Something I noticed many times this week was the way my MT uses think aloud in nearly every thing we do for the kindergarteners. If we are reading a book Megan will speak to herself out loud about what she's noticing, thinking, reflecting or predicting constantly.  This is something I haven't seen very much of in previous placements and something I also observe the kids responding to very positively.  This explicit instruction in "how to wonder" almost allows them to follow a train of thought from the very beginning or conception of an idea and what to do with it as they go on reading or doing an activity. I also think that in terms of making learning your number digits high-level this allows students to sit with an ambiguous idea and arrive at a new understanding.

For example during a small math lesson this week I employed this strategy and thought out loud about if I can have four fingers on one hand and three on the other to still make seven.  This is a  common misconception that five year olds have when first starting to use numbers- how they can be composed and decomposed into several combinations of numbers.  And by making a public mistake with my counting and through thinking aloud, my students paid close attention and loved to explain their rationale to me and each other.