Curriculum

Arts and Craft

1. Painting with different tools and materials, e.g. using sponges, forks, Duplo or cotton balls.
2. We incorporate a lot of hand and feet painting.
3. Paint splat
4. Colouring in with pencils and crayons.
5. Light table
6. Stained glass and suncatcher craft
7. Playdough/cutting, kneading, and shaping
8. Nature art e.g. using leaves, rocks, or shells
9. Collage with paper and stickers.
10. Gluing, cutting, and pasting
11. Tracing shapes and letters
12. Threading Beads. And pasta spirals

 

Music

1. Musical chairs
2. Freestyle dancing
3. Listening to different genres of music
4. Traditional dancing
5. Musical instruments and their names
6. Musical sounds and noises
7. Moving egg shakers
8. Following directions to music e.g. turning, jumping, rolling, or bouncing.
9. Using recycled materials to make music e.g. tins, containers, bottles filled with things.
10. Learning and singing nursery rhymes
11. Listening understanding and following directions through music and dance
12. Dancing to music
13. Visuals and sensory using music as tools for imagination

 

Drama and Role Play

1. Using props and dress ups
2. Setting up home corners and using imagination
3. Reading books in a quiet area
4. Encouraging self-impressions and role play

 

Nature

1. Importance of taking care of the planet
2. Learning about the ocean reefs and marine life
3. How to preserve our oceans lands and air from pollutions
4. Using nature to create our arts and crafts
5. The life cycle of plants, insects, animals, fish and chickens
6. Sensory imagination plays with outside nature
7. Gardening
8. Collecting nature objects
9. Life cycle of insects, animals, and plants
10. Tidying up leaves that have fallen from trees
11. Nature walks
12. Scavenger hunt
13. Learning about the seasons.
14. Worm farm
15. Farm animals
16. Look after our fish and crabs

 

Recycle & Sustainability

1. Finding food resources to replant
2. Life cycles of recycling scraps
3. Worm farms and their purpose and how compost is made
4. Learning how to Sort recycled item from rubbish bins
5. Different ways to recycle at home
6. Have a rainwater tank to collect all the rain.
7. Use rainwater to water our plants
8. Use worm liquid to feed our plants
9. We collect and learn how to recycle
10. We do recycling Art

 

Safety

1. Children become aware of safety by being shown some props for safety e.g. phone, sunscreen, water, garbage bag.
2. Practising on our fire drills
3. Intentional teaching about safety on equipment and play areas
4. Gentle play
5. Sun safety

 

Health, Hygiene & Dental

1. Learn the correct handwashing procedures.
2. Handwashing song that goes with our handwashing
3. Using tissues and how to discard them in the waste
4. Not sharing dank bottles
5. Healthy food options over unhealthy foods
6. Learning about the food pyramid
7. Chasing healthy options for meals
8. Learning how to brush and care for our teeth correctly
9. How healthy eating is important for healthy teeth
10. Look after our bodies
11. Learn how to keep our indoor and outdoor clean
12. Learn how to wash our toys, equipment, and furniture

 

Physical activity

1. Stretching and yoga
2. Sandpits play e.g. digging treasure, building sandcastles.
3. Leaf play: using a rake and some leaves from the childcare let the children play while cleaning up the leaves
4. Balancing beam
5. Sensory activities
6. Obstacle course
7. Kicking balls
8. Moving like different animals
9. Tricycles and cars
10. Playground equipment for children to climb, jump and balance from

 

SPORTS

1. Basketball, tennis, football, handball, cricket, Hockey, Baseball, Sack races, egg, and spoon race
2. Throwing, catching, dribbling, kicking, and hitting the ball

 

Multi culture

1. Dressing up in their native costumes and bringing traditional food
2. Learning about different cultural food, music, costume, and festivals
3. Reading multicultural books
4. Exploring children’s diversity
5. Country focus
6. Indigenous Australian culture
7. Learning greetings in different languages

 

Community

1. Dramatic play dressing up in different occupations
2. Celebrating special events e.g. Easter, Christmas, Mother’s Day
3. Painting the flag of a country
4. Reading books together
5. Extend and learn about most events in the community
6. Invite parents to discuss their career
7. Learn about emergency and rescue people i.e. Fire, police, ambulance
8. Learning the Importance of all the jobs such as doctors, nurses, electrician, teachers, cleaner …. etc.
9. Mathematical approach
10. We learn how to rote count
11. Counting numbers and number sense, writing, and recognizing numbers
12. The value of numbers
13.  Fun activities which involve counting
14. Learning about shapes and colours
15. Measuring and weighing
16. More / less and equal
17. Using math to calculate groups and sorting by numbers/ Patterns
18. Understanding money and its use/ Cash Register and Play Money
19. Length, Weight, Capacity of Objects (by Comparing: which object is shorter, longer, lighter)
20. Time Concepts (morning, afternoon, yesterday)
21. Measuring Time (clock, calendars)
22. Days of the Week, Months
23. Puzzles
24. Scientific Approach
25. Every week we do a different Science experiment, ie We see a volcano exploding, Storm in a jar, Mini explosions, and M colour rainbow.
26. Learn about force, push, and pull.
27.  Volcanos
28. Fizzy magic
29. Floating objects in water
30. Reflection of light and mirrors
31. learning bout magnets
32. use sensory play for experiments,
33. Solar systems and its importance to the sun, moon, and stars and how they are connected
34. Weather and how rainbows, clouds and rain and the sun are all connected