Executive Functioning Skills Learning Kit

Description
This executive functioning kit provides concrete activities for planning, memory, organization, inhibition, cooperation, and flexible problem solving. The games and building materials give learners repeated opportunities to practice managing information and completing a goal through ordered steps.

Parents can use the strategy games for turn planning, matching cards for working memory, counters for sorting and organization, and stacking or construction pieces for tasks that require forethought. Lessons can include estimating the number of steps needed, verbalizing a plan before starting, checking progress, and changing strategies when conditions change.

Children learn practical routines for approaching complex tasks: identify the goal, make a plan, carry out the steps, monitor results, and revise when necessary. The activities also strengthen attention, memory, impulse control, and cooperative decision making.

Learning Goals
¥ Hold and use information in working memory
¥ Plan a sequence before beginning a task
¥ Shift strategies when a rule or condition changes
¥ Organize materials according to a stated system
¥ Practice self monitoring, cooperation, and task completion

WhatÕs Included
¥ Twangled Cooperative Planning Challenge
¥ Travel Qwirkle Executive Strategy Challenge
¥ Imagination Patterns Deluxe Visual Planning Set
¥ Partner Matching and Memory Puzzle Cards, 61 Pc.
¥ Translucent Shape Sorting Counters, 140 Pc.
¥ Chair Stacking Planning Blocks, 24 Pc.
¥ Wood Grain Foam Construction Blocks, 32 Pc.