Building Thinking Skills Beginning

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Building Thinking Skills
Start here with Building Thinking Skills Beginning. Happy, colorful illustrations make this a highly attractive program for any young child. The variety of delightful exercises ensures that this terrific book will give your child a solid foundation for academic excellence.

For ages three to four, but we know many two-year-olds who would thrive on Building Thinking Skills Beginning. We suggest that you follow this book with Developing the Early Learner.

Features

Reading, writing, and math readiness.

Develops analysis skills for academic learning!

The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words.

Building Thinking Skills® Beginning level may be used with attribute blocks, though they are not required.

Publisher's Information
Author: Michael O. Baker, Stephanie Stevens
Pages: 218
Activities: 479
Full Color: Yes
Binding: Paperback
Copyright: 2008
ISBN: 0-89455-911-2
Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co
Printed In: Malaysia
Consumable: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
Faith-Based: No

Awards and Endorsements:
The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal for Excellence
Parent Tested, Parent Approved Winner's Seal
Mensa Recommended Materials for the Gifted
iParenting Media Award
Parent Tested, Parent Approved (PTPA) Seal of Approval
Cathy Duffy 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
Dr. Toy 10 Best Software
Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence Award
Learning® Magazine Teacher's Choice Award
iParenting Media Excellent Products
Cathy Duffy Top 100 Award
Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products
Learning® Magazine Recommended Resource for Successful Teaching
The Well-Trained Mind Recommended Resource for Logic and Critical Thinking
2014 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards™ - 3rd Place, Logic Category
Practical Homeschooling Magazine 2nd Place Reader Award
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine 1st Place 2012 Excellence in Education Award

review by Homeschool Gameschool

”Activities are brightly colored, organized, and sequenced in small sections that are perfect for young minds. Preschoolers aren’t designed to sit still and do written work, and with this book they aren’t expected to.”

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review by Quad Squad

”Preschoolers ages 3-4 will enjoy this book and the hours of activities it provides. Great for homeschool or early learning activities. Skills include colors, shapes, sequence, measurement, problem solving, logic, and much more.”

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We enjoy this book

I really like this book and the other books I have from the Critical Thinking Co. This book is HUGE! Lots and lots of pages and I really like how repetitive it is (at least in the beginning) to reinforce concepts. We don't work on this daily or even weekly but just have available so they decide when they want to do "activity books". We purchased separate small stickers and so when a page is completed they can put a sticker on the page so that we know it was completed. They enjoy that.

Not a fan

I m not a fan of this book, some activities are confusing... My kid doesn’t like it. I m glad that you have included Evan Moor in the Thinking Skills curricula for next years :)

Building thinking skills

This is so easy to use with littles. No crying or fighting back. They love it.

Thinking Skills Workbook

I was skeptical about workbooks at the preschool level, but these are very gentle and conversational, requiring very little written work. I appreciate that they are spiral in nature, revisiting concepts again and again in a few different ways. I also like that the Mathematical Reasoning workbook, uses a similar format, and progresses at the same pace.

That being said, my son is almost 3.5 years-old. These workbooks are perfect for him now, but I don't think they would be a great fit for a very young preschooler.

Great Book

My 4 year old loves this book, it’s her favorite workbook!

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