Programs & Curriculums
Learning Area & Goals
At Toddlers’ Cottage, we plan and craft our Pre-school curriculum for the holistic development of children enrolled at our centre. The Ministry of Education (MOE)
- Aesthetics and creative expression.
- Discovery of the World.
- Language and literacy.
- Motor Skills Development.
- Social and emotional development.
The Ministry of Education had defined a set of learning goals for each of the learning area that reflects
At the end of K2, children should be able
Aesthetics and Creative Expression
• Enjoy art and music and movement activities
• Express ideas and feelings through art and music and movement
• Create art and music and movement using experimentation and imagination
• Share ideas and feelings about art and music and movement
Discovery of the World
- Show an interest in the world they live in
- Find out why things happen and how things work through simple investigations
- Develop a positive attitude towards the world around them
Language and Literacy
For English Language:
- Listen for information and enjoyment
- Enjoy listening to stories, rhymes and poems
- Understand and follow one- to two-step verbal instructions
- Speak to convey meaning and communicate with others
- Express personal needs and wants
- Talk about personal experiences with others
- Ask simple questions
- Respond appropriately to ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ questions
- Read with understanding and for enjoyment
- Have print and book awareness
- Recognise upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
- Recognise beginning and ending sounds in words
- Recognise familiar/sight/high frequency words
- Show understanding of the story/rhyme/poem by responding to questions and talking about the characters and events
- Use drawing, mark making, symbols and writing with invented and conventional spelling to communicate ideas and information
- Recognise and write their own name
- Form upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
- Copy words and phrases with understanding of basic writing conventions (e.g. word spacing, appropriate use of upper and lower case letters)
For Mother Tongue Languages:
- Have an interest in learning Mother Tongue Language
- Actively participate in Mother Tongue Language activities
- Enjoy Mother Tongue Language activities
- Develop foundational language and literacy skills
- Listen with understanding
- Speak to convey meaning
- Recognise words and read with assistance
- Make marks, draw symbols and write letters/characters to represent ideas
- Be aware of the local ethnic culture
- Be aware of customs and
- Interact with friends, family and the community
Motor Skills Development
- Enjoy through participation in a variety of physical activities
- Demonstrate control, coordination and balance in gross motor tasks
- Demonstrate control and coordination in fine motor tasks
- Develop healthy habits and safety awareness at home, in school and at public places
Numeracy
- Recognise and use simple relationships and patterns
- Match, sort and compare things by one attribute (i.e. according to colour, shape or size)
- Put things in an order according to size or length and sequence events
- Recognise, extend and create simple patterns (i.e. AB patterns)
- Use numbers in daily experiences
- Rote count to at least 10
- Count reliably up to 10 things
- Compare the quantities of two sets of things and use ‘more’, ‘less/few’ and ‘same as’ appropriately
- Match number name/numeral/number word to the quantity of a set of things (within 10)
- Recognise that the quantity if a set of things is the ‘same’ irrespective of the starting point of counting
- Recognise that the quantity of a set of things stays the same regardless of the arrangement
- Recognise numbers (1 to 10) in numerals and in words
- Form numbers (1 to 10) in numerals
- Name parts that form the whole in quantity (e.g. 2 and 3 makes 5)
- Recognise and use basic shapes and simple spatial concepts in daily experiences
- Recognise the four basic shapes (i.e. circle, square, rectangle and triangle)
- Use the basic shapes to form other figures (e.g. use two squares and a triangle to form a boat)
Name position (i.e. top/bottom, in front of/behind), direction (i.e. up/down, left/right) and distance (i.e. far/near)
Social and Emotional Development
• Manage their own emotions and behaviours
• Show respect for diversity
• Communicate, interact and build relationships with others
• Take responsibility for their actions
Play is central to children’s growth, development and learning…
