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A Typical Tools Kindergarten Day. Mystery Word. Opening Group Activities. Attention focusing activities-fingerplays/songs Share the News Freeze game Message of the Day Storylab ( instruction in comprehension strategies)
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Opening Group Activities • Attention focusing activities-fingerplays/songs • Share the News • Freeze game • Message of the Day • Storylab ( instruction in comprehension strategies) • http://video1.mscd.edu/ramgen/toolsofthemind/kindergarten/training2/kdglitmsgwsoundmap.rm
Scaffolded Writing Dec. Sept.
Scaffolded Writing January June
Learning to Read Buddy Reading Buddy Reading 2
Learning to Read Individualized Reading In the winter, children receive one-on-one instruction at their own level of reading at least once a day.
Graphics Practice • Children draw shapes to music. They stop and start and draw to the tempo. Figures get harder and harder with more steps to remember and more letter-like characteristics. By December children practice letters. They practice penmanship in a center starting in January.
Timeline Calendar Weather Graphing
Freeze on the Number Typical of Tools Freeze Games. Teacher holds up a card with objects or a numeral. Children dance and then freeze signifying the number with their fingers
Addition Problems • Mrs. Wishy-Washy used 2 bars of soap to wash the pig for the first time. After the pig rolled in the mud, she used 2 more bars of soap to wash it. Then the pig jumped in the mud with the cow and the sheep and Mrs. Wishy-Washy had to use 3 more bars of soap to wash the pig. How many bars of soap has Mrs. Wishy-Washy wasted on one ungrateful pig?
Number Line Word Problems Logic Trap Puzzlers Sadie has a tire repair shop. One day she had to fix the tires on 2 cars and 3 bicycles. Which tires did she fix more of—car tires or bicycle tires?
Please find more information about Tools of the Mind curriculum in the Parent Kindergarten Brochure.