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I have been writing a slew of reviews lately and I have one more today.  It is for Kinder-Math.  It's a lesser known kindergarten math curriculum by Susan Mortimer and Betty Smith. There are all sorts of math curriculums available today.  There's traditional math curriculums.  There's modern, brightly colored math curriculums.  There's mastery curriculums, like Singapore Math, and then there's spiral curriculums, like Saxon.   I've looked at a lot of them over the past few years.  Much of that is because I had to switch math curriculums in first grade because Autumn was stuck and not going anywhere.  Her struggles compelled me to compare math curriculums and think about what made them different from one another. For preschool, I use a book by Kathy Richardson titled Developing Number Concepts: Counting, Comparing, and Pattern .  I highly recommend this book for preschool, because it explains the basic number concepts children need to le...

This spring my sister in law emailed me about a curriculum I hadn't heard of before.  It is called A Child's Geography .   The first volume is written by Ann Voskamp.  The second volume is by Ann Voskamp and Tonia Peckover. I have been reading these two books this week.  I finished the first one yesterday, so I'm going to begin by reviewing Volume 1.   This book is titled A Child's Geography .  The title is a bit misleading.  One typically thinks of continents, locations, topography, and maps when you think of geography--or at least I do.  This is not what volume 1 is about.  Instead, Volume 1 is essentially a study of earth science.  Some of the topics covered are the lower and upper atmospheres, the continents and oceans, the structure of the earth, latitude and longitude, and earthquakes and volcanoes.  Typically, all of these fall under the study of earth science.   What makes this curriculum different are two pa...