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1. 2024/11/05

   Drew

   That is so wrong on so many levels. Not to mention it’s on glossy paper.

   I sure hope this isn’t from a tax payer funded school supply. Even before I had a degree in Early Childhood Education I would have seen how horrible it is.

   Possibly some junk done by committee.

   Sorry for not reading your next post (my time is limited now) which is also about education.

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2. 2024/11/19

   Drew

   Please excuse me for not providing some exemplary examples of children’s books.

   Maurice Sendak, born just a few months after my dad, wrote an amazing collection of books set to music by the amazing Carole King.

   The album is called “Really Rosie.” And every song is great! The star songs (imho) are for these four books which are worth buying, as is the music.

   “Alligators All Around” which teaches the alphabet.

   “One was Johnny” is fun with numbers.

   “Chicken Soup with Rice” teaches the months of the year (& not to eat too fast).

   “Pierre” is about not caring and caring.

   Not only do they go over the subjects I mentioned, but they each have other aspects of learning to read which are important, like page numbers, table of contents, chapters, etcetera.

   Buy the album and those 4 books and I bet you’ll be glad you did. Possibly your local library has them. I grew up listening to the 33 record, but am glad it’s on (at least) Apple’s iTunes these days.

   For children almost-ready-for, ready-for, and those forced-to, learn grammar, Ruth Heller wrote and illustrated a bunch of very good books. I own “Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives.” She wrote more books for other parts of speech. “A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns,” which I used to have, is fun too.

   I’m sure I would have done much better in elementary school having read & learned from her books than the boring worksheets/workbooks which I had.

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