Saxon's comprehensive kindergarten program contains all the information you'll need to teach your child the math concepts necessary for their scholastic success. The Teacher's Edition contains a materials list and fully scripted lessons, ensuring that all concepts will be covered consistently throughout the year.

Lessons are divided into two portions-the meeting and the lesson; this program is designed to alternate between these, teaching 3 lessons and 2 meetings a week. In the meeting, review is emphasized as counting, time, estimation and more are highlighted; progress is kept track of in the separate meeting book. During a lesson, new skills, such as sorting by color, learning patterns, skip counting, measuring, time, graphs and story problems are taught incrementally. Teacher's Edition is spiral-bound softcover with 439 pages of lessons; the appendixes contain oral assessment forms, student activity masters and handwriting forms. The Meeting Book is 24 pages, softcover.

All my children played games involving numbers when they were small. Household items were counted and sorted into sets. We measured and added ingredients in the kitchen, watching the clock and telling time so our cooking came out just right. A long train of numerals from one to 100 lined the chair rail on the wall. "Wow! You can count up to how high??" I'd proudly acknowledge. With a change purse full of coins, purchases were made at our make-believe toy store. Then came memory work - that slow and steady tortoise-type activity that introduces a new sum every few days, always reviewing ones already learned. Keeping math lessons ridiculously short (10 minutes at the most) during those first few years did the trick - I expected my child's full attention during these quick lessons and I got it. I gradually extended the lesson time until fifth grade. This is when I switched to using the Saxon Math curriculum (in the hardcover textbook).

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts are thoroughly memorized by the time the first lesson of Saxon 54 is set before my students. Yet Saxon's one-hour-plus lessons are sometimes too lengthy, so I heed my good friend Sue's advice. She said, "After the practice set, do only the even-numbered problems for a lesson. Then do the odd ones for the next lesson. By doing every other problem, lessons are cut in half, yet review is kept up beautifully."

Saxon works well in the home school because each set of problems is prefaced with a lesson, with something new being learned each time. Adapting a course to fit your family makes the course your servant - not the other way around.

—Karen

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