A Typical Tools Kindergarten Day

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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

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Attention Focusing Activities: Songs and

Fingerplays

Fairy Tales Magic Tree House Books

VisualizationCharacter EmpathyInferences Story Grammar Story Comparison

Other TimesActive ListeningConnections

Background weekActive ListeningConnectionsVocabulary

Magic Tree House CycleVisualizationCharacter EmpathyInferences Predictions

End of ChapterStory Grammar Story Comparison

Other timesActive ListeningConnections

Story Lab

Story Lab

Literacy Activities

Dramatization—Sept to Dec

Scaffolded Writing

Sept. Dec.

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.

Phonemic Awareness/Phonics Games

Center Plans & Learning Plans

Literacy Conferences

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.

Math and Science

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

Venger Drawing

Numeral Game

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 PuzzlersSadie 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.