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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Active Filters: 1st grade (Ages 6-7), Trade Paperback
Alphabet Fun-Schooling Journal
by Sarah Janisse Brown
from Thinking Tree
for Preschool-1st grade
Amazing Mazes
Original from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
Bible Pictures to Color
Rod & Staff Preschool ABC Series
by Martha Rohrer
from Rod & Staff Publishers, Inc.
for 1st-3rd grade
Circus Shapes
by Stuart J. Murphy
from HarperCollins
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Developing the Early Learner - 4 Volumes
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$30.60
Developing the Early Learner Level 1
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50
Developing the Early Learner Level 2
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50
Developing the Early Learner Level 3
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Greatest Gymnast of All
by Stuart J. Murphy
from HarperCollins
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Music Enrichment
First Edition from Memoria Press
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
My Big Book of Mazes
by Shinobu Akaishi
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$11.01
My Big Book Of Numbers, Letters, and Words
from Kumon Publishing
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book of Addition: Ages 5-6-7
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Alphabet Games
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book of Mazes: Animals
by Shinobu Akaishi
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Mazes: Around the World
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Mazes: Things That Go!
from Kumon Publishing
for ages 5-7
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Measurement: Length
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Measurement: Volume
Act Csm Wk from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Measurement: Weight
Act Csm Wk from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76 $5.00 (1 in stock)
My Book of Money: Dollars & Cents
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Multiplication
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book of Multiplication
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book Of Number Games 1-100
from Kumon Publishing
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Number Games 1-150
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book Of Number Games 1-70
from Kumon Publishing
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book Of Numbers 1-120
from Kumon Publishing
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Rhyming Words: Long Vowels
Original from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
My Book of Simple Addition: Ages 4-5-6
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Simple Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.00
My Book of Simple Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.75
My Book of Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Telling Time
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76 $5.00 (1 in stock)
My Book of Writing Words
from Kumon Publishing
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
Nursery Rhymes
Double Delight
by Mary Novick, illustrated by Jenny Hale
from Little Hare Books
for Preschool-1st grade
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Pattern Animals
by Judi Magarian-Gold, Sandra Mogensen
from Learning Resources
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Math Games & Activities (Location: MATR-GAM)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Story S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R-S
by Shirley C. Raines & Robert J. Canady
from Gryphon House
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
$9.00 (2 in stock)
Story S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R-S for the Primary Grades
by Shirley C. Raines & Robert J. Canady
from Gryphon House
for Kindergarten-4th grade
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Stuff That Fun Is Made Of
from Emerald Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Summer Activities
by Fiona Watt
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Trottino's Tale
by Madam J. Colomb
from Christian Liberty Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in CLP Preschool (Location: PRE-CLP)
$15.60
Young Child as Scientist
by Christine Chaille, Lory Britain
2nd edition from Allyn and Bacon
for Preschool-4th grade
in Preschool Science (Location: PRE-SCI)
$9.50 (1 in stock)