This lengthy resource book for kindergarten teachers in Mississippi includes 20 substantive chapters. After brief statements of program philosophy and goals, chapters focus respectively on: (1) various roles of school staff members in the implementation of the kindergarten program; (2) characteristics of children 4 to 6 years of age including those with special needs; (3) a learning center approach to structuring the indoor environment and criteria for the playground; (4) curriculum planning and design; (5) equipment and materials for learning centers; (6) guidelines for program assessment; (7) parents in the learning process; (8) definition of terms; (9) curriculum activities; (10) cooking in the kindergarten classroom; (11) instructional television; (12) physical education; (13) mathematics; (14) art; (15) science; (16) language arts; (17) social studies; (18) music; (19) using learning centers in the kindergarten classroom; and (20) classroom management. Also included are requirements for elementary and nursery-kindergarten certificates and general education requirements for elementary teachers K-3 and K-8; checklists for evaluating indoor and outdoor environments; a list of commercially available kits for instruction in the basic curriculum areas; a review of screening and standardized testing instruments, along with sample checklists; resource lists for parents, administrators, and teachers; an annotated list of instructional television programs for primary school students; patterns for worksheets; and words and melodies for numerous songs. (RH)