Mathematical Activities

MATHEMATICAL ACTIVITIES

• Skills at the end of nursery school
• Shapes and sizes
• To be able to:
  draw a circle, a square, a triangle
• Classify solids (sorting exercises)
• Identify geometric shapes
• Differentiate and classify objects according to their shape
• Classify and name simple shapes
• Reproduce a circle, a square and a triangle freehand.
• Draw (trace) a circle, a square and a triangle.
• Compare objects according to their size, mass, content.

Compare quantities

• Compare two collections (a lot, not a lot)
• Distribute by making a term to term comparison
• Build collections of up to 15.
• Compare small quantities with each other: more than, less than, as much as
• Recognize curated collections of up to 15
• Arrange collections according to the number of objects (larger, smaller than another).
• Solve problems: complete, share, distribute, increase, decrease

Solve problems relating to quantities

• Make a share
• Use enumeration to create an equipotent collection
• Add/remove
• Combine two collections (up to 15)
• Find the complement plus or minus to 10.

Memorize the sequence of numbers at least up to 50.

• Know how to count and recognize numbers up to 50 (using number nursery rhymes).
• Count a quantity using counting or another procedure
• Count up to 50 in ritual or game situations

Associate the names of known numbers with their cipher writing

• Read numbers written in digits
• Begin to distinguish the writing of numbers and figures from other written signs
• Trace numbers.
• Associate the numerical writing of numbers up to 50.

Discover matter and objects

• Recognize, name, describe, compare, classify and arrange materials and objects according to their qualities and uses.
• Explore the world of objects
• Properties of objects or substances
• The use of materials, the rejection of waste
• Water and its different forms (snow, ice, steam)
• Become aware of air and light.
• Devices that run on electricity
• Introduction to making objects
• Technical gestures to know.

Discover life and the environment

• To be able to know the manifestations of animal and plant life, link them to major functions
• The birth of animals (the young and their parents).
• The movement of animals.
• Food
• Discovery of different living environments
• Plant life throughout the seasons
• Observation of a garden at school
• The discovery of seeds.
• Name the different parts of the human body and their function, distinguish the five senses and their function, know and apply some rules of hygiene of the body, premises, and food.
• Know the world (The world of sounds, the world of smells and flavors, discover through touch, sight,)
• See the world differently (observation)
• Eat to grow
• Similarities and differences between people (girl, boy, slender, short, light, dark, hair, eye colors, cultures and people)
• Identify a danger and take it into account
• Road safety
• Report an accident, first aid actions
• Home security
• To situate in the time
  To be able to :
• Use benchmarks during the day, week and year.
• Identify identical moments from one day to the next
• Identify the sequence of moments of the morning
• Take note of the days of the week (school, not school and the name of the days)
• Identify the sequence of times of the day
• Take notes on the months (with important events: outings, birthdays, etc.)
• Take an overview of the year: past months, upcoming months, seasons, etc.
   Place yourself in the events one after the other.
• locate the moments of the day, week, month, one after the other using photos and/or images.
• Understand and use wisely the vocabulary of identification and relationships over time
• Express the opposition past, present: lexicon, conjugation, connectors, etc.
• Locate oneself in space and locate objects by contribution to oneself
• Find your way around the class and the school
• Create fittings and small puzzles
• Follow a materially organized route, start using spatial indicators: above, below, next to
• Understand one’s position in relation to objects and the position of objects between them.
• Name these positions
• Describe relative positions from photos using
  spatial indicators
• Describe a route using spatial indicators.
• Find your way within the space of a page
• Represent the organization in space of a limited set of objects
• Play board games involving an oriented course,
• Play board games involving movement
• Understand and use judiciously the vocabulary of location and relationships in space.
• Begin to learn and understand one’s position in relation to objects and that of objects between them.
• Start naming these positions.
• Describe relative positions from photos, using spatial indicators.
• Describe a route using spatial indicators.

At Two Wings International School, we strive to combine learning throughout your child’s school day with experiences that challenge their imagination and intellect. Your child’s play experience will include:

• Basic learning programs, “designed on the Cambridge Early Age Curriculum” model.
• Targeted free games.
• Daily creative arts and crafts projects.
• Guided reading – global recognition of repetitive words, discovery of tool words, reading images, reading simple words seen in the reading booklet, answering comprehension questions, etc.
• The story: Listen and react to a story you hear, tell a story you hear, create your own story and tell it, tell a lived experience, read images to invent a story and tell it…
• Visiting the library: free reading, choosing your own preferred literature, learning activities around the books read, etc.
• Music and movements.
• Sensory activities.
• Development of fine and gross motor skills through learning to swim and exercises in the sandbox, manipulation and surrounding movements organized during outdoor games, using tools promoting the development of gross motor skills.
• Daily outdoor games – free during recess,
• Role plays and occasional special guests (dental hygienist, firefighter, musician, etc.).