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Planning Developmentally Appropriate ECCE Curriculum


                Transportation       •   Free and guided conversation on road, water, air transport,  Puzzles (three pieces),
                (Road, Air, Water)       safety rules related to transportation and teacher’s day  cards (picture reading,
                                     •   Following simple instructions                          matching,
                                                                                                Notes
                Celebration:         •   Sound discrimination, vocabulary related to the theme  classification, what is
                                                                                                missing, sequential
                Teacher’s Day        •   Development of speaking skill (show and tell)          thinking) riddles,
                                     •   Development of basic cognitive skills like classification,  toys, picture charts,
                                         sequential thinking, concept of space(in-out), seriation,  indoor    play
                                         matching, identification and naming                    equipment, outdoor
                                     •   Role play, stories and rhymes                          play      material,
                                     •   Identification of different kinds of transport (air, water, road)  material for art and
                                         naming transport, identifying and imitating sounds of  craft and clay work
                                         different transport, observation and memory, classification,  material
                                         identifying, time concept (before-after)
                                     •   Physical and motor development activities, creative and
                                         socio-emotional development activities
                                     •   Free and guided conversation on vegetables, fruits, plant  Picture charts, cards
                Vegetables Fruits
                Plant life               life, festivals and Gandhi Jayanti                     (sorting, matching,
                Celebrations:        •   Identification and naming of common fruits and vegetables,  pre-number concept,
                                         difference between fruits and vegetables, their washing,
                                                                                                odd man out), cereals
                • Dussehra               benefits of eating them, their colour, shape, taste and texture.  for sorting, puzzles,
                   (Festival)            Identification of fruits and vegetables, which are eaten with  art and craft material
                • Gandhi Jayanti         peel or without peel, grows above the ground or below the  for  Deepawali
                • Deepawali              ground. Identification of  trees, grass, climbers, flowers.  decoration,  free
                   (Festival)        •   Development of basic cognitive skills like matching,   indoor        play

                                         problem solving, reasoning                             equipment, outdoor
                                     •   Concept of space (over-under), height (tall-short), time (day-  play equipment, raw
                                         night, morning, afternoon and evening) and classification  fruits and vegetables,
                                     •   Sorting (foodstuff like rice and grams mixed together),  plants,  pot  for
                                                                                                germination
                                         concept of thickness (fat/thick-thin)
                                     •   Free and guided conversation on need of house for humans  Picture  charts,
                 • Houses                and animals, about home family, vocabulary related to  types  matching charts, art
                 • Winter                of houses, different parts of the house, household objects,  and craft material for
                   Season                winter season, Christmas celebration                   Christmas
                                     •   Visit to a construction site and zoo                   celebrations, cards
                                     •   Stories, poems and rhymes                              (pre-number concept,
                                                                                                sequential thinking,
                                     •   Development of speaking skill and vocabulary           matching) outdoor
                                     •   Visual description                                     play   equipment,
                                     •   Development of basic cognitive skills                  indoor free play
                Celebration:         •   Concept of shape, space (above-below) and time (before-  equipment, puzzles
                 Christmas               after)
                                     •   Recognition of position (front-back), recognition of
                                         temperature (hot-cold), relationships, classification,  pattern
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