Activity Books (Oct-Dec 2010)

For the past few months, Ian has been working on a couple of activity books simultaneously. These are the ones that he has completed between October and December.

Sticker Books - More titles from Usborne, which filled up Ian's time when I ran out of activities for him.

Kumon Workbooks - Ian began working on the book of tracing sometime in August, and finally completed all the exercises in November.  Towards the end of the book, I thought it was getting boring for him to be tracing the paths all the time, and introduced the other Kumon workbooks (Mazes, Alphabets, and Numbers) for him to do concurrently.  He was also working on the little Kumon workbook on pasting for a while before he finally finished it recently. 

Chinese Activity Books -  The first book of mazes contained tracing exercises that were similar to Kumon's.  Ian finished the first maze book very quickly and I let him progress to the next level (bottom picture).  The 2nd book was slightly more difficult.  In comparison to the Kumon's book of mazes, I would prefer to the latter.  In the Chinese version, there were some mazes that had animal characters blocking the path, and Ian had confused them as road blockages.  In these books, Ian had used a pencil instead of a dry-erase marker which he used for the Kumons.

The other activity book (first picture, right) contained punch-out templates of things to make, eg. an elephant, a watch, a bucket, etc.  It was slightly difficult for Ian and I had to help him paste some of the 3D parts and held them until the glue dried.  Ian simply had no patience to wait for the glue to dry.  However, this book was convenient to use when I had no time to prepare for his paper plate crafts.

We are now working on a series of other activity books... till the next time!