Kristin is obsessed with Jump Start World. It's definitely worth looking into, it makes learning fun for her.
You buy the software and you get this little character that runs around a 3D world like a video game, but everything is a puzzle related to learning. You get a monthly subscription and when they go through the 100 missions/challenges in the game, more gets automatically downloaded to your computer, expanding their 3d world. There are 12 subscription packages per grade level, which I assume they are supposed to go through on a monthly basis. Kristin can go through a package in about 4 or 5 days. But I expect that to slow down soon as the challenges are now getting tougher for her. There is a different world for each grade level, I guess up to grade 12.
Her scores/results on the puzzles are uploaded to their website (which contains even more games and challenges) and then get emailed to Toney and I. We can also log onto the site and check out her scores, or put in secret messages that show up in this huge blimp that travels around her world. This really is great software, she will play it for hours at a time, and gets a little pad and paper and tries to solve math problems or identify which out of a group of pictures, start with "ch", things like that. It's definitely worth the cost.
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This sounds like something we might want to look at. We're in the process of stripping down an old desktop to give to our son as a computer. We go Kiddix for it, a Linux based OS and web interface for kids.
Steve, its too cute and way better than letting Aayan play Hot Wheels on the Playstation.
Thanks for writing about it.
We love it, unfortunately it isn't compatible with her computer. She has Windows ME. So she has to play it on my laptop. But maybe it is a blessing in disguise, it forces me to get off the computer.
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