Title: Not Great for Kindergarten Prep.
Product review: This is a great book to give moms a programmed way to spend time with a 3 or 4 year old preschool child. I bought this for my oldest as a substitute to paying for preschool the year before kindergarten. Now that I he is a 2nd grader, and my next oldest is just finishing at a professional preschool, I can see that the book is seriously lacking in explaining how to prepare your child for kindergarten. A good preschool will mimic kindergarten by having a routine with the children where weather, numbers, handwriting, reading, fine motor skills (cutting and gluing), large motor skills, and structured play are built in every day. Typically with stations to rotate through. The themes are added in to give meaning to each practiced skill. Each chapter in this book has themes and ideas for exploring that theme, but very little about these valuable routines or what will be expected in kindergarten.
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