Social Habits Scheme of Work for Nursery 1 Lagos State

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SCHEME OF WORK SOCIAL HABITS NURSERY ONE FIRST TERM (AGE 3)

Week 1

TOPIC

MYSELF

Learning objective

  • By the end of the lesson,
  •  
  • The pupils are expected to talk about self (say) their names.
  • Mention at least three names of their mates
  • Identify themselves as a boy or girl 

Learning Activities

  • The pupils are taught to mention their names and at least three other

pupils in the class.

Pupils recognize self as a boy or girl.

Activity 1

  • The teacher point to herself with a rhyming tone. she says her name.
  • The pupils are expected to response by repeating what the teacher did and tell their names.
  • Example

My name is Miss Tolu

Activity 2

  • The teacher ensures that the pupils sit calmly.
  • she shows them pictures of boys and girls.
  • She also clarifies her teaching by separating the boys from the girls for
  •  easy identification.

 Examples

My name is Emmanuel

I am a boy

My name is Blessing

I am a girl

Embedded Core Skills

Core-skills

  • Communication
  • Digital
  • Literacy and imagination

Number Benefits

  • Give the children the opportunity to imitate numbers of extended activities and taking of turns

Literacy

  • Benefits of children in identifying and speaking skills

Rhymes

  • Song and rhymes

My name, my name

My name

My name is Sola

I am in Nur. 1

Pamuel (2x)

Learning Resources

Instructional materials

  • Pictures
  • Birth certificate 
  • Should be provided
  • From the school
  • Calendar
  • Songs and rhymes

Week 2

Topic

MYSELF CONTINUE

Learning objective

  • The pupil are expected to Recall previous contents on myself 
  • Talk more about myself by including their age
  • Tell their ages in time

Learning Activities

  • The pupils are assembled for circle time
  • The teacher sings, days of the week rhymes with the pupils
  •  The  pupils express themselves with good intonation e.g my name is  _ _ _
  •  I am a _ _ _
  • The teacher tells them his/her age jokingly.
  • The teacher teaches them their ages (Using the information provided by the parents).

Learning Resources

WEEK 3

TOPIC

MY FAMILY

Examples

I am three years old.

The teacher raises three fingers

  • The teacher arouses pupils interest with the story during other time.
  • The story centre on family
  • Pupil are motivated by the story they listening to
  • E.g the name of their family
  • My father is Mr. Johnson
  • My mother is ________
  • My brother is _______
  • My sister  is _________

Core Skills

  •  Communication
  • Digital
  • Literacy and imagination
  • Cross curricular
  • Link
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy benefits
  • Benefits
  • Give the children the opportunity to
  •  opportunity to repeat the activity and take turns
  • Movement
  • Benefits
  • Gross motor skills
  • Phonological awareness

Rhymes

  •    
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Literacy benefits
  • Stimulate pupil

Grammatical accuracy

  • Core skills
  • Communication
  • Creativity   

Learning Resources

Teacherpayteacher.com

Pictures of a family

  • Songs and rhymes
  • Role play

WEEK 4

Topic

MY SCHOOL

Learning objective

The pupil are expected to

  • Relate with the name of her school.
  • Discuss with the name the head of the school.
  • State some activities with the school.

Learning Activities

  • The teacher teaches them:

The name of their school

The name of the head of their school and activities done in the school

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication
  • Creativity  

Activity 1

  • The pupil are expected to be sitting in a circle to watch the teacher Instructions.
  • The name of my school head teacher is ___  

Learning Resources

Teacherpayteacher.com

Sight-seeing of the school environment

Week 5

Topic

GOOD MANNERS IN THE SCHOOL   

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to

  • Cultivate good manners in the school
  • Use their five magic words 

Learning Activities

  • The teacher teaches the pupils the rhymes on five magic words, greeting during circle time.

Embedded Core Skills

  • Communication
  • Digital literacy
  • Literacy benefits  
  •  Phonological awareness
  • rhymes

Learning Resources

Thirtyhandmade.com

Jademohgul.com

  • Charts and pictures
  •  
  • Play role
  • Pupils 1: how are you?
  • Pupil 2: I am fine thank you

Week 6

Topic

MID TERM BREAK

Week 7

Topic

SIMPLE GREETINGS

Learning objective

Pupils are expected to:

  • Greet at the proper time
  • Practice the habits of greetings people 

Learning Activities

  • Teacher arouses pupil’s interest by singing different rhymes on greetings.
  • Discuss simple meaning of greetings and leads the people through the basic greetings and appropriate response.

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Digital literacy
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Literacy benefits
  • It enable the pupils to develop fluency in speaking  phonological

Learning Resources

Activity 1

Pupils are taught to say

  • Good morning –in the morning
  • Good afternoon- in the afternoon
  • Good evening- in the evening
  • Good night – at night  

Activity 2

  • Pupils are motivated to
  • Greet their friends in a role Play, using the greeting items
  • Hi
  • Hello
  • Good morning
  • Good afternoon
  • Good evening
  • Good night

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Digital literacy
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Literacy benefits
  • It enable the pupils to develop

fluency in speaking  phonological

awareness

rhymes

Learning Resources

Week 8

Topic

APPRECIATION AND COURTESY

Learning objective

Pupils are expected

  • Discuss on appreciation
  • Apply the attitude of appreciation  and simple meaning of courtesy
  • Pupils are instructed to sing the five (5) magic words rhyme
  • Pupils are motivated on how to appreciate token of love and gift by saying thank you.

Activity 1

  • Appreciation is a feeling of being grateful
  • Courtesy means being polite

Activity 2

  • Pupils are encouraged to show courtesy to everyone at home at school and the environment by greeting welcome.

Pupils are to say sorry, excuse, my rhyme –coco melon 

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Digital literacy
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

Learning Resources

www.merriamwebstar.com

www.kids.net

Week 9

Topic

RESPECTING ELDERS

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to

  • Discuss the meaning of respect
  • Show respects to elders by greeting with courtesy

Learning Activities

  • Teacher explains to the pupils the simple meaning of respect.
  • Encourage children to show respects to elders e.g.  teachers, mothers, fathers, elderly ones –siblings and neigbours etc
  • Sing a song on ’Respect”

Learning Activities

  • Teacher explains to the pupils the simple meaning of respect.
  • Encourage children to show respects to elders e.g.  teachers, mothers, fathers, elderly ones –siblings and neigbours etc.
  • Sing a song on ’Respect”

Activity 1

  • Respect means showing honour for someone or something.

We show respect by listening,

Speaking with kind word,

Greeting with courtesy  

 Activity 2

  • Pupils are engaged in a role play on respect  

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Digital literacy
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Phonological awareness rhymes
  •  

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Digital literacy
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Phonological awareness rhymes

Learning Resources

www.yourdicionary.com

www.aconsciousrethimk.com

Week 10/11       

REVISION  

Week 11-12 –

EXAMINATION   

SCHEME OF WORK SOCIAL HABITS NURSERY ONE SECOND TERM (AGE 3)

Week 1

Topic

REVISION OF FIRST TERM WORK

Learning objective

——

Learning Activities

  • Teacher welcome pupil back to school
  • Teacher reverses the first term work   

Embedded Core Skills

           —–

Learning Resources

  • Learn during their circle time
  • Poster parts on good and that habits
  • Pictures and rhymes
  • Sharing and having turns time

Week 2

Topic

GOOD AND BAD HABITS

Learning objective

  • The pupils are expected to:
  • Identify bad habits
  • Differentiate by criticizing bad habits 

Learning Activities

  • Teacher create a scenario to explain meaning of good and bad habits
  • Teachers guide the pupils to mention good habits they practice.

 ACTIVITY 1
 – Bad habits are

– thumb and fingers sucking

– head banging head

– rolling

– teeth grinding……

– nail and nose picking

– hair pulling

  ACTIVITY 2

Pupils are taught to practice good habits.

Which are:

  •  Brush your teeth twice daily
  • Wash your hands before and after eating
  • Helps your friends
  • Keep your surrounding clean
  • Pupils mimic good habits in an interactive way.

Embedded Core Skills

  • Communication
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Digital literacy
  • Cross curricular Link

Literacy

Science

Number work

  • Number benefits
  • Give the children the opportunity to initiate number of extended activities and taking of turns  

Learning Resources

www.mottchildren.org

https://youtube.com

Posters or charts

Good and bad habits

Pictures and rhymes

Sharing and taking turns

Timer

WK3

HELPING ONE ANOTHER

The pupils are expected to:

  • Explains ways to help ourselves
  • Practice helping people starting with their mates
  • Keep their belonging safe

Learning objective

Teacher relate with them by telling them what to do at the right time.

Activity 1

  • Hand washing,
  • washing their plates and putting their chairs on the table

Activity 2

  • pupils practices how to keep their belongings
  • compose a rhymes on helping others

Embedded Core Skills

  • Communication
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Digital literacy

Learning Resources

Kidshealth.org

todayparents.com 

Charts and picture

Week 4

Topic

DRESSING HABIT

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to:

  • Dress
  • Properly  

Learning Activities

  • The pupils proper practice
  • Proper way  of dressing

Activity 1

  • Pupils are taught how to dress
  • properly

Embedded Core Skills

  • digital  literacy
  • collaboration and
  • communication
  • creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

  • group the pupils to make the class more interactive 
  • create a chart on dressings.

Week 5

Topic

TABLE MANNERS

Learning objective

Teacher relates with them by bringing and showing them real objects use when eating.

ACTIVITY 1

  • Pupil are pared into groups to identify the eating gadgets (spoon, knife, fork, plate napkin).
  • The pupils are corrected on their sitting posture while eating
  • The pupils are instructed by the teacher to always wash their hands before and after eating

Number Benefits

  • Give the children the opportunity of extended activities
  • Show them the real object used when eating.
  •  rhymes on table manners

Learning Resources

www.Emilypost.com

www.robinage.com

  • Show them the real object used when eating
  • rhymes on table manners

Week 6       MID TERM BREAK 

WKS 7

Topics

SPECIAL DAYS 

CHILDREN’S DAY

INDEPENDENCE DAY,

WORKERS DAY ETC

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to:

  • identify special days
  • indicate why those days are special
  • know their birthday

Learning Activities

  • Teacher explains
  • Teacher gives examples of special days

Activity 1

  • Some of the days on the Calendar are special because These are special celebrations or holidays
  •  

Examples of special days are:

October 1st –Independence

Your birthday

Activity 2

  • Make chart on Nigerian flag
  • (October 1st)
  • Nigeria celebrates her Independence on the 1st October,
  •  
  • recite the National Anthem
  • Arise O Compatriot
  • Nigeria call obey

Embedded Core Skills

  •  Communication
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Digital literacy
  • Cross-curricular

Numeracy

Literacy

Science benefits

  • Pupils are engaged in experimentation and purposeful day which guide her curiously and learning
  •  

Learning Resources

www.Atozkidstuff.com

www.anglomaniacy.pl/expression

  • Chart
  • make craft of the Nigerian flag  

Week 8

Topic

FRIENDSHIP

Learning objective

The pupil are expected to

  • Make new friends
  • State the Importance of friendship
  • The next person beside you is your friend”   

Learning Activities

  • Teacher explains the importance of friendship
  • pupil interact with their peers about their birthday and favourites

Activity

The person besides you is your Friend

You show love to your friends by:

Sharing

Caring

Celebrating

Comforting

Playing together

Circle time helps to relate well with the kids

Embedded Core Skills

  •  Communication and coordination
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Digital literacy

Learning Resources

www.chy.com

www.youtube.com/watch

  • Chart and real object
  • Play role
  • Cut out numbers with cardboard and paint

 9-10 -REVISION  

11-12 –EXAMINATIONS  

SCHEME OF WORK SOCIAL HABITS NURSERY ONE THIRD TERM (AGE 3)

Week 1

REVISION AND BACK TO SCHOOL

Teacher welcome the

  • Pupils backs to school
  • Teacher relate with them by asking them how they Spent the holiday.
  • Revision of 2nd terms work

Learning objective

  • Circle time, pupils sing songs,
  • Narrate how they spent the holiday  

Learning Activities

  • Create time pupils sing
  • Songs, narrate how the
  • holiday was spent

Embedded Core Skills

  • Teacher relates well and  pupils respond to their teacher’s commends  

Learning Resources

Revision

Week 2

Topic

RELIGION AND PLACE OF WORSHIP

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to:

  • mention the place of worship they have been to
  • pupils response to interactive class activities
  • teacher give simple meaning of religion  

Learning Activities

  • The teacher show them Pictures of place worshiping like church, mosque, shrine.

Sing songs which they sing in the church.   

  • Pupils sing song that are Sung in the mosque.
  • Note:Traditional songs is not what you sing anyhow.

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication
  • Creativity
  • Movement
  • Benefits
  • Gross motor Skills

Learning Resources

https://www.thesaurus.com

venuskidworld.youtube.com

shutterstock.com

Charts posters, pictures of worship like church, mosque, shrine  

Week 3

Topic

RELIGION AND PLACE OF WORSHIP CONTD

Learning objective

They are expected to:

  • Mention the activities done in the

Church

Mosque

Shrine

  • Identify items use in these places of worship

Learning Activities

Teacher explained that

People who worship in the church are called Christians

Those who worship in Mosque are called Muslims

Traditionalist do have a Shrine

Activity1

They watch video clip on how they worship in the Church and mosque  

Activity 2

Teacher explains the process of worship in the Traditional day 

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication and  Collaboration
  • Creativity and Imagination

– Cross curricular

Literacy   

Learning Resources

https://www.thesaurus.com

venuskidworld.youtube.com

shutterstock.com

  • Items used for prayers

Poster illustrating

Various harmful practices

  • Songs  

Week 4

Topic

CULTURE

Learning objective

The pupil are expected to

  • Explain in a simple term what

CULTURE is 

  • Identify the basic Culture in Nigeria

Learning Activities

  • Pupils are assembled together for circle time
  • Pupils sing songs, the greeting rhymes
  • Pupils display the content of culture of people

There are three basic Culture in Nigeria

  • Yoruba
  • Hausa
  • Igbo

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication
  • Coordination
  • Creativity

Learning Resources

www.simple.wikipedia.org

www.legit.com

http://www.everyculture.com

Chat on different culture

Week 5

Topic

CULTURE

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to:

  • Recite Meaning of  Culture
  • Exchange Pleasantries in the culture

Activity 1

  • Greeting Yoruba –Ekaro
  • Igbo- Keedu, Odima
  • Hausa-Sanu, laafia
  • Dance to different songs from different culture

Activity 2

Pupils are taught Dressing styles in different culture 

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication
  • Coordination
  • Creativity

Learning Resources

www.researchgate.net

http://www.everyculture.com

  • Charts and role play
  • Practical time

Week 6 – MID TERM BREAK

Week 7

Topic

PLACES TO RESPECT AND SYMBOLS

Learning objectives

The pupils are expected to:

  • Discuss simple meaning of Respect
  • Explain the National symbols that should be respected
  •  Encourage Pupils to show Respect to National Symbols at certain places

Learning Activity  

  • The teacher show them Pictures on important Places they need to know

E,g National Art theatre, General Hospital, police Station, National Museum, National Library, the courthouse etc.

  • Teacher guides the pupils to cut and paste Picture of important National symbols and places inside the notes.
  • Relate with pupils and  Mention activities that go on in these places 

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication and Coordination
  • Cross curricular

Literacy

Literacy benefit

Learning Resources

www.scarymommy.com

www.entreprenuer.com

www.parenting.forblan.com

  • Chart video clips

Songs that relate to Respect

Pictures/chart on National Anthem and Symbols  

Week 8

Topic

MY COUNTRY

Learning objective

The pupils are expected to:

  • Relate by Discussing The pledge
  • Recite the National  Identities e.g

National flag

National Anthem

And the pledge

  • Share ideas about their Country Nigeria  

Learning Activities

  • Pupils are taught the National anthem of their

Country

  • Pupil are taught how to Recite the pledge and
  • Demonstrate on how to Say the pledge    

Embedded Core Skills

  • Core skills
  • Communication and Coordination
  • Cross curricular

Literacy                                                  

Learning Resources

www.sciencekids.co.nz

www.kiddie.org

www.en.wikipedia.org

  • Picture of the National flag
  • Practical match of the National Flag
  • A white cardboard
  • A green marker pen to Paint the cardboard
  • Straw
  • Gum

9-10  – REVISION  

11-12 – EXAMINATIONS  

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