 | Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School by Rebecca Rupp
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.40 Resource Book for the other books recommended on this list. Pages refer to more detailed descriptions and uses for the items recomended by Rebecca Rupp.
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 | Saxon Math 1: Home School Teachers Edition (Homeschool Math Grade 1) by Nancy Larson
Buy new: $47.96 / Used from: $8.62 p68 Rupp recommends the children's version,but I feel that all you really need is the homeschool teacher's edition.
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 | Miquon Math Lab Materials The Blue Book by Rasmussen Lore; Hightower Robert; Rasmussen Peter
Buy used from: $3.59 p68. First in series. Stresses problem solving skills and creative thinking.
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 | Anno's Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno
Buy used from: $16.95 p68 Math puzzles, problems, activities, and explanations.
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 | 100 Days Of School by Trudy Harris
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.95 p70. Clever presentation of math operations.
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 | From One to One Hundred (Picture Puffins) by Teri Sloat
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.35 p70. Counting from 1-10, and then by 10s to 100 Illustrated.
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 | One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints by Diana Pomeroy
Buy used from: $2.26 p70. Uses colorful potato-print illustrations to help children learn to count, and to make their own potato prints.
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 | 98, 99, 100! Ready or Not, Here I Come! (Hello Reader! Math, Level 2) by Teddy Slater
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 p70 Four little girls playing hide and seek find clever ways to count to 100.
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 | The Crayon Counting Book by Pam Munoz Ryan
Buy used from: $6.76 p70. Count 24 crayons by 2s using odd and een numbers.
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 | The King's Commissioners (Brainy Day Books) by Aileen Friedman
Buy used from: $5.00 p71. The King wants to know how many commissioners he has, and there are quite a few! How to make counting them easiest?
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 | Super Source for Culsenaire Rods, Grades K-2 by Cusinarire Co of America Inc
Buy used from: $6.55 p72. Super inexpensive sources for Culsenaire rods and supporting workbooks.
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 | Math by All Means: Place Value, Grade 1-2 by Marilyn Burns
Buy used from: $13.71 p72. Innovative lesson plans, games, activities to help learn place value.
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 | Apple Fractions (Rookie Read-About Math) by Donna Townsend
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $8.32 p72. Substitution for Eating Fractions, which isn't widely available.
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 | Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.25 p72. Little animals learn about fractions, dividing geometric shapes, sets of objects, pieces of fruit, and money.
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 | The Best Vacation Ever (MathStart 2) by Stuart J. Murphy
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 p73. Little girl collects opinions of family members and charts results.
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 | Math By All Means: Money, Grades 1-2 by Jane Crawford
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $12.00 p75. Hands-on way to learn about money through games, activities and appealing lessons.
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 | Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 p75. Alexander blows his only dollar in a series of disastrous trades and purchases.
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 | The Go-Around Dollar by Barbara Johnston Adams
Buy new: $15.29 / Used from: $1.11 p75. Sound information to help youngsters understand the basics about our paper currency.
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 | Melissa & Doug Deluxe Magnetic Calendar
Buy new: $12.95 p76 My grandson loves this calendar. It can be rearranged and used for many years. Great way to learn how calendars work by building your own.
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 | One Hand at a Time by Patrica Smith
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.69 p76. A time-telling activity book.
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 | Fisher-Price Fun-2-Learn Teaching Clock
Buy new: $34.99 p76 Rupp recommends any clock, but I like this one which teaches both analog and digital clock reading at the same time.
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 | How Big Is a Foot? by Rolf Myller
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $1.28 p76. Delightful explanation of the importance of standard measurements.
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 | Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.93 p77. Inchworm measures everything in sight.
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 | Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement by Susan Hightower
Buy new: $15.29 / Used from: $0.01 p77. Milo, a beaver, needs a yard-long branch, but how to create one out on the pond?
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 | Math By All Means: Geometry, Grades 1-2 by Chris Confer
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $1.36 p77. Kids learn math of shapes and patterns through games, activities, etc.
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 | A Cloak For The Dreamer (Brainy Day Books) by Aileen Friedman
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $2.23 p77. A tailor's sons create cloaks or rectangles, triangles and circles.
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 | M Is for Mirror by Birmingham
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $0.20 p78. Using mirror included, children try to find hidden pictures.
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 | Which Way, Ben Bunny?: A Lift-The-Flap Book About Left and Right by Mavis Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 p78. This book makes if fun to learn left from right.
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