Grade 000
3 – 4 Years
Our aim in Grade 000 is to teach the children important skills through playing games, singing songs and exploring our environment.
Social skills are developed as the children learn to play within a small group instead of by themselves. Weekly obstacle courses are set out to challenge and build the child’s gross motor skills. Theme related arts & crafts are planned to strengthen and develop their fine motor skills.
The children are encouraged to run, climb and swing to their heart’s content during free playtime.
Arrival time
7:00 – 8:00
Free play time on the carpet with a variety of toys, puzzles, pegboard, body image drawing, fine motor activities. Toilet Routine & quick run through the jungle gym course.
Morning ring
8:30 – 9:00
Bible Stories & memory verse. Counting, shapes colour and number recognition. Weather, days of the week, months of the year. Praise and worship, Nursery Rhymes.
Short Break time
9:00 – 9:15
Routine lesson
9:15 – 9:45
Toilet Routine. Theme discussion. Numeracy/ Fine motor/ Gross motor activity
Snack time
09:45 – 10:00
Our school has a peanut free policy. Children begin snack (sandwich, fruit and water) with hand washing and participate in serving and clean-up.
Break time
10:00 – 11:00
Supervised active play time to give children a chance to rest and unwind, and to stay healthy and alert during the afternoon.
Quiet time
11:00 – 11:20
Toilet routine and quiet time for reflection.
Letterland
11:20 – 11:30
Letterland and toilet routine.
Arts and Crafts
11:20 – 11:30
Children participate in active, educational arts and crafts activity and toilet routine.
Lunch time & home time
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch time followed by home time.
FAQ
Concepts covered in the
Gr000 school year
Concepts covered in the Gr000 school year include amongst others Numeracy, Language, Perceptual, Gross and Fine Motor Skills.
Generally, children in Gr000 are 3 turning 4 during the course of the year that they are in Gr000. The Syllabus is geared towards age appropriate developmental milestones of a child turning 4 years old, bearing in mind that there is a vast difference developmentally between a child who celebrates his/her birthday in January and February and a child turning 4 towards the end of the year.
New concepts and skills are taught in a concrete manner, using physical items to demonstrate and illustrate the concept to the child. Concepts are repeated in various forms and activities to provide the child with various learning styles to grasp and understand the concept taught. A lot of the learning is incidental through play and social interacting with their peer-group, for example using movement and song to learn numbers and shapes.
We use Letterland as a tool to teach the phonetic alphabet. Children in Gr000 are taught to recognize the sound and name of the Letterland character. Through the stories, they learn to recognize words that start with the same sound.
Generally, children in Gr000 are 3 turning 4 during the course of the year that they are in Gr000. The Syllabus is geared towards age appropriate developmental milestones of a child turning 4 years old, bearing in mind that there is a vast difference developmentally between a child who celebrates his/her birthday in January and February and a child turning 4 towards the end of the year.
New concepts and skills are taught in a concrete manner, using physical items to demonstrate and illustrate the concept to the child. Concepts are repeated in various forms and activities to provide the child with various learning styles to grasp and understand the concept taught. A lot of the learning is incidental through play and social interacting with their peer-group, for example using movement and song to learn numbers and shapes.
We use Letterland as a tool to teach the phonetic alphabet. Children in Gr000 are taught to recognize the sound and name of the Letterland character. Through the stories, they learn to recognize words that start with the same sound.