Ages 1 -3
Breakfast for those who get there early and have not yet eaten. Thereafter they do age appropriate exercises including colouring. Some of the exercises are:
- Threading
- Cylinder Blocks
- Pink Tower
- Broad Stair
- Colouring
- Playdough
- Puzzles
- Identifying colours
- Identifying numbers
- Identifying shapes
- nursery rhymes
- story time
10:00 am – They go out to play together with the grade 000. When they get back in, it is clean up time and meal time.
Ages 3 -4 (Grade 000)
Some children have their breakfast at school. Thereafter the teacher works with them. Exercises include:
- Pink Tower
- Broad Stair
- Squeezing pegs and sponges
- Cylinder Blocks
- Threading
- Sandpaper Letters & Numbers
- Spindlebox
- Story Time
- Colouring
- Tweezer and Beads
10:00 am – Playtime.
10:30 am – Clean up and mealtime.
11:00 am Play dough, story time, music & movement.
Ages 4 -5 (Grade 00)
The first task for the day is to complete colouring a picture in their colouring books. Children are grouped according to their ability to grasp work with certain exercises and concepts. The children who are capable of working on their own are given tasks to complete while the teacher works individually with the children that are struggling and need help. Some of the exercises include:
- Pink Tower
- Broad Stair
- Red Rods
- Cylinder Blocks
- Knobless Cylinders
- Sound Bottles
- Rough & Smooth Tablets
- Metal Insets
- Geometric Solids & Colour Tablets
- Sandpaper Numbers
- Sandpaper Letters
- Number Rods
- Spindle Basket
- Tweezer & Beads
- Squeezing
- Sweeping popcorn on a tray
- Spooning popcorn into bowls
- Threading
- Nuts & Bolts
10:15 am – is circle time – The Good morning song is sung. Register is marked. Weather, date, days of the week, months of the year, seasons & relevant topics are discussed like Nelson Mandela’s Birthday, Spring Day, Olympics, significance of flags, etc. Thereafter is lunch and playtime. It is during this time that the children do their various extra curricular activities.
11:30 am – Inside Time – Children clean up and listen to a story.
12:15 am – Schools out
Ages 5 -6 (Grade R or Readiness)
The work done in readiness is a lot more intense. Here the children are taught to:
- Identifying numbers up to 100
- Addition and subtraction sums up to 20
- To know what comes before and after a number
- To color neatly on one direction
- Cut neatly on both a straight & curved line
- Children learn sentence construction, word identification
- Proper reading starting with simple phonetic books slowly progressing to non phonetic books.
- Copy from the board starting at the margin with a capital letter, leaving a finger space between each word and ending in a full stop.