Building Thinking Skills - Beginning 1
A picture-packed workbook that builds logic, language, and learning—helping preschoolers sharpen thinking skills behind reading, writing, and math readiness, one “Aha!” at a time.
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2026 Preschool Curriculum Kit
Building Thinking Skills - Beginning 1
Preschoolers are constantly sorting, comparing, questioning, and making sense of the world around them. Building Thinking Skills Beginning 1 takes those natural abilities and strengthens them through engaging activities that develop the foundation for future learning.
Across 224 colorful pages, your child practices the skills that support success in reading, writing, math, and problem-solving. Through picture-based activities and gradually increasing challenges, he learns to classify, compare, sequence, predict, follow directions, and recognize patterns.
The workbook develops a wide range of important readiness skills, including visual tracking, visual discrimination, spatial awareness, auditory processing, memory, reasoning, and fine-motor development. Along the way, your child explores concepts such as shapes, colors, measurement, position words, left and right, and simple logical relationships.
One of the strengths of Building Thinking Skills Beginning 1 is its emphasis on reasoning rather than memorization. Instead of simply learning facts, your child learns to observe carefully, identify relationships, make inferences, and think through problems independently.
What looks like a simple picture activity is often teaching a surprisingly sophisticated skill. As your child works through the pages, he may be practicing visual discrimination, following multi-step directions, recognizing patterns, or drawing conclusions from clues—all while feeling like he's simply solving puzzles.
Activities begin with concrete, picture-based exercises and gradually introduce more complex thinking tasks. This progression allows young learners to build confidence while developing the critical-thinking skills that support learning across every subject.
Optional attribute blocks can be used to make some activities more hands-on, but the workbook stands perfectly well on its own.
For preschoolers who enjoy puzzles, patterns, and figuring things out, Building Thinking Skills Beginning 1 provides a playful introduction to the habits of observation, reasoning, and problem-solving that will benefit them for years to come.
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- June 8, 2026
The L.
When we started this book we were just starting our homeschooling process with our oldest child. At first, I was worried it was too advanced for her even though it was listed as age appropriate. What I found was that I did not realize how smart toddlers really are! I didn’t anticipate my child wanting to sit through work books nor did I think I would see such advancements in such little time. The Building Thinking Skills book did a great job going hand in hand with the Mathematical Reasoning book. I watched her make connections between the two books and it went the perfect pace for practice then amping things up to the next level. At the beginning, I would over explain the instructions believing that it was too hard for her to comprehend, but I quickly saw the gears turning with little or no explanation other than what the instructions provided. A five star review is absolutely deserved here.
- September 4, 2025
Great Logical Thinking
S. B.
I used this book with my pre-k 4 daughter and it was fun for her to do and definitely in her wheelhouse. It's not overly difficult but really makes them think. My only con is we used it alongside Mathematical Reasoning Beginning 2 and there is a lot of overlap in the skills they learn. She finished MR fairly quickly and this book became kind of obsolete because there weren't any new concepts in it. If your kiddo isn't quite ready for math yet, I think this would be a great introduction.
- August 6, 2024
Naomi C.
Very easy to use and very easy for them to follow it.
- March 31, 2024
Hours of work and entertainment
Dorothy W.
This book has literally...everything...you could want or hope to teach your preschooler. I mean it covers ALL of the topics and then some. There is so much to cover and a lot to do in this book. My son struggles with workbook stuff but he is amenable to Building Thinking Skills. The title of this book is on point, it definitely teaches critical thinking. Hopefully it helps my son build in this department along with following directions. I like it very much.
- March 28, 2024
Enjoying this workbook
Bryce T.
Really loving this as part of our curriculum. Easy to follow along for my son!
- March 19, 2024
Family favorite
Elizabeth D.
This is a fantastic book to grow my youngest students' critical thinking skills. The artwork leaves something to be desired at times, but that is it's only down-side!
- November 4, 2023
Not my kid's favorite
kathrine p.
Not my kid's favorite item to complete each day. While I quite like how it teaches, my daughter isn't a big fan. I think it has more to do with the amount of things on each page. Just may be a bit too much for her. I have started to cover parts of each page or draw the shapes on a white board to help entice her to finish a lesson which has helped alot.
- March 14, 2023
great workbook
Bina
This workbook is a great gentle way to introduce critical thinking for preschoolers, we didn't start this after a month or so of starting school.
- February 17, 2023
Critical thinking was not strong, now it is.
Tiffany C.
My son struggled with critical thinking and understanding basic instructions. This book has helped immensely with that. He enjoys the pages, works through them quickly so there is no frustration. I can't wait to start the next book!
- December 5, 2022
a bit difficult - started later
Bina
This book is such a great addition to our homeschool work. We started light, and we're still just doing about 1-3 pages a week (3 months in). Some of the concepts just aren't connecting so we wait, and will try to introduce it the following week.
