We cover core skills and more through activities & play....
> Numbers, Shapes, Patterns > With card games, match games, board games and strategy games like buggy dominos....
> Numbers, Shapes, Patterns > With card games, match games, board games and strategy games like buggy dominos....
>> Other Themes >>
SELF AWARENESS/PRIDE - Our bodies, feelings and boundaries, assertiveness, empathy and mentoring each other.... |
Fun ways to identify, count, add and subtract numbers!
LETTERS & LANGUAGE - Writing - Word play through songs/rewriting songs - Circle stories: everyone adds a section- Books, lots of lovely books, some that we make... MUSIC - With songs, changing rhythm to other music styles, such as rock & roll ABCs, writing our own lyrics and playing lots of musical instruments. ART- Is woven in throughout. The children always have access to art materials for independent ideas too... |
Games are such a natural way to teach numbers... not a chore at all... We also use songs to play with numbers, regularly count to 100 by 1s, fives, tens and manipulate counted objects within artwork and beadwork patterns or minibooks to sight-read and take home...
SCIENCE-
Our Garden- gives lots of opportunities for natural science - understanding seeds, plant structures & the plant cycle, where our foods come from and how to care for something of value that takes time... We really enjoy our strawberry and blueberry plants & lovely vegetables! Our World- Habitats- Oceans & Stewardship of Earth. Bugs- Beneficial- Lifecycles Flight- Birds- Planes- Rockets Space- Solar System & Amazing Universe. Habitat: Our fun aquarium with fish, aqua frogs and lovely snail.... |