Theme- Squeaky Clean
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Learning Outcomes:
Language Development
• Use vocabulary related to the theme
• Listen to stories and rhymes
• Recall a favourite story
• Follow one-step direction
• Participate in conversations related to the theme
• Describe an object
• Use a few words and simple sentences to communicate
• Explore and handle picture books
Mathematical Development
• Sort, match and put in order
• Recreate patterns
• Understand the concept of full and empty
• Identify and name the shapes: introduce square and recapitulate circle
• Indicate one to one correspondence
• Numbers: 31-40 (Quantitative approach using dot cards)
• Match circles according to size, big and small
• Sort squares from amongst other shapes
• Group and match similar looking shapes together
Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Discriminate between: hot and cold, wet and dry
• Show curiosity to explore objects
• Demonstrate flexibility while approaching problems
• Stay involved in self-selected activities
• Observe and express what is seen and what is happening
• Talk about events that have happened in the past
• Use various instruments requiring squeezing
• Identify and name the colour ‘red’
• To explore differences and similarities I patterns
• To explore the texture o different materials
• Reinforce the importance of keeping hands and teeth clean
• Awareness about the precautions to be taken while down with a cough or cold
• Importance of keeping our body and hair clean
• Sort objects used for personal care from other objects
• Create an awareness about the various routines in a day
• Recall the sequence of events in the story
• Create an awareness about oral hygiene
• Opportunity to explore and experience brushing their own teeth
• Awareness about the importance of eating healthy food and regular exercise
• Provide opportunities for creative thinking/imagination
• Opportunity for hands-on experience about keeping the classroom clean and
tidy
• Develop the concept o time (today and yesterday)
Words in focus:
circle
square
water
clean
dirty
big
small
red
Prayers of the month:
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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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Red (Chant the lines in a recital tone)
Red are the apples for everyone,
Red are the roses out in the sun.
Red are the cherries down in the shop,
Red is the light that tells us to stop.
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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?
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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Sunny Square
Sunny square is his name;
He has four sides, (finger counting till 4)
All the same………………..
1, 2, 3, 4! (Draw the shape of a box in the air)
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Drip-Drop (Chant the lines to any familiar tune)
Drip drop, drip drop
Water is falling down
Drip drop, drip drop
Listen to the sound
Drip drop, drip drop
Let’s splash it all around!
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Drying Hands ( Sing to the tune of “Row, Row, Row your boat”)
Dry, dry, dry your hands,
Dry them both today.
Dry them up with this towel,
And wipe the water away!
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Teddy goes acchooo! (Sing to the tune of ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star”)
In my house there’s a room,
And in that room there’s a bed,
And on that bed is a tiny teddy bear
With a very heavy, heavy, head.
Acchhooo!!!!!!
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Keep the germs away (Sing to the tune of ‘The farmer in the Dell”)
Keep the germs away! (2)
When you cough or when you sneeze,
Will you think of others please!
Use a tissue or your hand, (2)
So on friends your germs won’t land.
Keep the germs away! (2)
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This is the way I brush my teeth (Sing to the tune of “Here we do round the mulberry bush”)
This is the way I brush my teeth,
I brush my teeth, I brush my teeth,
This is the way I brush my teeth,
So early in the morning.
This is the way I brush my teeth,
I brush my teeth, I brush my teeth,
This is the way I brush my teeth,
Before sleeping at night.
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I am healthy (Sing to the tune of “Where is Thumbkin”)
I am healthy, I am healthy,
Yes I am, Yes I am,
I eat healthy foods, and I exercise,
Yes I do, yes I do!
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Bits of paper
Bits of paper, bits of paper,
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor,
Make the place look untidy,
Make the place look untidy,
Pick them up, pick them up!
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