Brain Quest Workbook: 1st Grade [With Stickers]

Book was listed as "Good" however book is over half filled with writing. Crayon, pen, and pencil. TB will not refund or exchange anything under $15

I got the book for my 6 year old and when the book came all the pages were already filled. My son can’t even use the boot

There were sooo many pages written in!! I wouldn’t label this as “good” at all of only half of it is usable. Very disappointed.

We were amazed how well laid out the quizzes were and it was a lot of fun for both kids and adults. It is a sure cry from the old format of learning. we loved the fact that there were so many skill sets covered from phonics, sequencing and sorting, shapes and measurements, social studies, science and the traditional areas like spelling, maths and reading. I highly recomend the brain quest products.

Summary: GREAT! Having gone through what feels like every workbook known to man - or at least Borders, I feel like I can finally stop my quest for the perfect workbook. The book's colors are vibrant, the pictures contemporary, and the content interesting. Topics are color coded and separated by subject: phonics, reading, social studies, science, sequencing, measurements, math. I am really impressed with the mix of different subjects, especially the science, which is often overlooked in workbooks. The topics are age-appropriate, for instance coloring the land masses and oceans of the earth, reading a short passage on the sun and answering questions (e.g. Is the sun a planet or a star?). There is a wide mix of ability levels within each subject, except maybe reading. The phonics starts very simply (shows pictures and the name, missing the first letter, and a list of a few letters d,f,g and the child writes in the letter it starts with). It then builds up including recognition of ch, sh, th words. I felt the reading section started at a bit higher level than the other sections ("This is a dragon.") already assuming your child has mastered sight words and sounding out. So, struggling readers may want to move back a workbook level (or better yet, get both). The math section is really, really great. It moves from writing numbers to addition and subtraction, carefully showing the different forms that problems are written in (e.g. both horizontal and vertical). First the picture may look something like this *** + ** = ***** and your child would write 3 + 2 = 5. A few pages of practice and the next section would look like *** + ** = ________, so it is building on task sequencing skills and stepping the child into learning how to decode and solve the problem. Kudos here. The pictures are cute and engaging. Within the measurement section, my daughter especially loved measuring monsters using a ruler (included on the page) - again, nice skill building. This book is amazingly full of a diverse number of activities. At the current price, it is a steal. The quality of the materials is better than a lot that comes home. Cons: The font used is not consistent - in some parts of the book, the a's and g's are those fancy curly-q things that no one actually uses when writing (see the a here). This is difficult for a beginning writer who is trying to write a difficult word (e.g. a picture of a girl eating ice cream - a fill in sentence: "The girl is eating ______." with a word bank: cookies, gum, ice cream). For a child copying the words for the spelling, it would be better for the letters to be consistent throughout the book and in the form with which we want them to write. The stickers are really not that fabulous - they consist of only a few designs repeated several times (stars, letters, cat, dog). They seem like an afterthought, so I don't mind, but be warned. Some of the sections were a bit brief. There was little to do with each measurement section

This is one in a series of workbooks, each of which offers an abundance of learning activities, exercises, and games that are presented with superb production values. Appropriate to the given age level, much of the material focuses on basic subjects such natural science, mathematics, history, and social studies while enabling children to strengthen their reading, reasoning, and writing skills. The editors of Brain Quest believe that: "All kids are smart - though they learn at their own speed All kids learn best when they're having fun All kids deserve the chance to reach their potential - given the tools they need, there's no limit how far they can go!" I agree, while presuming to add that children will learn more and have more fun meanwhile if, when completing various exercises, adults are involved. As a parent of four and a grandparent of ten, I can personally attest to the pleasure an adult will also have. Each volume in the series is a WORK book. Exercises are completed with crayolas or pencils on the page on which it appears. Correct answers are provided. One caveat: Resist the temptation to control the learning process a child completes an exercise. This volume, Grade 1 (ages 6-7), was written by Lisa Trumbauer, with Betsy Rogers serving as consulting editor. It is worth noting that Rogers was 2003 National Teacher of the Year. The material consists of organized curriculum-based exercises that help children to gain an understanding of phonics, spelling, vocabulary, language arts, reading, writing, sequencing and sorting, math skills, addition and subtraction, shapes and measurement, time and money, social studies, and science. Also included are more than 150 stickers, an all-new Brain Quest Mini-Card Deck, and a fold-out "100 Creatures" poster. Here is a representative selection of exercises: Cat and Snake Say the word for each picture. Draw a line from the pictures with the short a sound to the cat. Draw a line from the pictures with a long a sound to the snake. (Page 37) Time to Rhyme! The words on the page all rhyme with brag. Write each rhyming word [tag, bag, wag, and flag] next to the correct picture. (88) Doggy Diary Complete each sentence with a word from the word box. [bark, happy, stick, Gus, and fetch] My name is.... I like to.... I fetch a.... I like to... I am a. ...dog. (142-143) Connect the Dots! Connect the dots to make each shape. Color each shape the same color as the dots. (229) Drop It in the Bin Look at the picture on each bin. [PLASTIC, PAPER, and CANS] Draw a line from all the things you can recycle to the correct bin. (290) Each of the volumes in this series (pre-K through Grade 4) would be an excellent book for parents, grandparents, and others to purchase and then share with a child at an appropriate stage of her or his development. No doubt there are precocious children who will prefer more challenging material associated with later grades but I think it would be a mistake to rush the learning process

Go run and get this before school starts! It has all the right curriculum, is fun, the worksheets are the right length and engaging. It has all the right units, organized well. I teach in a Title 1 school and only wish all my families could buy this for my students to get them ready for the incoming year. Looking for grants as we speak to put this in their hands:) Buy it for the grade level your child is going into, not left from. If they are advanced go a grade up, if they are struggling use the grade they just left. (or if retained the grade they are repeating)