Kindergarten

General Curriculum of Kindergarten

Our dedicated curriculum team has created our own original program, complete to help children with their first steps towards literacy. We also have a detailed Sight Words program. These complementary programs help us to maintain the confidence that our students will graduate with stronger literacy skills than other students within the same age group.

In addition to our excellent original Numeracy program, we also run month-long integrated curriculum programs. This curriculum allows children to learn in a hands-on way, through practical experiments, creative arts, and literature.

NUMBERS AND LOGICS

Our NUMBERS AND LOGICS Curriculum uses a lot of concepts and teaching techniques for Math. We teach content including numbers, calculations, measurement (including reading the time and measures), patterns, sorting, chance and data, and spatial sense.

We also recognize the importance of following up on children's responses to provoke mathematical thinking. For example asking children to describe and explain their thinking helps them to clarify their own ideas, logics and gives us insight into their current understandings.

Numbers and logics work is always supplemented by visual aids, and by using concrete materials. We understand the importance of giving children a solid foundation in math, so we make sure each concept is clear and enjoyable by including a lot of games and activities to aid in the learning process.

LANGUAGE

Our Literacy program has been developed by professional of Innovative BoGs and  teaching staff. We believe that by introducing components of reading and writing through games and songs, that children can develop skills and confidence at an early age.

Our program is based on two key components, synthetic phonics and sight words.

READING SKILLS

Our Innovative Schooling focuses on reading and  listening skills Sight Words list is compiled after a careful study of two existing lists: The Dolch List (which catalogues the most commonly occurring words in children's literature) and the Fry List (which referenced all branches of English literature). This research is then combined with our years of teaching experience to assemble the Kindergarten List. In our list, certain words have been coupled together, e.g. 'these' and 'those', 'when' and 'if' to help children to compare and contrast the spelling and meaning of these words.

Social Skills

Our theme curriculum is designed to expose children to a wide range of concepts and vocabulary. They are designed to feature many social studies and science based content. We start from the familiar, and over their years at INNOVATIVE SCHOOLING we build upon previous knowledge to increase the children’s knowledge and understandings. Few basic concepts of life as water, human body, blood, sun moon space

The main goals of our theme curriculum are:

■ To learn through teacher-led play and real experiences

■ To expose children to a wide range of concepts and vocabulary

■ To make predictions and hypothesis, to research and experiment

In the teaching of both sets of skills we use encouragement and positive reinforcement to help guide the children. Both social skills and life skills are an integral part of the educational experience so we take opportunities to refine these skills in real situations as they are presented, and also give the children a range of opportunities to apply their skills.

Ethics and Religion Education

Nobody denies the importance of Islamiat; rather, it is key to social transformation. It is a base for building strong ethical and civic foundations for individuals alongside a healthy, progressive society. At Innovative Schooling we aim at promoting emotional, social and intellectual development through Islamic perspectives.

True and honest teaching of Islamiat at early year to can change an ordinary person into a better human being and subsequently create a peaceful society. However, this depends upon well-trained, well-versed and well-equipped subject teachers with a passionate sense of creating a God-fearing society. The subject’s contents and pedagogy is designed according to need of our national requirements.