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The Core Knowledge Series
Edited by ED Hirsch, Jr.
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What Your First Grader Needs To Know
Paperback
Retail Price $12.99
Our Price $11.00
What a joy First Graders are. They are learning to read (or may already know how). They love to play, be read to and learn. If you have a First Grader in your house, both of you will love What Your First Grader Needs To Know. Sit on the couch and read this book aloud to open your first grader's world of knowledge. He will be introduced to favorite poems, beloved stories, familiar sayings and so much more.
Below is a condensed version of the Table of Contents. It will give you an idea of what you will find in What Your First Grader Needs To Know.
- Language and Literature
- Reading, Writing and Your First Grader
- Literature
- Read-Aloud Activities
- Poetry
- If Wishes Were Horses
- Solomon Grundy
- The Swing
- The Frog
- My Shadow
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- and much more
- Aesop's Fables
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The Dog in the Manger
- The Maid and the Milk Pail
- The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
- Stories
- The Boy at the Dike
- Brer Rabbit Gets Brer Fox's Dinner
- Issun Boshi: One-Inch Boy
- It Could Always Be Worse
- The Prince and the Pea
- Why the Owl Has Big Eyes
- and much more
- Drama
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Drama
- Familiar Sayings
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- Hit the nail on the head.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Land of Nod.
- Let the cat out of the bag.
- The more the merrier.
- Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Practice makes perfect.
- There's no place like home.
- History and Geography
- World History and Geography
- Egypt: Gift of the Nile
- Hieroglyphics: Picture Writing
- The Treasure of King Tut
- Mesopotamia--Another Gift
- Religions: What different People Believe
- and much more
- American History and Geography
- Cities in the Jungle: The Maya
- City in the Lake: The Aztecs
- Cities in the Clouds: The Incredible Inca
- The Lost Colony
- Pocahontas
- Thirteen Colonies
- The Boston Tea Party
- A Nation Is Born--July 4, 1776
- Freedom for All?
- What a Bargain! The Louisiana Purchase
- and much more
- Visual Arts
- People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time
- A World of Color
- Get in Line!
- Get in Shape!
- Texture: Oh, What a Feeling!
- Looking Good: Portraits
- Self-Portraits: Take a Good Look at Yourself
- Hold Still!
- Murals: Paintings on Walls
- Music
- Instruments and Their Families
- The Orchestra
- Great Composers: "Mozart the Wonder Boy"
- Dramas with Music: Opera
- Reading and Writing Music
- A Few Favorite Songs
- America The Beautiful
- La Cucaracha
- Down By The Riverside
- Dry Bones
- On Top Of Old Smoky
- and much more
- Mathematics
- Patterns and Classifications
- Numbers and Number Sense
- Numbers from 1 to 10
- One More and One less
- Place Value from 21 to 100
- Counting to 100
- Twelve Is A Dozen
- and much more
- Computation
- Addition Facts to 12
- Subtraction Facts from 0 to 12
- Practice Your Addition
- Addition Facts with the Same Sum
- Things to Know About Addition
- Two-Digit Addition
- Two-Digit Subtraction
- and much more
- Money
- Activity: Coin Combinations
- Geometry
- Flat and Solid Shapes
- Activity: Simon Says
- Measurement
- Calendar Time
- Activity: Telling Time
- Science
- Living Things and Their Habitats
- The Forest Habitat
- The Underground Habitat
- The Desert Habitat
- Water Habitats
- The Food Chain
- Animals and Plants Need Their Habitats
- Extinct But Still Popular: Dinosaurs
- Oceans and Undersea Life
- The Oceans and the Tides
- Ocean Currents
- Under the Ocean
- Humans and the Ocean World
- The Human Body
- The Skeletal System
- The Muscular System
- The Circulatory System
- The Digestive System
- The Nervous System
- In Sickness and in Health
- Take Care of Your body
- Matter: Solid, Liquid, and Gas
- Air is Matter
- Changing States of Matter
- Measurement: How long, How Much, How Hot
- Units of Measurement
- How Long? How Tall?
- How Much Space Does It Fill?
- Cups, Quarts, and Gallons
- Temperature: How Hot? How Cold?
- Electricity: An Introduction to the Shocking Facts
- Static Electricity
- On and Off
- Conductors
- An Experiment: What Conducts?
- Safety Rules Around Electricity
- Astronomy: Our Solar System
- Our Solar System
- The Moon
- Constellations: Connection-the-Dot Stars
- Our Big, Round, Moving Earth
- An Experiment: What makes Day and Night?
- Down To Earth
- Inside the Earth
- The Earth Makes Different Kinds of Rocks
- The Earth's Important Minerals
- Stories About Scientists
- Edward Jenner
- Louis Pasteur
- Thomas Edison
- Rachel Carson
 
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