Theme- My Secret Garden
Learning Outcomes:
Language Development
• Participate in conversations related to the theme
• Listen to stories and recall events
• Use vocabulary related to the theme
• Join in to sing songs and rhymes
• Explore and handle picture books
Mathematical Development
• Pattern and sort
• Recapitulate: same-different; long-short
• Use pre-number concepts: big and small; tall and short
• Explore primary colours: red, yellow and blue
• Identify and name a circle
• Revision on the concept of ‘big and small’ and ‘more and less’ and
‘same & different’
• Numbers: 31-40 (Quantitative approach using dot cards)
Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Observe and share observations related to flowers, plants and insects
• Explore and discriminate on the basis of tactile stimuli: rough and smooth,
hard and soft
• Use tools for gardening
• To create awareness about the things in the garden
• To provide children with an opportunity to develop their skills at verbal
expression
• Provide opportunities for exploring different colours
• Provide opportunity to develop listening skills
• Provide opportunity for creative expression
• Provide opportunities for enhancing observation skills
• Exploration of different textures
• Revision on the previous concept and previous rhymes
• Awareness about trees and leaves of different shapes, sizes and colours
• Experience of touching grass and sand
• Opportunities to develop skills of seriating
• Opportunities for the children to develop interest in books
• Awareness about how plants grow
• Awareness about a gardener
• Awareness about the bugs/ creepy crawlies commonly found in a garden
• Awareness about ants, their appearance, habitat and food habits
• Awareness about the bees, their appearance, habitat, food habits and what
sound it makes
• Revision on the sweet taste through the use of honey
• Awareness about caterpillars and butterflies
• Awareness about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly
• Awareness about spiders, their home and their food habits
• Awareness about ladybug, fly, mosquitoes, worm and snails
• Opportunity to recall from visual memory
Words in focus:
garden
leaf
flower
tree
pebble
grass
ant
bee
caterpillar
butterfly
spider
ladybug
fly
mosquito
worm
snail
Prayers of the month:
Starting prayer:
Om bhoor bhuwah swaha,
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasaya dheemahi
Dhiyo yo naha prachodayat
Closing Prayer:
Sarva Mangala Mangalye
Shive Sarvartha Sadhike
Sharanye Triyambike Gauri
Narayani Namostute
Food Prayer:
sah-na bhavatu, sah-nau bhunaktu;
sah viryam karvavahe,
tejasvinav adhitam-astu
maa vidhvishawahe
OM shanti shanti shanti
Rhymes:
Good morning, to you and to you
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Good –bye my friends
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Let’s clean up today!
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It’s time to go out and play
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Wash, wash, wash, wash your hands,
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Walking in the Garden (Sing to the tune of ‘I love you’)
Walking in the garden,
Is so much fun!
We don’t hurry, we don’t run.
We watch for birds,
We watch for the bees.
We watch for all the falling leaves!
(Add the things that the children observed while they were in the garden)
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My Home (Sing to the tune of ‘I love you’)
This is my Home!
This is my Home!
Here are the windows, here is the door,
A roof above,
The kitchen, the living room too,
A bathroom, a bedroom,
A room for me and for you!
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Circle (Sing to the tune of ‘ Have you ever seen a lassie’)
Have you ever seen a circle, a circle, a circle, a circle?
Have you ever seen a circle, which goes round and round?
It rolls this way and that way, and that way and this way.
Have you ever seen a circle, which goes round and round?
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My garden (Sing to the tune of ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star”)
This is my garden, I’ll plant it with care,
Here are the seeds, I’ll plant in there.
The sum will shine, the rain will fall,
The seeds will sprout….and grow up tall.
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Ants go marching
The ants go marching one by one,
Hurrah, hurrah.
The ants go marching one by one,
Hurrah, hurrah.
The ants go marching one by one,
The little one stops to suck his thumb,
And they all go marching down
Into the ground to get out of the rain,
Boom! Boom! Boom!
continue in the same way for numbers below:
Two….tie his shoe….
Three…Climb a tree….
Four….shut the door..
Five…take a drive..
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The Beehive (Sing to the tune of ‘row, row, row your boat”)
This is the beehive, where are the bees?
Hiding behind, where no one can see!
Buzzing out of their hive the come
1..2…3…4…5!
Buzz….buzz……buzz….
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Caterpillar turns into a butterfly
Caterpillar caterpillar, green and furry
You are never in a hurry.
Munching munching, munching leaves
Eating any time you please.
Curl up tight, and curl up warm
Then you’ll be safe from the winter’s storm
When the summer sun is high up in the sky
Caterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly!
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Little Miss Muffet
Little miss Muffet,
Sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider,
Is sat down beside her,
And frightened
Miss Muffet away.
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Itsy Bitsy Spider
Itsy bitsy spider,
Climbed the water spout.
Down came the rain,
And washed the spider out.
Out came the sun,
And dried up all the rain.
So the itsy bitsy spider
Climbed the spout again.
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Ladybug, ladybug ( Sing to the tune of ‘Butterfly, Butterfly’)
Ladybug, ladybug, how are you today?
Ladybug, ladybug, are you going to stay?
Ladybug, ladybug, what are you going to do?
Ladybug, ladybug, will you go away?
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Shoo Fly
Shoo Fly, don’t bother me
Don’t bother me, don’t bother me
Shoo Fly, don’t bother me
I belong to somebody!
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Shim Shim, Shimmy (Sing to the tune of London Bridge)
Make a snail trail,
Follow me,
Follow me,
Follow me…
Make a snail trail
Follow me…
Shim, Shim, Shimmy!
