What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know

Beautifully Illustrated Read-aloud

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know is a beautifully illustrated read-aloud anthology. It offers your family what fellow parents, educators, and distinguished developmental psychologists consider the "core of knowledge" for kindergartners. The author's emphasis on reading aloud to your children and the wide variety of art, math, music, and science activities with your kindergartner make this a valuable resource for teaching parents.

A Very Helpful Resource

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know is an excellent reference for everything from teaching handwriting to fun math projects you can do together. However, the best part for our review teams was the twenty nuggets of history in the middle of this book. Short stories about famous figures or simple synopses of USA history will help your child continue to develop the basics of a historical perspective and prepare him for jumping into a formal history program next year.

Note: Some of the read-aloud stories in What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know include fairy tales and magic.

Publisher Description
Filled with age-appropriate questions and suggestions that stimulate thinking and build vocabulary, What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know also includes:

• Favorite poems—read and recite together from Mother Goose, A. A. Milne, Langston Hughes, and more, all beautifully illustrated
• Beloved stories and fables—read aloud from “The Three Little Pigs,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Cinderella,” Winnie-the-Pooh, “The Velveteen Rabbit,” and many more, including multicultural folktales from African, Japanese, and Native American traditions
• Familiar sayings and phrases—impart traditional wisdom such as “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” and “Better safe than sorry”
• History and geography—a friendly introduction to our world, complete with simple questions and fun activities
• Visual arts—painting, drawing, cutting, and pasting go hand in hand with learning about color and helping a child look at and talk about great works of art
• Music—many musical experiences for parents and children to participate in, along with dozens of songs to sing and dance to
• Math—lively and interesting exposure to concepts and operations that provide a springboard to later mastery
• Science—activities that let children observe, experience, and get their hands dirty while exploring the wonders of nature

View Table of Contents Here

Enrich your Kindergartner's learning experience with:

• Interactive read-alouds
• Questions to ask
• Connections to make
• Games to play
  
  Publisher's Information
  Editors: E.D. Hirsch Jr & Linda Bevilacqua
  Number of Pages: 320
  Format: Softcover
  Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  Publication Date: July 16, 2013
  ISBN: 9780345543738
  Consumable: No
  Reproducible: No
  Faith-Based: No

review by The Coulter Coop

”What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know is an amazing tool...”

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