The toddlers program at DRS KIDS has been developed to prepare the toddler to take the first step outside “Home”.
The whole program is packed with fun and play activities to achieve the following four main aim
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To help child acclimatize to outside world and ease the separation pangs.
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Helps toddlers develop personal skills they need to take an active part in the years to come
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To help the toddles develop a positive mind set to be a confident learner in future
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To help toddlers initiate in the readiness language Skills, phonics program for school level
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The activities have been designed to develop following skills
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independent
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Communicating
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Expressing
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Healthy Living
Curriculum Page
DRS KID’s academic program is founded on learning goals. The learning goals define what children might be expected to know, what they might be able to do and the basic understanding they might develop as they move through school.
Most of the goals have been organized into 4 groups appropriate for
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One and Half to two and half old (Play Group)
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Two + Year olds( International Kinder garden I)
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Three + Year olds (International Kinder garden II)
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Four + Year olds(International Kinder garden III)
The Kindergarten Program
The curriculum is formed keeping five essential elements
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Concepts
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Skills
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Attitude
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Knowledge
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Action
The Learning Goals
The initiation into subject is through Trans disciplinary themes that cover the knowledge (The facts and information children might learn), the skills (Those practical abilities children need to be able to do.) and understanding. (The deeper awareness of key concepts which develop over )
The four inquiry themes that support this curriculum framework are
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Who we are
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Sharing the Planet
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How the world works
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How we express ourselves
The subject goals
The curriculum learning goals are further merged the subject goals which address all the developmentally appropriate skills and operational know how that a kindergarten child should know
language Arts Goals
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Listening Skills
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Speaking Skills
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Reading Skills
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Illustration skills
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Writing Skills
Math Arts Goals
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Understanding Numbers
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Use of Basic measurement concepts
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Understanding Patterns
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Shape and Space
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Simple Data handling Skills
Social Science Goals
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Understanding one’s own culture.
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Appreciating other cultures awareness of independence between people
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Discovering simple scientific marvels around us
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Know the living world
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Understand the materials around us
The personal development goals development
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Development of fine motor and gross motor skills
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Personal profile to be for inquiries, knowledgeable, communication, Thinker, open minded, caring, Risk Taker, balanced, Reflective, Principled.
