What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core...

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series) | E.D. Jr Hirsch | Terrific resource!

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What Your Kinderga...

	What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series) E.D. Jr Hirsch Delta, 1997 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Key to the Future

I first read Hirsch's book in the mid 90s when I started my career as an educator. The insights and revelations his book yielded paid huge dividends for me. I have read the stories to my kindergarteners, used the math activities, and have profited from the advice on what constitutes a strong school. The beginning of the book should be read and reread by all educators and parents, for it provides some sobering reasons for why our nation's school system is in trouble. It also gives commonsense information on what we can do to make our schools stronger. E. D. Hirsch is the pioneer of the Core Curriculum, which I believe can save education in America. Please read this book, but more importantly use it!

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Terrific resource!

If you want a simple curriculum to follow, this is your book! You can take the sections and expand on them based onyour child's interest. This book coupled with Rebecca Rupp's Homeschooling Year by Year are pretty much the only books I need!

Perfect for Grandmas

Just the thing for Grandma's house...all of the basics in a concise form. Plus you are reaching important global knowledge significant to a child's intellectual growth.

Great Book!

This is a well-written, easy to read synopsis of our educational system in the U.S. The thrust of this series is to try and build consistency for all student throughout the U.S. and as such, this book outlines what a kindergarten curriculum should include. It is not meant to be exhaustive in itself, but a reference and starting point for both schools and homeschoolers. There are sections from all subjects, the illustrations are interesting to our kids (4 and 5) and they have enjoyed reading and learning directly from this book. If you're interested in education and want something to get started, this is a great tool.

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Helpful general resource

Though it runs the risk of serving everyone and so pleasing no one, this Core Knowledge kindergarten book really is helpful. I've used it as a "spine" to satisfy myself that I haven't left any gaping holes in my daughter's kindergarten education. It seems to have been written more for folks with kids in public school to fill in any gaps; I'm using it from a homeschooler's perspective. It has served its purpose. I don't plan to use the remaining Core Knowledge Series books because I want to pursue a classical education for my kids, but I would recommend this book to those who are as timid as I was starting out with homeschooling and who haven't yet settled on a specific curriculum or direction.

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