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Title: What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know : Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning by Jr. E.D. Hirsch ISBN: 0-385-31841-3 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 11 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must Have!
Comment: This book is a must have! You can use this book as a guide line for your child's education. I love it as a homeschooling parent. It is a great book to use as a guide for what your child should know at what grade level. It has language arts, history, fine arts, and more all in one book. It is worth the money! It tells you "how to use the book" it gives parents and teachers introductions on each subject. It's a great book! Highly recommended for parents!I have more of these books I would recommend this book to parents of the appropriate ages of the books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Useful!
Comment: When I bought this book, I expected to see more of a checklist of what my child needed to know for Kindergarten and what my child would learn in Kindergarten. As a former Kindergarten teacher, I have an idea of what is needed, but I wanted it in writing. What I got was different, but not bad.
This book is devided into sections: reading, writing, art, etc.
There are whole stories, poems, songs, and lessons for a kindergartener. While I don't expect that it will be enough for teaching a whole year of Kindergarten at home, I think it will be a great start. The emphasis is placed on reading (rightly so I think). I would like to see more in the math section though. I find that the art section is lacking, while the Social Studies section has much more than I would expect a Kindergartener to know. I hope I'm pleasantly suprised in that area.
For information purpose it is not in a themematic form. It does cover many of the things that you would expect to see in a classical education (artists, authors, paintings etc). But it is lacking if you want a fully classical education.
While there a few resources, there are not near as many as I would like to see. I'd also like to see a comprehensive, overall list of what a child is expected to know before and after Kindergarten.
While it seems that I have discussed many of the points I see that need improvement, I think this book is great. It is probably the most comprehensive one book you can find for helping your child in Kindergarten. This would be a great start for homeschooling parents who don't want to spend a lot of money. It is a great book for parents who want to help their child learn prior to and during kindergarten but aren't really sure what to do.
I would buy this book. Just be aware of the limitations and be prepared to suppliment those areas.
Rating: 5
Summary: Get them off to a Great Start!
Comment: The Book "What Your Kindergartener Need To Know is a great book to use to get your child started in learning. Even if you didn't get your hands on it before Kindergarten it is a good review and will help you to see if you child has suffered any "gaps" in their knowledge to date.
Since different states and school systems have different opinions as to what a child should know at what age, this book may not necessarily cover what your child has or is about to learn in your local school. From my analysis, the book covers more information from a cultural awareness perspective. This means that is basically is filled with things your child should have been exposed to by this point. They may not KNOW these things or be able to recite everything from this book, but they should have some awareness or have had some exposure to it at this point.
When my children and I received this book, our first Core Knowledge book by Hirsh, we went through the books table of contents page with a pencil and marked off everything they knew. My children are in the 3rd and 1st grade, and the 1st grader "KNEW" much more of the items, which to me means she remembered more items since she had been exposed to them more recently. Although the word KINDERGARTEN was written boldly across the front, they took great joy in my reading the fables and testing them on the geography and math question at bedtime.
I purchase these books in anticipation of beginning homeschooling, but we could not wait to get started on this series. I recommend this and the other books in this set to anyone considering homeschooling or even school-schooling. It is great fun to interact with your children and amazing to find out what they actually know.
Contents include, but are not limited to:
Teaching your child to read and write
Introduction to literature
Nursery rhymes, poems, and Aesop's Fables
Children's Stories like Three Billy Goats Gruff
Simple history and geography, especially American
Visual arts and music
Math and math readiness
Science including plants, weather, animals, and the human body, all at a "Kindergarteners Level"
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Title: What Your First Grader Needs to Know : Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education by Jr. E.D. Hirsch ISBN: 0385319878 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 09 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What Your Second Grader Needs to Know : Fundamentals of a Good Second Grade EducationRevised by Jr. E.D. Hirsch ISBN: 038531843X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 13 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised Edition) : Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education by Jr. E.D. Hirsch ISBN: 0385336268 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner ISBN: 0671631985 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know : Fundamentals of a Good Fourth-Grade Education by Jr. E.D. Hirsch ISBN: 0385312601 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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