What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Get Ready for Kindergarten (Core Knowledge Series)

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What Your Preschooler Needs to Know

Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in schooland for the rest of their lives. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, developed in consultation with parents, educators, and the most distinguished developmental psychologists. In addition to valuable advice for parents, such as what it means for a child to be ready for kindergarten, special sidebars throughout the book help parents make reading aloud fun and interactive, suggesting questions to ask, connections to make, and games to play to enrich their preschoolers learning experience. Inside you will discover

Favorite poems and rhymesall beautifully illustrated, to be read and recited together, from Robert Louis Stevensons At the Seaside to limericks by Edward Lear and tongue twisters by Jack Prelutsky, plus fun clap along! and fingerplay verses that parents and children can act out together
Beloved stories and fablesstories such as The Three Little Pigs and the African folktale Why Flies Buzz will open whole new worlds of learning and discovery
Visual artsbeautiful full-color reproductions of classic works that foster early appreciation of art history while igniting discussions about shapes, colors, and different styles and media
Musicdozens of songs to sing and dance to, including such move around songs as Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes and The Wheels on the Bus
Historya delightful introduction to American history, from the first Thanksgiving to Martin Luther King, Jr., with activities and stories parents and children can enjoy together
Sciencefrom exploring the wonder of animals to the physical properties of light, air, and waterfun activities that will let children observe, experience, and enjoy the natural world