PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PSED)
The goals of this subject area are:
- To help the children to develop positive feelings about themselves and people around
- To build and nurture positive relationships and respect among the children
- To develop positive skills, cultivate appropriate habits and build their self confidence
- To help the children to manage feelings and
- Understanding the concept of privacy
- Safety rules on how to ensure privacy
- Anger
- Meaning of anger
- The beauty of anger
- Managing anger
- Positive anger behaviour
- Physical touch
- Appropriate touch
- Examples of good touch
- Inappropriate touches
- Life skills
- Everyday survival skills
- Grace and courtesy (good manners)
- Polite words
- Examples of polite words
- When to say thank you
- When to say please:
- When to say excuse me
- Saying i’m sorry
- Life skills
- Time management skills
- Approaches in teaching time management
- The changing season
- Creating schedule:
- Safety on the road
- Stop, look and cross rules
- Traffic light
- Colours on traffic lights and what they signify
- Safety behaviours in a moving vehicle
- All about medicine (drug knowledge)
- Meaning of drug/medicine
- Uses of medicine
- Medicine is not candy (safe medicine uses
- Candy or sweet
- Types of medicine
- Community and community helpers
- Meaning of community
- Community helpers
- Roles of community helpers
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD
This subject Introduces the children to topics that will
- help them make sense of their physical world
- Understand their community and the people in it
- Study about places, technology and the environment
- Develop early scientific knowledge and explorative mindset
CONTENTS OUTLINE
- Meaning of habitat
- What animals need to survive in their habitats
- Habitats of common animals
- Exploring the planet:
- My planets and i
- The planet earth:
- Movement of the earth
- Meaning of sunrise and sunset
- Concepts of day and nigh
- 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
- mountains
- Highest mountain in the world
28.. Rivers
29.. Importance of river
30.. Longest river in the world
31.. Major rivers in africa
- Science of weather
- Meaning of atmosphere:
- Importance of the atmosphere
- Meaning of weather
- Examples of weather
- What is air
- Wind
- Amazing world of living things
- Meaning of characteristics of living things
- The characteristics of living things
- Seasons in the year:
- Meaning of season
- Seasons in a year
- Seasons in western world
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH DEVELOPMENT
- Focus on providing opportunities for children’s active interaction
- Improve their skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement
- Making healthy choices in relation to food
- Improving a healthy lifestyle among the children
CONTENTS OUTLINE
- Personal hygiene
- Keeping it clean
- Wash, brush and comb
- Importance of good personal hygiene
- Germs
- Toilet habits
- Examples of good toilet hahibts
- Water is your best friend
- More water, less juice
- Importance of water to the body
- Quench the thirst
- Breathing
- Organs of breathing
- Healthy eating
- You are what you eat
- Balanced diet
- Temperature
- Hot or cold
- Dangerous insects in our homes
- Meaning of insects
- Examples of dangerous insects in our homes
- I’m not a snack
- Six classes of food
- Meaning of carbohydrate
- Protein food
- Vitamins
- My bones, muscles and joints
- About my body
- Meaning of bone
- Number of bones in the body
- Move your muscles
- Joints
- Functions of bones
- Rest and sleep
- A break in the day (nap time)
- Super sleep
- Sleep and i
- Good bedtime habits
- What’s for breakfast?
- Importance of breakfast
NUMERACY/ MATHEMATICS
This subject helps the children to develop
- Number sense and awareness
- Problem solving skills
- Understanding and using Shapes
- Understanding basic measurements and operations
- Developing spatial awareness
- Recognizing, creating and describing patterns
- Simple additions and subtractions
- Spaces
CONTENTS OUTLINE
- Number awareness
- Counting 1-30 (or 1-50)
- Numeral identification
- Developing early writing skill
- Pre-number concepts
- Concepts of big and small
- One to one correspondence
- Days of the week:
- First day of the week
- Last day of the week
- Matching numbers to quantities
- Two dimensional shapes:
- Circular objects and square around us
- Drawing and identifying a circle
- Squares around us
- Identifying the sides of a square
- Sequencing
- Learning sequencing words
- Rote memorization of the multiplication table
- Numbers in words
- Patterning recognition and creation
- The ab pattern
- The abc or abb pattern (complex pattern)
- Abb pattern
- Counting on
- Weekdays
- Weekends
- Shapes-introducing triangle and rectangle
- 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:
- To encourage children to begin to read at early age
- To help children cultivate appropriate listening skills
- To help children develop good writing ability
- To facilitate the children’s quick understanding and attention skills
- To build early communication skills
CONTENTS OUTLINE
- Learning the alphabets
- Reciting the 26 alphabets ( letter names)
- Learning the letter sounds
- Writing letters of the alphabets
- Division of the alphabet
- Letters in the alphabets
- The two groups of the alphabet
- Vowels and consonants
- Active listening skills
- Story reading
- Comprehension stories
- Self introduction
- Meeting a new friend
- Introduce yourself to adults
- Exploring the world of opposites
- Memorising words and opposites
- Making short sentences with opposites
- Alphabets
- Decoding words
- Sounding out words (reading with phonics)
- Spelling words phonetically
- Using describing words for food
- Creamy foods
- Crunchy foods
- Print concept awareness
- Letters and words
- Meaning of sentence:
- Finish the sentence
- Punctuation marks
- Identification and writing of punctuation marks
- Verb:
- Verb tense
- Making sentences with the right verb tense
- Spelling of their names
- Phonemic awareness
- Blending sounds into words
- Segmenting sounds (critical skill for spelling)
- Nouns
- meaning and examples of nouns
- Noun gender
- Examples of noun gender (human beings)
- Examples of male and female animals
- Singular and plural nouns
- Meaning of singular and plural
- The magic ‘s’
- Irregular plurals
- Spelling and writing days of the week
- Months of the year
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