Theme- All Dressed Up
Learning Outcomes:
Language Development
- Use vocabulary related to the theme
- Enjoy stories and rhymes
- Ask questions
- Follow one step instructions
- Handle books
- Make simple strokes (Horizontal and vertical lines)
Mathematical Development
- Sort and match
- Recapitulate the concept of same and different
- Explore the concept of making pairs
- Recreate patterns
- Indicate one to one correspondence
- Fix two-three piece jigsaw puzzles
- Sing number rhymes
- Recapitulate shapes: circle and square
- Identify and name the shape “triangle”
- Use positional concepts: over/under
- Explore the colour “yellow”
- Numbers: 31-40 (Quantitative approach using dot cards)
Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Recapitulate concepts: rough/smooth and hard/soft
- Awareness about the importance of wearing clothes
- Identify and name a few clothing items and accessories
- Talk about the features of his/her immediate environment relating to clothes people wear
- Talk about his/her favourite dress
- Talk about clothes for different seasons
- Introduction of the concept of open and close
- Identification of different textures and opportunity to understand that different materials have a different feel
- Awareness about the concept wet and dry
- Provide hands-on experience of washing clothes
Words in focus:
yellow
clothes
triangle
shoes
socks
belt
cap
open
close
over
under
cut
wear
wash
Prayers of the month:
Starting prayer:
Karagre Vasate Laxmi
Karaagre Vasate Laxmi,
Karamuule Saraswati.
Karamadhye Tu Govinda,
Prabhaate Kara Darshanam
Closing Prayer:
Om Poornamidah Poornamidam:
Vedic Peace Mantra
Om poornamadah poornamidam
Poornaat poornamudachyate
Poornasya poornamaadaaya
Poornamevaa vashishyate
Om shanti shanti shantih
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 shantih
Rhymes:
Previous rhymes for revision
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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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Drip-drop
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Wash, wash, wash, wash your hands
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If you are happy and you know it
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Hokey pokey
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This is the way I wear my clothes
(Sing to the tune of: Here I go around the Mullberry Bush)
This is the way I wear my clothes,
Wear my clothes, wear my clothes.
This is the way I wear my clothes,
Early in the morning!
(Do actions of wearing different clothes)
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Yellow (Chant the lines in a recital tone)
Yellow is a lemon,
Yellow is a star,
Yellow is the sun,
In the sky so far.
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Tommy Triangle
(Sing to the tune of: I am a lion)
I’m Tommy Triangle,
Look at me!
Count my sides,
One, two, three!
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Fly your yellow
(Sing to tune of: The farmer in the dell)
Fly your yellow up fly your yellow up,
Fly your yellow down, fly your yellow down,
Fly your yellow all around, fly your yellow all around,
Then fly it up and down! Then fly it up and down!
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Rain
( Sing to the tune of “I am a Lion”)
Rain on the green grass,
Rain on the tree,
Rain on the house top,
But not on me!
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I am washing the clothes
(Sing to the tune of ‘I am a lion”)
I am washing the clothes!
Rub a dub scrub,
With clothes in a tub,
With the soap in the tub,
I squeeze and I scrub,
I am washing the clothes!
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We are going for shopping
(Sing to the tune of ‘Brown girl in the ring”)
We are going for shopping,
Tra la la la la.
We are going to buy clothes,
Tra la la la la.
We are going to look for shirts,
Tra la la la la.
We are going to look for skirts,
Tra la la la la.
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