Sherston Tizzy's Toybox User Manual

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Page 1 Sales HelpDesk sales@sherston.co.uk 01666 843 200 Technical HelpDesk support@sherston.co.uk 01666 843 224 Education AdviceDesk education@sherston.co.uk 01666 843 280 Sherston Website www.sherston.com Sherston Publishing Group Angel House, Sherston, Malmesbury, Wiltshire. SN16 0LH A box full of educational fun for young children User Guide and Educational Notes...
Page 3: Table Of Contents
S H E R S T O N Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition Credits and Copyright Based on the original Tizzy’s Toybox by Sue Rankin, Hans Rijnen and Mike Matson Project Editors: Kerry Jackson and Hannah Gleed Project Manager: Lucy Lawrance and Victoria Robbins Educational Consultant: Paul Hollin Project Leader: Vinay Varrier Developers: Arun Lal, Balasubramanian K.
Page 4: Introduction
S H E R S T O N Introduction What is Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition? Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition is a stimulating and enchanting resource designed to support the teaching and development of basic skills. It includes simple, interactive activities that are fun to complete and focus on a wide variety of statements from the Foundation Stage curriculum.
Page 5: Options
S H E R S T O N Options Click on the Options button on the Main Menu to access the Options area. Here you will be able to view and change the program settings. You can also access the Options area by holding down CTRL and pressing T on the keyboard.
Page 6: Inclusion & Support Tab
S H E R S T O N Inclusion & Support Tab Features of the Inclusion & Support tab include: Selecting the font style, font colour and background colour. If Text is turned OFF on the General tab, these options are not available and appear greyed out.
Page 7: Beads
S H E R S T O N Beads Overall Learning Objectives: Compare the total of two sets of items, identifying the set that has ‘more’ (then ‘fewer’). Develop comparison of two numbers, knowing which is ‘more’ or ‘less’. Level 1 Learning Objective: Apply with understanding the term ‘more’...
Page 8: Bears
S H E R S T O N Bears Overall Learning Objectives: Distinguish familiar everyday sounds. Identify initial phonemes. Select the correct grapheme for a given initial phoneme. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Identify which object makes the sound that is being played. Discriminate between common sounds from the environment.
Page 9: Bucket And Spade
S H E R S T O N Bucket & Spade Overall Learning Objectives: Become familiar with common vocabulary denoting position. Become familiar with the actual positions. Develop listening skills. Develop observational skills. Level 1 Learning Objective: Apply the very simplest of positional vocabulary: over, under, in, and on.
Page 10: Caterpillar
S H E R S T O N Caterpillar Overall Learning Objectives: Match items that are identical. Develop awareness of ‘same’ and ‘different’. Develop ability to look closely at individual items. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Match two identical items at the simplest level when the distracters are obviously different.
Page 11: Counting
S H E R S T O N Counting Overall Learning Objectives: Accurately count a set of 1 – 10 objects. Recognise numerals 1 – 10 and know what they represent. Match a numeral to the correct set of items. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Understand that, in counting, we give one number name only...
Page 12: Dressing Up
S H E R S T O N Dressing Up Overall Learning Objective: Child to develop an awareness of roles played in society by different people and how these roles can be distinguished. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Develop vocabulary based on familiar objects and people. Use previous experience to make predictions and selections in order to match items with a familiar societal role.
Page 13: Jigsaw
S H E R S T O N Jigsaw Overall Learning Objectives: Discriminate between regular and irregular shapes. Match a shape with the space that it will fit into exactly. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Recognise missing parts of a simple picture. Match a flat simple shape with the space into which it will fit.
Page 14: Opposites
S H E R S T O N Opposites Overall Learning Objective: Recognise connections and patterns. Apply previous knowledge from a variety of learning areas. Apply early thinking skills. Use new vocabulary. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Identify simple opposites using picture cards. What happens? A target picture card appears at the top of the screen.
Page 15: Pencils
S H E R S T O N Pencils Overall Learning Objectives: Compare by size, two or three items. Develop a basic language of comparison. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Recognise the words and the visual comparisons: tall/short, big/small, long/short, thick/thin. What happens? Two pencils appear on the screen.
Page 16: Picture Book
S H E R S T O N Picture Book Overall Learning Objectives: Predict ‘what comes next?’ in a sequence of events. Develop an understanding of the main parts of a story. Level 1 Learning Objective: Place each section of a simple story in a sensible order. What happens? A picture book appears on the screen displaying the first part of a story sequence and two empty spaces.
Page 17: Rhyming Words
S H E R S T O N Rhyming Words Overall Learning Objectives: Hear a sequence of rhyming words. Continue a sequence of rhyming words. Become increasingly familiar with rhymes and rhyming words. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Become familiar with hearing sequences of rhyming words. Develop the ability to hear a sequence of rhyming words and select a word that will continue that sequence.
Page 18: Sheep
S H E R S T O N Sheep Overall Learning Objectives: Recognise the most common colours. Know the names of the most common colours. Apply the correct name to its representative colour. Level 1 Learning Objectives: Recognise and name the most common basic colours, presented singly: white/red/black/yellow/blue/green/orange/ pink/purple/brown.
Page 19: Educational Notes
S H E R S T O N Educational Notes Each activity within Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition focuses on developing and consolidating one or more basic skill. Of course, the activities in the program provide only one of the many ways that each skill can be fostered and below are some suggestions for further activities that you might like to try.
Page 20 S H E R S T O N given position around the bag. The other children need to guess which positional word was whispered to the volunteer by looking at the position of the spade. The child who correctly guesses the whispered position is the next volunteer. Outside, ask children to go under/over/next to etc the play equipment.
Page 21 S H E R S T O N Play ‘shape’ pairs. Draw different shapes (and objects) onto squares of card and place them face down on the floor. Ask pairs of children to come and turn over a card each, to try find matching shapes/compatible shapes and objects.
Page 22: Index
S H E R S T O N Hide a series of items underneath a blanket and give the children a word which rhymes with the hidden item, eg hide a pen and give the children the word ‘hen’. The children must suggest words that rhyme with the given clue word, until they guess the hidden item.
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