Kumon Are You Ready for Kindergarten Preschool Skills (Big Preschool Workbook), Ages 3-5, 384 pages (Arkw)

I bought this book to help my 4-year-old daughter get ready for kindergarten, and it has been a great tool for building foundational skills. The activities are well-structured, colorful, and age-appropriate. I love that it focuses on fine motor skills like tracing, cutting, and matching — all essential for the early classroom experience. The layout is simple enough that my daughter can follow along with minimal guidance, but it also gives us a good chance to work together and talk through the exercises. She actually asks to do pages from this book, which says a lot! One thing to note: this book works best as a supplement to other learning methods. It’s not a complete curriculum, but it really helps reinforce key concepts like patterns, shapes, letters, and numbers in a way that doesn’t feel overwhelming. We’ve seen noticeable improvement in her confidence with pencil control and problem-solving. I definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a fun, structured way to get your preschooler ready for the big leap into kindergarten.

This book has so many different activities in it targeting different skills. It goes beyond just number and letter recognition—there are mazes, matching, scissor-work…it’s super colorful and engaging. Definitely worth the money if you want to challenge your pre-kindergartener at home

Bought this for my 4 year old son. Wife wanted to start him in Kumon, but figured I try this book out before we spend the time and money for actual kumon classes. This book is fantastic. He enjoys doing the activities in there, there is a huge variety of content for him to work on. I was afraid it was dry, repetitive workbook content, but it the content was actually fun for him and challenging at the same time. In fact, it was so fun that my 3 year old loved the workbook as well and we ended up buying a second one just for him.

Kids look forward to doing the different colorful worksheets in this book. They love the mazes and cutting/gluing skill work pages the most! It has it all from coloring, shapes, letters numbers they find it super fun. Highly recommend for preK and your little one eager to learn.

Looots of the same type of exercises. The book can be useful only if you have a group of kids using it, otherwise your kid is gonna get bored really quickly doing the same thing over and over.

I bought this book for my 4.5 year old daughter. It is actually 6 Kumon books in one... so for the price it is a steal. It covers coloring, mazes, letters, numbers, cutting, and pasting. Some pages are very easy while others are more challenging. Overall my daughter can do about 90% of it independently which she loves. It builds the skills slowly and there is a lot of repetition, which I appreciate.

I was checking out books at our bookstore for my 4 1/2 year old son to prepare him for kindergarten. This particular book is one of a series, and I chose it for the pencil skills. This is a maze book, and starts with a simple maze and progressively gets more difficult. Each page has a different name, like "Off to School," and you have to trace the route the bunny needs to take to school. The age rage is 4-5 years old. We've had this book for two days and my son has worked his way through more than half the book -- he really loves it! After about a quarter way through the book I think my son has mastered the "get through the maze" skill, but this workbook has really helped him learn to hold his pencil correctly! And also, when he first started to do the mazes he would start off tracing and figure out where to go as he went along, making wrong turns and back tracking. But my son has learned to take a moment to review the puzzle. When he's figured it out he likes to tell me, "Okay, got it" and he does the puzzle correctly the first time. I think it's helped to teach him to take a moment to review the problem first. Overall review: this is a very simple concept but a great book for young kids. Definitely recommend it.

This book contains mazes that get harder as you go through the book. The mazes also get longer as you go. At first, I was a little disappointed this, but my child loves mazes, so sharpening his pencil skills was easy with this book. The mazes are eye-catching and fun for children. It's a great way to sneak in pencil practice as well as some problem solving skills (I make him think about which way he should go before even picking up the pencil). The book also has parent direction, telling parents when the mazes get harder or longer, and reminding parents to encourage the child. There is a certificate of achievement at the end of the book, which is a fun reward for children when they finish.

Ich muss sagen ich liebe dieses Buch! Es hat alle wichtigen Fertigkeiten für Kinder im Vorschulater in einem großen Set vereint. Von Malen lernen über Schwungübungen, Labyrinthe für Räumliches Denken bis hin zu Zahlen und Buchstaben schreiben üben, dann auch noch Formen und Farben und zum Schluss Ausschneiden und Kleben üben. Hab hier nur anzumerken, dass bei den Buchstaben nicht vergessen werden darf, dass es eine englische Version ist. So werden natürlich die passenden Figuren zu den Buchstaben nicht immer passend für unser deutsches Alphabet sein (z.B. U - Up, V - Van). Aber abgesehen davon finde ich es einfach super. Würde es jedem empfehlen. Und natürlich ist das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis genial.

Writing this review after using this book for about 2weeks. I took this book just because to engage my 4yr old without my attention so I can focus on my elder one helping for homework. This book is perfectly what I wanted. My daughter loves it. Tracing alphabets numbers, coloring, shapes, pencil skills (maze) ,cutting activities are all in one book. it's big and heavy for them to carry but I guess it is a good kinda dumble excercise 😀 for them . In 2 weeks, my lil one finished almost half book without my help. I just let her do what ever she wanted to do. She loved maze and cuttings activities the most.

Gran libro que contiene excelentes ejercicoos que captan la atenciòn de los pequeños.

excelente - raciocínio e coordenacao motora!

My son. 4. Loves this book and would do it all in one day if he could but we've agreed to limit to 5 or 10 a sitting. The mazes get progressively harder which i have emphasized so that gradually more time and care is taken because a steadier more accurate approach is needed. better than other maze books because others tend to be too easy and remain at same level/ type