Reviews (1)

Buyer Be Very Wary
The trusted leader in children's learning really blew it with this product. I bought SS Baby deluxe, SS Preschool and SS Toddler for my 2 and 4 year olds. My little girl was SO excited to play these games but Uh-oh. The small print says several of the disks DON'T WORK ON WINDOWS 2000 and they were developed for XP before the program was released so it is shaky on XP machines too. The bottom line - we can't run most of the CD's - some will install but not play. Some won't give the sound, some won't install. Very disappointing. Also Encore (who produces product) says on their web that they don't do refunds - you have to go back to the original store. Also they don't have an 800 toll-free number so you have to pay for support calls. NOT WHAT I EXPECTED FROM SESAME STREET. I WILL BE VERY WARY OF ALL THEIR PRODUCTS NOW ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

Younger children can find learning through multimedia softwaredifficult, but ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures wraps its educationalmaterial up in an adventure game, the idea being that you hardly notice theeducational parts. To that end, our clue-finding heroes get into all sorts ofscrapes during their adventures. In this CD-ROM they--and Socrates the dog--findthemselves on an archaeological dig in Egypt. While there, they discover an evilarchaeologist's plot to unleash chaos on the world. Needless to say, theClueFinders set out to foil his plans.

ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures incorporates challenges that test skillsin logical thinking, math, science, geography, and language. There is a documentfor parents explaining how these skills are addressed in each of the activities,and the effects achieved by switching between the four difficulty levels in eachof them.

A bonus CD, the ClueFinders Adventure Kit, comes with ClueFinders 4th GradeAdventures, offering various fun activities, such as an adventure logbookwith which to record your own escapades. --Sandra Vogel ... Read more

Reviews (4)

Great software
This is a great software! I bought this in June 2000. I didn't get some of it. Now I got older and smarter. And understand this better! The location is better. Egypt is very ancient. I also did these other ClueFinders software, 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, Math, Reading, Search & Solve, Incredible Toy Store Adventure!, and the second CD-Rom Mystery Mansion Arcade!
And I'm not even in 4th, 5th or 6th.

So much fun you forget you're learning!
This is a great program. I got it for my 3rd grade daughter and we both thought it was a lot of fun. It covers areas such as fractions, logic, sentence structure and geography. You have to collect different items that let you progress through the games. This is all done by completing the various puzzles and activities. The game progresses like an adventure story. You have to complete one activity before having the option to go on to others. She used the various JumpStart and Reader Rabbit programs when she was younger, and I wanted something fun to teach those basic skills now that she's older. This is JUST what I was looking for. We both highly recommend this series!

COOL GAME
I loved this game. I already won it 1 million times and I still play it. You will love this game. It really helps you learn. I have this game, 5th grade adventures,my friend playes 6th grade adventures with me, and my teacher has the math one which I play at school. This game rocks !! So do the rest !!

Great Learning Tool
My 4th grader loves this cd-rom. It is not only educational but great fun! Setting the child out on an adventure to solve a mystery. My son has improved in his understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and his reading comprehension lessons. The best part is that he loves it. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

Rain gear is falling from the sky all over Readerville. Can you find outwhy and stop it? In this adventure game, kids direct Reader Rabbit and Sam theLion on a quest to find out why the gear is falling over the land, and then putan end to the emergency.

Capers on Cloud Nine is one in a series of Reader Rabbit edutainmentsoftware for children from toddlers up to second grade. Intended for first-gradestudents (ages 5 to 7), Capers provides a fun framework for learningimportant developmental tasks.

In the course of stopping the rain of rain gear, kids have to work throughdifferent activities at three levels of difficulty. Activities include drills onspelling, phonics, science, arithmetic, using coins, and sorting patterns.Fortunately, none of these are done in a tedious or frustrating way. The gamealso offers an art activity where kids can make simple moving pictures.

Parents can check their children's progress and comprehension by consulting agrading section in the program. It lets kids and parents know how a child isprogressing through the game's tasks.

Learning Creations is a separate program included on the CD-ROM thatallows kids to draw, make music, or create a calendar. The drawing program ismore open than the art activity in the game, and the music section teaches thebasics of reading and writing music. The calendar lets kids decorate and mark acalendar onscreen. You can print out all three activities when a child isdone.

The voices and music are both great, and are appropriate for the audience. Theanimation leaves a little to be desired--kids used to Rugrats might wanta little more zip--but this doesn't detract from the game or the learning.--Jeff Quick ... Read more

Reviews (7)

My daughter loves this
If she loves it then it's right for your children as well. Get this computer program as soon as possible.

Very enjoyable
My daughter really enjoyed playing this game which was appropriately designed for her age group.

I highly recommend it.

Great, challenging
This program is really fun for kids who love adventures rather than programs that simply offer activities minus a storyline. The challenge level in it is actually quite nice. Kids actually learn a few things with the game.

Started good but Didn't stay there...
My son and daughter enjoyed the game for a little while, but it did not hold their interest for more than a few days.

Great!
I just bought this product to my daughter and she can't stop playing it. A great game, it is good for kids and keep them entertained while learning! ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

Don't let the board sports hype on the box fool you--the better part of this two CD-ROM set is a techno-noir whodunit that has very little to do with extreme sports. We'll begin with this, since it is the best part of JumpStart 5th Grade.

Dr. X is about to destroy Hooverville's power plants, unless a fifth grade sleuth named Jo Hammet can stop him. Jo, and players, begin their odyssey in a museum: a distraught father and a chatty rat clue Jo in that all is not well in Hooverville, and before you can say "Bauhaus," a true sleuthing adventure begins. Players must explore the museum's art, geography, and cultural exhibits, and use what is learned during that exploration to answer a fairly challenging crossword puzzle (we guarantee parents wouldn't be able to churn through it--unless they majored in art history). Completion of that, in turn, unlocks further mystery-solving/town-saving adventure. Moving through the rest of the game involves breaking codes, solving complex math problems, understanding word relationships, and dozens of other advanced skills that make up today's fifth grade curriculums. This game is no cream puff--we found the easiest of the three levels challenging. Also, this program adheres to the "throw 'em in and see what happens" philosophy of gameplay. Just figuring out what Jo must do becomes a lesson in problem solving and logic.

Now, there's a second CD-ROM in this set that feels like it was created seven years ago by a bunch of X Games fans with no kids of their own. It involves a place called Adventure World, where players engage in "awesome" sports like in-line skating, snowboarding, rock climbing, and mountain biking with the help of a very nondiverse group of teammates with names like Jess and Zack. The games are all standard-issue racing fare. They might be a good diversion from the academic rigors of saving Hooverville, but most fifth graders we know roll their eyes at overuse of words like "excellent" and "rockin'".

The strength of the first CD outweighs the silliness of the second one. Buy this set and your child will learn that using their brain to save the town is infinitely more fun than using their board to shred the slopes. (Ages 9 to 11) --Anne Erickson ... Read more

Reviews (2)

Educational Software?
This program is more about earning points than learning. It's more like a video game. The plot is really weird. In the beginning you have to interview with the rat before you start
"Playing." After the interview you do a cross word puzzle on famous artist. Come On! In 5th Grade you learn American History! No American History on this program! I get frusterated a lot because it's so hard to exit the program. You click all these buttons before you exit! Poorly written Software! I Give them a F-- for editing. I don't have fun using it! Knowledge Adventure is the worst software company. I like Clue Finders 5th Grade MUCH Better. Use that program. Stay away from all Knowledge Adventure products.

reading blaster or adventuress
My daughter could not read or do math i purchased reading rabbit and math blaaster for each grade level and her grades have excelled to A's & B's before she was failing ..So I cant add a better self learning increase this has built up her self asstem mom needs spelling too. frances roe ... Read more

Features

• Complete educational tool with more than 30 full version, challenging programs (Ages 6 - 9)
• Reinforce lessons learned at school, encourage students to explore and advance at their own pace
• Exciting format, with 3 or more program levels per subject
• Math, Language Arts, Sciences, History, Geography
• [Windows 95/98/NT]

Features

• Explore 15 interactive learning games from number computation to geometry -- 10 different possible skill levels
• Get to know each of the ClueFinders with challenging personal quests that reflect their personalities
• Progress reports track your skills and offer motivation
• Over 150,000 math problems to be solved
• Ages 9 and up

Reviews (1)

Playzone Preschool and Kindergarten Software
Great Educational tool for children entering kindergarten. Great for getting your child prepared. Easy to use. One of the best preschool- kindergarten softwares out there. ... Read more

Product Description

With Buzz as host, your second grader can create, interact, and solve problems in more than 40 essential learning skills. Your child will be learning and having fun at the same time. Activities include: telling time, music composition, addition, subtraction, spelling, rhyming words, vocabulary, fractions, geometric shapes, multiplication, nouns, verbs, punctuation, brain teasers, and much more! ... Read more

Reviews (3)

Georgia Mom
This product is so-so. My five year old daughter laughs at Jessie's math maze(even though it does not challenge her). She did learn the basic concept of multiplication by using this program. Overall, she is already bored with it after just a few hours of play.

Buzz Lightweight
I'm sorry I bought this program BEFORE reading the other reviews here, because they're generally right on.

"Buzz Lightyear 2nd Grade" is just a superficial money-maker cranked out by people who either don't know or don't care about child education.Most of the "activities" are so brainless and boring that I was secretly ashamed to be encouraging my child to "enjoy" them.

Plus, the installation on my plain Windows 98 PC was a nightmare.I'm a very knowledgeable user but it still took me almost two full evenings.The setup program is at once unforgiving and stupid.My existing version 4.0 Quicktime just HAD to be upgraded to v4.01, for example - and this launched itself (involving a major download) right in the middle of the main program installation.This had predictable results.

Other issues were files installed with the wrong attributes (which later stopped the program), an uninstall file given a wrong extension (which prevented an uninstall), beta test messages popping up, and an almost unsolvable conflict with msvcrt.dll (a common problem).This last would crash the program whenever an activity was exited.

I was ready to give up when I found mention on this site of an available patch.

Running this patch finally got me going, although the speech is often totally garbled, especially in the intro screen.

My advice - save your money.Don't reward efforts like this.We could have had so much, much more from a Disney / Pixar collaboration.

learning is fun too !!
While my son enjoys playing "his software", he is particularly interested in the Toy Story themes.With Buzz Lightyear as his favorite, he is naturally drawn into hours of learning fun with this Disney Interactive program.I have been surprised at his knowledge in geography and his reading skills.Jessie's math maze has expediated his math abilities.There are enough game options to keep his interst level up and his computing skills sharp.I also get the benefit of having my son sit on my lap while helping him through the tougher games.Certainly a purchase well worth the price. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Join your favorite learning pals for hours of exciting game play in this fun-filled, three-in-one learning software collection. Adventure Workshop 1st-3rd Grade, 4th Edition features three award-winning educational titles for ages four to eight. Your child will love playing, learning, and just spending time with his or her favorite characters, and you'll love watching your child laugh and learn through colorful and clever activities that build valuable skills in reading, writing, aural and visual memory, problem solving, and creativity.

The software bundle contains Thinkin' Things: Toony the Loon's Lagoon (including 6 colorful and engaging locations, hundreds of problem-solving challenges, dozens of self-adjusting skill levels, and weekly challenges on the Internet), Kid Pix Studio Deluxe (offering powerful drawing and multimedia tools, text-to-speech functionality, Web graphics, and fully-editable text), and Curious George Reads, Writes, & Spells for Grades 1 & 2 (wherein Curious George sets out as a reporter for the local newspaper and builds skills in reading, vocabulary, phonics, proofreading and editing, writing, and spelling). ... Read more

Features

• Young students will design their own scooters and race them on nine loopy tracks they can customize
• If they succeed in navigating the track, they'll earn cool new gadgets to power up their scooters & be the best racer around
• Along the way, they'll learn important things like measurements, fractions, and basic science
• They'll also learn other important skills like algebra, sentence structure, sound recognition, punctuation and more
• Kids will love learning and be more prepared for first grade when you use JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade!

Reviews (1)

Soooooooo much fun .Your play it for hours
This game is worth savcing your owance for.The games are great.Theres so many games .It will take a long time to play them all.I like the cave game.You get to explore a creepy cave.My other fave game is like simon says.You play the drums just like the character and theres traps the bad guys fall it too.I hope you go buy iot.You wont be disappointed. ... Read more

Features

• Children gain: Confidence, Creativity, Inspiration