School Zone - Big Mazes & More Workbook - 320 Pages, Ages 6 to 8, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Learning Activities, Math Puzzles, Games, Color By Numbers, and More (School Zone Big Workbook Series) - Softcover

School Zone; Joan Hoffman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601592574 ISBN 13: 9781601592576

Publisher: School Zone Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Find our complete line of educational resources at Amazon.com/SchoolZonePublishing.

BOOK FEATURES

• 320 pages: 301 activity pages, 19 answer key pages
• For ages 6 to 8
• 7.75" x 10.75" pages with durable glossy cover
• Activities include mazes, games, color-by-numbers, math puzzles, and more!
• The skill being practiced is listed at the bottom of each page
• Colorful, kid friendly illustrations expand imagination and problem-solving
• Mazes build confidence in identifying paths and solutions
• Perforated pages are easy to tear out for individual worksheets

AMAZING - Big Mazes and More Workbook has 300+ colorful exercises that will keep your child thinking. These proven games, math puzzles, color-by-numbers, and other activities will help prepare your child for success! Find 320 pages of learning material. As kids navigate the twists and turns of mazes, play games, and solve puzzles, they will be developing important skills and having fun at the same time. For second and third graders, ages 6 to 8.

WORKBOOKS - Chart a course or solve a mystery. With Big Mazes and More Workbook, kids wind their way to big learning. 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 the ability to not only remember what he or she learns, but to think of new ideas. The activities in this book can help sharpen your child's fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, and problem-solving skills. Plus, the interesting combination of colorful activities will keep your child entertained for hours!

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—all are 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 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 flash cards for preschoolers through sixth graders.

School Zone remains family-owned, focused on excellence, responsive to customers, alert to emerging technology, and committed to 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:

My 6 year old son loves mazes and previously we'd bought Brain Games for Kids: Mazes, which last him less than a week. This one has been much longer lived. It's full color, which makes it more engaging, and has a wider variety of mazes and maze variations in it. Some of them are arrows, so you have to work through the maze by figuring out which arrows to follow. There are also mosaics to color, which are really fun because you have no idea what the image will be (though the color matching for the printer meant some of the colors were off). It's also about twice the size of Brain Games for kids: Mazes but the same cost. The only thing that i didn't love was that it's not spiral bound like the Brain Games book, but I think the extra pages are worth it, and it would only be an issue if you were on an airplane or something. --Amazon

A 6 year old might find the first few pages of this book very easy, but the difficulty increases with the page numbers. Eventually a 6 yr old will come to a page of about 30 addition problems they have to complete, which end up being the directions they need to complete a picture. There are games in this book, color by number, crosswords, word searches, but it's 90% mazes. It's a nice fat book (301 pages) with an answer key at the back. It's a perfect activity book!! --Amazon

This book of mazes is terrific. My kids, 4 and 6, took turns working on this book over the summer and completed every single maze, sometimes doing them multiple times. The mazes have interesting graphics and layouts and some are quite challenging. This is the book that developed my younger son's maze skills. He worked on this book obsessively and was able to do even the hardest mazes by the end. I only wish there were more books like this one! --Amazon

About this edition

• Publisher: School Zone Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1601592574
• ISBN 13: 9781601592576
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Jennifer Neumann
• Illustrator: Robin Boyer, Joe Kramer, Remy Simard