Theme- My family
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Learning Outcomes:
Language Development (Listening/ Speaking)
• Demonstrate attentive/ active listening
• Actively participate in conversations
• Understand and follow oral directions
• Ask questions to further understanding
• Use language for a variety of purposes
Language Development (Reading / writing)
• Indicate interest in books & stories
• Demonstrate print awareness
• Demonstrate phonemic and phonological awareness
• Write letters and words
Mathematical Development
• Identify different objects and use these to sort/ classify objects
• Measure and demonstrate understanding of time, length, weight, capacity and
temperature
• Explore shapes in the environment
• Solve problems using numbers
Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Show curiosity, observe and investigate
• Show an awareness of change; identify cause and effect of change
• Differentiate between past and present
• Gain an awareness of the culture and beliefs of others
Creative development
• Take on pretend roles
• Display creativity and imagination
Physical Development (Gross motor)
• Jump with confidence and in safety
• Crawl and roll with confidence and in safety
• Hop with confidence and in safety
Physical Development (Fine motor)
• Control small muscles in hands to accomplish tearing, pasting and cutting
tasks
• Control small muscles in hands to fold paper
• Use simple tools for drawing and writing
• Control small muscles in hands to model with clay
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Initiate and maintain interactions at school
• Recognize and responds to feelings
• Resolve conflicts
Words in focus:
family
father
mother
brother
sister
grandfather
grandmother
square
circle
triangle
cooking
loving
rules
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Numbers: 11-20 (Quantitative approach using dot cards)
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Concepts:
• Introduction of the concept of a family
• Develop the ability at picture reading
• Identify different family members with their names
• An opportunity to participate in role-play
• Paper folding activity
• An opportunity to relate the words to pictures
• Develop an understanding of positional words like up, down, in and out etc.
• Sharing experiences with peers
• Develop their skill at capturing experiences/ concepts and responding to it
with visual representations
• Develop phonemic awareness
• Knowledge about how family structures change over time
• Concept about “tall and short” and “tallest and shortest”
• Description of various roles and responsibilities of family members
• An opportunity to develop their skills at graphing
• Develop their pre-writing skills
• Recognize and trace slanting lines
• Importance of family rules
• To sensitise children to being respectful: respect your elders
• Importance of respecting others
• Opportunity to compare objects
• Draw the children’s attention to the celebration to the celebrations and
happy times that families share together
• Highlight that love and care in a family bonds the family members together
• An opportunity to find an odd one out of a group
Prayers of the month:
Starting prayer:
Sarasvatii namastubhyam varade kaamaruupini
Vidyarambham karishhyaami siddhir bhavatu me sadaa
Closing Prayer:
Buddham saranam gachhami
Dharmam saranam gachhami
Sangham saranam gachhami
Om shanti shanti shanti-hi
Hari-h om, Shri Gurubhyo namah, Hari-h om
Food prayer:
Sah-na bhava-tu, sah-nao bhunak-tu;
Sah viryam karva-vahe,
Tejas-vina vadh-itam-astu
Maa vidh-visha-wahai
Om shanti shanti shanty
Rhymes:
Good morning, to you and to you
Good morning, to you and to you
Hello everyone
Hello everyone
Good morning to you and to you
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Good –bye my friends
Good –bye my friends
Good –bye my friends
We’ll all meet again tomorrow!
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Let’s clean up today!
Let’s clean up today
We’ve had our fun
Our play is done
So, let’s clean up today!
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It’s time to go out and play
Out and play, out and play
It’s time to go out and play
And have lots of fun!
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Wash, wash, wash, wash your hands,
After work and play
Scrub and rinse and shake and dry
And wash those germs away!
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Fingers Family
This is the father, good and kind
This is the father, good and kind
This is the father I love
This is the mother, gentle & mild
This is the mother, gentle & mild
This is the mother I love
This is the brother, grown so tall
This is the brother grown so tall
This is the brother I love
This is the sister, playing with her doll
This is the sister, playing with her doll
This is the sister I love
This is my finger family
This is my finger family
This is my family I love
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My family is my life
Papa & mummy are very nice
Grandpa & grandma take care of me
I sing, I laugh, I dance & play
That’s my life day after day
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Once there were some little worms.
And all they did was squirm and squirm.
They wiggled and wiggled up and down
They wiggled and wiggled all around
They wiggled and wiggled and wiggled until,
They were tired and could sit very still
Now they could listen,
Now they could see
All of the things
I have here with me.
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You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot out,
You put your right foot in
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about
You put your left foot in,
You put your left foot out,
You put your left foot in
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about
You put your left hand in,
You put your left hand out,
You put your left hand in
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about
You put your whole self in,
You put your whole self out,
You put your whole self in
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about
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Some families are large.
Some families are small
But I love my family best of all
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These are Grandmother’s glasses
This is Grandmother’s scarf
This is the way she folds her hands
And lays them in her lap
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I am in love with papa, love with mama, love with myself
I am in love with dadaji, I am in love with dadima
I am in love with nana, love with nani, love with everyone
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
I am in love with mountains, love with rivers, love with the sky
I am in love with the Sun, I am in love with the Moon
I am in love with stars, love with clouds, love with everything
Everything, everything
Everything, everything
I am in love with giraffe, love with tiger, love with the lion
I am in love with the cat, I am in love with the dog
I am in love with monkeys, love with bears, love with animals
I am in love, I am in love
Noooo
I am love, I am love
I am love, I am love
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Repetition of previous rhymes
