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Planning Developmentally Appropriate ECCE Curriculum

• Sorting, identification and naming-sun, moon, stars, sky, water
etc.
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Notes Physical and motor development activities
• Creative and socio-emotional development activities
• Free and guided conversation on importance of water for survival Tub, caps of bottles,
Water of living beings, common uses of water, importance of clean
Celebrations: drinking water, sources of water, need for conserving water and picture charts, colours,
brushes, glasses, beads,
• Lohri avoiding its wastage, Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Pongal and art and craft material,
(Festival) Republic Day Celebration. clay, salt, sugar, sand,
• Makar • Development of basic cognitive skills through experiments/ twigs, marbles,
Sankranti demonstrations: floating and sinking, objects that dissolve and feathers, origami paper
(Festival) that do not dissolve in water, clothes dry in sun because water to make boats
• Pongal goes up to the sky (evaporation), properties of water (colour
(Festival) changes, taste changes if you add lemon, sugar, salt, etc.)
• Eid • Stories, poems and rhymes
• Gurpurav
• Republic Day • Physical and motor development activities
• Creative and socio-emotional development activities
• Free and guided conversation on need and importance of Doctor,
Community Nurse, Tailor, Cobbler, Postman, Policeman, Driver, Milkman, Conversation charts,
Helpers Barber, Gardener/Mali, Porter, Teacher, Washer man/Dhobi and pictures of community
Celebration: House help helpers, matching
Basant • Inviting community helpers to the preschool and to interact with cards, tools and
equipment, doctor set,
Panchami the children indoor play equipment,
• Development of listening and speaking skills outdoor play
equipment, dolls,
• Stories and rhymes
building blocks, beads,
• Vocabulary related to the social environment and picture reading puzzles.
• Development of senses

• Observation, remembering and recalling the activities of
community helpers

• Matching of tools and equipment of community helpers, missing
game, seriation, classification (based on one concept at a time)

and pattern making (3, 4 objects)
• Concept of time (recap), pre-number (wide and narrow), number,

part and whole relationship

• Physical and motor development activities
• Creative and socio-emotional development activities

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