Is It A Tool Or A Toy?



Hey Kinder Friends,

I have to admit with a holiday right around the corner I have been thinking about toys a lot. Toys just seem to conjure up childhood memories and remind me of having fun. And in Kindergarten it is no different but maybe with a little twist. We usually start our Science year off with discussing Science tools and safety and naturally we include some discussion on tools and toys in the classroom and their uses along with safety. I love the beginning of Science in Kindergarten because it is in the early days that we are busy with exploration and learning expectations. Shopping for holiday items and seeing toys it made me start to think about how fast time flies and soon I would need to begin to think about the first few weeks of Science. I knew that I wanted to use Is It A Tool Or Toy? again this year.



If you are interested in using this in you classroom click on the image above.

This download contains real life images of tools and toys. It has two rounds of slides. One set is without the discussion question and the other set contains the discussion question on the slide. The PowerPoint was created to aid in Science Tools or Toys discussions and to help facilitate communicating like Scientists. The file is editable to some degree to allow for personal customization of probing questions, adding or deleting slides or creating more rounds if needed. The culminating activity is a notebooking prompt writing page. This is truly Science Fun Ready To And On The Run!

 

How is it used I the classroom? I use this to help in facilitating discussions about tools. What I like about it is that it does facilitate a great discussion about what is a tool or toy and I encourage the students to justify their thinking through the use of sentence stems. I was pretty amazed at the responses and justifications the children shared. We learned that even toys can be used as tools it just depended on how you used the objects. We used the presentation four times during the week and we notebooked about it on the last day. I was able to incorporate several books with this mini study.

 

 

I like the first book because it has age appropriate Science tools the children can relate to and I loved the second book because it was interesting to look at tools that other people use and discuss those tools and their uses and tie in a little safety here too. It's super simple and I love just that and I love not having to hunt and search for good quality pictures of tools and toys because they are all in one place in the download.

 For more Science fun just click on the picture above! Have fun investigating friends!

 



Treats for Our Sweets

 

 



Happy Halloween Friends,

 

I have teamed up with some of my favorite blogging buddies for some special Trick or Treat fun for you! If you follow the links you will discover your Trick or Treat goodies at each blog! Now that is some of the easiest Trick or Treating fun ever. So after the kids are all snug in bed you can have some Trick or Treat fun yourself!

 



 

If you are interested in grabbing your freebie I have posted above, just click on the picture and grab it. And when you are finished here just click on the blog button listed below to go to the next blog and grab your freebies along the way. Sounds like fun!

 

 

And just in case you are wondering what we are going to do with this in class...

We are using this printable after our health and safety discussions.

 

Here are our objectives-

The student recognizes that personal health decisions and behaviors affect health throughout life.

The student can identify and practice personal health habits that help individuals stay healthy such as a proper amount of sleep and clean hands, identify types of foods that help the body grow such as healthy breakfast foods and snacks, identify types of exercise and active play that are good for the body and identify the purpose of protective equipment such as a seat belt and a bicycle helmet.

 

 

Click on the blog button above for more Trick or Treat fun!