Second Year 4-5 Years Old

Practical Life

Developing Skills:

• Order
• Concentration
• Coordination and Independence

Preliminaries:

• Opening and Closing a Door
• Getting in and out of a Chair
• Rolling and Carrying a Rug
• Carrying a Tray
• Carrying a Bucket
• Carrying and Placing a Chair
• Carrying a Table

Fine Motor Skills:

• Folding
• Pouring solids and liquids
• Pouring with a Funnel
• Pouring and measuring
• Spooning
• Large Ladling
• Scooping
• Screwing and Unscrewing Caps and Bottles
• Pipes and Fittings
• Clipping Clothespins
• Eyedropper Exercise
• Wooden Bead Sorting

Care of Self:

• Snap Frame
• Button Frame
• Zipper Frame
• Bow Frame
• Lacing Frame
• Buckle Frame
• Hook Frame
• Clothes Brushing
• Clothes Washing
• Shoe Polishing
• Hand Washing
• Clean Fingernails
• Hair Combing
• Nose Blowing
• Teeth Brushing

Care of Environment:

• Dusting
• Floor Sweeping
• Floor Mopping
• Table and Chair
• Scrubbing
• Dish Washing
• Polishing a Mirror
• Polishing Silver and Wood
• Leaf Sponging
• Watering Plants
• Flower Arranging
• Planting Flowers

Grace and Courtesy:

• “Pardon Me”
• “Please”
• “Come in”
• “Excuse Me”
• “How Do You Do?”
• Introductions

Food Preparation:

• Banana Cutting
• Slicing
• Stringing Beads

Sensorial

• Secondary Colors
• Plane Geometry – definitions
• Solids and insets
• Constructive Triangles
• Power of 2
• Sensory Discrimination
• Color Gradation
• Binomial Cube

Math

• Teens and Tens
• Numeration to 100
• Linear counting and squaring chains
• Introduction to place value
• Addition and Subtraction (without re-grouping)

Language

• Beginning, middle, and ending sounds
• Beginning reading
• Consonant blends
• Beginning writing

Geography

• Cultural diversity and peace
• Land air and water
• Maps
• Land and water forms
• Solar system

Science Experiments

• Experiments
• Animals
• Plants
• Insects
• Weather