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Curriculum

Our curriculum is focused on the following areas of development:

A Curriculum is a set of experiences and events that are planned to foster a child’s learning. Our curriculum explores

Physical, Intellectual, Language, Creative, Socio-Emotional.

LANGUAGE: Expression, Vocabulary, Grammar, Phonology.

COGNITIVE: Maths, Science, Environment, Culture.

SENSOMOTOR: Daily Life Skills, Sensorial, Gross Motor, Fine Motor.

SOCIO-EMOTIONAL: Problem Solving, Decision Making, Social Skills, Independence

Curriculum Objectives Chart
Pre Curriculum Objectives
Physical
Gross motor

1. Move around their environment

2. Exhibit body balance while moving around

3. Demonstrate motor manipulative skills

4. Coordinated movements

Fine motor

1. Exihibit eye-hand coordination

2. Demonstrate wrist and finger movements

Socio-Emotional

Identify their personal belongings

Explore their environment when familiar and trusted adult is around

Imitate adults/peers

Perform repeated actions

Play among other children

Participate in group activities

Language-English

Follow one-to-two step instructions

Listen and participate actively to recite rhymes and stories

Use a few English words while speaking

Cognitive
Sensorial

Pair objects by texture

Pair objects by colour

Pair objects by shape

Pair objects by size

Creative

Move and sway to music

Use writing tools to make marks on paper

Environment and Culture

Recognize and name some parts of a human body, fruits, animals, flowers, vegetables, birds, insects and transport

Math

Orally recite numbers in sequence from 1-10

Post Curriculum Objectives
Physical
Gross motor

Balance and manoeuvre even if there are obstacles in their path

Fine motor

Perform complex tasks like weaving stitching

Socio-Emotional

Manage and control emotions

Empathize with peers

Language

Write paragraphs

Write 2 sentence answers to questions

Identify adjectives

Identify pronouns

Use articles

Hindi word writing without matra

Cognitive
Sensorial

Apply all sensorial inputs to familiar and unfamiliar environments

Aware of concepts of past, present and future

Creative

Create and enact own rhymes and stories

Environment and Culture

Understand occurrences of the past

Understand growth patterns

Identify and name parts of animals and plants

Math

Identify squares of numbers

Divide with the help of material

Identify ascending and descending orders of 4 digit numbers

Understand fractions with materials

Measure lengths of objects

Read complex time

Level 1 Curriculum Objectives
Physical
Gross motor

Exhibit muscle control

Perform coordinated movements like cycling and dancing

Balance and move in restricted spaces

Initiate exploration of new movements

Fine motor

Demonstrate one hand preference for most activities

Begin use of writing tools

Demonstrate muscle control to perform tasks

Demonstrate precision in pincer grip

Socio-Emotional

Follow set routines

Demonstrate independence in performing tasks

Verbally express needs and wants

Accept redirection from adults

Use kind words and gestures

Participate in games and peer interactions

Express emotions of happiness/sadness/anger

Persist in trial and error

Start identifying self (boy/girl, name, family)

Language

Follow 2-step instructions

Speak in short phrases and sentences

Pronounce words clearly

Recite rhymes and narrate short stories

Identify letter symbols a to z (Capitals and small case)

Identify the sounds in a word

Trace shapes of letters a to z

Join dots to form a letter

Cognitive
Sensorial

Identify texture, size, shape and colour

Sort objects by texture, size, shape and colour

Grade objects by texture, size, shape and colour

Identify same and different objects

Identify a missing part of a familiar object

Name and apply different size concepts like tall, shortest, thicker and so on

Replicate simple patterns

Creative

Move rhythmically to music

Explore visual art (colouring, tearing, pasting, painting and more)

Environment and Culture

Aware of immediate environment like school, roads and home

Identify and name parts of a body, fruits, animals, flowers, vegetables, birds, insects, transport

Math

Count numbers in sequence from 1 to 50

Recognize number symbols from 1 to 20

Associate number to quantity from 0 to 20

Form and write number symbols from 0 to 20)

Understand zero means nothing

Understand more and less between numbers 1 to 10

Count backwards from 10 to 1

Level 2 Curriculum Objectives
Physical
Gross motor

Balance and move in restricted spaces for speci?ed time periods

Perform alternate leg movement for tasks like jumping, hopping, climbing stairs

Manoeuvre around obstacles in their paths

Carry heavy objects from one place to another

Can apply force to move an object

Walk backwards in a balanced way

Exhibit eye-hand coordination to catch and throw objects

Fine motor

Take up complex tasks that involve crossing the mid line- using a knife, scissoring and tying shoelaces

Dress and undress independently

Bridge enclosures

Establish and display hand preferences

Socio-Emotional

Knows and follow daily routine

Maintain attention span and focus for more than 15 minutes

Adapt to change

Begin to understand accepted behaviour norms

Perform tasks without constant need for approval

Enjoy working in groups and socialize

Be aware of and understand others' emotions

Cooperate with peers

Develop friendship with peers

Care for others

Negotiate solutions to problems

Share personal belongings with peers

Language-English

Can narrate personal experiences to peers

Can initiate conversations with peers and adults

Speak at length with con?dence

Read and write CVC words and 4-5 letter blend words without support

Reads all 4-5 letter words with simple phonograms Copy and write what is written on the board

Identify few simple opposites and rhyming words

Write phrases

Write own name and the current date and day

Cognitive
Sensorial

Associate to daily life experiences

Differentiate between 2D to 3D shapes

Identify simple polygons

Classify objects

Complete a pattern

Complete complex jigsaw puzzles (with 8 to 10 pieces)

Describes same and different objects

Creative

Use tools to create visual art work

Get creative during role play

Enact through action and language

Environment and Culture

State a few facts about oneself, familiar people and objects

Recognize seasons and state simple facts about them

Aware of time and date

Develop the concept and understanding of a family

State facts about parts of a body, fruits, animals, flowers, vegetables, birds, insects, transport and tree

Math

Verbally count and write numbers in sequence up to 100

Associate number to quantity (from 0-100)

Understand place value of numbers with hierarchy

Change hierarchy/ exchanges from one place value to next

Read 4 digit numbers

Identify ascending and descending orders of 2 digit numbers

Recognise number symbols - tens and teens

Add any two numbers that are up to 3 digits (without carryover)

Understand and do addition on a number line

Skip count 2s, 5s and 10s

Level 3 Curriculum Objectives
Physical
Gross motor

Walk backwards with an object in hand

Walk up the stairs with an object in hand

Do complex balancing acts like hanging from a bar/hops on one foot

Apply force to move an object towards a target

Fine motor

Demonstrate controlled pencil movements while writing

Perform complex tasks that involve crossing the mid line like using a knife, scissors and tying shoelaces

Socio-Emotional

Show a strong desire to be independent

Express likes and dislikes

Work in a group with peers

Participate in activities with pre-set rules

Initiate the process to take lead in activities/tasks/plays

Want to please friends

Want to be copied (likes to be a role model)

Show care and respect for the environment

Language-English

Read and write words with spelling complications

Speak in grammatically correct sentences

Read and write lower and upper case cursive letters

Read and write compound words

Speak using a rich vocabulary of words

Identify Hindi alphabet

Recognize nouns and verbs

Write Hindi alphabet

Write simple sentences independently

Cognitive
Sensorial

Sequence complex patterns

Understand that when two shapes combine a third meaningful shape can be obtained

Analyse and reason cause and effect

Begins to create patterns

Creative

Associate meaning to movements, drawing, writing

Distinguish between fantasy and reality

Attempts to construct objects using different material

Enact rhymes, stories, songs

Environment and Culture

Belongingness to family is heightened

Be aware of details in the neighbourhood

Be aware of different people and their roles

Know facts about transportation, food and nature.

Take interest and know many titbits about the animal world

Show awareness of living and non-living objects

State few facts about space and the universe

Name a few Asian countries and Indian states

Recognize ?ags of a few countries

Recognize ?ags of a few countries

Math

Recognize odd and even numbers

Verbally count numbers and writes in a sequence up to 500

Arrange 3 digit numbers in ascending and descending orders

Identify number names (From 1 - 1000)

Read simple time on a clock

Subtract any two numbers that are up to 3 digits (without borrowing)

Multiply any single digit numbers with material

Do simple word problems involving addition and subtraction

Sort and compare data on a bar graph

Associate number to quantity up to 9999