What Your Preschooler Needs to Know

I was not sure what to expect at first, but this book is great. There are tons of stories, poems, and songs. It includes history lessons and basic science information too.

My daughter especially loved the three little pigs after playing the three little pigs logic game for pre-k.

We used this book for our oldest a few years ago and we're about to start using it for our middle child this year. It is full of read aloud stories and biographies and science lessons among other things that are important for children to learn that you may not think to teach on your own. Each one is short so you keep the child's attention and if you want to build on the lesson with more you can supplement it. I felt like my child really enjoyed listening to the lessons being read to him and he definitely retained a lot of the knowledge. I was nervous about homeschooling and this book gave me confidence.

We enjoyed this book. We just read though different parts and talked about them. While a guide book would be nice it is great to introduce simple topics, discuss some art, history, science and more. All of the reading are simple for a young child to understand. We also love the fiction stories. They are classics every child should know.

This title is not my favorite. I purchased it because I thought it would give clear guidance during our first year of homeschooling about things I needed to include. I love the idea of it being super open and go- turn to a selection from any subject and read it out loud. Awesome. But I feel like beyond that, the content was just OK for me.

I am going to start with the negative that there really wasn't a clear way to use this book it sometimes just seemed like a bunch of readings put together. On the other side of that my children enjoyed the stories and some of the educational readings. I am not sure if I was supposed to do more then just read it, but we enjoyed most of the readings.