Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149 in Software
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2006-10-06
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description

This pack has been especially designed with comprehensive, educational, fun activities to keep a child entertained all year, providing support in every aspect of the National Curriculum.

Jump Ahead Reading Year 1
Frankie's circus pals have been trapped in a magical jigsaw puzzle by the mischievous Mel the Magician and he needs your help! Play exciting carnival games that build critical reading skills and collect pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. Reassemble the puzzle and save the circus friends before Mel casts a spell on you!

• Vowel Sounds
• Word Order

Jump Ahead Maths Year 1
Frankie loves to dig up the garden, but what he doesn't realise is that by doing so, he disturbs the homes of the little creatures who share the garden with him. To teach him a lesson, the magical Queen Bee casts a spell on him and shrinks him down to the size of a flea! Now, if only he can prove to the Queen Bee that he can respect his insect neighbours she might return him to full size.

• Geometry and Spatial Relations
• Subtraction

Jump Ahead Year 1
Join Frankie the dog in an interactive classroom, the lunch room, the playground, or on the field trip bus. Filled with animations and songs you will get the chance to play lots of different activities that will help develop the wide range of essential skills taught in Year 1.

• Packed with fun learning activities
• Make and listen to music

Features include:

• 35 skill building activities
• 6 phonics practice activities
• Sing and learn songs
• 50 stories and poems
• Over 1,500 vocabulary words
• Multiple difficulty levels
• Tutor Technology
• Progress Report
• Printable Workbook
• Assessment Technology

Children are encouraged to learn:

• Maths:

  • Addition and subtraction.
  • Basic geometry and spatial relationships
  • Classifying and sorting
  • Measures
  • Money value
  • Ordering and sequencing
  • Quantities
  • Shapes
  • Simple fractions
  • Telling the time

• Reading:

  • Language skills
  • Nouns, verbs and adjectives
  • Phonics
  • Reading comprehension
  • Rhyming
  • Sentences
  • Short and long vowels
  • Spelling
  • Stories and poems
  • Visual discrimination
  • Vocabulary
  • Word and letter recognition
  • Word classification

• Art & Music:

  • Art and creativity
  • Music
  • Memory
  • Listening

Customer Reviews

Good fun and educational
I bought this for my daughter's 6th birthday. She absolutely loves it. She comes home from school, turns the computer on and plays it all evening - only to stop for dinner and toilet breaks!!! It has definitely helped her to learn new skills. Even my 4 year old daugher has shown an interest in it and tries to play on it. With 3 separate discs, you can chop and change depending on what you want to do. I'm really glad I got this for my daughter and wish I'd got it a year ago. If your child likes using computers and has the patience, they will love this software.

Kids will love it - and learn a lot too!
I have two children and I bought the Jump Ahead Year 1 Triple Pack for them when they were 4 and 5. It was the first time that they had used a computer before, but they had no trouble getting used to using the keyboard and mouse with this software.

For an adult, the sound and animation quality isn't very impressive, but for my children, they found the software at once captivating and enjoyable. It was (and still is) hard to stop them playing even after an hour or so.

All three titles superbly combine entertainment and education. Very clear explanations are given for all the activities and there are a surprisingly large number of these.

Furthermore, a quality that I particularly like is that the activities, although sometimes hard, are never demotivating, i.e. no-one fails if they are not good enough: If they keep at it they will always get through to the end and learn something along the way. This is an aspect that not all educational software addresses. For example, there are no frustrating races against the clock to get something finished and if something is answered incorrectly then there is always another chance to get it right.

After a few weeks of using this software both of my children showed remarkable progress on basic reading and mathematics skills. I can't recommend this software enough!

jump ahead - fun to play
I bought this to help my 6 year old in maths and reading and installed the first disc on the PC (XP) when they weren't around. I had a quick play and didn't like it and was regretful of my purchase. However, the next day my son saw the icon on the desktop, clicked it, and started playing it.My 6 and 4 year old have played it every day since! Seems like they love it and they are now onto the third disc.

There are things to collect like medals, milk caps and tickets which get you to play the games in order to receive the rewards and unravel the next stage in the story.