Class | Literacy Skills | Numeracy Skills | General Awareness Skills | Phonics |
Playgroup | Rhymes, stories, letters A to Z, recognition, associating objects with letters, letter sounds | Shapes –(circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, heart, star, diamond), Numbers – rote counting 1-20, recognition – 1-10, associate number with objects, opposites, number rhymes | Myself, Body parts, my family, my home, fruits, vegetables, animals, birds, insects, community helpers, transport | Phonics basics to build awareness of letter sounds |
Nursery | picture talk, pattern writing, rhymes recitation, storytelling, letters A to Z – tracing, colouring, writing, structuring, recognizing, associating pictures with letters, phonics | pre-math skills, numbers 1-10 are introduced in a step-by-step manner through counting rhymes and songs | My body, colours, Feelings, Simple measurement words(up-down), Seasons, Animals, flowers, fruits and vegetables, transport | Phonics basics to build awareness of letter sounds |
Jr.kg | Listening and responding skills, speaking and communication skills, preparatory reading skills, incidental reading skills, preparatory writing skills, stories, logical thinking activities, pattern practice, alphabets Aa to Zz, short vowel sounds | have an awareness of ordinal numbers, same or different/sorting, shapes, numbers 1-50, number names 1-20, number rhymes, count letters in their name, days of the week, months of the year | I am special, my body, my family, my house, my school, safety, be careful, animal world, pets, wild animals, domestic animals, marine animals, transport, our helpers, seasons, food, keeping clean, fruits and vegetables, plant | Phonics is the system of relationship between letters of the written language and sounds of the spoken language (phonemic awareness) in a language |
Sr.kg | identify upper and lower-case letters, recognise group of letters as words, recognise a sentence, vowels, rhyming words, picture reading, phonics, opposites, colours, days of the week, months of the year, picture story Hindi: Vowels and Consonants | shapes, form patterns using shapes, use ordinal numbers, differentiate between cardinal and ordinal numbers, counting numbers 1-20,1-100, correlate numbers with number names, develop number sense (before-after-between, backward counting, classify numbers in ascending and descending order, counting in 2s and 5s, add single digit numbers using picture clues, recognise currency- rupees and paise, group numbers as tens and ones, tell time using a clock only hours, shapes patterns | Myself, my body, my family, my home, buddies, safety, my earth, the Sun, day & night, being healthy, our helpers, national symbols, animal world, living things, plant world, flowers, fruits & veges, transport | Phonics one step ahead by introducing 2 letter sounds which are called Diagraphs. E.g. ch, sh, th |