National Early Childhood Education Curriculum for Cognitive Development Ages 0 – 3 years.
Week 1
Topic: Mental Development
Performance Objectives – Parent/Caregiver: Should be able to:
1. Stimulate child with table top materials
2. Encourage verbal and non-verbal interaction.
3. Arouse child’s interest in objects and people in the environment
4. Give tasks that encourage thinking, problems solving, recalling and relating
5. Respond promptly to child’s cues and gestures.
Performance Objectives – Child: Should be able to: By 24 months:
1. Respond to table top materials
2. Name people domestic animals and objects in the environment.
3. Explore the environment.
4. Manipulate objects in the environment.
By 36 months
5. Sort colors, shapes and objects.
6. Count and recognize numbers 1 – 5.
Content:
1. Interaction with people, objects and environment.
2. Names of domestic animals (in the language of the immediate environment)
3. Problem solving activities:
• Thinking
• Recalling
• Relating
• Sorting
4. Recognition of c concrete concepts e numbers, forms, shapes, colors.
Activities – Parent/Caregiver:
1. Communicate with the child verbally and non-verbally.
2. Make child play with toys and people.
3. Provide a variety of toys, play materials and other learning objects.
4. Engage in play activities with the child e.g. dramatic play, role play etc.
5. Supervise the child’s exploration of the environment.
6. Encourage child to express thoughts and feelings.
7. Demonstrate concrete experiences in number work.
Activities – Child:
1. Play with objects e.g. toys
2. Responds to sound
3. Follow moving objects.
4. Grasp objects
5. Use verbal and non-verbal expressions.
6. Imitate behavior
7. Play with people objects and materials in the environment.
8. Stack objects, snap fingers and thumbs, pound, grasp string, pull apart toys and locally made play materials.
Caring/Learning Materials:
• Soft toys
• Picture books
• Picture
• Ball
• Plates
• Cups
• Chairs
• Tables
• Non-toxic containers
• Water
• Sand
• Clay
• Paper
• Boxes
• Musical Instrument
• Clothes
• Shoes
• Hats
• Calendars
• Sticks
• Stones
• Television
• Flowers
• Story books
• Building blocks
• Beaded strings.
Evaluation Guide:
Child
1. Identify objects.
2. Curious to explore the environment.
3. Respond to simple instructions like pull, push.
4. Use or repeat simple action verbs while playing.
5. Manipulate objects
6. Count objects.
Parent/Caregiver
1. Child stimulated
2. Conducive environment for learning opportunities provided.
Cognitive Development Curriculum
Week 2
Topic: Language Development
Performance Objectives – Parent/Caregiver: Should be able to:
1. Speak and play with child
2. Stimulate child with toys and other objects, to develop communication skills.
3. Read to the child
4. Stimulate child to respond to simple instruction in the language of the immediate environment.
5. Encourage child to talk to others.
Performance Objectives – Child: Should be able to:
1. Listen attentively when spoken to.
2. Communicate with others using words and gestures.
3. Interpret gestures and signs peculiar to the local environment.
4. Carry out simple instructions in the language of the immediate e.g. sit, go, come, no, yes.
5. Communicate in short meaningful sentences.
Content:
1. Verbal and non- verbal Communication skills:
• Listening
• Gestures
• Speaking
• Picture reading
• Scribbling
• Reading
2. Names of objects.
Activities – Parent/Caregiver:
1. Tell stories
2. Recite rhymes
3. Sing songs
4. Answer child’s questions.
5. Group children for games and play e.g. Ball Clapping, dancing, climbing etc.
6. Read story books to the child.
7. Talk with child about events such as festivals, birthday etc.
Activities – Child:
1. Listen and tell stories
2. Ask and answer questions
3. Recite rhymes and sing songs
4. Talk about events in the home and in the community e.g. new baby, birthday, festival etc.
5. Talk with others.
Caring/Learning Materials:
• Story books
• Rhymes/Song books
• Musical Instruments
• Crayons
• Pencils
• Papers
• Toys
• Blocks
• Sand and Water
• Telephone
• Radio
• Television
• Charts.
Evaluation Guide:
1. Use simple words, sing songs, recite rhymes.
2. Hold simple conversion with people around
3. Discuss and ask questions.
Parent/Caregiver
1. Child’s question remarks or statements answered correctly.
2. Better understanding of child developed.
3. Greeting pattern of children observed.
4. Simple instructions carried out rewarded.
Early Childhood Education Curriculum for Cognitive Development Ages 0 – 3 years
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