Gross Motor Skills

• Outdoor activities

• Safe use of outdoor equipment: slides, climbing frames

• Carrying equipment safely

• Walking around obstacles

• Construction activities

• Balletic movements (Dance)

• Strengthening exercises

• Movement to music

Fine Motor Skills

• Pouring to a marked line

• Cutting complex shapes

• Cutting Exercises: curved line, zigzag line, around pictures, around designated area, on cardboard, soft fabric and textured materials, vegetables or fruit

• Pasting / glueing

• Threading

• Weaving, plaiting, sewing

• Hammer and nails

• Spreading, peeling and slicing

Personal Care

• Early First Aid life-saving training through play and teamwork

• Washing hands

• Using a handkerchief properly

• Looking after personal items

• Hair brushing and combing

• Brushing teeth

• Hygienic use of toilet

• Avoid the spread of germs

• Dressing and undressing

• Choosing appropriate clothing for indoor and outdoor wear

• Matching and coordinating outfits

• Use of fasteners: press studs, buckles, laces and bows

• Rolling & unrolling socks

• Folding and hanging own clothes

Environmental Care

• Taking care of books and the library

• Looking after educational resources and equipment

• Setting up and clearing a table

• Safety in food preparation and cooking

• Wash dry and put away cooking utensils

• Tidy up after activities

• Wash and sort paint brushes

• Store crayons and pencils

• Neatly stack and store chairs and cushions

• Table manners

• Greeting/farewell

• Asking questions politely

• Working together and showing respect to others

• Silence game

• Circle time activities

World Understanding

• Composition of Earth: The 3 elements (air, land, water)

• The globe: earth, land, water

• The coloured globe: Continents, Equator, North pole, South pole
  Land and water forms

• Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

• Puzzle map of the world

• Continents: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australasia

• Continent Folders

• Puzzle map of individual continents & countries

• Flags of countries

Body and Cultural Awareness

• Father’s Day

• Mother’s Day

• Chinese New Year

• Deepavali

• Christmas

• Eid al Fitr

• Yom Kippur

• Body parts (External & Internal):eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, legs, brain, oesophagus, stomach, kidneys, heart, intestine

• Function of body parts and organs

• Senses and their Function

• Care of Body / Hygiene

• Family & Family Tree

• Understanding the past

• Changes within living memory

• Significant historical events

• Local history and places

Performing Arts and Music

• Drama – Breathing exercises

• Standing still statues

• Fast and slow walking

• Posture

• Facial exercises

• Voice exercises

• Dressing up activities

• Creating a story

• Acting a story

• Rhyming songs

• Repetition songs

• Singing together, duet and solo

• Keeping time

• Rhythm

• Percussion instruments

• Making own instruments

Visual Arts

• Dough – moulding, pressing, kneading, cutting

• Pasting objects

• Drawing and painting

• Sewing

• Interlocking bricks

• Wooden blocks, planks, tyres

• 3D shapes

• Balancing

• Structures

• Traffic cones

• Hammer and nails

Science Exploration

• Using Labdisc data logger to measure: distance, light, temperature, air pressure

• Analyze thermal properties of materials

• Temperature vocabulary: hot, cold, warm, warmer, warmest, cool, cooler, coolest

• Weight vocabulary: light, lighter, lightest, heavy, heavier, heaviest

• Sink and float

• Magnetism

• Shadow

• Transportation

• The Solar System: names of the planets

• Weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy

• Parts of plants: trees, flowers, leaves, fruits

• Growing plants

• Living and non-living things

• Large pictures of animals

• Collection of model animals – naming

Sensory Play

• Auditory: Matching sound, sorting

• Sound vocabulary: loud, louder, loudest, soft, softer, softest

• Smell: Smelling jars – 6 materials

• Smell vocabulary: strong, mild, pleasant, fragrance, spices

• Taste: Taste Jars

• Taste vocabulary: sweet, sour, bitter, spicy & salty

• Visual recognition of dimensions:height, width, depth, length

• Texture vocabulary: rough, sharp, smooth, feathery, furry

• Touch fabric arrangement (smooth to rough)

• Tactile vocabulary: rough, rougher, roughest, smooth, smoother, smoothest

• Arrange dark to light shades of colour

• Colour wheel to identify colours

• Colour Vocabulary: light, lighter, lightest, dark, darker, darkest

Number Operations

• Card & Counter Association of symbols with quantities

• Odd and even numbers

• Decimal System with Cuisenaire rods (unit, ten, hundred, thousand)

• Counting through with Cuisenaire rods

• Numeral Cards – 1, 10, 100, 1000

• Association of quantities with written symbols

• Bird’s eye view

• Bank game

• Sequin Boards

• Quantities and written symbols for 11-19

• Quantities and written symbols for 10-90

• Combining quantities and written symbols for 11-99

• Skip counting

Advanced Operations or Concepts

• Group Operations with Cuisenaire rods (with/without changing): addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

• Working with boards

• Exercises with tables

• Fractions

• Time, length, mass

• Pictographs

• Money

• 3D shapes: cuboid, sphere, cylinder

• Construction triangles

• Tessellations

Reading and Phonics

• Spot the missing letter games in ascending and descending order

• Last/middle sounds with ‘I spy’ games using objects and pictures

• Sentence with pictures

• Phonic Reading

• Word matching (Frog, flag, drum, doll, dress, duck)

• Word list reading practice

• Words with consonant digraphs: sh, ch, th, ng, nk

• Sentence cards and story books (phonetic books)

• Words with vowel digraphs (ai, a-e, ay), (oo, u-e, ew)

• Non-phonic Reading: Alphabet letters and phonogram activities

Grammar and Writing

• Pre-literacy games

• Noun game with environment cards

• Matching noun cards to farm yard activities

• Use adjectives with noun card farm yard activities

• Make sentences with articles, nouns, adjectives and verbs

• Formation of plural – objects with cards

• Grammar games – nouns, adjectives, verb games

• Spelling and dictation exercise

• Copywriting – board, cards & books

• Creative writing

• Comprehension

• Formation of plural – nouns that end with es, ies

• Gender: boy/girl, king/queen, father/mother

• Compound words

• Capital exercises

• Punctuation exercises

Digital Learning

• Using tablets

• IWB activities

• Roamer floor robot activities

• Interact with educational programs

• Coding activities

Scientific Tools

• Using Labdisc data logger

• Measuring distance

• Measuring light

• Measuring temperature

• Measuring air pressure

• Analyzing thermal properties

• Recording and analyzing data