Earlybird Kindergarten-Singapore Math (Standards Edition)
It is hard for me to call these "textbooks" because they are workbooks full of fun pictures and activities! Detailed teaching notes at the bottom of the pages will give you instructions for the page, plus activities to do to reinforce the concepts. Test scores conclusively and repeatedly put Singapore Primary Mathematics in top rank in international tests!
For questions and answers, and more information, click on the textbook titles below.
Start your little ones on the right track with math play! Through fun activities and games, your young one will become confident with numbers and math concepts. Includes shape hopscotch, sew-up numbers, card games, counting rhymes, and more. Paperback, black and white drawings, 142 pages for ages 2 to 6 years.
Playing with math is the best way to go for little ones! This book is full of ideas for hands-on mathematics for 4 to 8 year-olds. Using simple materials around the house or field, you can enjoy exploring math concepts together— comparing, estimating, reasoning, measuring, and more. Paperback book, 196 pages for 4-8 years.
How do you drill a 5-year-old? Fun is the only thing that seems to work happily in my homeschool. This clever game will have your children eagerly doing their math addition and subtraction facts. The game board looks like a swamp with alligators swimming nearby. Players move around the board by doing simple math problems to find out the number of spaces to move ahead. Named as one of the best educational games of the year because it is easy to play and it holds a child's attention well. The game includes a dash of luck, so children can actually beat Mom and Dad. For ages 5 and up, two to four players.
Here are the ideal activity pages on excellent quality paper with colorful graphics. Developed by an Asian company to give kids the cutting edge with an early start in education and skills. These thick workbooks are a preschooler's or kindergartner's mother's dream-come-true! One page is enough to keep your preschooler busily working and happy for 15-20 minutes—a bargain indeed! Kids love them, and you'll be amazed at the fine motor skill development you will see!
Connect-the-dots and color-by-number exercises will make your child a pro at number recognition. Ages 3-5.
Children learn their numbers in this fun book which provides activity pages to trace and write the numbers 1 to 30 repeatedly until it becomes second nature. Ages 3-5.
Teach your little one to tell time with this cheerful colorful workbook! Starts with hours, and then adds half hours and quarter-hours. Ages 4-6 years.
Smooth, classic hardwood blocks come in 6 brightly colored shapes. These feel good to handle and are easy to work with, as they are heavier than plastic and stay on your pattern cards. Many children can "play" pattern blocks at the same time with this large set. 250 polished wooden blocks come in a plastic storage bucket with teacher's guide.
Oh, what a great product! Magnetic backed foam pattern blocks won't shift while children place them. Use a Magnet Board (or a cookie sheet) as a work surface, lay a Patternables page on top, and the magnetic blocks will stick right on the puzzle page! A very fun way to enjoy pattern blocks! 200 standard sized pattern blocks.
Children match the shapes of the pattern blocks to cover the outline of the block on the pattern card. "Doing pattern blocks" is challenging and excellent for developing pre-reading skills, shape recognition, symmetry, fine motor skills, and self-confidence! 64-page paperback book has an actual- sized pattern block picture outline in black and white on each page. I prefer to slice the binding off the book to end up with a big stack of pattern pages that lay flat. All levels of difficulty included, for children ages 3-12 years.
Oh, what a great product! Magnetic backed foam pattern blocks won't shift while children place them. Lay a Patternables page on top of the white magnet board, and the magnetic pattern blocks will stick right on the puzzle page! A very fun way to enjoy pattern blocks! Set includes 200 standard sized magnetic pattern blocks, magnetic playboard, and the Patternables book.
Tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle consisting of seven geometrical pieces that fit together in different ways to form thousands of designs. These magnetic tangram pieces will stick to any magnetic surface (tin cookie sheet, fridge front, or our magnet board) and stay right where you put them! Even 3 year olds love this! See if you can make the figures shown in the illustration (left) or go online for more designs to make. Great fun and thinking power for all ages up through adult. One set, 7 pieces, tangram only, no instructions. Color of set varies.
24 sturdy card stock cards: 4 piece-by-piece outline beginner puzzles plus 20 outer outline-only challenging puzzles will give you lots of tangram fun!
Magnetic backed foam pattern blocks won't shift while children place them on this magnet board (or a cookie sheet). Lay a Patternables page on top, and the magnetic blocks will stick right on the puzzle page! A very fun way to enjoy pattern blocks!
Kit includes one set of magnetic tangrams plus 24 tangram puzzle cards (in varying difficulty), along with a magnet board. Great learning fun for ages 3 to adult.
I've been waiting a decade for these! I am so glad that our favorite Cuisenaire rods have finally been made to snap together and show unit increments on one side of the rods. Now it is extra easy for children to work with rods and understand the principles of addition and subtraction by adding or removing units. 74 rods come in a storage tray for use with 2 to 3 children.
Geoboards teach all sorts of geometric concepts (such as shapes, polygons, angles, area, perimeter, and fractions), but I must confess why I really like them: they keep preschoolers happy for a long session! There is definitely something exciting about stretching colorful rubber bands and hooking them on the pegs to create shapes and designs. This geoboard has an 11" x 11" peg configuration, making it possible to create lots of intricate designs. I keep our geoboard in my bag that goes to church with us, as they are remarkable for keeping preschoolers occupied for the entire meeting! (Quiet = reverent, I hope).
Large, flexible foam letters are coated with a magnetic backside, making them fun to handle and even more fun to use on any magnetic surface: fridge, bathtub, cookie sheet, etc. Red, green, blue, and yellow 1 1/2" letters and numbers come in storage bucket. Set of 154.
Jumbo Foam Operations Signs Dice (set of 2 dice) 26% Off
Large 2-inch dice are fun to roll, quiet and spongy to handle. Operations signs for add, subtract, multiply and divide are marked on the dice surfaces. Roll with some regular dice and do the problem. A fun way to do math practice!
Why read cereal boxes?. . . when you could be learning the planets, the periodic table, the systems of the human body or the states and their capitals? These colorful, wipe-off placemats are a favorite. Since it seems that my children spend most of their time eating, perhaps this is the right place for study! Standard placemat size: 12" x 18". Placemats feature full color front; the reverse side is the same picture outlined in black and white so your child can color or write in the information on the write-on, wipe-off surface.
