I wanted to update this blog on our successes and/or failures with the teaching aids/activity books we bought back in 2011.
Here is my original post
The Brain Quest series was a success he adored the My First Brain Quest (when he was 2 years old) and quickly surpassed it and we bought Brain Quest for Threes. I also bought the Write & Erase Alphabet Set and Write & Erase Numbers but they were a bit too advanced for him at age 2. We will go back and use these now since he is 3 years old.
We also bought some Kumon Series Books. We tried Kumon Tracing Book for 2, 3 and 4 year olds when he was 2.5 years old. He did well with the simple straight lines and a few curves. Recently I brought out the book and he was able to complete almost the entire book in 2 hours time! He can now make lines, curves and even x's +'s and the letter H!
This is why I stated we will go ahead and try Brain Quest's Write & Erase Alphabet and Number Sets. He is really starting to write and draw things that make sense ;-)
So in summary...buying these workbooks at age 2 is a bit too young. But 2.5/3 years old is really a good time. My son recently started Maternelle (aka preschool here in France starts at 3 years old). By the end of the school year he will learn how to write his name! So we are practicing with him at home. I am also worried about his English Language skills so since he is getting so many hours of French. I will need to find some supplemental workbooks etc...in English when we are in the US again in 6 months time. If anybody has any recommendations please feel free to comment.
I read to him daily so if you have any good book rec's pass them along also. I am always looking to stock up while we are home. But Amazon.fr is always a good source for English books as well (more $$ but hey...the cost of an extra bag or the weight limit probably is more!).
TN
No comments:
Post a Comment