Summer School

A couple of months ago I purchased some scholastic workbooks at a Barnes and Noble.

These are workbooks designed for kids, and they have different series according to age - from Preschool to First Grade. And they are Disney.

Andy has a Pre-School Handy Manny Shapes and Patterns book. He practices identifying shapes, drawing them, and coloring them. I'm guessing later on we'll get to patterns. But really, anything that gets him to put pencil to paper is huge, at this rate.

Nathan has a Kindergarten Cars math book. He is learning basic addition - different ways to make 10, etc, and forming the numbers on his own. He also has a Cars writing book. He is writing both upper case and lower case letters, and making words. I'm actually surprised this book is for kindergarten, but what do I know?

Nicholas has a Grade 1 Writing book. It's Toy Story, and so far it's talked about sentence structure: Capital letters, periods, naming parts (subjects) and telling parts (verbs). My sister teaches college level English, and sometimes she mentions that the kids wh write papers in her class don't seem to know what a sentence is - maybe this book can help?

Nick also has a Grade 1 Math book. It's Tinkerbell, but only because he had the Toy Story Math book last year. He doesn't care.

I have to say, I'm impressed with these books. Yes, they shamelessly promote Disney. But my kids are excited to use them each morning. The first day we did Homework Steve came down the stairs and shook his head. "You couldn't let them have ONE day OFF?" he asked. What he didn't know was that the boys were umping all over and begging to do them. "Me first! Me first!"