MadMel
20-01-2010, 12:27 PM
Just outlines the basic 'curriculum' but I will of course go into more detail as this is just a basic draft :)
Social Studies
* Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs (Christmas, Easter, Australia Day, Anzac Day etc)
* Understanding and appreciating other cultures (Talking about the world and the people in it)
* Individual's role in family, home, school, and community
* Relationship of the individual to the group
* Work and jobs (Discussions about the people he knows and what jobs they do)
* Safety rules and symbols (Stop signs, traffic lights, zebra crossings etc talked about when going for walks)
* Basic human needs
* Self-respect and self-awareness
* Awareness of others (and their feelings, talk about bullying and attend playgroups)
* Location of home and school *not school but shops/parks/places we go*
* Diagram of home and school *same as above*
Science
* Observation of everyday, familiar things (when walking, at home and on the TV)
* Common animals and plants (in books, TV and when out and about)
* Classification of living things
* Farm animals (books, drawings, go out and see animals in the paddocks around home)
* Care of pets
* Like and unlike plants
* Indoor plants (get them a plant to look after)
* The sun: our principal source of energy (library for some books on the solar system)
* Weather and seasons (drawings and talk of each season as it comes along)
* Temperature (cooking, body temperatures, checking the weather, what temperature water boils/freezes etc)
* Light
* Colors
* Senses
* Earth, moon, stars, planets (diagrams, make planets, books, docos)
* Simple measurement (cooking, using rulers, height and weight etc)
* Beginning experimentation (basic things like vinegar and bicarb, eggs floating or sinking)
Language Arts
* Phonics (games, books, sounding out words)
* Listening to music
* Nursery rhymes, fairy tales (through books, DVD's and art)
* Social listening
* Constructing visual images while listening (read a story and get them to draw things from it)
* Role play (through dressups and games)
* Paraphrasing and summarizing (asking them to repeat back what happened in a story we have just read)
* Experience stories
* Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
* Listening for correct speech habits and word usage
* Beginning writing process (learning to write more words, and improve on their letters)
Health and Safety
* Personal hygiene
* Good eating habits (vege garden)
* Good grooming
* Care of teeth
* Major body parts (learning about the human body)
* Physical fitness (walking, playing at the park, Jaidan doing little athletics and Chase doing dance)
* Safety to and from destinations (road safety, stranger danger, crossings etc)
Mathematics
* Simple counting to 20
* Concepts of more, less than, same
* Sequence of events
* Correspondence of quantities (learnt through day to day activities and cooking)
* Meaning of addition and subtraction
* Estimation
* Elementary geometry (shapes)
* Calendar and clock
* Denominations of money (pocket money, shopping)
* Basic problem-solving strategies
* Basic chart and graph concepts (charts by reading food labels)
Open to any suggestions :)
Social Studies
* Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs (Christmas, Easter, Australia Day, Anzac Day etc)
* Understanding and appreciating other cultures (Talking about the world and the people in it)
* Individual's role in family, home, school, and community
* Relationship of the individual to the group
* Work and jobs (Discussions about the people he knows and what jobs they do)
* Safety rules and symbols (Stop signs, traffic lights, zebra crossings etc talked about when going for walks)
* Basic human needs
* Self-respect and self-awareness
* Awareness of others (and their feelings, talk about bullying and attend playgroups)
* Location of home and school *not school but shops/parks/places we go*
* Diagram of home and school *same as above*
Science
* Observation of everyday, familiar things (when walking, at home and on the TV)
* Common animals and plants (in books, TV and when out and about)
* Classification of living things
* Farm animals (books, drawings, go out and see animals in the paddocks around home)
* Care of pets
* Like and unlike plants
* Indoor plants (get them a plant to look after)
* The sun: our principal source of energy (library for some books on the solar system)
* Weather and seasons (drawings and talk of each season as it comes along)
* Temperature (cooking, body temperatures, checking the weather, what temperature water boils/freezes etc)
* Light
* Colors
* Senses
* Earth, moon, stars, planets (diagrams, make planets, books, docos)
* Simple measurement (cooking, using rulers, height and weight etc)
* Beginning experimentation (basic things like vinegar and bicarb, eggs floating or sinking)
Language Arts
* Phonics (games, books, sounding out words)
* Listening to music
* Nursery rhymes, fairy tales (through books, DVD's and art)
* Social listening
* Constructing visual images while listening (read a story and get them to draw things from it)
* Role play (through dressups and games)
* Paraphrasing and summarizing (asking them to repeat back what happened in a story we have just read)
* Experience stories
* Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
* Listening for correct speech habits and word usage
* Beginning writing process (learning to write more words, and improve on their letters)
Health and Safety
* Personal hygiene
* Good eating habits (vege garden)
* Good grooming
* Care of teeth
* Major body parts (learning about the human body)
* Physical fitness (walking, playing at the park, Jaidan doing little athletics and Chase doing dance)
* Safety to and from destinations (road safety, stranger danger, crossings etc)
Mathematics
* Simple counting to 20
* Concepts of more, less than, same
* Sequence of events
* Correspondence of quantities (learnt through day to day activities and cooking)
* Meaning of addition and subtraction
* Estimation
* Elementary geometry (shapes)
* Calendar and clock
* Denominations of money (pocket money, shopping)
* Basic problem-solving strategies
* Basic chart and graph concepts (charts by reading food labels)
Open to any suggestions :)