Brain Quest Workbook: Kindergarten (Brain Quest) | 
| Author: Lisa Trumbauer
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 3034
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 8.2 x 0.9
MPN: 14912
ISBN: 0761149120
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780761149125
Publication Date: July 9, 2008
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Product Description
Echoing Brain Quest's lively design and unique silhouette, each workbook is a bright, kid-friendly invitation to delve into schoolwork with pleasure. The books are jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises, games, and challenges in every subject, but with a special emphasis on the core competencies of math and language skills. They're clear, they're interactive, colorful, and varied. Information is layered throughout the text. Kids will write, draw, solve, connect, add hands to the clocks' faces, and color in the fractional shapes. Six titles comprise the series, Pre-k through Grade 4; each is a substantial 320-page, full-color book. In addition, each title comes with a pull-out poster, more than 200 stickers, and 100 all-new Brain Quest questions and answers. Even the posters are keyed into the curriculum?in second grade, children study the U.S. states, so the Grade 2 poster will be of the U.S.A., with all capitals, state flags, and state facts.
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 Lots of fun activities November 30, 2008
This books contains chapters on: ABCs, Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary, 123s, Shapes and Colors, Patterns, Matching and sorting, Time and Money, Community, Science, Fun and Games.
Depending on how advanced your child is in certain areas they might say "easy-peasy" like mine. But even in those chapters are mazes, coloring areas while they reinforce their existing skills.
I think the community, pattern and money sections look interesting to me since I've not bought any other books that had these work areas. My daughter also loves science and there is a nice section in their as well.
So far she has taken to the book nicely and hasn't complained that anything was "booorrring".
The pages are also removable!
Hours And Hours Of Fun And Learning For Your Little Student November 29, 2008
I picked this up for my Daughter, who is in Kindergarten, and she LOVES it! We have to, literally, tear her away from this book to get her to eat dinner or take a bath.....It's been a big help in teaching her to tell time and how to correctly write her letters (S and J in particular!), she loves the matching and counting games, and she's obsessed with the mazes. She's had the book for a little less than a week, and she's only about halfway through.....It's a MASSIVE book! She's already asking for the First Grade book next.......Highly recommended.
A nice rainy-day (or school enrichment) diversion November 27, 2008
A nice little book to have for your toddler just learning to read. There are lots of easy activities, simple puzzles, mazes, matching exercises, and other games to support your little one as they are learning to read and deal with simple arithmetic. My four-year-old, not normally inclined to sit with a worksheet, enjoys these.
The pages and things to do are in small, bite-sized (and age appropriate) chunks to keep it fresh for the next time.
A nice touch is that the pages are in color, and can be easily reproduced in a color printer.
What a collection of activities! November 26, 2008
The Brain Quest Workbook: Kindergarten is a large collection of activities geared toward the 5-6 year old set.
The workbook is in sections, with a table of contents at the beginning and each section is color coded, and each page is numbered.
The sections and subject matter cover ABCs, Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary, 123s, Shapes and Colors, Patterns, Matching and Sorting, Time and Money, Community, Science, Fun and Games, and there are Brain Quest Extras- stickers, a mini-card deck (you cut it out), and a fold out "ticktock clock" poster.
The book is well made, much nicer than the "homework" phonics workbook my pre-k student was given at school. The difference is that the BrainQuest book covers more areas and is more engrossing and practical than the school provided workbooks which seem to base their whole method on repetition rather than learning by doing/practical experience...
The pages are colorful and friendly...No distracting brand name characters here...The illustrations are quite nice, not necessary, but they definitely bring a warm, happy spirit to the workbook and a happy mood when doing work can make the difference between success and a book like this becoming a door stop...
The pages are perforated. This is a great feature if you are on the go and just want to grab a few pages as kid busy work in waiting rooms, stuck in traffic, on an airplane, or at a restaurant.
The one downside I have found is that some workbook activities are not just one page, this means that you can't just rip out one page without taking 1/2 of another activity with you... I hope that Brain Quest prints many more of these but keeps all of the activities/lessons to one page or one page front and back...
This book offers over 300 pages of fun...There are plenty of trace and copy handwriting exercises but there are many more fun activities that use problem solving, coloring, riddles, matching, and many skills that are necessary for our kids to function in the real world...
I think this book would make a great and thoughtful gift for any kindergarten or pre-k kid... It's also the sort of book that would be great for grandma's house or even just to grab a few pages and bring them with you...
ps. the corners of the book are rounded on the opening side/edge... and the paper is a nice weight...The quality should keep this book in one piece (or however many pieces you tear out!) through all 300+ pages!)
Excellent activity book for young kids November 23, 2008
I've seen a lot of products like this, but this is by far the most comprehensive and entertaining for kids. The book is divided into the following sections:
ABCs: 3-4 activities per letter that reinforce letter recognition through mazes, letter tracing, coloring, and practice writing both lowercase and uppercase letters
Phonics: reinforces word and sound recognition with activities like 'circle the pictures that begin with A', identifying the short vowel sounds, and sounding out rhyming words
Spelling and Vocabulary: activities focus on the sight words: I, my, you, and, a, the, is, are, he, she, see, go
Numbers (up to 12): similar to the ABC section but focusing on numbers and counting
Shapes and Colors: identification of colors and shapes
Patterns: takes the shapes/colors section a step furhter by introducing pattern recognition
Sorting and Matching: takes the patterns section a step furhter with activities like 'match the baby animals to their mothers'
Time and Money: identifying time on a clock face, practice writing time (12:00), circle the correct time for each clock, reading time on a digital clock vs a standard clock face, identifying and counting money
Community: identifying different community buildings and professions, writing your own address
Science: identifying the 5 senses, the 4 seasons, recycling, plant growth, animal habitats
Fun and Games: to wrap it all up, there is an extra fun section with more mazes, dot to dots, cut out flash cards, etc
The back of the book also has reward stickers and a pull out picture of a clock to which you can add moveable hands and hang on your wall
I can't get over all the activities jam packed into over 300, easy to pull out, pages. You would have to buy several different activity books to capture all of the lessons included here; and the sections on community and science you rarely find in books like this at all.
When I saw these books on Amazon, I debated whether to go with the Kindergaren book vs the Preschool book for my 4 year old. I decided to go with the K level and figured if it were over his head I'd put it away for a year. I am really glad I went with the K level. There are definitely sections that are a little too hard right now(like the time and money, spelling and vocabulary, etc). But there are SO MANY activites he can do right now, and I know that we'll grow with this book over the next several months.
Finally, as for whether kids like the book, my son practically grabbed the book out of my hands when it came in the mail. He immediately ran and got a fist full of colored pencils and came running over and said 'can we do it right now mommy?'. And so we did.
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