Preschool / Early Learning / Kindergarten

The highest percentage of learning in a person's life happens during the first few years. But it's not book learning primarily—preschool kids learn to walk, talk, discern shapes and colors, count, draw, etc. by doing those things. At this stage it's more important to play games with them, tell them stories, read to them, and help them commit important information to memory than it is to instruct them formally.

Spending time with their children seems to be an increasingly lost practice among parents. Jobs, church functions, and any number of other obligations separates the family and diminishes the opportunities for gentle instruction. Children ought to be eased into formal learning, and not till they've been encouraged and allowed to develop tactilely.

Many of the books in this section are workbooks or focus on hands-on activities. Language and Thinking for Young Children by Ruth Beechick and Jeannie Nelson offers benchmarks and goals to achieve with your child. June Oberlander's Slow and Steady Get Me Ready is oriented more toward motor skills and basic knowledge and provides developmental activities for your child's first five years (see also Brain Rules for Baby and Active Baby, Healthy Brain). You really don't need a lot of books at this stage, though—be creative, work with what you have at hand, and always be looking for moments to guide your little ones.

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500 Five Minute Games
by Jackie Silberg
2011 Reprint from Gryphon House
for Nursery-1st grade
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Active Baby, Healthy Brain
by Margaret Sassé
from Experiment
for Adult
in Pregnancy & Infant Care (Location: PRE-INF)
$11.17
Animal-Go-Round
by Johnny Morris
from DK Publishing
for Nursery-1st grade
in Zoology (Location: SCI-ZOOL)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Brain Rules for Baby
by John Medina
2nd edition from Pear Press
for Nursery-Preschool
$15.95
Brambleberrys Animal Book of Big & Small Shapes
Brambleberrys Animal Book
by Marianna Mayer, illustrated by Gerald McDermott
from Boyds Mill Press
Word Books for Nursery-Kindergarten
Brambleberrys Animal Book of Colors
Brambleberrys Animal Book
by Marianna Mayer, illustrated by Gerald McDermott
from Boyds Mill Press
Word Books for Nursery-Kindergarten
Christian Liberty Preschool - Drill Book
from Christian Liberty Press
in CLP Preschool (Location: PRE-CLP)
$11.75
Complete Book of Thymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants
by Jackie Silberg & Pam Schiller, illustrated by Deborah C. Wright
from Gryphon House
for Nursery-Kindergarten
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Enjoying the Early Years - Book & DVD Set
by Sonya Shafer & Karen Smith
from Simply Charlotte Mason
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Charlotte Mason Education (Location: HSR-METCM)
Entertaining and Educating Young Children
from Usborne
for Nursery-Kindergarten
$7.65 (1 in stock)
Everybody Has a Body
by Robert E. Rockwell, et al.
from Gryphon House
for Nursery-1st grade
in Preschool Science (Location: PRE-SCI)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Felt 4" Alphabet
from A Beka Books
$18.00 (1 in stock)
First 100 Words
from Priddy Books
for Nursery-Kindergarten
Footsteps for Fours - Teacher's Edition (old)
by L. Michelle Rosier
2nd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for Nursery-Preschool
in BJU Reading (Old Editions) (Location: OBJU-REA)
$25.00 (4 in stock)
For the Children's Hour
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Clara M. Lewis
from Yesterday's Classics
for Nursery-1st grade
in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
$18.95
Language Development P-K4 - Teacher Guide
2nd edition from A Beka Books
for Nursery-Kindergarten
Lauri Kids Puzzle Crepe Rubber
from Patch Products
for Nursery-Kindergarten
$9.50 (1 in stock)
Learning Numbers With Button Bear
2nd edition from A Beka Books
for 2-3 years
in A Beka Arithmetic & Mathematics (Location: MAT-ABK)
Let's Color!
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
Let's Cut Paper!
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
Let's Cut Paper! Amazing Animals
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
Let's Fold!
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
Let's Sticker & Paste!
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
Let's Sticker & Paste! Amazing Animals
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
Letters and Sounds for 3s
2nd edition from A Beka Books
for Nursery-Preschool
in A Beka Phonics (Location: PHO-ABK)
Montessori: Letter Work
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for Nursery-Kindergarten
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Montessori: Map Work
Brdbk from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for Nursery-1st grade
Montessori: Number Work
Brdbk from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for Nursery-Kindergarten
$10.99
Montessori: Shape Work
Ina Brdbk from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for Nursery-Preschool
More Let's Color
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
More Let's Fold!
Kumon First Steps Workbooks
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon First Steps (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.06
My Book of Amazing Tracing
Csm Wkb from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Preschool
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book of Coloring
from Kumon Publishing
for Ages 2-4
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Coloring: At the Zoo
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Cutting
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Easy Mazes
from Kumon Publishing
for ages 2-4
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Easy Telling Time
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
My Book of Numbers 1-10
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Preschool
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Uppercase Letters
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-kindergarten
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My First Book of Drawing
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My First Book of Mazes
from Kumon Publishing
for ages 3-5
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My First Book of Tracing
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-preschool
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$8.46
My First Book of Uppercase Letters
from Kumon Publishing
for Nursery-kindergarten
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
My First Steps to Reading - 25 volume set
by Jane Belk Moncure, illustrated by Linda Hohag
from Children's Press
for Nursery-Kindergarten
$30.00 (1 in stock)
Noah's Ark: Pre-School Activity Book
by Earl & Bonita Snellenberger
from Master Books
$7.19 $6.00 (2 in stock)
Numbers Flipper
from Christopher Lee Publications
for Nursery-Kindergarten
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
by Robert Quackenbush
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Self-Correcting Alphabet Letter Puzzles
from Melissa & Doug Toys
for Nursery-Kindergarten
Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready for Kindergarten
by June Oberlander & Hannah J. Oberlander Knecht
from Xulon Press
for Nursery-Preschool
$24.99 $16.00 (1 in stock)
Stuff That Fun Is Made Of
from Emerald Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Then and Now
An Usborne Talkabout Book
by Heather Amery
Revised from Usborne
for Nursery-1st grade
$3.15 (2 in stock)
Usborne First Numbers
by Felicity Brooks, Jo Litchfield
from Usborne
for Nursery-Kindergarten
White Rabbit's Color Book
by Alan Baker
from Macmillan
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)