Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment

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

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Aap Aur Hum – February 2021

Theme – ‘Animals around us’ (KG)

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I am developing my gross and fine motor skills by…
 

• participating in refreshing energizing games like – Lets go swimming like fish, Mouse in my toolbox , I am a dear little doggy, Animal Dance and freeze,

 

• building my stamina through physical drill with a baton.

 

• Doing interesting yoga asana like the cat pose and the dog pose.

 

• doing activities like walking/balancing on a beam, straight, zigzag line, hopping,
  jumping over hurdles and aiming at a target.
   

• revisiting life skills like rolling the mat, pegging socks on a hanger, transferring rice from one bowl to another.

 

 

• doing freehand drawing of myself and different animals, story illustration, pictorial dictation and other topics.
   

• working with different materials to create interesting crafts like a dog, giraffe with paper folding and tiger using paper plates.

 

 

I am developing and enhancing my language by………

 

• learning to use appropriate words to express my emotions.[happy, sad, surprised, scared etc.}

 

• talking about my favourite animal.

 

• showcasing my holiday homework done during the winter break and listening to my peers.
   

• presentations on theme, current weather and news etc.

 

• listening to my friends narrating their favourite story. 

 

• learning about the changes in the environment during the spring season.

 

• listening attentively to identify the sounds of letters - s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, h, m, r, d, e, l, f, g, o, b, j, q, u.

 

• taking an active part in the phonic drills.
   

• learning to recognize the sounds of letters in a word.
   

• learning to decode and read my name, names of number, names of the day, animals through games like spin wheel etc.

 

• differentiating between sounds of different animals and birds.

 

• knowing the names of animals and their babies.
   

• listening to the story of the month ‘The Bravest Fish’ by Matt Buckingham and doing interesting follow up activities.
   

• teaming up with my friends to enact the story through Whoosh and depict various emotions.

 

• working out on my vocal cords through sangeet and sargam activities.

 

 

I am developing my intellect by …….

 

• enhancing my memory while recalling experiences in relation to the ongoing discussions.
   

• learning to focus on a task while doing different activities.
   

• enhance my observation skills by participating in activities like, guessing my name, follow the pattern and solving simple puzzles independently.
   

• arranging the given material like shapes, bottle lids, colors into specific patterns and sequence.
   

• observing the animals/birds/bug in my neighborhood and finding facts about them.
   

• learning about the animals/birds/insects in context of numbers like which animal has one horn, how many feet does a bird have?

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• revisiting number concepts through activities like subitization, cluster, listen and draw, count and draw/paint to correspond the quantity of the number and doing simple mental math like – how much is one more than two etc.

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• thinking and finding answers to simple questions –why do animals have a tail?
  Which is the fastest animal? Distinctive features of different animals/birds.

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• learning to buy and negotiate with my peers during the shop play. It gives me a
  chance to pose as a buyer/seller and use the paper money.

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• thinking critically to situations like -
  - what will you do is you see someone pelting stones, sticks on animals or making noise to annoy them?
  
  - What will you do if you find an injured bird in the balcony / outside your house?

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• doing scientific experiments like bubble making and recording my observations in a sequence.

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I am enhancing my social and emotional skills by…

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• greeting my friends every day with a warm smile and a song. I also start the day with a prayer to show my gratitude to God.
   

• celebrating birthdays with my peers and listening to the good things they say about me.
   

• expressing my emotions without hesitation and talking about why I experience changes in my emotions and feelings.

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• learning to be patient, wait for my turn and listen to my friends and teacher when they are speaking.

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• having fun with play dough during the free play time.

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• bonding and exploring new things with like names of different flowers and birds,  playing catch and throw with my family on our visits to the park.

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• talking about the changes I see now within me, understanding and talking about my likes and dislikes, how did I spent my weekend, which animal would I like to pet and why?, etc during circle time.
   

• bonding with insects, birds and animals that I see in my neighborhood and by critically thinking about them.
   

• expressing my excitement about the upcoming events like the sports day/ fun day and SMILE elections.