Kumon: My Book of Numbers 1-30
I had worked with Ian on this book for several months. Progress was slow in the initial stage as he was just learning how to write his numbers. I stopped the book for about 2-3 months in the midst of it as he was getting impatient with the repetitive writing of the numbers. As the other Kumon books do cover the numbers again, I had started him on the other books to reinforce the lower numbers. The last exercise was skipped, as the other books would repeat on that.
Kumon: My Book of Coloring - At The Zoo
I dug out this book from my stash in January or February, and pondered whether to keep this for Isabelle, or to let Ian practise his colouring skills. The earlier exercises were very similar to the previous Kumon colouring books, with a small circle, square, or triangle in the middle of the picture for the child to fill in the colour. Towards the later part of the book, the pictures started to get more complicated with finer details. We were so happy to see that Ian's colouring skills had vastly improved over the exercises. He was colouring within the borders most of the time, and getting better at it. However, it must have been pretty boring for him to do the colouring on his own, as he always requested us to do it together with him. Sometimes, when his progress was simply too slow (for example, doing only a very small portion of the picture a day), I would sit down and colour together with him and he would do more. I wondered his fast improvement came from our consistent home-teaching recently, or from his childcare? Probably, both.
Sticker Activity Book for 4-5 Years Old (EQ)
A very recent purchase from Dangdang. This series of sticker books has been a favourite of Ian. He could sit down and do some of the activities on his own, sparing us some time for other things. He did about 2-3 exercises at one sitting, and hence, the book was completed in about 2 weeks (not doing on a daily basis).
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