Early Learning Years Curriculum
Term One
Numeracy
- Wrote counting to 10
- Counting and sorting using small manipulative (counters)
- Using play dough to make groups 1-5 (sets)
- Finding numbers in the immediate environment
- Utilizing information technology to investigate mathematical ideas & represent thinking
- Creating patterns and sequencing
- Introducing new flipcharts on smart board
- Introducing currency – notes and coins as part of dramatic play and expression
- Board games
- Music & Movement
- New finger rhymes and action songs
- Counting forwards
- Participate in a production process- follow a number of steps
- Sorting activities to teach language of comparatives.
Literacy
- Scaffolding language- why, how, when, who, etc
- Jolly phonics
- Introduction to first few letters of Arabic alphabet
- Recognises first letter of own name
- Recognising own name
- Using body percussion to create syllables in own name
- Shared reading experiences
- Using chalk on ground/surfaces as pre writing skills
- Engages with texts and makes meaning from them
- Literacy guessing games on the mat
Social and Emotional Development
- Attending whole school morning assembly
- Making a gradual transition from home to school
- Participation in Harmony Day celebrations
Term Two
Literacy
- Shared whole class reading
- Listening and speaking skills
- (Australian English & home language)
- Storytelling, listening and retell
- Introduction of Literacy centre games & activities
- Understand that written print coveys meaning
- Identify & count syllables in spoken words, rhyme recognition & production
- Recognizes own written name (or the first letter of own name)
- Alphabet letter shape and sound, letters a-l
- Sight word recognition
- Phonemic awareness
- Place events in sequential order
- Introduction to other languages
Numeracy & Science
- Can name some basic shapes
- Copying shapes patterns (A/B, AA/BB pattern)
- Sorting activities
- Utilize information technology to investigate mathematical ideas & represent
- thinking. Introduction of I pads
- Cracking boiled eggs (force & motion)
- Rote counting /counting orally forwards & backwards
- Understand relationship between number & quantity
- Inquiry based investigations
Creative Arts
- Music: Action songs and finger rhymes
- Respond to music, artwork, dance, drama and media & incorporates creative ideas inplay
- Visual Art: cutting, pasting, colouring and painting using a variety of materials/media
- Connect with natural & processed materials & recycled materials
- Painting a large mural (of the letter ‘e’ for egg)
Social and Emotional Development
- Learning to share and take turns
- Develop a sense of belonging, & being aware of and acknowledge differences
- General cleanliness
- Being an active member of the community
- Constable Care school visit – puppet show ‘Getting to school safely’’
- Protective Behaviour workshop- information session
- Neighbour hood walk and play session to Hunt Street Reserve
- ‘Better Beginnings’ Information Session for parents
- New characters from The You Can Do It program – Connie Confidence & Oscar Organisation
- Interact verbally and non-verbally with peers and care givers
- Feeling safe, secure and supported in a variety of settings (excursions, incursions, class presentations)
Physical Education and Health
- Introduction of a morning fitness program on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- Gross motor skills: fundamental movement skills and group games
- Playing safe and rules at school and at home
- Take increasing responsibility for their own health & wellbeing
- Show respect for the environment.
- Demonstrate respect for plants, animals and surroundings
- Establishment of a veggie patch & planting flowers in large pots
Term Three
Literacy
- Shared whole class reading
- Listening and speaking skills (Australian English, introduction to Indonesian language, ‘Noongar’ language )
- Compound words
- Storytelling, listening and retell. Introduction to components of text
- Auditory skills analysis
- News telling
- Initiates writing or drawing to communicate an idea
- Sight and sound of the letters of the alphabet m- u
- Sight words recognition
- Expressing ideas and making meaning using a range of media
- Imaginative play
- Uses body percussion to represent the number of syllables in spoken words
- Weekly visits to school library with our ‘buddy class
- Story time sessions at Thornlie public library
- Introduction of STAR literacy model
Numeracy
- Revision of shapes names, introduction of new shape names- pentagon and hexagon
- Copies and continues simple patterns ( A/B or A/B/C patterns) using mall manipulative(s) on the mat
- Making collections & subitizing
- Role play shopping with Australian money – coins and notes. Engages in role play writing (numerals)
- Rote counting forwards and backwards. Counting in twos
- Uses a range of media to express ideas ( utilizes Interactive whiteboard flipcharts- egg addition, domino farm addition, counting leaves, kinder sight word memory match flipchart
- Recalls and describes positions
Science
- Inquiry based learning experiences
- Participation in a production process (cooking experiences)
- Investigation into capillary action on celery
- Magnetic attraction and repellant)
- Solve problems & contribute to group experiences through hands –on
- Activities (i.e. making a baking soda and vinegar ‘volcano’)
- Engagement with physical environment (growing vegetables & fruit in large pots)
- Recycling activities
- Farmyard on Wheels incursion (farm animals visit)
- Social and Emotional Development:
- Sharing and taking turns
- Uses feedback from self and others to build on an idea
- Explores different identities and points of view in dramatic play (roleplaying)
- Combines gross and fine motor movement & balance and explore
- Completing a daily ‘yesterday, today, tomorrow’ chart
- Awareness of healthy lifestyles and good nutrition
- Learning new prayers (dua after waking up)
- Showing respect for the environment
- Class presentation during morning assembly (still in process of planning)
- Introduction of new characters from the You Can Do It program- Ricky Resilient
Creative Arts
- Painting a large mural as backdrop for class performance (still in process of planning)
Term Four
Literacy
- Shared whole class reading
- Listening and Speaking skills
- (Australian English, home language, Indonesian, Spanish and aboriginal)
- Storytelling, listening and retell
- Sight and sound of the letters of the alphabet u-z
- Identifying & clapping out syllables in spoken words.
- Introduction to compound words
- New sight words recognition
- Phonemic awareness/sound blends
- Rhyming words recognition & production
- Initial and ending sounds in words
- Key literacy concepts-concepts of print
- Copying out simple sentences
Numeracy & Science
- Introduction to symmetry
- Copying shapes patterns (A/B, A/B, A/B/C pattern)
- Creating & compiling graphs
- Utilizing information technology to investigate mathematical ideas & represent thinking
- Rote Counting /counts orally forwards & backwards
- Introduction to basic fractions
- Estimating using non standard units of measurement
- Subitising
Social and Emotional Development
- Sharing and taking turns
- Being aware of and acknowledging individual differences
- Make an active contribution to our classes ‘weekly helpers roster’
- Interact verbally and non-verbally with peers and care givers
- Introduction of new characters from the ‘You Can Do It’ Education program
- Excursion to an indoor play centre
Creative Arts
- Music: Action songs, finger rhymes and rhyming rhymes
- Clapping games and listening games
- Modelled drawing.
- Utilising natural & processed materials and recycled materials in construction work
Physical Education and Health
- Fundamental movement skills development
- Group games using balls, play parachute, ropes and hoops (Still in planning process) – Participation in a early childhood sports faction carnival
- Take increasing responsibility for own health & wellbeing
- Participate in production processes (cooking)