
What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated)
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This primer for those just beginning their school careers was devised with the contributions of over 2,000 parents, educators and students, distilled into a user-friendly volume specifically designed for parents to use with their children. Eighty pages of four-color illustrations enliven the new, bold design of this latest title in a series adopted by hundreds of schools nationwide and appreciated by thousands of adults looking to instill in children a lifetime love of learning.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- A Note to Teachers
- Contents
- General Introduction to the Core Knowledge Series
- I. Language and Literature
- Reading, Writing, and Your Kindergartner
- Acquiring the Skill of Reading
- Reading Is Not a Skill
- The Knowledge Connection
- Kindergarten and Your Child
- Listening and Learning
- Common Core State Standards and Your Child
- A Balance of Fiction and Nonfiction
- Explore the World Through Reading and Listening
- A Focus on Evidence
- Academic Vocabulary
- Coherence
- Building Literacy at Home
- Read to Your Kindergartner
- Talk to Your Child
- Limit TV Time
- Choose Activities That Build Background Knowledge
- Be a Reader, Raise a Reader
- Want to Learn More?
- Literature
- Introduction: Worlds of Meaning
- Familiar and Favorite Poems
- Activities for Poetry
- Time to Rise
- Happy Thought
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock
- Early to Bed
- Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
- A Diller, a Dollar
- Hey, Diddle, Diddle
- Little Bo Peep
- Little Boy Blue
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Rain, Rain, Go Away
- It's Raining, It's Pouring
- April Rain Song
- The More It Snows
- My Nose
- Roses Are Red
- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- Tommy
- Jack and Jill
- Jack Be Nimble
- There Was a Little Girl
- Little Miss Muffet
- Georgie Porgie
- Humpty Dumpty
- Little Jack Horner
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Hot Cross Buns!
- Simple Simon
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Old King Cole
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- Ladybug, Ladybug
- Three Blind Mice
- Jack Sprat
- See Saw, Margery Daw
- Three Little Kittens
- There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Star Light, Star Bright
- Aesop's Fables
- The Dog and His Shadow
- The Lion and the Mouse
- The Hare and the Tortoise
- The Grasshopper and the Ants
- Stories
- The Three Little Pigs
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Momotaro: Peach Boy
- The Little Red Hen
- Chicken Little
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Story of Jumping Mouse
- The Bremen Town Musicians
- The Ugly Duckling
- Tug-of-War
- Cinderella
- The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
- King Midas and the Golden Touch
- Snow White
- How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?
- In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- or, How Toys Become Real
- Two Tall Tales
- Johnny Appleseed
- Casey Jones
- Sayings
- April showers bring May flowers.
- Better safe than sorry.
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- A dog is man's best friend.
- The early bird gets the worm.
- Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Look before you leap.
- A place for everything and everything in its place.
- It's raining cats and dogs.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Where there's a will, there's a way.
- II. History and Geography
- Introduction
- World History and Geography
- Planet Earth
- Oceans and Continents, Maps and Globes
- Earth's Seven Continents
- Which Way Are You Going?
- The North and South Poles
- The Seven Continents
- Asia
- Europe
- Africa
- North America
- South America
- Australia
- Antarctica
- American History and Geography
- Your Country
- The American Flag
- Our Country Long Ago
- Running Dog Joins the Hunt
- The First Americans: Many Peoples and Many Places
- Homes in the Desert, Homes by the Sea
- Christopher Columbus
- Sailing with Christopher Columbus
- Reaching Land
- Pilgrims in the New World
- A Hard Journey
- Meeting the Wampanoag
- Happy Birthday, America!
- Fun on the Fourth of July
- Not Completely Free
- Presidents of the United States
- George Washington and the Cherry Tree
- Thomas Jefferson: The Idea Man
- Abraham Lincoln: Honest Abe
- Theodore Roosevelt: The Teddy Bear President
- Honoring Our Presidents
- Choosing Our Presidents
- Suggested Resources
- III. Visual Arts
- Introduction
- What Do Artists Do?
- Art in Color
- Lines and Patterns
- Statues, Monuments, and More
- Mobiles
- Let's Talk About Art
- Snap the Whip
- Children's Games
- Le Gourmet
- The Banjo Lesson
- The Bath
- Really Looking
- Suggested Resources
- IV. Music
- Introduction
- Making Music
- Let's Listen to Music
- Moving to Music
- Follow the Beat
- Make Up the Beat
- Loud and Quiet
- Loud Songs, Quiet Songs
- Loud Drum, Quiet Drum
- Fast and Slow
- High and Low
- Favorite Songs
- Bingo
- Go In and Out the Window
- Hush, Little Baby
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
- Old MacDonald
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- Pop! Goes the Weasel
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- The Bear Went over the Mountain
- Jingle Bells
- The Farmer in the Dell
- The Hokey Pokey
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Kookaburra
- Kum Ba Yah
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- The Wheels on the Bus
- This Old Man
- Suggested Resources
- V. Mathematics
- Introduction
- Patterns and Classifications
- Activity 1: Collecting Things by Likeness
- Activity 2: Sorting Everyday Objects
- Activity 3: Alike and Different
- Activity 4: Shape Sort
- Activity 5: Shape Train
- Activity 6: Potato Prints
- Activity 7: More Play with Patterns
- Numbers and Number Sense
- Activity 1: Numbers from 1 to 10
- Activity 2: Loading the Train: Counting Objects to 10
- Activity 3: The Size of 10
- Activity 4: Counting Game
- Activity 5: How Many?
- Activity 6: Number Match
- Activity 7: One More, One Less
- Activity 8: Most and Fewest
- Activity 9: Counting More Than 10 Objects
- Activity 10: Things That Come in Pairs
- Activity 11: Counting by Twos
- Activity 12: Counting by Fives and Tens
- Activity 13: Half and Half
- Activity 14: A Good-Job Graph
- Activity 15: Block Train
- Money
- Activity 1: Identifying Money
- Activity 2: Money Bingo
- Computation
- Activity 1: Addition: Finding Totals
- Activity 2: Subtraction: The Take-Away Game
- Activity 3: Addition and Subtraction Stories
- Measurement
- Activity 1: Measuring Tools
- Activity 2: Measuring with Paper Clips
- Activity 3: Measuring with Hands and Feet
- Activity 4: Full, Half Full, and Empty
- Activity 5: Heavy and Light
- Activity 6: Long and Short Events
- Activity 7: Before and After: Morning, Afternoon, and Evening
- Activity 8: What Time Is It?
- Activity 9: The Calendar
- Geometry
- Activity 1: What's That Shape?
- Activity 2: Shape and Size
- Activity 3: Where Is It? Using Words of Position and Direction
- Activity 4: Simon Says
- Suggested Resources
- VI. Science
- Introduction
- Plants and Plant Growth
- Plants Are All Around Us
- Seeds Grow into Plants
- Watch a Seed Grow in a "See-Through" Planter
- What Plants Need to Grow
- What Do Plants Need? An Experiment
- Seeds to Eat
- We Eat Many Plant Parts
- Growing Food Plants
- Seasons and Weather
- The Four Seasons
- Talking About the Weather
- The Wind Blows in Many Directions
- Rain and Snow
- Make a Snowflake
- Storms
- Animals and Their Needs
- Taking Care of Pets
- Animals Care for Their Babies
- The Human Body
- Your Five Senses
- Taking Care of Your Body
- Taking Care of the Earth
- The Forests and the Trees
- Conservation: Saving and Protecting the Earth
- It's Smart to Recycle
- Keep Our Earth Clean
- An Invisible Force: Magnetism
- Can Magnetic Force Pass Through an Object?
- What Do Magnets Attract?
- Stories About Scientists
- George Washington Carver
- Jane Goodall
- Wilbur and Orville Wright
- Suggested Resources
- Illustration and Photo Credits
- Text Credits and Sources
- About the Editors
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