Early Years Plus Discovery - Semester 1

In this part of the course, the children will learn: 

• Greetings: Hello! Good-bye! How are you?
• Feelings: happy, sad, angry, sleepy, scared
• Basic classroom language: stand-up, sit down, come over here, sit in a circle, look, listen, touch …, let’s play
• Routines: put… in the bin, tidy-up/ clean up, wash (your hands)
• Actions: clap your hands, run, jump, shake your…, open, close.
• Art: paintbrush, picture, scissors, cut, paint, paper, glue, decorate, press, paint pot, painting, mixing
• Colours: red, yellow, orange, green, blue, pink, purple, white, black.
• Numbers: 1-10
• Shapes: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, heart, diamond
• Transport: car, truck, train, plane
• Animals: sheep/ lamb, cat, owl, duck, badger, hedgehog, pig, goat, caterpillar, fox, pelican, dog
• Parts of the body: head, eyes, mouth, nose, ears, face, arms, legs

• Say hello/ goodbye to your toys and ask them: how are you? 
• Ask your toys: how are you feeling?
• Pain happy/ sad etc. faces or make them out of plasticine. Say how they are feeling.
• Paint feelings ( what colour is happiness/ sadness/ anger etc. ?)
• Talk in Romanina about what makes you feel happy/ sad etc. 
• Tell your child: Simon says jump etc. Your child should do the movement.
• Play Copy me, mirror me! Do a movement and say the word. Encourage your child to copy you. When your child is confident with the words, say an action but do a different one. Your child should do the movement you say, not the one you do. 
• Touch things around the house and ask: is it (red) or (blue)?
• Count to 10 with fingers, toys, pencils etc.
• Put toys of different colours in a bag. Encourage the child to put their hand in the bag, take out a toy and say what colour it is. 
• Play Find something blue.
• Cut shapes with scissors and say the words.
• Paint with shapes ( dip plastic or wooden shapes in paint and leave prints on paper). Say the words. 
• Make cars, trains, planes etc out of shapes and say the words.
• Make cars, trains, planes etc out of plasticine and say the words.
• Hide around the house transport toys and shapes , and direct your child to find them by saying hot when the child is next to the item, warm when they are near, and cold when they're moving away.
• Talk about animals, say the word in English, then talk about what parts of the body they have.
• Make plasticine animals and say what parts of the body they have.
• Play Simon Says... ( Simon says touch your head etc)
• Put toy animals in a bag and encourage your child to put their hand in and feel the animals. Without looking, can they guess what the animal is, and say the word in English?
• Paint with plastic animals, and talk about the prints various animals leave, and how they are different (in Romanian)

• Hello, how are you?
• If you're happy
• Can you make a happy face?
• Make a circle
• Can you clap your hands?
• Red, yellow, green, blue song
• I see something blue
• I see something pink
• 7 steps
• One potato, two potatoes
• The shape song 1
• The shape song 2
• 10 little airplanes
• Touch your head
• Shake, shake
• Eyes, nose, mouth, ears