[Core Knowledge 01] • What Your First Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated) by Hirsch-Jr., E.D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgments Dedication A Note to Teachers Contents General Introduction to the Core Knowledge Series I. Language and Literature

Learning to Read

Reading Is Not a Skill The Knowledge Connection

First Grade and Your Child

Listening and Learning

Common Core State Standards and Your Child

A Balance of Fiction and Nonfiction Explore the World Through Reading and Listening A Focus on Evidence Academic Vocabulary Coherence

Building Literacy at Home

Read to Your First Grader Talk to Your Child Limit TV Time Choose Activities That Build Background Knowledge Be a Reader, Raise a Reader

Want to Learn More? Literature

Introduction

Read-Aloud Activities

Poetry and Rhymes

Little Sally Walker The Queen of Hearts If Wishes Were Horses Three Wise Men of Gotham Solomon Grundy Thirty Days Hath September Tongue Twisters Riddle Rhymes More Poems for First Grade The Pasture Hope A Good Play The Swing The Frog The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Purple Cow I Know All the Sounds That the Animals Make My Shadow Rope Rhyme Table Manners Sing a Song of People Washington Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Thanksgiving Day

Aesop’s Fables

The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Fox and the Grapes The Dog in the Manger The Maid and the Milk Pail The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

Stories

All Stories Are Anansi’s The Boy at the Dike Brer Rabbit Gets Brer Fox’s Dinner The Frog Prince Hansel and Gretel In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast Issun Boshi: One-Inch Boy Tom Thumb The Crowded, Noisy House Jack and the Beanstalk The Knee-High Man The Little Half-Chick (Medio Pollito) The Pied Piper of Hamelin Pinocchio The Princess and the Pea Puss-in-Boots Rapunzel Rumpelstiltskin Sleeping Beauty The Tale of Peter Rabbit Why the Owl Has Big Eyes

Drama

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Drama

Familiar Sayings

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Hit the nail on the head. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Land of Nod. Let the cat out of the bag. The more the merrier. Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today. Practice makes perfect. There’s no place like home.

II. History and Geography

Introduction World History and Geography

History: Everyone’s Story The Ice Age: Humans on the Move Learning About the Ice Age Egypt: Gift of the Nile Fantastic Pharaohs and Marvelous Monuments Hieroglyphics: Picture Writing A Journey Down the Nile The Treasures of King Tut Mesopotamia—Another Gift A Great Mesopotamian Story What’s a Ziggurat? A Leader and the Laws Religions: What Different People Believe Judaism

The Story of Moses Jewish Holidays and Symbols

Christianity

The First Christmas Jesus the Teacher: The Parable of the Good Samaritan Easter

Islam Three Religions, One God

American History and Geography

Crossing the Land Bridge Cities in the Jungle: The Maya City in the Lake: The Aztec City of Tenochtitlán Cities in the Clouds: The Inca Empire Sapa Inca for a Day The Arrival of the Europeans The Spanish Conquerors Why Did the Spanish Win? Mexico Today And Then Came England The Lost Colony A Lasting English Colony: Jamestown Tobacco Pocahontas The Pilgrims The Puritans Slavery Comes to the Colonies Thirteen Colonies The Colonists and the King The Boston Tea Party A Fight with Mother? The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere A Nation Is Born George Washington and the War for Independence George Washington and His Men From Valley Forge to Yorktown “And Called It Macaroni” A Courageous Woman: Deborah Sampson A Poet for Freedom: Phillis Wheatley Benjamin Franklin

The Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin Inventor and Scientist

Washington as President Freedom for All? America Grows What a Bargain! The Louisiana Purchase Looking Ahead Suggested Resources

III. Visual Arts

Introduction People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time The Boys Who Found the Cave Paintings Art That Is Very Old Art from Ancient Egypt A World of Color

Line Up! Get in Shape!

Looking Closely at Art Texture: Oh, What a Feeling! Portraits Are Pictures of People

Self-Portraits: Take a Good Look at Yourself Still Life: A Beautiful Arrangement

Murals: Paintings on Walls Suggested Resources

IV. Music

Introduction Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm Meet a Great Composer Mozart the Wonder Boy Mozart, a Famous Composer Reading and Writing Music Instruments and Their Families

The Percussion Family The String Family The Woodwind Family The Brass Family

The Orchestra Music Can Tell a Story

Dramas with Music: Opera Musical Stories Without Words The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Move to the Music A Ballet About a Nutcracker Jazz: America’s Musical Gift to the World

Satchmo, a Great Jazz Musician

A Few Favorite Songs

America the Beautiful La Cucaracha (The Cockroach) Blow the Man Down Billy Boy Down by the Riverside For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow Down in the Valley Dry Bones Frère Jacques/Brother John Michael, Row the Boat Ashore On Top of Old Smoky She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain Skip to My Lou There’s a Hole in the Bucket Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Suggested Resources

V. Mathematics

Introduction Patterns and Classifications Numbers and Number Sense

Some Things to Prepare in Advance Numbers from 1 to 10 One More and One Less Number for Things in Order Place Value Place Value from 21 to 100 Counting to 100 Twelve Is a Dozen Greater Than and Less Than Activity: Before and After Activity: Number Flash Cards Activities Using Graphs Fractions

Computation

From Manipulatives to “Mental Math” Learn a Fact a Day Addition Facts from 0 to 12 Subtraction Facts from 0 to 12 Practice Your Addition Addition Facts with the Same Sum Things to Know About Addition Activity: Dicey Addition Adding Three Numbers Subtraction: Taking Away Leaves the Difference Comparing Differences and Sums Fact Families Activity: Find the Mystery Number Activity: Addition and Subtraction Stories Activity: A Hundred Table Two-Digit Addition Two-Digit Subtraction

Money

Activity: Coin Combinations

Geometry

Flat and Solid Shapes Activity: Simon Says

Measurement

Calendar Time Activity: Telling Time Suggested Resources

VI. Science

Introduction Living Things and Their Habitats

The Forest Habitat

What Do Animals Eat? Walking Through the Forest Habitat

The Underground Habitat The Desert Habitat Water Habitats The Food Chain Taking Care of Earth’s Habitats The Endangered Rain Forest Habitat The Most Famous Extinct Animals: Dinosaurs

Oceans and Undersea Life

Ocean Tides

Ocean Currents Underwater in the Ocean

Ocean Life Taking Care of the Ocean

The Human Body

The Skeletal System The Muscular System The Circulatory System The Digestive System The Nervous System Body Systems Working Well Together

Edward Jenner Discovers Vaccination

Getting Sick and Staying Healthy

Louis Pasteur Invents Pasteurization

Matter

The World Is Made of Matter Changing States of Matter Measuring Matter Why Measurements Matter

How Long? How Tall? How Much? How Much? Cups, Quarts, and Gallons How Hot? How Cold? Measuring Temperature

Electricity: An Introduction to the Shocking Facts

Static Electricity Turn It On, Turn It Off: Electricity What Conducts Electricity? Stay Safe Around Electricity Thomas Edison

Astronomy: Our Solar System

Our Sun and Our Solar System A Journey Through the Solar System The Moon Constellations: Connect-the-Dot Stars Our Big, Round, Moving Planet

Our Planet Earth

Inside the Earth Earth and Its Rocks Earth’s Minerals Suggested Resources

Illustration and Photo Credits Text Credits and Sources

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