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Understanding KG–1 Kids
You’ll be amazed by how much your child flourishes in kindergarten. There will be a focus throughout the year on mastering letters, sounds, and words. You will watch with delight as they take their first step towards reading and writing correctly with higher confident strokes. Watch their vocabulary explode. At this stage, kids become more forthright and demanding. Tolerating each other in class becomes an issue. Children are taught to try out new skills without the fear of mistakes. KG1 is a time of growth, experimentation, and a budding understanding of the world and its place within it. They learn by experiencing things around them. They explore and examine. They cannot do things perfectly but every day they learn something new. All this does not happen all at once, yet, as they progress, they get closer to speaking, creating stories, recognizing letters, counting real things, adding and subtracting, and even dividing their sweets evenly among their friends.
Learning In KG-1 Includes
Creativity, adaptability, critical reasoning, and collaboration are highly valued skills. When it comes to fostering those skills in our classroom, Theme Based Teaching is an extremely effective approach. We weave topics into language, Maths, Environmental Science, Music, Art, and Physical Education. For example, students doing an artwork might be asked to incorporate Math using certain shapes and patterns. They also learn Math through stories and songs. This type of integrated approach strengthens student learning and achievement in all areas.
English
The curriculum provides ample opportunities to nurture the four essential skills of language- listening, speaking, reading, and writing. A variety of activities and games make English learning a fun-filled experience for KG–1 kids.
Listening and Speaking
Good listening skills foster speaking among children. As the child has already developed the basic speaking skills in Playgroup, he/she learns to speak simple sentences in English. Regular drills in English help them to expand their vocabulary and their interest in English through poems, rhymes, storytelling, energizers, phonemic awareness, circle time, different class competitions, read aloud, conversation corner, objects on which children speak in the class.
Listening and Speaking
Good listening skills foster speaking among children. As the child has already developed the basic speaking skills in Playgroup, he/she learns to speak simple sentences in English. Regular drills in English help them to expand their vocabulary and their interest in English through poems, rhymes, storytelling, energizers, phonemic awareness, circle time, different class competitions, read aloud, conversation corner, objects on which children speak in the class.
Reading
Reading is a regular feature where the emphasis is more on simple stories and picture stories. Every day they learn skills that will help them to become better readers. The regular phonic drill helps them to identify letters of the alphabet and their sounds. They also learn about letters and sounds that go together to form three-letter words.Frequent visits to the Reading Corner and School Library help them to become aware of books and print. Children read simple stories based on the three-letter words with the help of phonics by the end of the year. A special week ‘Reading Mahotsav’ is dedicated to inculcating reading habits amongst children.
Writing
In KG 1, various activities related to the development of fine and gross motor skills are done in class like dough work, tear and paste, lacing up, and many more. They develop the skills of recalling, visual discrimination, correcting patterns, and making connections. They learn to write the alphabet in both capital and lower-case letters. They draw pictures related to the alphabet. By the end of the year, they learn to write three-letter words based on phonics.
Writing
In KG 1, various activities related to the development of fine and gross motor skills are done in class like dough work, tear and paste, lacing up, and many more. They develop the skills of recalling, visual discrimination, correcting patterns, and making connections. They learn to write the alphabet in both capital and lower-case letters. They draw pictures related to the alphabet. By the end of the year, they learn to write three-letter words based on phonics.
Number Work
The curriculum gives strong emphasis for developing skills like connection building, reasoning and problem solving, and creating.
- Number Senses and Logical Skills – Recognize and count numbers up to 50 and write number names up to 10, before/after, and single-digit addition and subtraction.
- Visual and Spatial Skills – Creative corner, identifying shapes, size, space, position, and other objects like buttons, cubes, beads, and spindles.
- Measurement and Estimation – patterns of numbers, shapes, images that repeat logically; through concepts like empty/full, one/many, understanding of calendar (days and months of the year), and time.
- Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills – Comparing and contrasting using concrete visual props like buttons, cubes, and counting beads; ordering and sequencing; reverse counting and Math about Me Assignment.
Health and Personal Hygiene
This is taught through training by staff, movies, stories, and activities. Washroom habits and taking care of one’s body and hygiene of body parts have been taken up quite seriously in the school.
Aesthetic Development
Drawing, coloring, and craftwork are well defined in the curriculum to develop fine motor skills, and–eye coordination. They begin to draw and write beyond just scribbling.
Socializing
Considering that developing important social skills is necessary at this stage, we have included etiquettes and manners to be taught regularly. Activities that will teach them to share and cooperate, to work together, to participate in group activities and follow simple directions, and to communicate simple wants and needs have been included in the curriculum.
Environmental Science
The curriculum provides ample opportunities for the children to make sense of the world around them. They develop the skills of predicting, observing, investigating, and problem-solving through Theme based topics, Simple Experiments, Nature Walks, Project Work, Assignments on different topics, and Learning Aids.