My Kindergarten Workbook: 101 Games & Activities (Ages 5-6)

Almost certainly not — and this is the most common surprise with this book.

The single most repeated note across seven years of reviews is that it runs easier than parents expect. A retired kindergarten teacher who reviewed it said the lessons sit "more at a pre-kindergarten level." Several parents bought it for four-year-olds and it landed perfectly.

So if your child is 4 and heading into kindergarten next year, this is close to ideal. It starts at letter shapes and simple counting and builds from there.

If your child is already halfway through kindergarten and reading confidently, the back half will suit them better than the front.

Two things, and they're both structural.

Nothing repeats. Most workbooks recycle six or seven templates across ninety pages. Kids clock that fast. This one has 101 genuinely different activities — word searches, secret codes, colour-by-number, mazes, counting puzzles, matching games. There's no "we already did this one" moment.

There's a finish line they can see. A star chart is printed inside the front cover. Every page they complete, they colour in a star. At the back there's a Certificate of Completion with a blank line for their name. A five-year-old can picture 101 stars. That's what brings them back tomorrow — not you asking.

No, and that's most of the point.

Each activity is self-contained on a single page with instructions simple enough for a beginning reader to follow — or for anyone to read aloud once and then step away. Parents regularly hand it to a grandparent, a sitter, or an older sibling.

That said, the star chart works better if someone notices. It takes five seconds.

Full colour, all 124 pages. No grey filler sections.

It's a large format too — 8.5 × 11 inches — so the lines and boxes are sized for a five-year-old's hand rather than crammed.

Six areas, matching what kindergarten actually asks for:

• Letters and letter sounds
• Reading and sight words
• Early math — counting, adding, skip counting
• Science
• Social studies
• Pencil control and following written directions

That last one is quietly the most useful. Following a written instruction on a page is the skill kindergarten leans on in week one, and it's the hardest to practise anywhere else.

Free worksheets are fine. They're also unsequenced — you're the one deciding what comes next, printing it, and keeping track of what's been done.

This is 101 activities already ordered by a teacher who spent eight years in K–3 classrooms and holds a Master's in Early Childhood Education. Page 8 is letter shapes. Page 118 is telling time and counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. The ramp is built in.

As for apps — a pencil does something a screen doesn't. Grip, letter formation, staying inside a line. Those are motor skills, and they only come from holding something.

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