Brain Quest Preschool Product Review
Although the "For Threes" Brain Quest product is still enjoyable, I decided to up the ante and buy her the Brain Quest Preschool series. With 300 questions tailored to children between 4 and 5 years of age, Brain Quest Preschool provided my daughter with all the fun, educational activities found in the edition for younger toddlers.
Brain Quest Preschool contains a variety of questions geared toward preschool-age children over four years of age, but not yet attending kindergarten. Questions include very simple visual cues, such as, "Which animal is wearing a pink dress?" and fairly complicated challenges such as, "Which of these objects is the same shape as planet Earth?" The question set features number identification, basic phonics, identifying patterns, age-appropriate vocabulary, and matching similar words, shapes or pictures.
I was, at first, concerned that Brain Quest Preschool would be too challenging for my not-yet-three-year-old. Since it is targeted to children nearly twice her age, I expected that she would understand and correctly answer only a few of the questions. However, I was surprised to see that-- while many of the questions did pose something of a challenge-- they were well within her developmental stage.
My toddler is gifted, but I wouldn't generally consider her to be more savvy than an average five-year-old. For this reason, while I enjoyed using Brain Quest Preschool edition for my gifted toddler, I would consider it to be too easy to be educational or entertaining for most children over 4.5 years of age. I believe that an average 3.5- to 4-year-old would, however, benefit from the product.
If your preschool-age child is over four years of age and gifted or developmentally advanced, I would recommend moving a step up in the Brain Quest hierarchy, and purchasing the Brain Quest Kindergarten edition instead of the Brain Quest Preschool questions. Although I anticipate that my daughter will continue to enjoy this product for at least a few years, I believe that she will outgrow the most significant challenges in the game within only a few months.
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