What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Activity Book 2 for Ages 4-5

Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with hundreds of activities, this carefully designed and sequenced activity book offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in school and for the rest of their lives. Thousands of children have benefitted from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Preschool Program in preschool centers across the country. Discover fun-filled, educationally sound activities such as oral language and early literacy development, early writing skills, understanding nursery rhymes and stories, math, history, science and art. The Activity Books may be used independently, but are especially effective when used with the read-aloud selections of their companion volume, What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten.

Linda Bevilacqua is the president of the Core Knowledge Foundation and was responsible for the development of the Core Knowledge preschool program that is now being used in over 1,200 preschool classrooms across the country. She and her husband, Jean-Jacques, live in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Susan Tyler Hitchcock is the author of 13 nonfiction books, most recently Frankenstein: A Cultural History (W.W. Norton, 2007). She works as a book editor for the National Geographic Society.