Curriculum

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Reciting and Recognition of Upper Case Letters

• Name Recognition
• Matching of colours, shapes, numbers, pictures & objects
• Size graduation: small to large, large to small
• Following direction and listening skills
• Sorting: by size and colour
• Feeling recognition
• Daily calendar – seasons, months, days & numbers

Counting to 1-10
Recognizing 1-5
Sorting by size and colour

• Alphabet – reciting in order of letters
• Recognition of names and people
• Every day stories are read to the children
• Daily Calendar – seasons, months, days & numbers
• During circle times the children have the opportunity to answer questions and sing songs increasing their language development

• Finger painting
• Playdough
• Cut & paste
• Mixing colours
• Using different materials to make their own art expressions
• Window art
• Paper mache’
• Pastels
• Water colours
• Crayons
• Gluing
• Stamping
• Lots more…

• Different colours of sand
• Play pellets
• Rice
• Jell-O
• Coloured water
• Leaves
• Cooking activities
• Nature exploration
• Goop
• Playdough
• Lots more…

***Please note that the teachers do a lot more activities and programming with the children and the curriculum is a guideline of what preschool children should know.

• Circle
• Square
• Triangle
• Heart
• Oval
• Diamond
• Star

• Red
• Brown
• Yellow
• Blue
• Green
• Purple
• Orange
• Black
• White
• Pink

Reciting and Recognition of Upper Case Letters

• Name recognition
• Matching of colours, shapes, numbers, pictures & objects
• Size graduation: small to large, small-medium-large, large to small
• Following direction and listening skills
• Sorting: by size, colour & category
• Sequencing
• Printing of first name
• Feeling recognition
• Opposites – difference
• Daily calendar – seasons, months, days & numbers

Counting to 1-20
Recognizing 1-10
Sorting by weight, size and colour
Sequencing by colour, shape and object

• Alphabet – reciting and recognizing letters and order of letters
• Recognition and spelling of their name
• Tracing of letters
• Every day stories are read to the children
• Daily Calendar – seasons, months, days & numbers
• During circle times the children have the opportunity to answer questions and sing songs increasing their language development

• Finger painting
• Playdough
• Cut & paste
• Mixing colours
• Using different materials to make their own art expressions
• Window art
• Paper mache’
• Pastels
• Water colours
• Crayons
• Gluing
• Stamping
• Lots more……

• Different colours of sand
• Play pellets
• Rice
• Jell-O
• Coloured water
• Leaves
• Cooking activities
• Nature exploration
• Goop
• Playdough
• Lots more…

***Please note that the teachers do a lot more activities and programming with the children and the curriculum is a guideline of what preschool children should know.

• Patterning: using objects, shapes, colours
• Sizes graduation: small to large, small-medium-large, large to small, more or less or equal to
• Simple addition & subtraction using objects
• Sorting into different categories: size, colour, objects
• Shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, heart, oval, diamond, hexagon, octagon
• Colours: red, brown, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, black, white
• Numbers: counting and recognizing 1-30
• Putting numbers in sequential order: what comes before, what comes after
• Printing numbers 1-10
• Creating patterns using a variety of objects
• Placing cards in order of occurrence in every day living. For example: first I get up, then I eat and then I brush my teeth
• Identifying missing numbers in sequential order: what comes before, what comes after

• Alphabet: reciting and recognition of letters
• Name recognition and recognition of simple words e.g. cat, dog, hat
• Following direction & listening skills
• Opposites & difference
• Daily calendar: seasons, months, days & numbers
• Feelings recognition
• During circle times, the children will have the opportunity to ask questions and sing songs to increase their language development
• Following directions & listening skills
• Printing the alphabet letters in worksheets at school
• Forming rhyming words
• Lots more…

• Children songs
• Sculptures
• Water colours
• Mosaics
• Paper mache`
• Spin art
• Natural crafts: using pinecones, leaves, flowers, twigs, etc
• Window art
• Finger painting
• Pastels
• Lots more…

• Sink & float experiments
• Properties of matters: solid to liquid, liquid to gas
• Human anatomy
• Space
• Colour mixing
• Cooking activities
• Measurements
• Weighing of different objects: heavy, light, big, small
• Nature exploration
• Microscopic & magnifying lens
• Exploring different animals
• Volcanic experiments
• Solar system
• The Earth
• Baking activities
• Play pellets
• Sand

***Please note that these are just some examples of what the Preschool B Curriculum is like. The teachers do a lot more activities and programming with the children.

• Build on daily vocabulary while eating, talking, walking etc.
• Sing songs and participate in a variety of activities to foster a greater vocabulary.
• Message centre- children can send messages to friends and family (write “to, from, I love you, mom, dad and name”) and can draw pictures/add stickers etc.
• Beginning to print lower case alphabet letters using markers, crayons and pencils.
• Retell simple stories read to them.
• Begin to recognize sounds of alphabet letters ( e.g. C, T, S, M, D).
• Jolly Phonics – Introduce Books & CD.
• Introduce simple 3 letter rhyming words (e.g. cat, hat, bat, mat, sat) introduction.
• Identifying familiar/common words such as, “I, a, is, at, we, he, my, of, stop, love etc.”
• Introduction to various simple rhyming poems to enhance literacy skills.
• Recognize upper case alphabet letters A to Z.
• Practice sequencing events using picture cards.
• Write name and various 3-4 letter words that are relevant to the students or the theme at the writing centre.
• Print upper and lower case letters of the alphabet A to Z in printing books.

• Understanding one to one correspondence objects 1-20 (counting).
• Beginning to recognize numbers 1-31 on daily calendar.
• Counting by 2’s –20, 10’s-100.
• Introduction to counting by 1’s-100 after learning how to count 1-50.
• Printing numbers 1-20 independently; up to 30 if capable.
• Creating patterns using a variety of objects. Patterning with calendar numbers each month as well.
• Simple addition and subtraction concepts 1-10 (ensure students understand that add means more and subtract means less).
• Bigger/smaller than – comparing objects.
• Weight – Heavier/lighter than.
• Experiment with capacity – which cup holds more water? How many cups will it take to fill the container? – Length (shorter/longer than).
• Estimation – Guessing how many objects are in the jar? Guess and count.
• Graphing – simple bar/pictographs.
• Introduction to basic spatial relationships in/out, on/under, beside/above, in front/behind etc.
• Introduction to 3-D shapes – cone, cube, pyramid, cylinder and sphere.
• Learning basic shapes – circle, square, diamond, rectangle, triangle, oval, star.
• Exposure to hexagon, pentagon, octagon, (stop sign) shapes.
• Identifying missing numbers on the calendar game.
• Awareness of sequential events.

• Exploring the world around us through hands on activities and experiments (e.g. creating erupting volcanoes etc.)
• Study of plants – how they grow, what they need, introduction to plant parts.
• Exploring the human body: how it functions, why we need all part of our body.
• Introduction to the earth and the sun, moon and stars.
• Study of insects and butterflies – exploring the similarities and differences, bringing them into the classroom for further exploration.
• Exploring the seasons – changes in temperature, what animals do in each respective season, hands on experiments involving snow, leaves, seeds etc.

• Counting 1-10 in French.
• Saying the Alphabet in French.
• Introduction to days of the week.
• Identifying the basic colours through games, songs and daily practice.
• Building on daily vocabulary: while eating, talking, walking etc.
• Listening to instructions and being able to answer questions such as, “How are you?”, “What is your name?” etc.
• Singing songs and participating in a variety of activities to foster language recognition.

• Message centre- children can send messages to friends/family. Recognizing words – To, from, I love you, mom/dad, names etc) and can draw pictures/ add stickers etc.
• Shared reading and writing: the teacher models reading and writing, the children can then work together on a variety of genres such as poems, fictions and non-fictions.
• Reading mini books both in the classroom and at home.
• Able to listen to, comprehend and discuss a story read to them.
• Building on daily vocabulary while eating, talking, walking etc.
• Able to ask relevant questions.
• Choral reading of a variety of poems to enhance literacy skills – poetry books- drawing pictures about the poem.
• Drawing and writing sentences in their journals.
• Retelling simple stories read to them in proper sequence.
• Recognizing the sounds of consonants and vowels.
• Recognizing upper and lower case letters.
• Identifying common familiar words found in most sentences (mom, dad, I, etc.)
• Hearing and recognizing beginning and ending sounds of words.
• Identifying and printing 3 letter rhyming words such as hug, bug, rug, mug etc.
• Beginning to recognize forms of punctuation: period, question mark & exclamation mark.
• Print upper case and lower case letters of the alphabet A to Z in printing books.
• Sing songs and participate in a variety of activities to foster a greater vocabulary.

• Understanding one to one correspondence.
• Counting 1-100 and higher.
• Recognizing numbers 1-31 on daily calendar.
• Recognize most numbers from 1-100 (100’s day celebration) and note the repeating patterns e.g. 5, 15, 25 etc.
• Counting by 2’s to 20, 5’s to 20, 10’s to 100.
• Placing numbers in sequential order- what comes before, what comes after.
• Printing numbers 1-31; up to 100 if they are capable.
• Creating patterns using a variety of objects.
• Simple addition and subtraction concepts and equations to 10.
• Ensure that students understand that add means more and subtract means less.
• Greater than/Less than (what is bigger, what is smaller?).
• Creating a variety of graphs (bar, pictographs, tally charts).
• Able to extract information from the graph e.g. more children like apples than pears.
• Beginning to use ordinal numbers in a variety of everyday contexts.
• Explore different Canadian coins using coin manipulative.
• Explore measurements – length, mass, capacity, temperature (hot, cold, cool, warm) of objects and passage of time using non-standard units.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic spatial relationships and movements (in/out, on/under).
• Estimation – guessing how many objects are in a jar? Guess and count.
• Weight- heavier/lighter than.
• 3-D shape recognition – cone, cube, pyramid, cylinder, sphere, hexagon, pentagon, octagon.

• Exploring the world around us through hands-on activities and experiments ( e.g. creating erupting volcanoes etc).
• Study of plants – how they grow, what they need, identifying basic plant parts. (root, leaf, flower).
• Exploring the human body: how it functions, what it looks like.
• Study of insects and butterflies – identifying the similarities and differences, bringing them into the classrooms for further exploration.
• Exploring the seasons – changes in temperature, what animals do in each respective season, hands on experiments involving snow, leaves, seeds etc.
• Sorting living and non living things.
• Investigating how different forces make things move (e.g. the wind, water etc).
• Solving problems while designing and constructing things, using a range of tools, materials and techniques.

• Counting 1 to 30 in French.
• Identifying the basic colours through games, songs and daily practice.
• Learning the names of the days of the week and months of the year.
• Building on daily vocabulary while eating, talking, walking etc.
• Listening to instructions and being able to answer questions such as, “How are you?”, “What is your name?” etc.
• Singing songs and participating in a variety of activities to foster language recognition.
• Introduction to family names and some animal words.
• Being able to respond to questions asked in French.