Theme- Our Helpers Children are surrounded with many helpers at all times. Children were explained that the people in the community help each other by offering goods and services. They were introduced to an array of helpers including their teachers, class attendant, driver, gardener, doctor, nurse etc. Children gained hands on experience by interacting with some of the helpers. They met a doctor in the school premises during the health check up. They interacted with the gardener, plumber and electrician. Children explored the tools used by these helpers and also the clothes worn by them. Verbal Linguistic At this age, children’s vocabulary expands quickly – they learnt new words each day. Children happily discussed about the chores they have seen the community helpers doing. They loved reciting theme related rhymes such as ‘Cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe’, ‘Pat- a- cake’ etc. and jolly phonics songs for letter- Z z and for the entire alphabet was revised. Children also attempted the worksheets related to the mentioned letter and also matching the letters with corresponding words in the verbal linguistic workbook. Logical/Mathematical Our little ones have become active thinkers with a greater amount of knowledge and grasp over concepts more easily than before. They have begun to use imagery as part of their thinking. This has enabled them to discuss objects and people, that aren't actually in front of them and are no longer tied down to only what they see. Children worked with numbers and concept of colour while discussing about the number of helpers around them and the colour of their uniform. Colour ‘black’ was introduced through a wide range of things such as stick puppet of crow, hair, eyes, bag etc. Children were introduced to the number ‘10’ and they enjoyed counting 10 hand puppets of community helpers and other classroom objects. They also practiced tracing the ‘loop’ and ‘spiral’ pattern using chalks and later using crayons in the logical/mathematical workbook. Bodily kinaesthetic Children practiced locomotor skills which involved movement from one spot to another such as running, picking up objects. They also practiced non-locomotor skills which involved movement at a stationery place through drills such as bending forward, twisting the waist, stretching and swaying etc. Developing these skills helps a child’s ability to do more complex skills in future activities, such as playing a sport with a team. To enhance dexterity and strength in fine muscles which involves hand, fingers and thumb, children created a police car, doctor’s kit, free hand drawing using crayons, broom using paper strips, cobbler craft, tool belt related to the different helpers in our community. Naturalistic Children understood the importance of the work done by gardeners and helped the gardener in picking up the fallen leaves and cleaning a small portion of the school field. They also realised the significance of keeping their classroom clean and how the house keeping staff always maintains cleanliness. So, children cleaned their classroom. Children experimented by stepping on footwear with heels and without heels and realised the importance of cobblers in our community. Interpersonal Birthday celebration The theme for this birthday party was quite interesting for children. They carried the prop/dressed as their favourite ‘helper’. Children loved displaying the tools used by the helpers and expressed their views about it. Birthday cards were given to the children who had their birthdays in the month of January. The educator briefed them about Do’s and Don’ts of how to behave at a birthday party. The use of magic words, please, thank you, sorry and excuse me were recapitulated. Meal Time Children have started encouraging their friends as well to finish the served portion of all the food items and fruits served to them. They have acquired the correct grip over cutlery to a great extent and eat without spilling food. They continued following daily-living skills such as laying mats and wearing aprons, keeping their dishes in the trolley after the meals, wiping their faces. They also kept their aprons appropriately in the classroom after the meals. Co scholastic Domains Montessori The Montessori environment is a spacious, open, tidy, pleasing in appearance, simple and real place, where each element exists for a reason in order to help in the development of the child. The environment is proportional to children's height and size, and it has low shelves and tables and chairs of appropriate sizes where children can sit individually or in groups. This month our little ones explored the cognitive domain, concept of numbers and size by practicing ‘Pink Tower’, ‘Spindle Box’ and ‘brown stairs’. Tab kids Children played the following activities on the tabs: ‘Peek-a-boo’ by bursting balloons and identifying the objects Differentiating between big and small objects Imaginarium Children looked forward to be amidst the learning centres in the Imaginarium. These diverse learning centres allowed them to indulge in exploring the material to aid to the learning in the form of play which involved the whole self and helped in self-regulation. The attraction of the month was the ‘Carpenter tool box’ wherein children fixed the nuts and bolts and pretended to be the carpenters. They also pretended to be chefs in the kitchen corner and cooked yummy dishes for their educators. Dance Dance is a good source of physical and non-physical benefits for children. Physical benefits includes agility, flexibility, overall balance and spatial awareness while non-physical benefits encompass general and psychological well-being, social skills and self-esteem. Children danced to the tune of ‘Jai Ho’ song and also their all-time favourite, ‘Mowgli’ song. Events
Annual day- VERVE Exposing our little suncitizens to stage and audience at such early age and getting them comfortable with these experiences before they could voice their opinion about it was very important to conquer the stage fear. Children acquired the group dynamics. It was a great sense of pride and accomplishment for them to perform on the ‘Mowgli’ song and hold an important place in the grand finale of the school.
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