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Wicked
Break
July
6, 2006
Jeff
Shelby
I
earned a Bachelor's degree in English from the University
of California, Irvine. Killer
Swell, a mystery featuring PI Noah Braddock,
will be published by Dutton in June 2005. I live with
my wife and daughter in Castle Rock, CO.. - Web
site - Email
Killer
Swell
June
23, 2005
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A Nonfiction
Column
By
Jeff Shelby
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| Kindergarten
Already?
It’s hard for me to believe that
my daughter was born five years ago because it
seems like yesterday that we were just bringing
her home from the hospital. So it was a little
surreal last week when I walked into the elementary
school to register her for kindergarten in the
fall. She is very ready for kindergarten, anxious
to make the jump from preschool to the school
with all the "big kids." I, on the other hand,
am pretty sure that I am nowhere near ready.
So I’ve been searching for a few books that might
help make this big jump a little smoother for
me and here are a few that I’ve been paging through.
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned
in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
When in doubt, always start with a classic.
Fulghum’s book about applying the simple things
we learn in kindergarten to the rest of our
lives still rings true twenty years after
it was first published. This book should be
required reading for everyone at least once
every couple of years to remind us that the
complexity of our lives can often be smoothed
out by the simplest ways of thinking.
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Richard Scarry's Getting Ready for
School Workbook (Paperback) by
Richard Scarry
I had forgotten how much I loved Richard Scarry
as a child. His books were some of the first
I remember my mother reading to me and so
I’d have to say I bought this book more for
me than for my daughter. This is actually
a compilation of four separate workbooks that
Scarry put together for kids to practice basic
skills and my daughter loves the simple reading
and writing exercises that are great prep
work for what she’ll see when she hits kindergarten
next year. Huckle Cat rules!
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The Kindergarten Wars: The Battle
to Get into America's Best Private Schools
by Alan Eisenstock
We live in a neighborhood with a very good
public elementary school, so private schools
were never a concern for us. Not so for all
parents, though, and Eisenstock’s book profiles
several families who are obsessed with getting
their child into elite private kindergartens.
I wish Eisenstock had committed to following
these families over the next fifteen years
so we could see if the incredible pressure
that these parents place on themselves and
on their kids will ultimately reward them
or set them up for even bigger disappointments.
This book is both exasperating and entertaining.
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Kindergarten Success: Everything
You Need to Know to Help Your Child Learn
by Amy James
As I registered my daughter for kindergarten,
I realized that I really had no idea what
she would be doing in the classroom next year.
All I remember from my kindergarten year is
climbing the Noodle Knocker (a wooden pole
in the classroom) and nap time. This straight
forward book provides the basics for what
kids will be learning during their kindergarten
year and what the learning expectations are.
The book also provides tons of exercises to
supplement what the kids are doing in the
classroom and lots of recommendations of kindergarten
appropriate books. Think of it as your own
adult kindergarten textbook.
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