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Competencies
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Name common animals
Observe, describe, and examine common animals using their senses
Group animals according to certain characteristics (how they look/ body, coverings/parts, how they move, sounds they make, what they eat, where they live)
Identify the needs of animals
Identify ways to care for animals
Identify and describe how animals can be useful
Tell and describe the different kinds of weather (sunny, rainy, cloudy, stormy, windy)
Observe and record the weather daily (as part of the opening routine)
Identify what we wear and use for each kind of weather
Observe safety practices in different kinds of weather
Identify simple ways of taking care of the environment
Explore simple cause-and-effect relationships in familiar events and situations
Recognize one’s given name by sight
Identify the letters of one’s given name
Identify the letters of the alphabet (mother tongue, orthography)
Give the sound of each letter (mother tongue, orthography)
Match the letter sound to its letter form
Name the beginning letters of their friends' names, their family members’, and common things they use
Match an upper- to its lower-case letter
Trace, copy, and write different strokes: scribbling (free hand), straight lines, slanting lines, combination of straight and slanting lines, curves, combination of straight and curved and zigzag
Trace, copy, and draw familiar figures
Trace, copy, and write the letters of the alphabet: straight lines (a,e,f,h,i l,t), combination of straight and slanting lines (k, m,n, v, w, x, y, z), combination of straight and curved lines (b, c, d, g, j, o, p, q, r, s, u), rounded strokes with loops
Write one’s given name
Write the lower case for each uppercase letter or vice versa
Listen attentively and react during story reading
Hold the book upright
Browse books on their own
Initiate reading books with peer/teacher
Name common objects/things in the environment (in school, home, and community)
Describe common objects/things in the environment based on color, shape, size, and function/use
Recall and use words from story listened to
Give the meaning of words presented through real objects, pictures, actions, synonyms and antonyms, and context clues
Name objects that begin with a particular letter of the alphabet
Give the names of family members, school personnel, and community helpers, and the roles they play/ jobs they do/things they use
Name the places and the things found in the classroom, school and community
Give the synonyms and antonyms of given words
Listen attentively to stories/poems/ songs
Recall details of the story: characters, when and where the stories/poems/songs happened, and the events in story listened to
Talk about the characters and events in short stories/poems listened to
Relate personal experiences to events in stories/poems/songs listened to
Retell stories listened to, with the help of pictures
Tell the event that happened first, middle, and last in stories listened to
Give the correct sequence of three events in a story listened to orally and/or through drawing
Infer character feelings and traits in a story listened to
/ identify the speaker in the story or poem listened to
Identify simple cause and/or effect of events in a story listened to
Identify problem solutions in a story listened to
Predict what might happen next in the story listened to
Express one’s idea/self freely through creative ways (drawing, illustration, body movement, singing, dancing) based on story listened to
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