New UKG daywise term 1

MONTHLY CURRICULUM FOR UKG (Blooms) Month: September Theme: Nature Week-3 Day-1 Show and tell activity: 9.00 am to 9.30 am Concept: Seasons-food we eat Teacher displays the pictures of different seasons and asks the following questions: What season is this? How do you feel during this season? What would you like to eat during this season? Teacher continues with the same procedure till she covers all the seasons. After she does so, she sums up the session by saying that ‘we eat food according to the seasons. We would like to eat hot food items during rainy and winter season, cold items like ice cream, and cold drinks during summer season. We should also take care of our health during all seasons. If we don’t take precautions, we will fall sick. For e.g., in rainy season, we should not eat outside food. Always drink boiled and cooled water. Carry umbrella when you go out in rain or sun. Drink lots of water during the summer season as the water content from the body goes off in the form of sweat.’ 9.30 to 10.00 am: Language development: Story time: Fox and the Crane: The Crane and the Fox Once there lived two friends, a crane and a fox. They were very friendly to each other. One day the fox wanted to tease the crane and invited the crane for dinner. The crane came to the fox’s house. The fox invited the crane and served the dinner in a shallow plate. The crane because of its long neck and its beak could not eat the dinner. The crane felt very bad and went away. 151

After some time, the crane hearing that the fox is teasing everybody in the same way wanted to teach it a lesson so invited the fox for lunch. The fox happily went to the crane’s house. The crane invited the fox and served a very delicious fish in a long necked pot. The fox because of its short neck could not reach the fish and could not eat them. The crane ate away all the fish. Then the fox realized that it has been teasing everybody in the same way and everybody could have felt bad about the way she behaved. The fox felt sorry for its behavior and walked away. Moral of the story: Treat others as you want them to treat you. For today you only narrate the story and please show them pictures of crane and a fox. Discuss with them the way in which a fox eats and the way the crane eats. 10.00 to 10.20: Sight word reading. 10.20 to 10.40 am: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Free hand drawing Teacher makes the students do the worksheet in the activity book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10pm Concept: Reinforcement of seasons Teacher draws three big squares at different distances. Each square should accommodate at least fifteen students. She writes Summer, Rainy and Winter in each box. She makes the students repeat the spelling of the season and also identify each box. She keeps objects/pictures related to all three seasons with her. Teacher makes the students stand all the students around the squares in a big circle. She instructs the students that they are supposed to stand in the right square when she shows a picture. For eg. when she shows the picture of an umbrella, the students are supposed to stand in rainy season box. They can also stand in the summer box. In such situations teacher should justify the correctness of the concept. 152

Teacher continues till all the objects which she is holding are completed. Note: As the activity is a large group activity, teacher should be very cautious in conducting the game and ensure that students don’t push each other. Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: Spellings of words related to the seasons and things we use Teacher shows the pictures of different seasons and makes the students say what the season and subsequently makes them repeat the spelling of the word and write the same in their note books or slates. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the following action song: Pankha Garmi aai garmi aai Ghar ghar mei(n) yeh pa(n)kha laye Sabko paas bulaata pa(n)kha Meethi neend sulaata pa(n)kha Thandi hawa khilaata pa(n)kha Bahut aaram hai deta pa(n)kha. 153

Day- 2 9.00 to 9.30am: Theme for Large Groups Be a Meteorologist Materials: White, blue, black, gray, and yellow paper, and velcro. Description: Draw a map of your town (simple square, circle, oval shape etc.). Place two strips of velcro across it. Out of the paper make, a black cloud, a white cloud, a blue sky, a sun, blue raindrops, and white snowflakes. Put a velcro piece on the back of each paper (opposite of the kind you put on the town picture). Have one child each day use the clouds, sun, rain or snow and put them on the town to show the daily weather. Comments: Makes the children aware of the weather and it can bring conversation as to what to wear that day and it makes them a part of that decision. 9.30 to 10.00 a.m.: Story time: Fox and the crane: Repeat the story: This day discuss the characters of the fox and crane. Bring out the value of sharing with others. 10.00 am to 10.20 am: Sight word reading 10.20 to 10.40 am: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am: Math:Number names: Recap of number names 1 to 10: Write it on the board and make children repeat it. Now write the number on the board and let children write the number name for that number written on the board in their note book. Please ensure that children do remedial work there and then if they make a mistake. That way you will be able to reduce the learning gaps. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10pm 154

No Lose Musical Chairs Preschool children use large motor skills and participate in a group game in which everyone wins during this large group activity. Materials: Chairs and music. Description: Line chairs up like regular musical chairs. Use the same amount of chairs as there are kids. Play the same as Musical Chairs, only do not take chairs away at end, so no one loses. Even toddlers love it! Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: Introduction of numbers 81-90 Teacher uses the flash cards of single digit numbers and keeps making two digit numbers from 81-90. While she is making the numbers, she ensures that the students repeat each number after her. She repeats the same procedure till she completes all the ten numbers. She makes the students repeat all the numbers displayed on the floor. She then calls each student to count from back. She repeats the activity till very student gets his/her turn to participate. Note: Teacher to display the numbers vertically as the students write in vertical order only. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Rain Song (Sung to: \"If you're happy and you know it\") First a little drop of rain hit the ground, (Tap, Tap) Then another drop of rain hit the ground, (Tap, Tap) Then another and another and another and another, And pretty soon we heard a different sound. (Splash! Splash!) Blow Blow,Blow the wind (Sung to: \"Row, Row, Row Your Boat\") Blow, blow, blow, the wind 155

Gently through the trees. Blow, and blow, and blow, and blow. How I like a breeze! Blow, blow, blow the clouds, Blow them through the sky. Blow, and blow, and blow, and blow. Watch the clouds roll by. Rain Rain (Sung to: \"Row, Row, Row Your Boat\") Rain, rain, falling down, Landing all around. What a lovely sound you make Splashing on the ground. 156

Day-3 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30am Concept: Before, After and between # from 81-90 Teacher displays all the flash cards of the above mentioned numbers in a sequence on the floor vertically and makes each student do both forward and backward counting. She then calls each student to the center and makes him/her identify the before number if said number. Similarly, teacher covers all the concepts from 81-90. Note: Teacher to ensure that every student gets their turn to participate in the activity. 9.30 am to 10.00 am: Story time: fox and the crane: Teacher needs to make the children role play the story. 10.00 am to 10.20 am: Sight word reading. 10.20 to 10.40: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.15 am to 11.45 am Concept: Writing numbers from 81-90 Teacher makes the students write the above mentioned numbers in the slate or in the CW note book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10am Physical Exercise: Hula Hooping Teacher allows the students to use hula hoops in any way that they like, making sure that the hoops are used safely. After the children have used the hula hoops in their own way, the teacher will show them different ways to use the hula. 157

a) Around the waist-setting it right to your back, then spinning it around with your body. b) Make the hula hoop go round on the ground. c) Make hula spin on arm. d) Arrange hula hoops on ground and jump over them. e) Make up your own ideas. Large Group Time: 12.10 pm to 12.45 pm Concept: Seasons-Writing activity Teacher makes the students do the worksheet related to the above mentioned concept in the activity book. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the following action song: Look Outside (Sung to: \"Twinkle, Twinkle, little star\") Look outside now; can you say What the weather is today? Is there sunshine, is there rain, Is wind blowing down the lane? Look outside now; can you say What the weather is today? Look outside now; can you say What the weather is today? Are there snowflakes falling down, Are there big clouds floating around? Look outside now, Can you say What the weather is today? 158

Day-4 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30 am Teacher repeats the previous day’s circle time session. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Story time: Teacher makes children read the story. Write the story, if possible, on a chart paper with illustration and write with large letters. Make children read the story. 10.00 am to 10.20 am: Sight word reading 10.20 to 10.40 am: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Clay molding Teacher gives potter’s clay or a lump of dough and instructs the students to make any object related to seasons. She displays every child’s work in the class. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10 pm Concept: Physical Exercise-Running Race Teacher divides all the students into five groups. She makes each group stand in a horizontal line at appropriate distance so that there isn’t any scope to push each other. She makes every body on the line run as soon as she blows the whistle. Teacher can have a round of preliminary and final if all the students finish participating in the game. Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: Writing numbers from 71-90 Teacher makes the students do the worksheet in the activity book. 159

Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the previous day’s action songs. 160

Day-5 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30 am Concept: Before, After and Between numbers from 71-90 Teacher displays flash cards of all the above mentioned numbers vertically. She calls each student to pick the numbers after the said number. Similarly, she repeats the same procedure for before and between numbers. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Story time: Fox and the crane: Teacher makes children read the story card. And tells them to write in their note book all the words they are familiar with. 10.00 to 10.20 am: Sight word reading. 10.20 t0 11.40 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Crushed paper collage Material Required: Worksheet, glue, Crushed paper balls (make the students tear the crushed paper into pieces and roll them into small balls) Teacher gives each student a worksheet with the pictures of umbrella, raincoat, sweater, clouds, sun and moon. She makes the students apply glue on the pictures and paste crushed paper balls on the same. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10 pm Teacher repeats the previous day’s exercise. Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm: Number name 11. Teacher introduces number eleven with the symbol 11 and then the value by counting 11 objects and then writes it the number name on the board. She makes children repeat the name several times. 161

Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat both the action songs of this week. 162

MONTHLY CURRICULUM FOR UKG (Blooms) Month: September Theme: Nature Week-4 Day-1 Circle time: 9.00 am to 9.30 am Concept: Clothes worn according to the seasons Teacher displays pictures/objects of cotton clothes, woolen clothes, raincoats, umbrella, long boots, etc and shows to the students one after the other and asks questions like: What is this? When do you wear this? Can you wear this all through the year? Teacher sums up the session by saying that ‘clothes have to be worn according to the seasons. In summer, we wear only cotton clothes because we sweat a lot during this season and cotton clothes absorb sweat. We need to carry raincoat, umbrella, jacket, and boots during rainy season to avoid from getting wet in the rain. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we get wet and will lead to cold, cough and fever. We need to wear warm clothes like sweater, caps, woolen gloves during winter season as the woolen clothes keeps us warm and protect us from cold’. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Concept: Story of “The crane and the fox” Teacher shows the pictures of the characters from the story and asks the students to arrange them in sequence and asks students about the incidents in the story. If she 163

has story cards, she can call students to arrange them sequentially and say the story. Once the entire story is narrated, teacher repeats the story with proper body language/gestures. 10.00 to 10.20 am: Sight word reading. 10.20 to 10.40: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Writing numbers from 71-90 Teacher makes the students write the above mentioned numbers from the activity book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10pm Physical Exercise: Hop scotch Teacher draws boxes on the floor and makes each student balance a book on the head and jump from one box to the other. Teacher repeats the session till everybody gets their turn to participate in the game. Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: Backward Counting of nos from 90-70-writing Teacher shows a pattern of backward counting on the black board and makes the students write in the same pattern in the activity book. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the following action song: Weather Song (Sung to: \"Mary Had a Little Lamb\") 164

The weather is a funny thing, Funny thing, funny thing, The weather is a funny thing It changes everyday. Monday was a sunny day, The sun was shining bright. (The days of the week to be replaced and accordingly the lines to be replaced to describe the weather to be: The rain was wet and soggy / The clouds were white and fluffy / The snow was white and light / The Wind was strong and cold) 165

Day-2 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30 am Concept: Introduction of singular-plural Teacher group of same objects like buses, ducks, etc. She picks up one picture and asks students to identify it. She subsequently makes the students write the spelling of the word on the blackboard. She then shows many objects of the similar one like pictures of many ducks. She asks one of the students to identify and name it. She ensures that more such examples are given and sums up the session by saying that ‘if there is only one object/pictures, then it is a singular, more than one, it is called as plural and we add either ‘s’ or ‘es’ to make the word in plural form. Teacher gives different such experiences to make the concept clear to the students. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Story time: Each child is made to repeat the story Fox and the crane. 10.00 to 10.20am: Sight word reading 10.20 to 10.40: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Singular-Plural-writing activity Teacher makes the students do related worksheet in the activity book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10pm Teacher repeats the previous day’s session. Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: Singular-Plural-Writing 166

Teacher makes the students do the related worksheet in the activity book. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the previous day’s action song. 167

Day-3 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30am Concept: Skip counting by # 2 Teacher displays the flash cards of numbers from 1-20. She then calls each student to pick every alternative number from 2 to 20. She makes them lay the same on the floor separately in vertical position. She subsequently makes the students repeat the same. She follows the same procedure for other numbers from 31-50, then 51-70 and finally from 71-90. She tells the students that it is ‘skip counting by 2s’. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Enactment of Fox and the crane: Children are made to enact in pairs. One child becomes a fox and another a crane and teacher can give them some milk where in the child enacting as a crane is served in a plate and the fox in a vase type vessel. The child has to eat in the manner in which the fox or crane eats. Have a discussion on the same. 10.00 to 10.20 am: Sight word reading 10.20 to 10.40 am: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 am to 11.45 am Concept: Singular-Plural-writing Teacher makes the students do the related worksheet in the activity book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10am Concept: Reinforcement of skip counting by 2’s Teacher writes numbers from 1-90 on the floor at equal distance in vertical position. She makes the students stand around them in a large circle. 168

She calls is student into the circle and say the first skip counting number after 2. She follows the same procedure for all the other numbers and makes sure that every child gets their turn to say. Large Group Time: 12.10 pm to 12.45 pm Concept: Reinforcement of the story ‘the crane and the fox’ Teacher makes the each student say the entire story one after the other. Teacher should ensure that the students say the story sequentially. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the following action song: The Playful Wind The wind came out to play one day. He swept the clouds out of his way. (Make sweeping motion with hands.) He blew the leaves and away they flew. (Make fluttering motions with fingers.) The trees bent low and their branches did too! (Lift arms high and lower them.) The wind blew the great big ships at sea. (Repeat sweeping motion.) The wind blew the kite away from me. 169

Day-4 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30 am Teacher repeats the previous day’s session. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Days of the week: Pre-k children begin to learn the days of the week through these 2 songs. Description: These days of the week songs are sung to any tune you like. There's Sunday and there's Monday, There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday, There's Thursday and there's Friday, And Saturday ends the week. Days of the Week (Clap, Clap) Days of the Week (Clap, Clap) The next song is to tune of the show \"Happy Days\" Sunday, Monday, Happy days Tuesday, Wednesday Happy days Thursday, Friday Happy Days And Saturday ends the week Leaving 7 days for you. There's 7 da-ays in a week, Yours and mine 10.00 to 10.20 am: Sight word dictation 10.20 to 10.40 am: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20 am: Work time Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Before numbers 70-90-writing Teacher makes the students do the worksheet from the activity book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10 pm 170

Teacher repeats the previous day’s session Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: After numbers from 70-90-writing Teacher makes the students do the worksheet in the activity book. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the previous day’s action song. 171

Day-5 Circle time: 9.00 to 9.30 am Concept: Reinforcement before, after and between numbers from 1-90 Teacher shows the flash card of one number and asks one student to say the after and before of that specific number. She then shows two numbers and asks another student to say the between number. Teacher repeats the same procedure till every body gets their turn to participate in the activity. 9.30 to 10.00 am: Days of the week. Repeat the songs and then make them repeat the days of the week. 10.00 to 10.20 am: Sight word remedial, if any or final repetition. 10.20 to 10.40 am: Snack time 10.40 to 11.20am: Work time. Small Group Activity: 11.20 to 11.45 am Concept: Between numbers from 70-90-writing Teacher makes the students do the worksheet in the activity book. Structured Play: 11.45 to 12.10 pm Teacher makes the students repeat the previous day’s session. Large Group Time: 12.10 to 12.45 pm Concept: Skip counting by 2’s-writing Teacher makes the students do the worksheet from activity book. Songs and Rhymes 12.45 to 1.00 pm Teacher makes the students repeat all action songs taught during the week. 172