Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment

Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment
4 Green Avenue Lane, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

 

Aap Aur Hum – September 2021

Theme – Plant Life (Prep)

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PHYSICAL AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

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I have enhanced my gross and fine motor skills by………

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• participating in outdoor activities like broad jump, agility ladder and
  bunny hop.

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• going on a nature walk observing insects and creepy crawlies through
  a magnifying glass.

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• practising yoga asanas like Vajrasana and Virabhadrasana.

 

• learning life skills like opening/ closing a lock and weaving a table mat
  with paper strips.

 

• moving to the rhythm of energisers like –‘Follow me’.
   

• participating in drills  and coordinating my body movements with the drum beats.

 

• using the safety scissor to cut different shapes and paste them on the worksheet.

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• doing a free hand drawing on  - theme story, stages of germination ,safety at
  home and parts of my body.

 

• moulding the play dough into the parts of a plant like flower, roots, stem etc.
   

• using paint and brush to create interesting abstract art relating to the theme.
   

• tracing and drawing the letter ‘m, b, d , p’ and numbers ‘4,5,6’.

 

• rolling the paper into a ‘sphere’ using paper mache technique and decorating it.

 

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

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I have enhanced my language by………… 

 

• learning how to blend and read the CVC words with the distinct vowel sound ‘o’.
   

• doing a pictorial dictation of new CVC words, sight words, colour and number
  names that I am learning to read.

 

• using the new sight words to frame meaningful sentences.

 

• identifying letters and sounds in my mother’s name.
   

• learning to read common words like names of the days of the week, month.
   

• enriching my vocabulary with new words like architect, respiration, stem,
  stomata etc.

 

• identifying my name on a name list.

 

• reading the sentences and depicting its meaning through drawings.
     

•  listening carefully and drawing the corresponding images to develop my
  comprehension skills. 

 

• weaving a story with picture cards.

 

• dramatizing a character in the story ‘Oliver’s vegetables’ during the role play.
   

• recalling words from the story and making a word wall.

 

• participating in theme related discussions like ‘Being safe at home’,
  ‘Knowing about the food I eat’ , ‘ talking about parts of a plant’ and
  ‘Comparing parts of a plant with parts of the human body’.

 

• acting as a reporter and interviewing my family members.

 

• learning scientific words like ‘cardon-di-oxide’ and ‘respiration’ through
  experiments to know ‘How to plants breathe’ and ‘Properties of water’.
   

• singing songs like ‘The farmer plants the seed’ and ‘Number 7 song ’ with
  my friends.

 

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INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

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I am enhancing my intellect by…………

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• listening to news related to ‘Para Olympics’ and ‘Teacher’s Day’ and other
  interesting topics.

 

• taking part in pretend play like shop play with my friends and learning to
  buy and sell things

 

• recalling stories and experiments to illustrate them in a sequence.
   

• marking important geographical features like the Himalayas, Sundarbans,
  Thar desert and Kanyakumari on the map of India.

 

• sowing a seed and observing and documenting different stages of  germination.
   

• making interesting observations while doing science experiment to know
  ‘properties of water’ and ‘how do leaves breathe.

 

• collecting leaves to observe the difference in their shape, size and category.

 

• learning more about the leaf  and its skeleton.

 

• learning number concepts like sight facts of 7.

 

• learning mathematical vocabulary and phrases through a number game.

 

• decoding numbers represented in different ways through the activity ‘Number Bingo’ 

 

• making my own subitization cards of number 6 and 7.

 

• threading beads in a colour and number sequence.

 

• observing objects in a picture and counting them quickly.

 

• learning new number concepts like ‘what comes before’.

 

• understanding a sphere through its properties.

 

• enhancing my critical thinking through dramatization of various situations like
  “Imagine if all elephants lived on trees”.

 

• carefully observing pictures and making predictions.

 

• using my imagination to create my own ‘Abstract Art’.

 

• taking part in make belief play to imagine an object to something that it isn’t.

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SOCIO EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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I have enhanced my social and emotional skills by…………

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• participating in circle time discussions on ‘Being safe at home’, ‘Being Empathetic’.

 

• participating in the theme talk on topics like - the nature basket of my choice.

 

• talking about emotions I felt while listening to the story ‘ Oliver’s vegetables’.
   

• learning new life skills like opening and closing a lock  and keeping things back
  in place after use.

 

• sharing a pleasant experience I had with my family and the food I enjoy eating 
  the most when I am crowned as the King/Queen.

 

• engaging in free play with my friends with materials of my choice.

 

• doing show and tell on topics like – important geographical features of India.

 

• celebrating the festival of ‘Janamashtmi’ by sharing and eating ‘Srikhand’ with
  my family and friends.

 

• being creative and making the doll house with my friends  which would be our space to play and enjoy.