I received a box of Kumon books and thought I would share my thoughts about them.

O loved the Rhyming Words book-- there's just enough on each page to reinforce a word family, but not so much it's overwhelming.  The activities repeat with different words groups, so after reading him the instructions for the first word family, he knew what to do for the following pages. 

M loves the Tracing books, and these will be pulled out when she wants to "do school" with the rest of us.

The early math (addition and subtraction) books, however, are b-o-r-i-n-g.  Each page has way too many exercises for the pre-K/K/1st age group, and they're just math problems.  No matching, no variation.  Just problem.after.problem.  Neither O nor J wanted to do these, although either could have. 

I do like that their math problems are set up horizontally.  Supposedly that's supposed to promote memorization of math facts (so that 11 + 5 = 16 is automatic, instead of 11 + 5 is 1 + 5 = 6 plus 10).

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