Kumon's My Book of Easy Mazes - an excellent introduction to tracing mazes. Ian had been working on this book for a few months, since somewhere last year (I just could not recall when!). We took a hiatus from doing these worksheets in the last 2-3 months of 2010, and when we resumed them in January this year, he surprised us by showing a vast improvement in doing the mazes. He was looking at the path ahead before he drew the line. At times, he still took the "wrong path", but I thought that was okay as it was part and parcel of learning.
The 2nd book was from an online spree for Chinese books, for pasting fun. There were some stickers for pasting at the beginning of the book, but most of the pages had a strip of pictures to be cut out and pasted on the book itself with glue. I cut out the long strips and let Ian cut out the individual picture frames, and this provided him chances to practise his dexterity with scissors. I think one of the objectives of this book was to let children learn how to apply glue, but I simply could not get Ian to be interested in this aspect. I had to apply the glue for him before he would paste the pictures properly. As such, it was kind of a chore to go through this book, and Ian was not too interested in it.
Kumon's More Let's Cut Paper! - Another of Ian's favourites. It was supposed to be a sequel to Let's Cut Paper!, or so I had thought, but it appeared more like a repetition or reinforcement of the other book. While Ian was working on the first series, he had showed weakness in maneuvering the scissors. Hence, I let him work on this book simultaneously as the exercises were pretty similar. Just like the other worksheets, we took a break from them for a while, and when we returned to do these again, he suddenly showed an improvement. We were doing 3-5 sheets of exercises daily as he kept asking for more. By the end of the book, I could also relax better when he was cutting and not to have to watch over him like a hawk.
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