What Your First Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated): Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education - Paperback
by E. D. Hirsch (Author)
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your First Grader Needs to Know
- Beloved stories--from many times and lands, including a selection of Aesop's fables, "Hansel and Gretel," "All Stories Are Anansi's," "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," and more
- Familiar sayings and phrases--such as "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and "Practice makes perfect"
- World and American history and geography--take a trip down the Nile with King Tut and learn about the early days of our country, including the story of Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the American Revolution
- Visual arts--fun activities plus full-color reproductions of masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others
- Music--engaging introductions to great composers and music, including classical music, opera, and jazz, as well as a selection of favorite children's songs
- Math--a variety of activities to help your child learn to count, add and subtract, solve problems, recognize geometrical shapes and patterns, and learn about telling time
- Science--interesting discussions of living things and their habitats, the human body, the states of matter, electricity, our solar system, and what's inside the earth, plus stories of famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Louis Pasteur
Author Biography
E. D. Hirsch, Jr., is an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia and the author of The Knowledge Deficit, The Schools We Need, and the bestselling Cultural Literacy and the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. He and his wife, Polly, live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they raised their three children.
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