8 Plants Detail

Curriculum: Emerging Wings

Month…eight


THEME: PLANTS




VALUE: Cleanliness

Content

     

Flowers: Lotus, Lily, Daisy, Pansy and Dahlia Parts of plants: flower, leaf, stem and roots Observing Plants and Germination Insects: Ladybird, Caterpillar and Bumblebee Taking care of plants Reinforcement of the last three themes Visit to a Garden

The content above will be covered through different skills. Each skill will focus on:

I Listen I Know I Speak  Listening Reinforcement of alphabet sounds/phonic sounds through nursery rhymes. The children will enhance their vocabulary by learning new words linked to the plants theme ‘Parts of a Plant’ such as ‘plant’, ‘flower’, ‘leaf’, ‘stem’ and ‘roots’. Nursery rhymes such as –‘Pansies, Pansies Everywhere’, ‘Ring-a-ring o’ roses’ (modified version), ‘See the little Ladybird’, ‘Jenny J’ etc will be sung and enjoyed by the children.  Speaking Making simple sentences using the words learnt in their phonic instruction, such as ball, bus, doll, daisy, pen, pizza, rose, rabbit, jar and jacket. The children will blend the phonic sounds of the letters C, G, S and B with each other and speak the new sounds formed through the activity ‘Word Snakes’.    

Reading Letter to picture association Letter to Letter association Reading ‘My phonic book’

 Writing  Tracing and Writing of the letters B, D, P, R and J  Creating their own phonic book’ on B, D, P,R and J

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Curriculum: Emerging Wings

I Am Ready Oral Learn about the stages in seed Germination Will become Little observers (Observing small things under a magnifying glass) Will sort ‘Leafy Shapes’ (Sorting leaves on the basis of their shapes) Flower Match (Matching flower cutouts to their respective outlines)

   

Written  Tracing and Writing the number 10  Concept of Tall and Short  Writing 1-5 (in sequence)  Jumbled Numbers 1-5

I Can Do Wonders  Children will undertake innovative activities wherein they will acquire greater palmer control. Art and craft activities will entail skills such as cutting, pasting, paper folding, tracing, punching holes and painting. Children’s artistic talent will help create a ‘Paper Plate daisy’, ‘Lotus Craft’, ‘Handprint Trees’ Ladybird Puppet’, ‘Shape Garden’ and ‘My Boat’.

I Can & I Do  Children will participate and enjoy games and activities such as ‘Three Petals’ ‘Silly Lily’, ‘Shake Your Body’ ‘Buzzing Bumblebees’, ‘Push the Seed’, ‘Carry Your Plant’ and ‘Shape Hop’. All these activities will build all the physical strength of the students as well as make them aware of their nature around them through a range of skills such as running, hopping while picking things, walking briskly within the tracks, dribbling the ball, performing different actions according to the rhyme, walking on hands and legs like animals and pulling the toy wagon.

I Help Myself  Through an exposure to plants children will develop a keen instinct towards protecting nature, and fulfilling their role as world citizens. For example, through an activity such as ‘Let us Plant’, they will come to take on the responsibility for a plant, which would entail watering it regularly. Activities such as ‘Flower Snack’ will develop self help skills while making a snack using fruit slices. The children will also make a scrap book of plants using leaves and twigs collected from the garden in the activity ‘My Collection’. A story about ‘Ria and Her Plant’ will be narrated.

I Me Myself & My Friends  Through various activities such as ‘Pretty Pansy’, ‘Flower Garden’, ‘Sleeping Trees’, ‘How Useful the Trees Are!’, ‘Where’s the Caterpillar?’ Children will independently exhibit pro-social behaviors, such as sharing materials with peers and will become more attuned to basic feeling about plants. Children will be encouraged to actively participate in role plays as a sunflower and herbivores in the activities ‘Follow the Sun’ and ‘Plant Eaters’.

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