Progress with Oxford: Colours and Patterns Age 3-4

Good helpful boom for teaching little ones about shapes and colours.

Not used yet but looks fab!

Very clear instructions for the adult and great fun for the child.

This addition to the progress with Oxford book is aimed at honing young children's understanding and concept of colours and patterns it also gives loads of opportunity for colouring which helps with fine motor skills and hand strength & control becoming ready for writing which is excellent practice especially if your child has difficulty with their grip or control.The colour practice moves into recognition of two colour and three colour patterns and then recognition of a shape pattern which means this would be well paired with the  Shape & Size  edition.As a parent and educator this is hands down the best series I have seen so far for high impact but fun learning books in this age group with lots of colour, the use of a little avatar Patt who looks a bit like Bridget the Friendly Bergen from Trolls and Ernie who looks like a sprouting garlic (Patt + Ernie= Pattern) this is excellent to help consolidate alongside art and play based activities and throughout there are extension activities to take it into the real world and play with colour such as colour sorting socks, tins, collect red things all the way up to icing biscuits for placing in a pattern and making a collage/scrapbook/collection of patterns seen out and about.Recognition of colours and patterns are part of beginning to analyse similarities and differences and leading towards grouping and sorting which lead to greater 'grown up' skills in maths and literacy too so if the skills are built early on they become more natural and instinctive.Excellent and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to other parents.

As a numeracy and literacy tutor of both children and adults, I am always interested to see a good workbook like this. This one is suitably easy for age 3-4, but it still meets some objectives of the statutory framework for the early years foundationStage, i.e. the type of learning your child should be doing in nursery school. Some of For Maths, these include the following:“Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes.”This book is a superb aid to this: the child has to identify colours, shapes and patterns, and even do some counting, e.g. “count how many times you use a colour in a day”.The 16 individual objectives (listed in a progress sheet at the back) go all the way from “I can find a colour” to “I can make lots of colour patterns”. That’s a lot of progress for a 3/4 year old.However, it’s fun for the child. Some of the answers require colouring in/adding the next shape, and there are plenty of stickers to reward the child after each exercise.Highly recommended.

I was asked if I’d like to review Progress with Oxford: Colours and Patterns Age 3-4 by Kate Robinson and I said yes because I knew this would help my youngest.It’s a paperback book and has 32 pages in total.At the front of the book, there’s an introduction, which tells you how to use this book with your child and at the back you’ll find a progress chart and the answers.This book will help your youngster to learn about colours and their names, as well as learning about simple patterns. You’ll find pictures clues that will show your youngster how to do the activity.To make it fun they’ve included a character that goes on the learning journey with your child, and they’ve included stickers to go in the book, (I think every child loves stickers as they know it means they are going to have fun).If you’re using this for an older child you’ll find reminder boxes, tips and advice that will give support to help them become self-sufficient learners.It’s a great little book, and I’m glad they’ve remembered to make it fun. You have to remember a child’s attention span is small at this age so they need something that’s both interesting and fun to do. :-)I can recommend this book. :-)

The Progress with Oxford: Colours and Patterns (Age 3-4) Workbook, is a fantastic and fun-filled way of helping your pre-school aged child to explore early Maths skills that include the sequencing of colour patterns. It also combines this with some work with colour recognition and pencil control.The book combines colouring with learning, so that your child gets to learn through fun activities. As the pages progress, your child goes from dealing with one colour, to looking at two-colour patterns, before moving on to three-colour patterns. Finally, it includes shape patterns, to increase your child's recognition of basic mathematical shapes.This is our new favourite range for our 3 year old. She loves the activities, and now owns three of the books in this series, which are all equally fun and educational. The pages are also littered with fun activities that can be used to expand upon each specific learning goal. These additional ideas will most definitely help your child to consolidate their understanding of the individual goals.I highly recommend this to any parent who is looking at getting some educational books for the 3-4 age group. Fantastic series!

This is a bright and colourful workbook. The early pages focus on identifying and matching colours. The latter pages focus on recognising and creating colourful patterns. There is definite progression through the book so perfect for little and often, but to the kids it just feels like a special colouring book. What I really liked was that the activities require no writing so are perfect for the 3-4 age range. I've bought several 3+ workbooks that require an ability to write which is frustrating for the early user. Compared to the price of an early years magazine this is good value and still comes with stickers.