E.D. Hirsch Jr., and John Holdren

This book is the first in the Core Knowledge Series. It serves as an outline of what your child should cover in Kindergarten. It is useful to parents who homeschool as a planning tool or as a check after the year is over. For a family with children enrolled in school, it could be used as a read aloud during the summer after Kindergarten. The book is divided into the following categories: Language and Literature, History and Geography, Visual Arts, Music, Mathematics, and Science. Simply cuddle up on the couch with your little soon to be First Grader, and read them the stories and age appropriate explanations, and then maybe do some of the activities together. Also in this series are: What Your First Grader Needs to Know, What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, What Your Third Grader Needs to Know, What Your 4th Grader Needs to Know, What Your 5th Grader Needs to Know, and What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know.