Senior Kg Synopsis
September 2023
Theme of the month: “Living and Non-living things.”
The month of September will be dedicated to the theme “Living and Non-living
things.” followed by “Spiders.”
Living and Non-living things: Children will learn about living, non-living, natural
and man-made things in the environment.
Duration: 10 days
Spiders: Children will learn about the difference between spiders and insects and
different types of spiders.
Duration: 10 days
CURRICULUM GOAL:
The skills developed in these themes are:
• Child will develop confidence in speaking the English language.
• Exploring new vocabulary – to name the classroom materials and their
surroundings.
• Basic routine for a day
• Children will enhance language and thought process.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
• To answer questions related to a topic or text.
• To ask questions to satisfy personal curiosity and information needs.
• To use illustrations, photographs, video programs, objects, and auditory cues to
understand ideas and information.
• Reading and Writing: To develop identification of the first and last sound of the
words with the letter ‘l’, ‘e’ and ‘w’.
• To distinguish between what is realistic and imaginary in oral, literary, and media
texts.
• Introduction to word families (‘ag’, ‘og’, ‘ay’, ‘un’, ‘et’, ‘ad’, ‘ot’) and exercises
based on the same.
• Introduction to compound words and exercises based on the same.
• Revising phonics – A to Z.
• Recap and exercise vowels and consonants.
• Exercise on recognition of first and last sounds of the given pictures.
• Revision of rhyming words and exercises based on the same.
• Introduction to the spellings of primary and secondary colours and exercises
based on the same.
• Introduction to double vowels and consonants and exercise based on the same.
• To develop sight words vocabulary (like, we, will, am, is, can, his, and, down, he,
her, was, has, she, it)
• Introduction to long and short ‘o’ sound.
• Introduction of syllables and exercises based on the same.
• To use appropriate vocabulary related to the two themes. Include (bird, fruit,
living, nonliving, alive, many, lifecycle, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly, fruits,
spiders, web, legs, prey, fangs, insects, scorpion, mite, ticks, daddy long legs,
arachnid.)
MATHEMATICS LESSONS:
• Revising and continuation of recognizing and writing numbers 0 – 50
• Revision and introduction to number names till 25.
• Revision & introduction of backward counting from 50-0 and exercises based on the
same.
• Continuation of exercise based on after and before numbers in the range 0 – 40
• Exercise based on missing numbers through 100 board charts.
• Exercise on comparison between numbers in the range 0 – 40
• Exercise on tally marks in the range of 0-30.
• Activity to revise more and less.
• To compare the length (height) of two objects, and explain the comparison using
the words “shorter,” “longer (taller),” or “almost the same.
• Revision of 2D objects and exercises based on the same.
• Revision of 3D objects and exercises based on the same.
• Revision of colour, number and object patterns and exercises based on the
same.
• Introduction of skip counting by 2’s and exercises based on the same.
• Introduction on comparing the volume of liquid through less and more.
• Introduction of ordinal numbers and number names 1st-10th.
• Introduction to measuring weight and exercises based on the sam
SCIENCE
• To use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of characteristics and
needs of living things. Include characteristics, human, animal, plant, living things,
needs, as well as descriptive words relating to life processes.
• To use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of characteristics and
needs of arachnids. Include spiders, web, legs, prey, fangs, insects, scorpion, mite,
ticks, daddy long legs, and arachnid.
• To recognize that plants, as living things, come in different forms. Examples:
grass, trees, shrubs.
• To observe and identify similarities in life processes between themselves and
other living things. Examples: they eat, sleep, grow, and breathe, and so do other
living things.
• To identify living and non-living things in the environment.
• To show respect for living things in their environment.
• To be able to sort and classify objects according to colour.
• Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of colours. Include: red,
yellow, blue, orange, brown, black, white, purple, green, grey, pink, mix, light, dark,
match, primary colour.
• To explore and describe the position of a stationary object concerning
themselves, to other objects, or a specific area. Include: out, in, over, under, above,
up, down. (in, out, under, up, down, over, on.)
HINDI
• We will revise the Hindi reading and writing of Swar.
• Introduction of first group of Vyanjan.
• Revision of names of Vegetables and Colours in Hindi.
GROSS MOTOR SKILLS:
• Jumping
• Hopping
• Skipping
• Simple hand, wrist, and shoulder exercise
• One-minute Games
(Structured games to enhance child’s gross motor skills)
ART AND CRAFT:
• Rock painting
• Life Cycle of a Butterfly
• Spider Web (With sticks and yarn)
STORYBOOKS:
• Stories with moral (Hindi)
• Spiders (English)
• Whose forest is it (English)
• Lost and found (English)
• Zayn and Zoey (English)
• Story about snakes (English)
• Story about different kind of houses (English)
• Feet Problem
RHYME:
Down by the Bay
Five Scary Spiders (poem)
Lal Tamatar
SHOW AND TELL:
• To promote oral communication in English
• To share ideas through talking, storytelling, pictures, print, and objects
• To share personal experiences
• To build self-confidence by speaking in front of others
HOLIDAYS FOR THE MONTH:
7th September: Janmashtami
19th September: Ganesh Chaturthi
