Kumon Pre K & Up Geography US and Canada Sticker Activity Book (Kumon Sticker Activity Books)

This has been an excellent supplement to my Kindergarteners virtual schooling this year. We use it on days where their virtual assignments may be light, or on non-school days to keep a routine. My two children love the stickers and mazes. It is engaging and a great intro to geography for that age group.

This is a great resource to teach preschoolers beginning geography. There are stickers for each page which make it a quick and simple activity for younger kids. I homeschool my kids and bought this for the youngest so he can feel included during their geography time. I do like a lot of the Kumon books and this is one of the best ones I've come across so fun in the creative presentation of the material

My rising 1st grader needed some practice with cardinal directions and basic explanations of continents, countries, states and territories, so I thought I'd try this sight unseen. This book does not meet any of those expectations, in fact a compass rose is missing from most of the maps, assuming you got the gist from the first two maps, but my LO was super excited to do the mazes and was lured in by easy-to-read, 2-sentence intros of each map. I think parents underestimate how much 1st graders enjoy stickering still. I kept the book because I plan to use it to supplement our biology curriculum which explores habitats and ecosystems. It will be easy to sync the regions of the northeast with cold forrested areas, the southeast with wetlands, the midwest with prairie/plains, the southwest with deserts, and the west with mountainous regions. My disappointment with the book is that it doesn't teach or explain map reading to the child. They could have explained the dashed line for states and solid lines for country borders, but didn't. The notes mention Alaska not being to scale, but there's no scale included (admittedly a 2nd or 3rd grade concept). I am asking my LO to draw in a compass on each map. Also, the coloring sections are so arbitrary, like color the mountain area that is white brown, clearly what makes this book "Pre-K & up." We bought DK Geography 1st grade to explain the specifics of maps and directions and continents, countries, territories, states and borders. This is just a nicely colored, fun sticker book with a very broad and youthful approach to developing United States and Canada geographic awareness.

I like Kumon Books and their series. It's a great way to teach your preschooler with fun and they really enjoy doing activities in this book especially sticker activities. It's definitely must have for homeschooling. I wish they would have included more pages with more fun activities.

It's a fun exposure to Canadian and American geography for a young child. However it lacks the typical rigor or mastery I associate with a Kumon approach. It's kind of a fun exposure and survey of geography, but at the same time the absence of repetition or real challenge I wouldn't expect children to retain all that much. Most of the activities are stickering two or three items onto blank portions of a particular map (states, cities, landmarks), or doing a maze out of some national landmark. As the stickers, even for cities and landmarks, are shaped to their particular blank, there's not even a need to actually read or understand what one is placing down or where it is actually located. Shockingly there's an answer key provided in the back, just in case you couldn't tell that the triangle city was supposed to go on the triangle and the circle city on the circle, or that the New Hampshire sticker indeed fit only in the New Hampshire blank spot and not New Jersey A careful instructor can use these activities as a starting point for further learning and questions, but that's not really how the Kumon approach is supposed to work. I don't have high expectations for Pre-K students, but being able to point to their state and a few large or populous ones on the map feels reasonable, as is a few major cities, and I don't feel these kinds of exercises really reach that level of retention. I do give it three stars because it was extremely engaging for my three year old, and the maps themselves are pretty clearly done.

This is a great book for children wanting to learn US and CA Geography. What a genius idea. The approach is basic but the material is not infantile. My kid feels like she's really learning--and I trust that she really is. I especially appreciate the detail given to the states and providences, which respects what they are and doesn't make them cartoonish blobs.

This books has sticker pages, mazes (a little advanced for my 3yo but he tries) and coloring pages. Most Geography for kids workbooks are coloring books with facts and honestly too much coloring for little hands. This book has a very small area of the map that children will color.

Great introductory book that covers all the bases in a colorful and easy to use way. Purchased for my mid-elementary kids. The back of the book has full-color stickers, answer key, and certificate. I bought the World Geography version, too, and it is just as well done.

The Canadian part of it is a bit of a joke. They study Anne of green gables....but it wasn’t even made in PEI...plus other things I wouldn’t suggest if your canadian

Great

Not much of Canada. But book itself is okay. Not a must buy for a kindergartener.