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Review #15496 - Dated: 5th of January, 2016
Author: kymmage |
With the Goosebumps movie out for the school holiday break, this book is the perfect way to keep your little ghouls and boys entertained. See what I did there? My daughter has been angling to see the movie for a few weeks now, but so far she hasn't had any luck. In the meantime she has been flipping through some of the Goosebumps goodies from Scholastic.
This activity book has been a winner. The combination of her actually missing school! And wanting to learn more about the monsters and do a few quizzes, has meant this book has had a thrashing. Inside the book is a series of fun activities - jokes, code breaking, pattern matching, quizzes, fill the blanks and word finds.
Some of the puzzles were a bit too hard for Miss 8. She struggles with spelling so this was to be expected. However, some of the games were fun for her to do and if I was around, I could also lend a hand and share in the joke we were uncovering. At the core of the activities, I could see that there was a lot of learning going on. All the activities are loosely hiding English language practice and the mathematics of pattern recognition. So while all she could see was fun, I could see the benefit of her using this book during the longer summer holidays to keep her mind whirring.
The book is about A4 in size. The pages are all in full colour, but the paper is matte and easy to write on. The backgrounds look like blood or tire marks, and there are gruesome monster pictures as well as photo stills from the movie sprinkled throughout. There are 90 pages of activities and then the last few pages are an answer key, so you can check your work. For $12 it's a bit dearer than a specific school skills activity book, but it's presented in a fun and unique way which should excite kids more.
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