 | What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series) by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.27 This is a must! It gives you a great GUIDELINE for your kindergarten program. Also, provides you with many poems, stories, math problems, and art prints.
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 | Primary Mathematics 2A Workbook (Singapore Math)
Buy used from: $6.94 If you go to www.singaporemath.com they have a homeschool button that will tell you where to start your child. I got the Earlybird Kindgergarten 1a,1b,2a,2b and the Power Math-K. I think the Power Math-K is essential with the workbooks. It reinforces the units.
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 | Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.99 This is what I used to teach my son to read. It worked beautifully. He was sounding out words in a few lessons.
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 | Little Bear (My First Reader) by Diane Namm
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.01 Any first readers are good to have around. You can buy bundles from thrift stores or yardsales. When my son graduated from the Teach your child to read.. book, I had him read a page or two from these first readers for his lessons.
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 | DK First Atlas (DK First Reference Series) by Anita Ganeri
Buy used from: $6.75 Anything from DK publishing is usually really worth your money. This is a good one, but I would check out tons of children's atlas' from the library and then buy the one you like best.
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 | World Rolled Map (M Series World Wall Maps) by Robert G. Enzel
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $6.09 a good wall size world map is really needed to get several of the key kindergarten themes across. You could probably find a cheap one at a used bookstore or thrift store. Mine was a freebie from someone.
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 | Spanish for Children: For Young Learners by Catherine Bruzzone
Buy used from: $0.90 You don't have to start a formal language program in K, but picking out a few words to get them used to different languages is a good idea. I started "formal" spanish lessons when my son started 1st grade.
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 | The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book: Fun & Easy-To-Use Games & Activities To Help You Teach Your Children Fitness, Movement & Sport Skills by Guy Bailey
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.25 Sometimes homeschoolers forget about P.E.! This is a good book you can use for many years.
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| Handwriting Paper Grade 1: 5/8 Inch Ruling-Red Baseline-Broken Midline : 500 Sheets
Buy used from: $15.61 I bought the white handwriting paper from a discount store. we like the white because he can use different colored pencils to do his drills. Remember that it is hard to learn to control that pencil so daily drills are needed.
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 | National Geographic
Buy new: $15.00 I love this mag. I am cataloging the articles on a piece of paper, so that the kids can use these mags to write reports and read about topics that we are discussing. I buy one year and then skip a year or two. Buy it from nationalgeographic.com for $15.00
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 | Smithsonian
Buy new: $12.00 I bought this and have been happy with it. again I am cataloging the articles for future use. I buy one year and then replace it with something else.
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 | Scientific American
Buy new: $24.97 I would check out several scientific, popular mechanics mags from a local bookstore and then settle on one. the information is outstanding in most. Also, it stretches us to do look-ups online.
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 | Canon PowerShot A460 5.0MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom (Silver)
Buy new: $133.35 / Used from: $200.00 I like to have a digital camera for homeschooling. My son has a field journal (like Diego). We take pics of events, adventures and activities that we do. then we print them and glue them in the field journal. I write his quotes in the book and he flips through it a lot. teach your kids to be gentle with it and help them to use it. They will be very proud of the pics they take.
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