Thinking Skills

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  • February 7, 2015 at 3:31 pm
    Christy
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    Hi!  I have several homeschool friends who use the Building Thinking Skills workbooks by the Critical Thinking Company with their children and just rave about them.  We have never used any thing like this.  I had planned on adding in a logic study in maybe 8th grade.  Kids are in 5th and 3rd now.  Are these really necessary?  I have just never seen any of them mentioned in CM plans.

    How are these skills covered if you don’t use workbooks?  I looked at some of them online.  Honestly, we cover so many subjects in our CM schedule, I just don’t want to add any busywork to our schedule unless it is needed and we are missing it somehow.  😉

    Thanks!

     

    February 9, 2015 at 9:26 am
    Lovinlife
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    Hi Christy,

    We have incorporated Building Thinking Skills into our school year this year and both of our kids have really enjoyed using them. Our son (8) and daughter (7) both do this in the morning as part  of their individual work and have enjoyed doing so, they actually ask for it if I haven’t included it in their morning individual workbasket.

    I wouldn’t deem them necessary as part of their formal education but they have helped both of them to be able to think through situations in a  well thought out manner. The series really work their brains in a different manner then when we do our Charlotte Mason style work.

    If your not looking to add “busy work” to your day then I would forgo these. However, if you’d like to add some extras on to your children(s) after school or weekend activities this series is great.

    Hope that helps!

    February 9, 2015 at 10:00 pm
    momto2blessings
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    Or if you’d rather not add to current schedule, they can be great summertime activities to help keep their brains working:)

    February 15, 2015 at 8:21 pm
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    We started using perplexors this year also.  My kids love them and ask to do more.   This is logic and is recommended by educators.  Lee Binz with home school scholor has said that colleges say they like homeschoolers because they teach logic.

    The sheets do not take long, maybe 5-10 mins, it is recommended to do 2-3 per week.

    February 16, 2015 at 8:50 am
    Christy
    Participant

    Thanks so much, everyone, for your advice on this!  🙂  I have ordered some of these books and am waiting to get them in the mail to look a little more closely at.  Sounds like this is a good subject to include and doesn’t seem to take a lot of time to do.  Have a good day!

    Christy  🙂

    February 21, 2015 at 3:10 pm
    Christy
    Participant

    So, I just received my order.  I got 2 levels of the Building Thinking Skills and 2 levels of the Mind Benders workbooks, both from Critical Thinking Co.  I wanted to check out the Mind Benders after reading some of the old posts where several people recommended them as well.

    In looking through these, it looks like there are about 11 or so of the Mind Bender type exercises already included in the Building Thinking Skills.  So, I may not even need those.  What do you think?

    I also have another question.  These are really big workbooks!  The Level 2 book had 357 exercises in it.  How many of these do you do a week?  Daily?  I really don’t want to ask the kiddos to do more than 1 page every day, if that much, since we already have so much on our plates.  😉

    Thanks!

    Christy

    February 21, 2015 at 3:30 pm
    Anonymous
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    Christy,

    I am not sure about the larger books.  The books I have are only 52 pages, give or take a few.  I have the “perplexors” basic level to start with.  These is put out by http://www.mindware.com even though I purchased thru Amazon.  The book itself only suggest 2-3 puzzles a week.

    I started with the basic level because my children had never done these before.   I wanted them to get the hang of the way  the puzzles are done before giving them real challenge levels.  I also have a “mind benders” book but have not used these yet as I purchased a higher grade level than I think they are ready for.

    I know you already purchased others but you may want to look at the “perlexors” also.  You can search it on Amazon.

    Hope this helps.

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