Jackson Tizzy's Toybox manual Introduction, What is Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition?

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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.

The 12 activities on the Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition CD-ROM each have three levels of difficulty, allowing them to be used with a range of ability groups. The Options screens enable the program settings to be tailored to meet the needs of individual children and to target specific learning objectives.

A description of each activity and its learning objective(s) can be found on pages 10 – 33. Suggestions for further teaching activities that link to, reinforce and develop the skills covered in the program are provided on pages 34 – 40.

TIZZY’S TOYBOX SPECIAL EDITION

How do I use Tizzy’s Toybox Special Edition?

Introductory sequence

Tizzy welcomes children to her toybox. Clicking the Start button on this screen takes you to the Main Menu.

Main Menu

All 12 activities can be accessed from the Main Menu screen. Each activity is represented by an icon. Click on an activity’s icon to access the activity.

Practitioners can make activities unavailable to children by deselecting them in Options. If an activity is

deselected, its icon will not appear on the Main Menu.

Buttons available on the Main Menu:

Click on this button to access the Options area.

Click on this button to quit the program.

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