Hello JumpStart fans!
From Petz to Ridez to Buddyz, we’ve been adding all sorts of exciting new features to our online world recently – most of which sport a trendy “z” at the end of their names. Over the past week, a few of you reached out to us to say that, trendy or not, this [...]
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Last week, JumpStart launched our new multiplayer features, officially making the virtual world at JumpStart.com a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game! Now, players can interact with each other via facial expressions (emoticons) and dance moves. And soon, we’ll be introducing canned chat, which will allow players to communicate via age-appropriate, pre-selected phrases.
We’d love to hear [...]
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Hey, everybody! The JumpStart Team’s always working to make our games as great as they can be, and now you can help us out. We’ve developed a survey so you can tell us exactly how to improve our games. Please click here to take the survey. Thanks in advance!
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- From the Desk of Chris Williams, Art Director -
Hi Gang,
I know that you were looking forward to the next step in creating a 3D world but today I have something even more fun… a quiz! Don’t worry if you didn’t study, this is more of a test to see how well we have done [...]
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Welcome to the official blog of JumpStart! Here, we will be posting articles about topics that matter to parents like you! Stay tuned for tricks to make you the coolest parent on the block, tips for raising happy kids and tools to help you make learning fun. Plus, we’ll take you behind the scenes at the [...]
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To test or not to test? In many states this is no longer the question as standardized tests have become the norm for holding schools, teachers, and students accountable for their learning. Now the real question becomes: Are mandatory standardized tests credible or completely unfair? We want to know what you think!
The History
For [...]
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What type of person does your child want to be? Learning about the characters your child connects with can tell you quite a bit about your little one, even if he or she cannot articulate which traits are most important.
The JumpStart gang is full of all types of characters so there’s no better place to [...]
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