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Planning Developmentally Appropriate ECCE Curriculum

The daily plan should reflect a balance of the following:
• Active and quiet activities
Notes
• Child-initiated and teacher-initiated activities
• Indoor and outdoor activities

• Individual, small group and large group activities
• Free and guided play activities

Goals to be achieved from planning for the whole year

There needs to be a clear ideas of the goals and steps to achieve them in planning
the learning experiences for the whole year. Listed below are some goals necessary
for helping children learn:

• Winning the trust and confidence of the children

• Inculcating healthy habits among children

• Ensuring personal safety of the children
• Development of the fine and gross muscles of the children

• Development of language skills

• Development of social skills

• Development of concepts like number, time, colour, form etc

• Development of independence
• Understanding of self and the environment

• Development of creative art and aesthetic appreciation

12.5 THEME BASED ECCE PROGRAMME

You have learnt the principles of programme planning. Let us now study how to
do theme based planning.

Theme Based Planning
Integrated themes and projects form the core content of the ECCE programme
or curriculum. These themes should be developed in a suitable manner so that it
enables children to make meaningful connections among the different concepts
and develop holistic understanding of the world around them. The preschool
curriculum should be flexible and responsive to the needs of the children. It is to
be ensured that the theme based ECCE programme is constructed to suit the
diverse social, cultural and linguistic contexts in the country. The daily/weekly/

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