Curriculum
Arts and Craft
- Painting with different tools and materials, e.g. using sponges, forks, Duplo or cotton balls.
- We incorporate a lot of hand and feet painting.
- Paint splat
- Colouring in with pencils and crayons.
- Light table
- Stained glass and suncatcher craft
- Playdough/cutting, kneading, and shaping
- Nature art e.g. using leaves, rocks, or shells
- Collage with paper and stickers.
- Gluing, cutting, and pasting
- Tracing shapes and letters
- Threading Beads. And pasta spirals
Music
- Musical chairs
- Freestyle dancing
- Listening to different genres of music
- Traditional dancing
- Musical instruments and their names
- Musical sounds and noises
- Moving egg shakers
- Following directions to music e.g. turning, jumping, rolling, or bouncing.
- Using recycled materials to make music e.g. tins, containers, bottles filled with things.
- Learning and singing nursery rhymes
- Listening understanding and following directions through music and dance
- Dancing to music
- Visuals and sensory using music as tools for imagination
Drama and Role Play
- Using props and dress ups
- Setting up home corners and using imagination
- Reading books in a quiet area
- Encouraging self-impressions and role play
Nature
- Importance of taking care of the planet
- Learning about the ocean reefs and marine life
- How to preserve our oceans lands and air from pollutions
- Using nature to create our arts and crafts
- The life cycle of plants, insects, animals, fish and chickens
- Sensory imagination plays with outside nature
- Gardening
- Collecting nature objects
- Life cycle of insects, animals, and plants
- Tidying up leaves that have fallen from trees
- Nature walks
- Scavenger hunt
- Learning about the seasons.
- Worm farm
- Farm animals
- Look after our fish and crabs
Recycle & Sustainability
- Finding food resources to replant
- Life cycles of recycling scraps
- Worm farms and their purpose and how compost is made
- Learning how to Sort recycled item from rubbish bins
- Different ways to recycle at home
- Have a rainwater tank to collect all the rain.
- Use rainwater to water our plants
- Use worm liquid to feed our plants
- We collect and learn how to recycle
- We do recycling Art
Safety
- Children become aware of safety by being shown some props for safety e.g. phone, sunscreen, water, garbage bag.
- Practising on our fire drills
- Intentional teaching about safety on equipment and play areas
- Gentle play
- Sun safety
Health, Hygiene & Dental
- Learn the correct handwashing procedures.
- Handwashing song that goes with our handwashing
- Using tissues and how to discard them in the waste
- Not sharing dank bottles
- Healthy food options over unhealthy foods
- Learning about the food pyramid
- Chasing healthy options for meals
- Learning how to brush and care for our teeth correctly
- How healthy eating is important for healthy teeth
- Look after our bodies
- Learn how to keep our indoor and outdoor clean
- Learn how to wash our toys, equipment, and furniture
Physical activity
- Stretching and yoga
- Sandpits play e.g. digging treasure, building sandcastles.
- Leaf play: using a rake and some leaves from the childcare let the children play while cleaning up the leaves
- Balancing beam
- Sensory activities
- Obstacle course
- Kicking balls
- Moving like different animals
- Tricycles and cars
- Playground equipment for children to climb, jump and balance from
SPORTS
- Basketball, tennis, football, handball, cricket, Hockey, Baseball, Sack races, egg, and spoon race
- Throwing, catching, dribbling, kicking, and hitting the ball
Multi culture
- Dressing up in their native costumes and bringing traditional food
- Learning about different cultural food, music, costume, and festivals
- Reading multicultural books
- Exploring children’s diversity
- Country focus
- Indigenous Australian culture
- Learning greetings in different languages
Community
- Dramatic play dressing up in different occupations
- Celebrating special events e.g. Easter, Christmas, Mother’s Day
- Painting the flag of a country
- Reading books together
- Extend and learn about most events in the community
- Invite parents to discuss their career
- Learn about emergency and rescue people i.e. Fire, police, ambulance
- Learning the Importance of all the jobs such as doctors, nurses, electrician, teachers, cleaner …. etc.
- Mathematical approach
- We learn how to rote count
- Counting numbers and number sense, writing, and recognizing numbers
- The value of numbers
- Fun activities which involve counting
- Learning about shapes and colours
- Measuring and weighing
- More / less and equal
- Using math to calculate groups and sorting by numbers/ Patterns
- Understanding money and its use/ Cash Register and Play Money
- Length, Weight, Capacity of Objects (by Comparing: which object is shorter, longer, lighter)
- Time Concepts (morning, afternoon, yesterday)
- Measuring Time (clock, calendars)
- Days of the Week, Months
- Puzzles
- Scientific Approach
- Every week we do a different Science experiment, ie We see a volcano exploding, Storm in a jar, Mini explosions, and M colour rainbow.
- Learn about force, push, and pull.
- Volcanos
- Fizzy magic
- Floating objects in water
- Reflection of light and mirrors
- learning bout magnets
- use sensory play for experiments,
- Solar systems and its importance to the sun, moon, and stars and how they are connected
- Weather and how rainbows, clouds and rain and the sun are all connected
Course Features
- Duration
- Activities Curriculum
- Class Sizes
- Years Old 0 - 6
- Available Seats