School Zone Preschool Basics Workbook: Curriculum Series for Ages 3-5, Learn Reading and Math Skills, Colors, Numbers, Counting, Matching, Grouping, Beginning Sounds, and More - Softcover

School Zone; Joan Hoffman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589470354 ISBN 13: 9781589470354

Publisher: School Zone, 2019

Synopsis

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BOOK FEATURES

• 63 activity pages, 1 award certificate
• For ages 3 to 5
• 7.75" x 10.75" pages with durable glossy cover
• Preschoolers practice important readiness skills: Colors, Numbers, Counting, Matching, Beginning Sounds, and More
• Bright, kid-friendly illustrations
• Clear examples and step-by-step instructions make it easy for kids to work at their own pace
• Easy directions and visual clues promote self-directed learning
• Perforated pages are easy to tear out for individual worksheets

EXCELLENT - The Preschool Basics Deluxe workbook will help your child find a place where learning and fun come together! It's packed with dozens of charming activities that help prepare your child for success in preschool and kindergarten. The content in this big book covers skills so important at this level, in a simple, colorful format. Preschool Basics Deluxe focuses on essential readiness skills. No writing (just yet) required! Small hands accomplish big goals just by drawing lines or circling appropriate objects to show an understanding of the lesson. The workbook is also perfect for travel! With a little help and encouragement from you, your preschooler will proudly develop skills that build a great foundation.

WORKBOOKS - Writing in workbook pages, as opposed to typing on a computer, can help kids to focus and to learn. Writing by hand fires up specific areas of a child's brain, improving a child's ability to not only remember what he or she learns but to think of new ideas. When kids finish the workbook, complete the reward certificate to celebrate a job well done. Hang it on the wall or fridge to display their achievement with pride.

RESULTS - Our learning materials have helped educate three generations of kids, creating lifelong learners, and the legacy continues. Digital content, flash cards, workbooks, readers, toys and games are all crafted through a child's eyes while integrating parent and teacher standards.

PREPARATION - Let us help you prepare your young child for the next grade level with our workbooks, flash cards, books and a Little Scholar Tablet. Keep kids "classroom ready" with these great supplemental learning tools and more!

AWARD WINNING - School Zone content has won The Parents' Choice Foundation Award, Tillywig Toy Awards, Brainchild Award, Family Choice Award, Mom's Choice Awards Honoring Excellence, Gold Star Toy Scholastic Parent and Child Award and many more.

School Zone Publishing - Nourishing Young Minds

OUR STORY - Almost 40 years ago, long-time educators James Hoffman, Ed.D., and his wife Joan Hoffman, M.A., began a retail supply outlet for teachers, then soon identified a need for at-home learning materials to help parents support and supplement their children's classroom instruction. School Zone Publishing fast emerged as the market leader in workbooks and flashcards for preschoolers through sixth graders.

School Zone remains family-owned, focused on excellence, responsive to customers, alert to emerging technology, and committed to the community. We continually update our products with new features and content, reflective of changing standards, evolving teaching methods, and overall best practices. As just one example, we update our workbook curriculum on an as-needed basis to address changing standards such as those presented by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and Common Core.

About this title

About the Author:

For nearly 40 years, School Zone has helped make learning fun! Our research-based content, developed by leading educators, delivers award-winning, state-of-the-art products digital and print for individual learning styles and goals. Every product placed in a child's hands is brimming with color, content, and creativity. In every detail, innovation meets imagination and timeless tradition. In that same spirit, School Zone both embodies success and embraces possibility, stepping boldly into new media and platforms to connect with kids where they are. Parents appreciate the quality and attention to detail. The company continually updates materials with new features and content, reflective of changing standards, evolving teaching methods, and overall best practices. The result? Great learning at home and in the classroom.

Joan Hoffman, M.A., is the author and co-author of hundreds popular storybooks and workbooks for children. Among the titles are Peter’s Dream, I Don’t Like Peas, and The New Bike (the latter two published under the pen name Marie Vinje), the Get Ready for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade workbook trio, along with the entire Get Ready, Little Thinker, I Know It!, Try-n-Spy, and Little Busy Book workbook series.

She is also co-founder, along with her late husband James Hoffman, Ph.D., of School Zone Publishing. Visionary in business, she has long looked at the world through a child’s eyes, infusing her stories and lessons with joy and relatability.

 As a mother of 4 back in the ‘70s, like moms the world over throughout history, she wanted what was best for her children. And she knew that teachers didn’t have the time to give her kids everything they needed. As an elementary school teacher, Hoffman worked hard to give her students what they needed to learn. And parents would ask her what they could do to help. That’s why she started School Zone—to help give children every possible chance to reach their potential. 

She brought retail experience gleaned from previously founding and managing two regional educational book and supply stores for teachers and parents. Her husband lent his blended talents of educator and entrepreneur. A professor of education who also had first-hand experience as an elementary teacher, he was involved in teacher education programs at several colleges and had served at the helm of a company that published classroom materials.

Combining rock-solid editorial judgment and creative instincts with a thorough understanding of early education, Joan Hoffman was an exemplary proponent of design thinking long before it became a conceptual label. An innovative problem-solver, she has always sought to reach out to end users and challenge convention. Separating fleeting trends from legitimate advances has been essential to her company’s longevity.

The results speak for themselves. With the next generation—both son Jonathan and daughter Jennifer—taking on creative and strategic leadership roles in the company their parents started, School Zone seamlessly integrated digital learning platforms. The company received Apple’s exclusive Human Interface Design Excellence Award for software development, and its apps were part of the first-generation iPad launch in 2010. School Zone’s flagship product, the Little Scholar Learning Tablet, has earned industry-wide recognition and awards, as has its online learning destination Anywhere Teacher. Inspired by mom’s story-telling excellence, son Jonathan continued that legacy with Charlie & Company, an original series for ages 3-7, available on Oznnoz, Kidoodle.tv, ToonGoggles, BatteryPop, Ameba, and Highbrow.

Joan Hoffman says, “It is incredibly rewarding to see the children and grandchildren of some of our original customers enjoying our ever-evolving books, apps, flash cards, games, music, and other products—both print and digital.” 

In 2019 School Zone celebrates its 40th anniversary, spanning portions of five decades and having sold more than 370 million educational products. Hoffman continues to be hands-on in the company, still writing, still envisioning, and still putting kids, parents, and teachers first.

Review:

Gotta say me and my kid really enjoy these books
Gotta say me and my kid really enjoy these books. I love that they aren't too difficult and provide the right amount of material. Definitely super beneficial and I notice my child is zooming through it. It doesn't feel like a chore so my kid looks forward to the workbooks. --Amazon

Perfect for Us!

My daughter loves little work books and these are great for us to take along with us on doctor appointments or anywhere else she will have to wait like a restaurant or something. Helps kids work on the basics they will need to know before starting kindergarten and also start practicing for what kids learn in kindergarten, might give your kiddo a head start!

If you want to be able to re-use it for the next child, you can laminate the pages or slip them into a clear page protector and tape it shut, then give the child a dry-erase marker or crayon to complete the activity. Then you just wipe it clean.

--Amazon

Great variety of learning
I ordered this for my 4 year old to reinforce what he is learning in preschool. He was actually very excited to get it! It covers object sizes, colors, numbers, beginning sounds, opposites, differences, classifying, rhyming and counting. I would recommend photocopying the pages so that it can be used more than once. I let my son go to town on the book itself and now he has completed it and we have no more use for it. --Amazon

About this edition

• Publisher: School Zone
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1589470354
• ISBN 13: 9781589470354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Shannon M. Mullally Ph.D.
• Illustrator: Robin Boyer