Pre-Primary Program Term 4

Theme : TRANSPORT

FOCUS : The students will be learning about different types of transport used and its importance in our lives..

GOALS: Develop an understanding of the different types of transport.

Develop an awareness of the uses of transport.

Develop an understanding of safety procedures on transport.

SKILL OBJECTIVES

Patterning, weaving, stitching, pasting, tearing, sponging, 3D construction

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LEARNING AREA OUTCOME

SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT (INVESTIGATION, COMMUNICATION. PARTICIPATION)

Ø Find different types of transport in magazines.

Ø Look at transport in other countries

MATHS (MEASUREMENT, NUMBER, SPACE)

Ø Investigating the shapes on transport

Ø Counting activities (wheels on transport, cars,)

Ø Graph ways children travel to school

ENGLISH (UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

Ø Storywriting – How we travel to school

Ø Speech – of own car design

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE (TECHNOLOGY PROCESS)

Ø Design and make a type of transport (using boxes etc)

Ø Make paper aeroplanes and test to see if they fly

THE ARTS (ART SKILLS AND PROCESSES)

Ø Painting transport made

Ø Cut and make a train/car/aeroplane

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTADNINGS)

Ø Safety procedures on transport

Ø Healthy habits in cars (no eating while traveling etc)

SCIENCE (COMMUNICATING SCIENTIFICALLY)

Ø Classify transport into air, land and sea

Ø Simple investigation of how a car (etc) functions

INDICATORS OF ACHIEVEMENT :

Identify safety procedures on transport

Classification of transport

Description of the transport made

MONITORING OF ACHIEVEMENT:

Assessment of design made, classification of transport

Theme : PETS

FOCUS : The students will be learning about different types of domestic animals which they can keep as pets.

GOALS: Develop an understanding of the different types of pets.

Develop an awareness of how to care for pets.

Identify the needs of pets.

SKILL OBJECTIVES

Patterning, cutting, pasting, tearing, fringing, collaging, sponging, 3D construction

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SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT (INVESTIGATION, COMMUNICATION. PARTICIPATION)

Ø Investigate and discuss the needs of different pets (homes, eating habits, grooming, sleeping etc).

MATHS (MEASUREMENT, NUMBER, SPACE)

Ø Counting activities (body parts)

Ø Graph pets children have at home

ENGLISH (UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

Ø Storywriting – About their pet or a pet they would like to have

Ø Newstelling – My Pets

Ø Shared Reading- Stories, poems

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE (TECHNOLOGY PROCESS)

Ø Design and make an imaginary pet

Ø Make paper pets

THE ARTS (ART SKILLS AND PROCESSES)

Ø Painting pet made

Ø Paint portraits of their pet

Ø Cut and collage crafty pets

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTADNINGS)

Ø Discuss pets and hygiene

Ø Healthy eating for pets

SCIENCE (COMMUNICATING SCIENTIFICALLY)

Ø Classify different types of pets according to features, size etc

Ø Simple investigation of caring for pets

INDICATORS OF ACHIEVEMENT :

Identify different types of pets

Classification of pets

Description of their imaginary pet

MONITORING OF ACHIEVEMENT:

Assessment of design made, classification of pets

Theme : CELEBRATIONS

FOCUS : The students will be learning about the holy month of Ramadan and the celebration of Eid.

GOALS: Develop an understanding of the different rituals in Ramadan.

Develop an awareness of appropriate prayer behaviour.

SKILL OBJECTIVES

Patterning, cutting, pasting, tearing, fringing, collaging, sponging,

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SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT (CULTURE)

Ø Visit to the mosque. Discussion of what happens in the mosque.

Ø Investigating Muslim dress and the importance of this.

MATHS (MEASUREMENT, NUMBER, SPACE)

Ø Counting activities (scarves, caps)

Ø Looking at shapes and symbols on Muslim dress.

ENGLISH (UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

Ø Storywriting – How they will celebrate Eid

Ø Newstelling – About Ramadan and Eid experiences

Ø Shared Reading – Muslim moral stories and poems

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE (TECHNOLOGY PROCESS)

Ø Design patterns on an outline of a mosque

THE ARTS (ART SKILLS AND PROCESSES)

Ø Painting a picture of an Eid celebration

Ø Collage Muslim dress etc

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTADNINGS)

Ø Correct hygiene during Ramadan

Ø Discussion of safe habits during the fasting month

SCIENCE (COMMUNICATING SCIENTIFICALLY)

Ø Investigation of Space (stars and moon)

Ø Discussion of importance of sunrise and sunset (Muslim religion calendar)

INDICATORS OF ACHIEVEMENT :

Identify correct prayer procedures

Identify correct muslim dress.

MONITORING OF ACHIEVEMENT:

Contribution to class discussions

Theme: MAGNETS

FOCUS : The students will be learning about the concept of energy and magnetic forces and how it influences our life.

GOALS: Develop an understanding that energy is vital to our existence and quality of life.

Develop an awareness of positive and negative magnetic forces.

Identify objects which are magnetic and non-magnetic through investigation.

SKILL OBJECTIVES

Developmental play with magnets

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LEARNING AREA OUTCOME

SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT (INVESTIGATION, COMMUNICATION, PARTICIPATION)

Ø Walk around the school to test for magnetic and non-magnetic objects.

MATHS (MEASUREMENT, NUMBER, SPACE)

Ø Counting magnetic objects

Ø Shape and colour of magnetic and non-magnetic objects

ENGLISH (UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, LISTENING AND SPEAKING)

Ø Newstelling – What they found out in their investigations on magnetic and non-magnetic objects.

Ø Factual reading on magnets

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE (TECHNOLOGY PROCESS)

Ø Design a fancy fridge magnet.

THE ARTS (ART SKILLS AND PROCESSES)

Ø Painting for the fancy fridge magnet.

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTADNINGS)

Ø Safety procedures when using magnets.

SCIENCE (COMMUNICATING SCIENTIFICALLY)

Ø Investigation of magnetic and non-magnetic objects. Classify these into two categories.

Ø Investigate ways to make some objects magnetic.

INDICATORS OF ACHIEVEMENT :

Identify how to test for magnetic and non-magnetic.

Identify the properties of magnetic and non-magnetic objects.

MONITORING OF ACHIEVEMENT:

Contribution to class discussions

Theme: WHOLE LANGUAGE

FOCUS : This unit of work will be focusing on encouraging students to use strategies such as picture and context cues, experimenting with print and composing their own texts.

GOALS: Develop an understanding that spoken language can be conveyed through written text and visa versa.

Develop an awareness of conventions of written language.

Provide an opportunity for students to read and write different texts which can be incorporated into all the learning areas.

SKILL OBJECTIVES

Pre-reading and Pre-writing activities

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In this unit of work it is suggested that the teacher use a wide variety of big books as

a focus for each week which can be integrated into all the learning areas. This unit can be

run over 4 to 5 weeks.

SUGGESTED BIG BOOKS

Ø Smarty Pants

Ø The hungry giant

Ø We’re going on a bear hunt

Ø Who sank the boat

Ø The rainbow fish

Ø The monsters party

Ø Greedy cat is hungry

LEARNING AREA OUTCOME

SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT (INVESTIGATION, COMMUNICATION, PARTICIPATION)

Ø Nature walks

Ø Discussion on how the characters interact with their environment

MATHS (MEASUREMENT, NUMBER, SPACE, WORKING MATHEMATICALLY)

Ø Counting characters and objects in stories

Ø Shape and colour of characters, clothing, toys, etc

Ø Number rhymes and stories related to the characters

ENGLISH (UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, LISTENING, SPEAKING, VIEWING, READING WRITING)

Ø Shared Reading – whole class reading, individual reading, oral cloze, substituting names, change endings and meanings

Ø Phonics activities based on the stories

Ø Storywriting activities

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE (TECHNOLOGY PROCESS)

Ø Design and make characters and objects from the stories

Ø Design and make own books

THE ARTS (ART SKILLS AND PROCESSES)

Ø Painting, collaging, wax and chalk drawings, crafty activities based on the stories

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTADNINGS)

Ø Games appropriate to the stories told

Ø Healthy eating habits for characters etc

Ø Reasons for food storage in refrigerator (Greedy cat is hungry)

SCIENCE (COMMUNICATING SCIENTIFICALLY)

Ø Factual reading of texts eg, information on bears

Ø Who sank the boat (sinking and floating)

INDICATORS OF ACHIEVEMENT :

Students participation during story telling

Students ability to join in during shared reading

MONITORING OF ACHIEVEMENT:

Contribution to class discussions

Completed work samples

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