Learn at Home: Kindergarten [Paperback]

American Education (Author)

Book Description

Series: Learn at Home | Publication Date: May 1999

American education publishing--an open door to education! Make home education an adventure that you and your child will treasure for a lifetime! With the Learn at Home series, you can be confident that you are providing your child with a quality education. Designed by experts in elementary education, this valuable resource covers a full school year in six curriculum areas--everything you need to teach your child at home. This comprehensive resource includes:

36 weeks of lesson plans

Instruction in Reading, Language, Math,

Gross/Fine Motor Skills, Science and Social Studies

Additional activities supporting each week's lessons

Explanations of concepts and teaching approaches

Step-by-step instructions

Ready-to-use, reproducible activity sheets

Full-color illustrations The Learn at Home series--the essential guide to a quality home education. Begin the adventure!

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

You have just taken an important step in teaching your child at home. Designed by experts in elementary education, the Learn at Home series provides a comprehensive resource for educating your child at home or for supplementing your child's school curriculum. The Learn at Home series provides 36 weeks of lesson plans in six curriculum areas--Reading, Language, Gross/Fine Motor Skills, Math, Science and Social Studies. Art, Music and movement activities are also integrated into the curriculum, as well as additional suggestions for activities beyond the "classroom." The Learn at Home series incorporates the most current teaching methods along with background information and step-by-step instructions. This valuable resource includes:

Writing and Language skills in meaningful contexts

Essential Math concepts, skills and strategies

Hands-on Science investigations

Thematic Social Studies units The Learn at Home series also offers these innovative features:

Weekly lesson plans at a glance

Additional activity suggestions to extend learning

Explanations of concepts and teaching approaches

Full-color illustrations and ready-to-use activity sheets Your child needs to build a strong academic foundation. With the Learn at Home series, your child will be well on the way to success!

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: American Education Publishing (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561895083
• ISBN-13: 978-1561895083
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a find!, January 18, 2004

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This review is from: Learn at Home: Kindergarten (Paperback)

This book may just save my sanity. 36 weeks of daily lessons, in 6 subjects, all planned out for you! All you have to do is "read and do"! Could it be any better? Well, yes. For one thing, the pages are all front and back, even the ones that aren't part of a particular week, even the ones that have cut and paste activities on the other side. That is my main gripe. Also, this book is laid out to follow the public school calendar (start in fall, end in early summer). We started school in January and are planning to end in September, so I've had to juggle a few of the activities and lessons around so that we're not studying Autumn in Winter, and so on. Those two snafus aside, this is a great, well-rounded book, and will help you to cover all the bases. You'll need to supplement with library books and whatever other materials you and your child desire.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn At Home is Outstanding!, May 19, 2003

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Florida Mom "FL Mom" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learn at Home: Kindergarten (Paperback)

After two years of research into Home Education curriculum, we purchased Learn At Home, Grade K to Home Educate our child. We compared this curriculum side by side to many other very expensive curriculums and it had everything they had to offer at a more reasonable price. In fact, it was more advanced than some very high priced curriculum. That was three years ago. We have used Learn At Home to Home Educate our child through K, 1st, and 2nd grades. We all LOVE it! It covers six subject areas, plus art and research projects, and reccomends field trips, to give your child a well rounded education. The lessons are right on target with what our local school system requires per grade level. Many times I find that Learn At Home is advanced when compared to what is being taught in our local school. I feel confident that my child is getting a great education. I really like having the lesson plans written out for each week. The teacher suggestions are excellent. These are both great time savers for me which allow me to spend more time with my child rather than doing all the planning work. The books listed in the curriculum are available at our local library. I simply sign online to the library's website, request the listed books, and pick them up when they call to say the books are ready. I plan this out and request the books a week in advance to give the library time to get them for me. It works out great. With all the planning and worksheets already done for me, it makes teaching my child fun, not work. The best part is that my child likes the book and looks forward to doing the worksheets. The only thing we add are Bible lessons by following the read through the Bible in one year plan. There is a Christian Learn At Home book on the market, but it does not have any lesson plans or teacher notes, nor is it as in depth and comprehensive. The pages of the book are preforated and tear out easily. I found that hole punching the pages and putting them into a three ring binder works wonderfully. I make copies of any pages that need to be cut, (this is mostly in the K and Grade 1 book), have my child cut the copy, and paste to the original page. This keeps the book nice. There are a few pages that you will need to make copies of, like book report forms for example. Even with the copies in black in white, they still look nice. Your child can color the pictures on those pages if they want to. We have already purchased Learn At Home, Grade 3 for the coming school year. We really think this is a great curriculum and highly reccomend it!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful for Home Schooling Kindergarten Children, May 29, 2001

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This review is from: Learn at Home: Kindergarten (Paperback)

I am a mother of two boys (10 yrs. & 5 yrs). We have been home schooling our oldest son for the past two years. This year my 5 year old will start Kindergarten. He is a child who gets very bored with a pencil and piece of paper. Actually, a friend of mine recommended looking at Learn At Home and when I did I fell in love with it. With the book already offering "lesson plans" for each week it was very helpful in planning our next year. This book offers a lot of hands-on activities for the children, so therefore his attention span stays longer with me and what we are trying to learn. The only thing I can say negative is that I found some of the activities a little "elementary" for a 5 year old. All in all I can say that I give this book a thumbs up!!! Actually, not only am I pleased with this book , but all the books I have used throughout home schooling with my other son that was published by American Education Publishing. They are a wonderful publishing company that offers many useful books for home schooling. I hope this will be of some help for somebody out there. If you are home schooling, good luck and God Bless You!!!