Pre-Primary Newsletters – Nov & Dec 2015

Newsletter for Parents ( November & December 2015)

Jr.KG

Subject/ Unit

Topic

Activities

Conversation

Oral/Reading/

written work

English

Seasons

Story– What to Wear, Carrie the Caring Cat, Adventures of Boond, The Drop of Water, The Rainbow, The Mittens , The Three little Butterfly Brothers.

Songs – It’s Raining, its Pouring, The Counting Snowmen, If you’re Happy and You know it, Spring is here.

Discuss about Weather and seasons (Summer, Monsoon, Winter and Spring), Clothes we wear and food we eat in different Seasons.

Phonic drill A-Z .My world in pictures- Seasons. Two letter words related to vowel `i`- ib, id, ip, ig, it, in, im, ix.

Written: Small letters- t, i, c, a, d, g, q, o.

EVS

SIGHT WORDS

Cold, winter, apple, orange, carrot, peas, snow, spring, flowers, bloom, butterflies, bee, Umbrella , clouds, rainbow, rain, ladyfinger, watermelon, Sun , heat, seasons, summer, mango.

Treasure hunt of different fruits & Vegetables, Popcorn making, Sharing information about Thunderstorm & Water Evaporation, Absorb Water on different types of Fabric.

Math

Numbers:

Making Graphs for Favourite Seasons, Measure Rain Water through Rain Gauge, Shelling Peas and Counting them.

Concept of Far –Near, In-Out.

Oral numbers: 1-10 Written: number 9 & 10.

Creative

Umbrella of Paper plate, Draw objects related to Summer, Collage of Rainy Season. Paper Boat, Snowman, Flower Craft and Butterfly Craft.

Gross motor

Fine motor

Crawling under the web, Hopscotch game , jumping in and out of hula hoop ring

Threading beads, clay, puzzles, playing with blocks.

Hindi

1. अदरक, अनार, अज़गर

2. आम, आइना, आलु

3. इमली, इमारत,

4. ईख, ईश्वर,

कविताएँ:

बारिश आय!

तोता

चिड़िया

सरदी आतीहै…

सब्जी ले लो

Life skills for the month of November – December 2015

1. Encourage your child to follow the life skills mentioned below.

2. Make eye contact during conversation.

3. Adhere to daily schedule.

4. Keep clothing on hooks or hanger.

5. Help in kitchen.

VALUE EDUCATION – Friendship /Nutrition.

Sr.KG

Subject

Topics

Classroom Activities

Stories and Poems

Note book, Pattern book and Workbook

Eng

Safety

Writing short sentences in Pattern Book using colour names.

Blends- ‘sn’, ‘sp ’words.

Phonic drill

Jumble Words

Sight words

safety, hurt, danger, help, school, playground, poison, taste,touch, no,go, tell, stranger, road, stop, look, safe.

Amazing Animals

Blends- ‘gr’ , ‘pr’, ‘sk’, ’sh’ words

Writing simple sentences using ‘gr’ words.

Writing short sentences in Pattern Book using colour names.

Names of wild animals.

Sight words:

zoo, wild animals, cage, lion, elephant, monkey, crocodile, giraffe, snake, zebra, bear, jungle, lake, half, laugh, pant, wear, walk, made.

Conversation :

Discussion on:

When children feel safe

Safety Rules

Road signs

What is safe and unsafe

Good touch Bad touch

Conversation:

Discussion on

Zoo Visit

Types of animals

Facts about different animals

Farm Animals

Wild Animals

Pet animals

If I were an animal…

What is a Habitat

Framing and matching sentences

Show and tell about animals

Reading Express

Animal Fairy

Stories:

Kidnapping of Sita

The Little Red Riding Hood

Poems:

Red says stop

Stories

Mister Goody’s Factory

Nanoo Zookeeper

Animal Fairy

Catog

Story-/sh/

Poems

We are all going to the Zoo

Animal Riddle

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

In my Farm, I have A…

Rhyme-/sh/.

Danger! Danger!

Note Book

Blend words- gr, pr, sk, sh, sn, sp

Workbook

S 6.2, S 7.1, 9.2

Workbook

S 4.2, 4.3, 6.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1

EVS

Safety

Weather Chart

Information on

Safety rules and precautions

Amazing Animals

Different animals in the Zoo

Making Zebra Crossing

Making of Traffic signal

Story making with pictures

Pretend play of different animals

Make different facial expressions like the emotion stick puppets

Making a classroom Zoo model

Workbook

S 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

Math

Safety

Skip Counting of 2’s and 5’s (oral)

Concept of Smaller and greater number

After,between & before numbers (30-50)

Numerals 51-80

Number Names 21-40

Number Values 41-50

Amazing Animals

Number names 41-50

After, between & before numbers(30-50)

Number Values 41-50

Introduction of after numbers, between and before numbers.

Matching numeral to number name

Making zoo cages

Making a pair –number card game

Bringing a pet in the class

Learn number values using ice cream sticks

Game-Who is first (concept of ordinal numbers)

Workbook

S6.1, 9.1, 10.1

Workbook

S 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 15.1

Hindi

Hindi Vitan Book

Reading and listening skills

Practicing on slates

कविताएँ:

हवा

सड़क की बत्तिया

हाथी

Pgs– 30 to 38

Value Education: Conservation of paper

Life Skills :

1. Wash yard toys when needed

2. Help rake the yard

3. Sweep patio

4. Pull weeds

5. Water plant

6. Help wipe up spills