Key Subjects Areas For Kindergarten

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT         (PSED)

The goals of this subject area are:

1. To help the children to develop positive feelings about themselves and people around
2. To build and nurture positive relationships and respect among the children
3. To develop positive skills, cultivate appropriate habits and build their self confidence
4. To help the children to manage feelings and
5. Understanding the concept of privacy
6. Safety rules on how to ensure privacy
7. Anger
8. Meaning of anger
9. The beauty of anger
10. Managing anger
11. Positive anger behaviour
12. Physical touch
13. Appropriate touch
14. Examples of good touch
15. Inappropriate touches
16. Life skills
17. Everyday survival skills
18. Grace and courtesy (good manners)
19. Polite words
20. Examples of polite words
21. When to say thank you
22. When to say please:
23. When to say excuse me
24. Saying i’m sorry
25. Life skills
26. Time management skills
27. Approaches in teaching time management
28. The changing season
29. Creating schedule:
30. Safety on the road
31. Stop, look and cross rules
32. Traffic light
33. Colours on traffic lights and what they signify
34. Safety behaviours in a moving vehicle
35. All about medicine (drug knowledge)
36. Meaning of drug/medicine
37. Uses of medicine
38. Medicine is not candy (safe medicine uses
39. Candy or sweet
40. Types of medicine
41. Community and community helpers
42. Meaning of community
43. Community helpers
44. Roles of community helpers

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD

This subject Introduces the children to topics that will

1. help them make sense of their physical world
2. Understand their community and the people in it
3. Study about places, technology and the environment
4. Develop early scientific knowledge and explorative mindset

CONTENTS OUTLINE

1. Meaning of habitat
2. What animals need to survive in their habitats
3. Habitats of common animals
4. Exploring the planet:
5. My planets and i
6. The planet earth:
7. Movement of the earth
8. Meaning of sunrise and sunset
9. Concepts of day and nigh
10. 10/ what causes day and night 11 Breathing/ respiration

• Meaning of breathing
• Oxygen and carbon dioxide 14 Rainbow

15 Meaning of rainbow 16 Colours of the rainbow

• Here comes the sun
• Purpose of the sun

• An earth without the sun
• The basic facts about the sun
• Beautiful animals around us
• The world of frogs
• How frogs use their body parts
• Giraffes
• Basic geography

26. mountains

• Highest mountain in the world

28.. Rivers

29.. Importance of river

30.. Longest river in the world

31.. Major rivers in africa

32. Science of weather
33. Meaning of atmosphere:
34. Importance of the atmosphere
35. Meaning of weather
36. Examples of weather
37. What is air
38. Wind
39. Amazing world of living things
40. Meaning of characteristics of living things
41. The characteristics of living things
42. Seasons in the year:
43. Meaning of season
44. Seasons in a year
45. Seasons in western world

PHYSICAL AND HEALTH DEVELOPMENT

1. Focus on providing opportunities for children’s active interaction
2. Improve their skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement
3. Making healthy choices in relation to food
4. Improving a healthy lifestyle among the children

CONTENTS OUTLINE

1. Personal hygiene
2. Keeping it clean
3. Wash, brush and comb
4. Importance of good personal hygiene
5. Germs
6. Toilet habits
7. Examples of good toilet hahibts
8. Water is your best friend
9. More water, less juice
10. Importance of water to the body
11. Quench the thirst
12. Breathing
13. Organs of breathing
14. Healthy eating
15. You are what you eat
16. Balanced diet
17. Temperature
18. Hot or cold
19. Dangerous insects in our homes
20. Meaning of insects
21. Examples of dangerous insects in our homes
22. I’m not a snack
23. Six classes of food
24. Meaning of carbohydrate
25. Protein food
26. Vitamins
27. My bones, muscles and joints
28. About my body
29. Meaning of bone
30. Number of bones in the body
31. Move your muscles
32. Joints
33. Functions of bones

34. Rest and sleep
35. A break in the day (nap time)
36. Super sleep
37. Sleep and i
38. Good bedtime habits
39. What’s for breakfast?
40. Importance of breakfast

NUMERACY/ MATHEMATICS

This subject helps the children to develop

1. Number sense and awareness
2. Problem solving skills
3. Understanding and using Shapes
4. Understanding basic measurements and operations
5. Developing spatial awareness
6. Recognizing, creating and describing patterns
7. Simple additions and subtractions
8. Spaces

CONTENTS OUTLINE

1. Number awareness
2. Counting 1-30 (or 1-50)
3. Numeral identification
4. Developing early writing skill
5. Pre-number concepts
6. Concepts of big and small
7. One to one correspondence
8. Days of the week:
9. First day of the week
10. Last day of the week
11. Matching numbers to quantities

12. Two dimensional shapes:
13. Circular objects and square around us
14. Drawing and identifying a circle
15. Squares around us
16. Identifying the sides of a square
17. Sequencing
18. Learning sequencing words
19. Rote memorization of the multiplication table
20. Numbers in words
21. Patterning recognition and creation
22. The ab pattern
23. The abc or abb pattern (complex pattern)
24. Abb pattern
25. Counting on
26. Weekdays
27. Weekends
28. Shapes-introducing triangle and rectangle
29. What is a triangle?

• Describing rectangle
• . What number comes next?
• . Start and end numbers 13 . Sorting and classifying 14 . Meaning of sorting
• . Basic sorting skills
• . Sorting a larger group of two with one attribute 17 . Building stronger visual descrimination skills 18 Incorporate sorting into every day activity
• Lesson: comparing numbers
• . Greater than
• . Less than
• Perfecting greater than and less than through rhyme
• Skip counting
• Skip count by 2
• Class activity 2 on skip counting by 2: 26 Memorizing counting by steps of two: 27 Mathematical symbols

• Simple addition
• Use of objects to demonstrate simple addition
• Use the children as manipulatives
• Writing number sentence in horizontal form
• Solving simple additons
• Memorising doubles
• I spy
• Concept of before, after and between in recognising numbers
• Understanding the concept of before
• Concept of ‘after’
• Concept of between
• Using i spy to test knowledge of positions
• Counting by steps of five
• Rote memorization of multiplication table
• Simple multiplication
• Backward counting

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

The aims of this subject are:

1. To encourage children to begin to read at early age
2. To help children cultivate appropriate listening skills
3. To help children develop good writing ability
4. To facilitate the children’s quick understanding and attention skills
5. To build early communication skills

CONTENTS OUTLINE

1. Learning the alphabets
2. Reciting the 26 alphabets ( letter names)
3. Learning the letter sounds
4. Writing letters of the alphabets
5. Division of the alphabet

6. Letters in the alphabets
7. The two groups of the alphabet
8. Vowels and consonants
9. Active listening skills
10. Story reading
11. Comprehension stories
12. Self introduction
13. Meeting a new friend
14. Introduce yourself to adults
15. Exploring the world of opposites
16. Memorising words and opposites
17. Making short sentences with opposites

18. Alphabets
19. Decoding words
20. Sounding out words (reading with phonics)
21. Spelling words phonetically
22. Using describing words for food
23. Creamy foods
24. Crunchy foods
25. Print concept awareness
26. Letters and words
27. Meaning of sentence:
28. Finish the sentence
29. Punctuation marks
30. Identification and writing of punctuation marks
31. Verb:
32. Verb tense
33. Making sentences with the right verb tense
34. Spelling of their names
35. Phonemic awareness
36. Blending sounds into words
37. Segmenting sounds (critical skill for spelling)
38. Nouns
39. meaning and examples of nouns
40. Noun gender
41. Examples of noun gender (human beings)
42. Examples of male and female animals
43. Singular and plural nouns
44. Meaning of singular and plural
45. The magic ‘s’
46. Irregular plurals
47. Spelling and writing days of the week
48. Months of the year