I was delighted to receive my copy of “Let’s Get Ready for First Grade”. It has been a wonderful companion to our regular curriculum. I have found it to be dead on with what my girls are learning right now in 1st grade.

As a home schooling mom…I have learned that the one main goal of teaching is “Try, try and try” in others words if one program or manipulative doesn’t work…try another one and another..you will find something that works for your child and that interests them. While I have twins they both learn a bit differently. Skylar is a more organized learner but she has to reiterate every direction you give her. Rylan would rather have you say it once then let her at it. The Let’s Get Ready for First Grade book worked well for both their learning styles.

Let’s Get Ready for First Grade covers such topics as:

Name & Phone Numbers
Counting to 100
Ordinal Numbers
Odd & Even Numbers
Food Groups
Measuring
Basic Money & Value
Understanding Weather Concepts
Basic addition

I started to carry the books around in my book bag and purse because they were the perfect thing to pull out while waiting at the doctor’s office or at the dinner table. What I enjoyed the most, as a teacher, was that the information provided in Let’s Get Ready for First Grade was not overwhelming for your child. It was the perfect morsel of information on an upcoming or new school topic. Allowing just an introduction gave my girls the desire to learn more.

The books are designed with a very smooth texture so you can actually use a wipe on/off dry erase marker with the book.

As a mom and as a teacher I would recommend that you pick up a copy of Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten and Let’s Get Ready for 1st Grade. They will be valuable tools whether you are a home school family or your child attends private or public school. As a parent we want to be informed and up to date on what our child needs to know and should learn…this is a great resource to help our children grow.

Stacey Kannenberg, “Let’s Get Ready to Learn” Mom

Stacey Kannenberg is an author, publisher, motivator, consultant, spokesperson and MOM. As the “Get Ready to Learn Mom”, Stacey is a nationally renowned education expert and award winning author with an expertise in children’s education, and “Mom-entrepreneurship”. She is the co-author of the award winning and state approved, Let’s Get Ready series with Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade! Stacey is the Founder/CEO of two publishing companies: Cedar Valley Publishing and Stacey Kannenberg Unlimited, an imprint of Cedar Valley Publishing. Stacey will be releasing the highly anticipated Spanish/English Bilingual Edition of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! in April.

Stacey is a media favorite with numerous television appearances along with hundreds of radio, magazine and newspaper stories to her credit from Radio Disney to Toy Tips Magazine to the Dallas Daily News. During Back to School, she was featured in 22 Parenting Magazines from Indy Parent to Houston Parent to OC Parent to Metro Parent as well as numerous television shows from FOX 6 News to Milwaukee’s Morning Blend to WEAUTV to the WB’s Daily Buzz.

To learn more about the amazing Stacey….click “HERE”

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