Jr.Kg Preschool Curriculum

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Demonstrate awareness of the preschool environment and its routine; demonstrate awareness of themselves and feel good about who they are and what they are; demonstrate good healthy habits; cooperate in group activities; recognize personal space; socialise and play with others; demonstrate confidence in group activities and follow instructions.

  • Positive self-concept
  • Self-awareness
  • Self-esteem
  • Development of Good Personal Habits
Cognitive Development
    A) Development of the senses
  • Sense of sight
  • Sense of hearing
  • Sense of touch
  • Sense of smell
  • Sense of taste
    • B) Cognitive Skills
  • Memory and observation
  • Classification (grouping) Pattern making and Sequential thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Reasoning
    • C) Concept Formation
  • Colour concept (all primary colours only)
  • Shape concept – Circle, Square, Triangle, Heart, Star
  • Pre-number concept Big-small, More-less, Tall-short
  • Space concept: In-out Top-Bottom
  • Temperature concept - Hot-cold
  • Number concept
    • D) Environmental Concepts
  • Me, My family, My body
  • Animals and Birds
  • Plants - Vegetables and Fruits
  • Transportation
  • Water
Language and Literacy
    A) Listening Skills
  • Sound discrimination
  • Listening span
  • Listening
  • comprehension
    • B)Speaking skills
  • Development of vocabulary related to: Body, Home, Environment
    • C) Oral Expression
  • Conversation
  • Story telling
  • Dramatization and Puppet play
  • Picture reading
    • D) Creative self-expression

    E) Reading Readiness
  • Sound discrimination
  • Visual coordination and discrimination
    • F) Writing Readiness
  • Fine muscles development
  • Eye-hand coordination
Arts and Creative Development
A) Self-Expression

Creating a supportive climate where children feel free to express themselves. Storytelling to children by using well illustrated picture- books.

B) Art Activities

View films, film strips and other media work in small groups, sing songs/ create rhymes, play games about specific topics, draw/scribble on a large piece of paper, appreciate wonders of nature, e.g., budding flowers, growing seedlings, various coloured leaves, etc., Coordinating movement and rhythmic activities, Constructing and creating, Dramatizing (creative drama) stories, providing children with a variety of experiences which will form the basis for their creativity to blossom.

Physical and Motor Development
    A) Health and Hygiene
  • Discussing good habits; activities/games; Using pictures/words to retell a familiar experience such as washing hands, brushing teeth; Listening to a story on cleanliness/good habits, singing a rhyme on hygiene e.g., “brush –brush your teeth”, Role- play on “how to wash hands” etc.
    • B)Development of Gross motor skills (Activity based)
  • Walking
  • Ballancing
  • Running
  • Jumping
  • Creeping-crawling-rolling
  • Swinging
  • Hopping
  • Climbing (ascending and descending)
  • Rhythmic movement, skills with a ball or ring (throwing, catching, kicking)
    • C) Music and Movement
  • Body Awareness
  • Action songs, Dancing to the beats of popular music/rhythms, creating body percussion sound, developmentally appropriate music, Responding to auditory patterns in poems and stories, songs etc.
  • Spatial Awareness
  • Moving bodies in space by following verbal instructions given by the teacher through an obstacle course.
    • D) Fine motor skills (Activity based)
  • Threading
  • Tearing
  • Pasting
  • Scribbling
  • Colouring
  • Printing
  • Modelling
  • Folding
TECHNOLOGY (Computer play)
A) Computer as a tool to play and learn

Engaging children in active learning through technology (e.g., using digital camera, i-pads, desktop, Apps, etc.) Explaining technology by providing these items in the pretend play/dramatics area. Using a projector to share a story in a whole group/circle time, clicking photographs (e.g., photos of animals/birds during the theme) and making their own book viewing/watching images of animals/birds/transport and adding on language component to the activity. Integrating technology into the daily schedule/activities of any theme e.g., while talking to children about shapes, encourage a small group of children to explore shapes on the computer etc.