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| Author: E.d. Jr Hirsch
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 3268
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0385318413
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.19
EAN: 9780385318419
ASIN: 0385318413
Publication Date: August 11, 1997
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| Customer Reviews:
 helpful January 14, 2008
My preschoolers loves reading the stories in this book. This book provides a good head start for kindergarten. As a precshool teacher, I wish all parents would use this book.
An excellent book, an excellent curriculum November 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book that describes what the Core Knowledge curriculum covers in kindergarten. This curriculum is only supposed to supplement up to 50% of a school's whole curriculum but it is the part that most schools are missing these days. My daughter attends a school that teaches the material covered in this book and she's learning the continents, all about Christopher Columbus, simple fractions and she's collecting data and graphing it in math class. These are the things that the Core Knowledge Curriculum adds to a Kindergartener's knowledge bank. There are some Core Knowledge schools throughout the US but we need more.
 Really helps give the basics October 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book would have received five stars from me but for the lack of bright pictures. There's no denying that pictures really help engage young kids so for the kindergartener to second grader titles at least, the publishers could have considered using larger images and more colors. But all that aside, this series is a great comfort because it helps seal whatever "gaps" I feel may be in our homeschooling curriculum. I like the way they include not only stories and fables but also ideas on teaching math and necessary info on science, history etc. I also use the series to back up lessons. For instance, I read my son the King Midas story and compared it with another version of King Midas in another book to explain how different authors tackle stories differently. It also gives me ideas for lesson plans and it helps wrap up our day when I either read it to my son or he reads it independently as a bedtime storybook. Altogether a great multi-tasking series.
Great starting point for kindergarteners! August 24, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once I got past the fact that they spell 'kindergartner' differently than I would (and yes, I even checked dictionary.com to verify their way was correct, lol!), I set about examining the book itself.
The series focuses on defining the least common denominator of what children absolutely must learn before moving on to a higher grade, and I'm very grateful for some level of guidance. I'm a (newbie) homeschooler, and I could not for the life of me find any kind of reference to tell me what skills are the most important to learn at the kindergarten level. With this book, I finally did.
This book not only tells me the essentials of what should be covered, but also ways to teach them and gives references to other books that I can use to do it. As so many before me have said, the curriculum included is not all your children are expected to learn in kindergarten. However, it provides a solid place to start.
The introduction is excellent and helps the reader understand that when our children are being educated, there needs to be a common ground--things that all children need to learn before moving on to the next grade level. Having moved at the end of 2nd grade, I know all too well what it's like to be bored out of your skull in class as your teacher covers things you already learned eons ago. And if a kid from my new school had moved to my old school, imagine the stress of suddenly being expected to know things you've never been exposed to!
One comment of this book really got me. The parent who felt she'd scarred her child for life by reading Casey Jones to him really made me shake my head. A responsible parent will read a story he or she is planning on with a child in advance, to make sure that you want to and are ready to discuss anything that the story might bring up. Don't blame the book; blame yourself for not doing your homework. It took me less than 2 minutes to read the Casey Jones story, which I did based on that review. It was the story of a brave man who sacrificed his life to save the lives of many, much like another story I expose my children to all the time.
 Didn't like all the stories & they were violent August 17, 2007
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
It seems to me this book is very highly liked by the people that home school. Which is great. I do not home school my children and i did find a few things interesting. But nothing that i couldn't find in another book about history etc.
I mostly did not like all the "classic" stories and poems. I grew up with many of these stories and KNOW my parents and grandparents told them in a much less violent way. I will be returning this book for sure.
If you don't want to tell your child stories about death, violence and hitting then don't waste your time on this book. I know they will learn this at some point....but let them be children for the short time they are innocent.
Good luck!
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