Play Smart Skill Builders 2+: For Ages 2+
Skill Builders contain tracing, cutting and drawing games to enhance fine motor coordination! Includes 80+ colorful stickers and a wipe clean game board. Draw with a washable marker or crayon, wipe clean, then create something new.
Tens of millions of Japanese children have grown up with a love of learning thanks to Gakken's Play Smart workbooks The proven Play Smart system, developed by educators and child development experts, has one principle: Learning should be fun.
Open up this book, and you'll see: a variety of fun-first activities to keep preschoolers thoroughly engaged. The enjoyable tasks get progressively harder so that kids develop a sense of accomplishment. While your children are having a great time making art, doing puzzles, tracing, and more, they are exercising their creativity and honing a rang of important skills - , fine motor, language, early math, and critical thinking.
Workbooks for each age group build on skills covered in earlier books.
Gakken Play Smart Workbooks are bestsellers in Japan where 1 million Play Smart workbooks are sold each year, and the books have been enjoyed by tens of millions of children. The winning Gakken Play Smart formula:
• Puts the emphasis on fun - so much so, that children have no idea that they’re building important skills while they trace lines and shapes, cut and paste objects, solve mazes, create crafts, and tackle other simple, enjoyable activities.
• Includes parent involvement: Extensive research asserts that young children learn the most, have the highest rates of literacy, and the most developed math skills, and even social skills when there is parent involvement in the learning process. Every single page of the Play Smart workbooks includes “notes to parents” offering advice to help each child progress.
• Has been proven to strengthen kids' reasoning, decision-making, and concentration skills, which helps them prepare for the classroom - and for life.
Review Quotes:
"Everything is brightly colored and designed with young kids in mind. They're created in a way where kids can play through the pages, rather than making it seem like they're "working."--Sweet Tooth Sweet Life
"I especially appreciate that the workbooks include notes to parents on every page, offering advice on how to help children get the most out of each challenge...All the pages are colorful, engaging, fun, challenging and educational"--Outnumbered 3-1
"...go above and beyond anything I've ever seen before in other workbooks I've had for our kids. The biggest way for me to know how successful they are is to see the excitement and joy on the kids' faces every time we pull them out! Learning + fun = amazing success!"--Emily Reviews
"I highly recommend these workbooks. They are perfect for the different ages and they are colorful and fun. The stickers are of the highest quality that I have seen and I can see, as a former school teacher and a homeschooling mom and reviewer, that a lot of thought went into creating insightful, practical and relevant topics for little ones."--The Natural Home School
Publisher: Gakken Workbooks, paperback, 70 pages
