This is one of my favorites. It's fun and colorful and some pages are challenging for Annie but some are pretty easy for her. I like that it's a good mix and it seems to cover a lot of mathematical concepts. This pretty much is our math curriculum right now (aside from weaving it into other areas like reading stories), and I feel like it meets our needs well.
This is not my favorite. The pages aren't as colorful and more of them involve writing, which isn't really a big deal, but I just generally prefer to be able to sit on the couch and bust through a couple of pages.
These puzzles are super fun. Every page is a chart like this. I have to guide AP a good bit, but she's surprised me with how fast she's picked up on the technique of filling out the chart. [We use a page protector thing so that we can use it later with Graves.]
This is honestly my least favorite. Annie's not really very into "directed" art. And at four, I don't think that's a huge deal. She's actually not even really great at coloring in the lines and she struggles to hold a pencil correctly. We try to work on it some, but there are SO many more things I think (at this age) are more important. It's just really not a huge focus.
This is another favorite. Annie loves the riddles and I think they are so much fun, too. It's fun to get her to explain her thought process for figuring them out, too.
One last thing: we have these BrainQuest cards for both the kids. Graves usually does a card a night and AP does a couple.
This is definitely one of Annie's favorite parts of "school" and it's certainly one of mine, too. More than just teaching her concepts, it's very important to me to teach her how to think and to be a person who thinks critically.
