JumpStart Pre-K

JumpStart Pre-K is a game released in 1996. It focus on skills for a pre-kindergarten level.

In this game, the player explores the Pre-K town and plays activities with the characters from JumpStart Preschool. Each time the player wins a game, they get a star. When the player gets four stars, they receive an item that they can place in the town's park. The player can freely arrange their items in the park.

There are three difficulty levels for each game, and the difficulty level can be adjusted at any time.

Characters

 * Eleanor
 * Kisha
 * Casey
 * Pierre

Locations and Activities

 * Carousel - Click on carousel horse with the number that is the same number of balloons that the mouse is holding.


 * Bakery - Connect the dots to make frosting pictures on cakes. Each dot has a letter next to it. Click on the letters in alphabetical order.


 * Airport - Fly a plane with Casey. Click on the arrows or use the arrow keys to move the plane up and down. Look at the shape on the plane's dashboard. Fly through all of clouds with shapes that are different from the one on the plane's dashboard. Avoid clouds that have the same shape as yours.


 * Fire Station - Help bears get on the firetruck. Click around the fire station to find hidden pictures. Match pictures that go together, such as 'bird' and 'nest', and 'hammer' and 'nail'. When you find a match, a bear gets on the firetruck.


 * Kisha's Diner - Kisha will tell you how she wants plates of food arranged. For example, she may ask you arrange the food from shortest to tallest, least to most, or darkest to lightest.


 * Barbershop - Eleanor's seven animal friends are in the barbershop. There is a shape on the wall above each animal's head. A shape will appear in the shaving cream. Click on the shape on the wall that matches. Each time you make a match, the animal below that shape will make a sound. When you win, the animals do a rendition of a song.


 * Clothing Store - Unscramble the four pieces to create a letter. Click and drag the pieces to the T-shirt.


 * Toy Shop - Create toys with Kisha. Look at the picture of the toy, and then select pieces from the shelves to make a toy that looks the same as the one in the picture.


 * Construction Site - Help Casey load up the trucks. The blueprints show what object each car needs, and how many of that object. Choose the right object and put the correct amount on each truck.

Educational Concepts

 * Alphabet
 * Alphabetical Order
 * Letter Sounds
 * Word Pairs
 * Rhyming
 * Colors
 * Shapes
 * Size Relationships
 * Numbers
 * Counting
 * Listening
 * Sorting
 * Sequencing
 * Visual Memory
 * Music
 * Social Concepts