Personal, Social and Emotional Development

A)Self-concept

B)Self-awareness

C)Self-esteem

Above are based on providing opportunities for exploring indoor and outdoor environment without being fearful. Accepting visitors in a classroom. Providing activities which give children a sense of success and achievement. Praising children for their efforts. Ensuring a positive attitude towards children. Opportunities for individual activities such as use of self-help skills. Following classroom routines, e.g., “putting away used material before starting another activity”.

D) Self-regulation

Providing activities where children are encouraged to take turns/ share. Encouraging children to follow simple rules and routine. Providing transitional activities like change from one task to another. Opportunities for small group activities where they sit, share and work with other children. Opportunities to work in small group activities or independent tasks to complete, joining activities with other children

E) Cooperation

Providing opportunities to work and share with others and helping children in coping/dealing with others. Planning such activities which encourage children to respond politely. Conducting activities where they make attempts to solve their simple day-to day problems independently and seek adult assistance.

Early Mathematics

Drawing different shapes
Coloring in an enclosed given shape
Naming and describing shapes
Planning lots of pre – number games and activities
Classify objects/ pictures on the basis of long-short, far-near, thick-thin, top-down, in-out,
over-under, front-back, open-close, here-there, beside-behind etc.
(Encouraging children to use the active mathematical vocabulary i.e., for e.g., this is the longest pencil and this is a shortest pencil) Memory games – e.g. what is missing?
Using classification cards involving two concepts
Retelling stories in the correct sequence
Completing the sequence of pattern-e.g., flower, pebbles etc.
Arranging sequential thinking cards
Placing/arranging objects/pictures in order (from left and proceed towards the right)
Comparing objects and seriating them in order of size, height, distance, etc.
Using language related to position of objects up-down, front-back), etc.
Using measurement tools
One-to-one correspondence (e.g., Distributing one plate/toffee to each child; keeping matching pictures on top of each picture etc.)
Touching and counting during daily activities
Playing pre-number and concept games
Singing pre-number and numbers
Making self-corrective number puzzles in which one part has a digit and other has the same number of objects
Completing picture puzzles with increasing number of pieces
Completing more complex nature maze
Problem-solving activities with increasing complexity
Touching and counting by using comparative language
Use of flash cards with numerals and magnetic numerals (1-10)
Exploring, observing and tracing numerals
Building blocks in the blocks area, joining interlocking blocks; Playing and creating with number blocks
Singing rhymes / poems on pre- numbers and numbers; number songs
Creating and constructing with empty boxes, and containers
Encouraging children to compare and seriate
Using a sand timer

Physical and Motor Development

A) Health and Hygiene

Ensuring children are in good health, fit enough to do simple exercises, have no symptoms of infectious diseases and are fit for participating in group activities. Designing suitable activities for children to learn how to look after themselves and to acquire knowledge of self-care, hygiene, table manners, safety, etc. Developing activities and games for maintaining habits of good and healthy eating and good hygiene through daily routines such as washing hands before meals and after using toilet. Talking with parents to learn about children’s habits at home and guiding children with patience, in accordance with their abilities.

B) Development of Gross motor skills

-Walking
-Balancing
-Running
-Jumping
-Creeping-crawling-rolling
-Swinging
-Hopping
-Climbing (ascending and descending)
-Rhythmic movement, skills with a ball or ring (throwing, catching, kicking)

Music and Movement

-Body Awareness
-Spatial Awareness

D) Fine motor skills

Threading
-Tearing
-Pasting
-Scribbling
-Colouring
-Printing
-Modelling
-Folding

TECHNOLOGY (Computer play)

A) Using Computers

- Exploring home screen icons
- Exploring the external parts of a computer
- Learning to enter information in a computer
- Exploring the internet by using Google for children’s stories, Rhymes etc. (Teacher assisted)
- Moving objects on a computer screen
- Operating through a basic level software programme