Religion (Thrice weekly): Catholic Bible Stories for Children (Ball) Catholic Mosaic and accompanying books Optional flannelgraph Math (Daily): ANY WORKBOOK Recommended: Base Ten Blocks, 100 board, Ruler Kindergarten Booklist Reading/Phonics (Daily): Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Siegfried Engelmann) Handwriting (Daily): Primary lined paper tablet Optional book of easy mazes Poetry (Daily): Child s Garden of Verses (or just print them) Storytime (Daily): Assorted read-alouds from the attached list. Art (Weekly): Child-Size Masterpieces: Mommy, It s a Renoir! Easy, Intermediate, and Advanced Steps 1-3 Plain paper and colored pencils for optional retelling illustrations Music (Daily): 36 Traditional Roman Catholic Hymns: A Book for Singing with Accompanying CD Recordings History (Optional weekly, choose one): Stories of American Life and Adventure (Eggleston) Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (Eggleston) Science (Optional weekly, choose one): The Insect Folk (Morely) Burgess Bird Book (Burgess) Burgess Animal Book (Burgess) Magic School Bus picture books Kindergarten Annotated Booklist for Shopping
Religion (Thrice weekly): Catholic Bible Stories for Children (Ball) Buy online new or used. Catholic Mosaic and accompanying books. The text is not strictly necessary but is helpful, especially if you are a crafty mom and want activities. Otherwise, the book list is online (http:/ /www.hillsideeducation.com/mosaicbooklist.pdf). Many of them can be found at your library. But I have found that getting books in the *right* order from a library is stressful and it s better to have them in house. Do not buy them NEW. You will go into the poor house. Most are available on abebooks.com or amazon.com in the used section for less than $8. The few that aren t you should go in with a friend and get them, if they re too expensive. You could also eliminate some of the summer books if you aren t interested in reading year round. Regardless, you will use this library of books for at least three years, so budget accordingly. Felt bible characters are THE WAY for children to remember their bible stories. It s REALLY optional, but in our house it s required. www.thefeltsource.com Math (Daily): You can really use any math workbook for this age, or none at all if you want to print out activities or make them up yourself. Counting, recognizing numbers, adding with manipulatives that s it. Highly recommended: Base Ten Blocks, dice, 100 board, Ruler. A mountain of store-bought manipulatives is unnecessary if you have beads, pebbles or coins around the house. Counters? Anything will do. But make no mistake, at this age manipulatives are NECESSARY. A child will often work all of his math problems using them while you record the answers on paper. He often doesn t advance to pictorial representations until a bit later. He will need to see, touch, and hold numbers, not just look at an illustration. A nice hundred board is a good investment and will be used for ages. My children place counters in each number well and count to 100 over and over. A base ten set is such a blessing once your child encounters place value. In the lesson instructions I have included a game with them and dice that I swear has saved my sanity on place value. Reading/Phonics (Daily): Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Siegfried Engelmann). Buy new or used. This book is bulky and I find that the first 40-50 lessons are BRILLIANT, so kid you not, I tear out the rest of the book and have the first 50 lessons bound at Kinkos. I only use this in kindergarten and never complete it. In FIRST GRADE, unless you can push your child to get through a whole lesson every other day or so, I find that continuing this book is a hindrance and greatly delays the introduction of necessary phonograms for even the easiest decodables. Handwriting (Daily): Primary lined paper tablet- any will do, even printable Book of easy mazes- any will do, even printable. Poetry (Daily): Child s Garden of Verses (Stevenson, any version) Get a used one online. However, if you re tight on cash, you can just print the ones you want online. Storytime (Daily):
Assorted read-alouds from the attached list. Get these from your library and save your pennies for the Catholic Mosaic books, Mommy Its a Renoir, and a nice felt Bible set. You can read these in any order so there s no reason to have them in house, unless you just want them. Art (Weekly): Child-Size Masterpieces: Mommy, It s a Renoir! Easy, Intermediate, and Advanced Steps 1-3. These are pricey. About $14 each new. You can buy them one per year if you like, but I find that the Easy level is very quickly mastered by a kindergartener and the later levels are soon desired. You will use these for at least six years. Drawing paper and colored pencils for optional retelling illustrations. Buy anywhere. Music (Daily): 36 Traditional Roman Catholic Hymns: A Book for Singing with Accompanying CD Recordings Buy online if you don t sing. Alternatively, you can just use the book and look up the hymns on youtube.com instead of buying the CD. If you sing, just borrow a hymnal from church and teach from that. History (Optional weekly): Stories of American Life and Adventure (Eggleston) & Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans (Eggleston). These can be printed online and bound at Kinkos. Be sure to get the ones with pictures. They are also available on Kindle or from very small publishers. Again, be sure to get the ones with pictures. Science (Optional weekly): The Insect Folk (Morely) This can be printed online and bound at Kinkos. Be sure to get the one with pictures. It is also available on Kindle (small fee for illustrated) or from very small publishers. Again, be sure to get the one with pictures. Burgess Bird Book (Burgess), Burgess Animal Book (Burgess) These almost never come with pictures. The least expensive option is to print them from online and have them bound at Kinkos. But, like the other classics, they are available on kindle and from small publishers. Magic School Bus picture books can be found at your library. Don t buy. There s no order. Storytime Suggestions: Beatrix Potter stories Blueberries for Sal (Robert McCloskey) Bread and Jam for Frances (Russell Hoban), whole series Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Bill Martin) Caps for Sale (Esphyr Slobodkina) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Bill Martin) Corduroy (Don Freeman) Curious George (H.A. Rey)
Frog and Toad series (Arnold Lobel) Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown) Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson) Harry the Dirty Dog (Gene Zion) Horton Hatches the Egg (Dr. Seuss) Little Bear series (Else Minarik) Madeline series (Ludwig Bemelmans) Make Way for Ducklings (Robert McCloskey) Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (Virginia Lee Burton) Millions of Cats (Wanda Gag) Mr. Gumpy s Outing (John Birmingham) One Morning in Maine (Robert McCloskey) Stone Soup (Marcia Brown) Strega Nona (Tomie De Paola) The Carrot Seed (Ruth Krauss) The Little Engine the Could (Watty Piper) The Little House (Virginia Lee Burton) The Ox Cart Man (Donald Hall) The Relatives Came (Cynthia Rylant) The Story of Babar, series (Jean de Brunhoff) The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf) The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams) The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle) More, if you need them A Visitor for Bear (Bonny Becker) Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst) Angus and the Ducks (Marjorie Flack) Bear Snores On (Karma Wilson) Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss), everything by Seuss Chrysanthemum (Kevin Henkes) Click Clack Moo (Doreen Cronin) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett) Don t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Mo Willems) George and Martha (Harry Allard) Goodnight Gorilla (Peggy Rathmann) Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss) How Does a Dinosaur Say Goodnight (Jane Yolen) How I Became a Pirate (Melanie Long) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Laura Numeroff) Jamberry (Bruce Degen) Jennie s Hat (Ezra Jack Keats), or anything else by Keats Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Simms Taback) Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney) Owl Moon (Jane Yolen) Petunia (Roger Duvoisin) The Best Pet of All (David La Rochelle)
The Day Jimmy s Boa Ate the Wash (Trinka Hakes Noble) The Gruffalo (Julia Donaldson) The Napping House (Audrey Wood) The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats) The Story About Ping (Marjorie Flack) We re Going on a Bear Hunt (Michael Rosen) Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) Why Mosquitos Buzz in People s Ears (Verna Aardema)