Mr. Hopsalot, the animated JumpStart bunny, invites children to join him on a vacation adventure to find a mysterious hidden treasure. JumpStart Kindergarten Reading reinforces kindergarten reading skills. It's appropriate for kids who are anxious to learn to read or those who need practice with basic phonics concepts. Ten fundamental concepts are covered in multi-level games including learning the alphabet, upper and lowercase letter recognition, matching sounds with letters, sorting sounds into vowels and consonants, combining letters to make sounds, associating letter sounds with vocabulary, reviewing and reinforcing skills, combining letter groups into sounds, building words and building sentences. By clicking on the portraits on the wall, kids meet Mr. Hopsalot's six friends and relatives while playing different bunches of activities.
Kids earn clues to find the missing treasure by completing each set of activities.
We started our adventure by visiting a hockey-playing Granny in the Wintry North. Kids are asked to click on items to de-ice them which begin with a certain letter and sound. When kids get the correct item, they'll hear a pronunciation of the word and can read the word located below the item. Kids love playing hockey with Granny's team of penguins while matching letters on the scoreboard with words which slide by on hockey pucks. Next, we took a trip to visit Grandpa in the Bayou.