CONCEPTS INTRODUCED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
- Recognize, name and know phonetic sounds of letters A – Z
- Recognize sounds of vowels, consonants, blends, diagraphs and compound words
- Number recognition 1 – 100
- Base ten introduction
- Develop skill of telling time
- Develop skill of addition, subtraction, fractions, estimation
- Develop skills of patterning
- Hands on math
- Identify colors
- Identify shapes – circle, square, triangle, rectangle, heart, diamond, oval, trapezoid, octagon, star, pentagon, cube, cylinder, half circle, sphere, cone, ovoid, ellipsoid, hemisphere, triangular prism, rectangular prism and octagonal prism
- Exposure to a wide variety of art media
- Refine scissor skills
- Readiness skills including seriation, memory, classification, tactual discrimination, spatial relations, greater than/less than, one to one correspondence, equivalence and conservation
- Refine self help skills
- Gain confidence to respond alone and perform in front of peers
- Develop a sense of the world around them through science
- Develop sense of rhythm and music