Nursery 2

Sept-Oct 2015

Educational Overview

How We Express Ourselves

Central Idea: Children use words, pictures, and actions to express feelings.
Unit 1 of 4

Communication and Language

Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
Beginning to understand why and how questions.
Can retell a simple past event in correct order.
Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might
happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

Literacy
Knows Information can be relayed in the form of print.
Holds books the correct way up and turns pages.
Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and
top to bottom.
Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
Suggest how the story might end.
Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.

Mathematics
Uses some number names and number language spontaneously.
Shows curiosity about numbers by offering comments and asking questions.
Beginning to represent numbers using fingers, marks on paper or pictures.
Uses shapes appropriately for tasks.

Understanding the World

Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.

STEM
Students will use the class camera to take pictures of each others facial expressions.
They will learn how to turn on/off the camera, take pictures and learn how to review
the picture.
Students will make mini volcanoes and record their observations.
Students will make frames for their facial expression pictures.

Personal and Social Development

Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others
feelings.
Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns.
Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not immediately met.
Can usually adapt behavior to different events.
Demonstrates friendly behavior.

Expressive Arts & Design

Explores and learns how sounds can be changed.
Developing preferences for forms of expression.
Uses movement to express feelings.
Creates movement in response to music.
Captures experiences and responses with a range of media.

Spanish
Use gestures, actions and body language when responding to simple directions.
Listen respectfully and respond expressively to picture books, and demonstrate
their understanding through gestures and expressions.
Mandarin
Use gestures, actions and body language when responding to simple directions.
Listen respectfully and respond expressively to picture books, and demonstrate
their understanding through gestures and expressions.

Physical Development
Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements.
Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
Observes the effects of activity on their bodies.

Music
Moving in rhythm to songs.
Playing simple beats on percussion instruments.

Drama
Exploring mimicking and mirroring techniques using animals, vehicles, and
people in the community as a template.
Using story structure to explore cause and effect and peer relationships.
Exploring costumes and props as a visual cue for a specific kind of character.