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| Brain Quest Workbook: Grade 1 (Brain Quest) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Trumbauer
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21332
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 8.2 x 1
MPN: 14914
ISBN: 0761149147
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780761149149
ASIN: 0761149147
Publication Date: July 9, 2008
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Product Description
Echoing Brain Quest's lively design and unique silhouette, each workbook is a bright, kid-friendly invitation to delve into schoolwork with pleasure. The books are jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises, games, and challenges in every subject, but with a special emphasis on the core competencies of math and language skills. They're clear, they're interactive, colorful, and varied. Information is layered throughout the text. Kids will write, draw, solve, connect, add hands to the clocks' faces, and color in the fractional shapes. Six titles comprise the series, Pre-k through Grade 4; each is a substantial 320-page, full-color book. In addition, each title comes with a pull-out poster, more than 200 stickers, and 100 all-new Brain Quest questions and answers. Even the posters are keyed into the curriculum?in second grade, children study the U.S. states, so the Grade 2 poster will be of the U.S.A., with all capitals, state flags, and state facts.
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A banquet of "brain food" to nourish young minds July 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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. Worse yet, to indicate little interest in it.
Congratulations to the Workman Publishing Company and especially to the editors of Brain Quest. How pleased they must be to know that their materials have already helped to nourish so many young minds and to delight so many young hearts and, fortunately, will continue to do so for the development of other children in months and years to come
Fantastic Skill book! July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
 Another great Brain Quest learning product! July 28, 2008
We are so excited to see Brain Quest come out with the workbooks. My girls (3 & 7 years) love them. The pages are bright with color and easy to follow instructions for kids and guideance for parents.
Airplane Heaven August 22, 2008
This kept my almost 6-year-old daughter busy for an entire 4.5 hour plane ride! She didn't even ask to watch the portable DVD that we lugged with us :-)
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