Kindergarten Themes
September
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Back To School | To give children safe feeling of school environment. For a first fewdays, they will be taken for school tour to be familiar with school lay –out.They will get familiar with class/subject teachers by getting involved indifferent fun filled activities which will help both the parties to bond andsettle down for proper classes. | art & craft, music & songs, games and outdoor | Class Party |
Me, Myself and I | To make children recognize about themselves in the sense of gender, age, likes and dislikes, nature and habits. | art & craft, music & songs, games and outdoor | Snack Day |
My Body | The children will know the names of different body parts and theirfunctions. | art & craft, games and outdoor, circle time, music & songs |
October
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Senses | The children will learn about the five senses and their uses. | art & craft, songs & music, games and outdoor | Science Experiment |
Colors | To make them recognize colors around them. they will see that everything that is created by the God has color in it to makeit look beautiful. | art & craft, music & songs, games and outdoor, experiment with primarycolors. | Color Week |
Manners | Is to teach children proper manners inside the home and school andoutside in public areas. They will be taught that proper manners makes one agood and successful person. | art & craft, music & songs | Day – Out |
November
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Family | To teach children the importance of family and family values. Theywill know that each family member has an important role to play. | art & craft, music & songs, gamesand outdoor | Project(Family Tree) |
Friendship | To teach children that friendship is one of the most importantrelationships in human life. They will learn that in friendship, one shouldalways understand the other and always should share and care for each other. | art & craft, music & songs, games and outdoor | Friendship Day |
Community Helpers | To make children aware that a society is made up of different communityhelpers who always help us in our everyday life forour comfort and we must respect them for making our life easy. | art and craft, music & song, science centre | Visit to a community centre |
Foods | The children will know about the importance of food for a human bodyand about the foods that are healthy/unhealthy forour body. | art & craft, games and outdoor, circle time, music & songs | Fruit Salad Day |
Farms | To give information that a farm is a place where different domesticanimals are kept or where fruits and vegetables are grown and we get our daily supply of foodsfrom these farms. | art & craft, dramatic play, games, music& songs, sciencecentre | Visit to a farm |
December
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Seasons | To teach children about four seasons and how they vary from each otherand the way one season is followed by another. | art & craft, songs & music, science centre | Slide – Show |
Weather | To make children aware of everyday weather and the change in weatheraccording to different season. | art & craft, music & songs, games and outdoor, science centre | Visit to a public garden |
Clothes and Shoes | The children will learn the importance of different clothes worn indifferent season | art & craft, music & songs, dramatic play, games | Colored Clothes Day |
January
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Months | To teach children names of twelve months and to teach each season havefour months. | art & craft, music & songs, science centre | |
Hospital | To give information that sick people are kept in a hospital and aretaken care of by the doctors and nurses | art & craft, music & songs, snacks | Visit to a hospital |
Dental | To make the children aware of the importance of teeth, to teach themthe way of keeping ones teeth in a good condition and what causes teethdecay. | art and craft, music & song, games & outdoor, science centre | Dental Check – up |
Transportation | To provide the children with the information that there are differentmeans of transportation by which they can travel from one place to another. | art & craft, dramatic play, math centre, music & songs |
February
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Camping | To give information that camping is one of the favorite pass time of people around the world. That in Bahrain,people camp in desert and have fun. | art & craft, songs & music, dramatic play, games | Project |
Garden | To make children understand that a garden is a place where grown upsrelax and the children have fun playing games. That gardens have rules that we must follow. | Art & craft, music & songs, math & science centre | Visit to a garden |
Flowers | To teach children that flowers are one of the most beautiful creationsof the God and we must take care of them. | Art & craft, music & songs, circle time, science centre | Display of pot flowers. |
March
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Zoo | To inform children that a zoo is a place where different animals(especially wild ones) are kept for the people to visit and know about them. To inform children that zoos have their rules that one must followwhen visiting a zoo. | art & craft, music & songs, dramatic play, games, math centre | Visit to a zoo |
Dinosaur | To give information on extinct animals. That differenttypes of dinosaurs lived on earth thousands of years ago. | art & craft, music & songs, games, science centre | Slide Show |
Birds | To teach children that the life of every living being is important andwe must have compassion for it and take care. | art and craft, music & song | Display of birds in cages |
Bugs | To give information on bugs. Their interesting features, colors andthe food they eat | art & craft, music & songs, games, science centre | Caterpillar Project |
April
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Beach and Ocean | The children will learn about the ocean life, water activities andhaving fun on the beach. | art & craft, songs & music, dramatic play, games, sciencecentre | Visit to a beach |
Ocean Life | The children will have knowledge of creatures that live in ocean. | art & craft, games, music and songs | |
Penguins | To inform children that some parts of the earth are always coveredwith ice and life exist in such places. | art & craft, games, music and songs, science centre | Slide Show |
Marine Animals(Fish) | To give children the insight of Marine Animals such as fish | art & craft, games, music and songs, science centre | Display of aquarium for observation |
May
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Fire – Safety | To teach children the usefulness of fire and the dangers from it. Toteach them precautions and rules in case of fire. | art & craft, music & songs, games | Visit to Fire Station |
Parachute | To teach children the importance of parachute where is it used? Whenis it use and why is it used? | art & craft, music & songs, games and outdoor | Slide Show |
Pets | To inform children that people keep birds and animals as pets. Thatthey have been keeping pets for a long time. Those pets are kept as companions.That a pet can be small or big. | art and craft, music & song, math centre, games | Display of different types of pets |
Pajama Day | To give break to the children from their routine school life and havesomething exciting and fun. | art & craft, games and outdoor, circle time, music & songs | Class Party |
June
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Graduation | To give children a feeling of achievement and self esteem. To makethem aware that they and their work are important to elders. | art & craft, songs & music, bulletin board | Graduation Party |
Hat | To give information on the importance of hats. How does it protect youand the occasions of wearing hats. | Art & craft, circle time, games, math centre, music & song | Hat day |
July
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | |||||||||
2 | Back to School | ||||||||
3 | Blue | Eid Al Adha |
Coloring | Observe Nature | Welcome to Kindergarten | Teacher | Memory Game | ||
4 | Palestine | Sun Craft | Comparing Activity- 8 | The big Yellow Bus | The Lion & The Mouse |
October
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Myself | Orange | Fun Day | Clay Modeling | Tools Exp. p. 9 | Little Elephant | The Ant And the Bird | Baker | Worksheet About “Myself” |
2 | FamilyandNeighbors | FamilyDay | CrazyCat Design | IdentifyingLiving andNon LivingThings | FiveLittleDucks | Family Tree Making | |||
3 | FriendshipWeek | Hand Printing | Wake up Taste Buds | Peanut Butter &Jelly | The Good Sama-ritan | Friendship Soup/Friendship Band | |||
4 | Health | Health Day | Coloring | Soft/hard Texture | Off We Go | Coloring Competition |
November
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Supermarket in School | Yellow | Peace Day | Hand Printing | Magic Egg | Pinocchio | Vendor | Visit to Super-market | |
2 | Paper Animals | Activity:Paper Designing | Ten cats have hats | An Arrogant Mouse | Salad Making | ||||
3 | Hajj | Making Building | How ice changes to water | All to build a snowman | Making Jelly | ||||
4 | My Body / Senses | Collage | Activity : Breakfast on paper plate | Snow White &the 7 Dwarfs | Doctor | Macaroni Day |
December
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | My Country | Red & White | National Day | Coloring Bahrain Flag | Coloring Mixture | Splash In the Ocean | The Fisherman and the Talking Fish | Moazen | Fancy Dress Competition |
2 | Transportation | Eid Celebration | Paint with Potato | Activity :Sticking Soft-hard Textures | The beautiful House in the forest |
January
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Spring & Flowers | Green | Tree Day | Drawing Shapes with coins | Making Bubbles | Spring Here | The dog and the Bone | Gardener | Collage Making |
2 | Gardens | Making Mat | Sticking Colored Paper | Does a Kangaroo have a mother too | The Ugly Duckling | Pizza Day | |||
3 | Palm Tree & Camping | Brown | Making a Tree | Testing and pull | A Birthday Basket for Tina | Three Little Kittens | Potter | Making Vegetable Salad |
February
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Wild Animals & domestic animal | Pink | Health Day | Paper Folding | Bubble Making | In between | The Fox and the Grapes | Traffic Police | Mask Making |
2 | Cutting And Sticking | Traffic | The Little Red Riding Hood | The Happy Balloons |
March
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Little Chefs Day | Purple | English & Arabic Day | A cloth puppet | Activity: Solid, Liquid & Gas | Communities | Cinderella | Nurse | Cake Decoration |
2 | Craft Tree | Egg Sticking | Warthogs In the Kitchen | The monkey and the Turtle | |||||
3 | Summer | Scenery Drawing | Magnetic And Magnetic | Fruit Salad Making | |||||
4 | Card Making | Observing how seeds will grow into a new | Look Closer | Barty,the Brave Lamb |
April
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Fire Safety | SilverandGold | Making a book | The sun can changepaper | Mice Squeak,We speak | The big badWolf | Fireman | PopcornDay | |
2 | Beach | SpringDay | WaterScenery | Sink orFloat | The Shapes of Things | Thumbelina | |||
3 | PaperBoat | From Anne to Zach | NoodlesDay | ||||||
4 | Up inthe Sky | Paintingthe sun(p. 209) | ObservingDay andNight | HanzelAndGretel |
May
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Weather | RainbowColors | FunDay | ASpecialDay( p. 175) | WatchingtheWeather | I ReadSign | SleepingBeauty | Pilot | FilmViewing |
2 | Spring | A Bookof Seasons | MeasuringWarmAnd Cold | PeopleWorking | AnnualDayPrepa-ration |
September
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | |||||||||
2 | BacktoSchool | Coloring | KindergartenWelcomesYou | Teacher | Game :Train | ||||
3 | Blue | BodyTracing | ColorMixtures | The GoodSamaritan | |||||
4 |
October
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Myself | Orange | Fun Day | HandStamping | NatureWalk | I ReadSigns | AnArrogantMouse | Baker | Coloring”Myself” |
2 | FamilyandNeighbors | Family Day | Pasting | TastingParty | PeanutButterJelly | Pinocchio | FamilyFrame | ||
3 | FriendshipWeek | HandPrinting | Soft/hardTexture | Ten cats havehats | Cinderella | FriendshipSoup /Friendship Band | |||
4 | Health | HealthDay | StickingAndPasting | SoundAround Us | A BirthdayBasket for Tia | The VanishedDreams | ColoringCompetition |
November
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Supermarketin School | Yellow | PeaceDay | PaperFolding | MagicEgg | The BigYellowBus | The fisherman and theTalking fish | Vendor | Visit toSuper-market |
2 | AnimalMobile | Clay Making | PeopleWorking | Thumbelina | SaladMaking | ||||
3 | Hajj | Collage | Moo, mooBrown Cow | The dogand the Bone | Making Jelly | ||||
4 | My Body /Senses | Painting | The UglyDuckling | Doctor | Macaroni Day |
December
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | MyCountry | Red &White | NationalDay | ColoringBahrainFlag | SugarDissolveIn water | The Shapedof Things | The RunAwayPrincess | Moazen | Fancy DressCompe-tition |
2 | Transportation | EidCelebration | StickingAndHanging | JellyMaking | Off weGo | The monkeyand the turtle | Goldilocks |
January
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Spring&Flowers | Green | TreeDay | LeavesSticking | Sink /Float | SpringHere | SleepingBeauty | Gardener | CollageMaking |
2 | Gardens | FlowerFolding | SeedPlanting | WalkingJungle | Little RedRidingHood | PizzaDay | |||
3 | Palm Tree &Camping | Brown | FreeHandDrawing | The Small Finger | Potter | MakingVegetableSalad | |||
4 | Four Seasons | Coloring | MagneticAnd NonMagnetic | Traffic | HanzelAndGretel | Visit to aPottery |
February
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Wild Animals& domestic animal | Pink | HealthDay | PaperFolding | Activity: MakingIceCream | In between | The Foxand theGrapes | TrafficPolice | MaskMaking |
2 | CuttingAndSticking | SleepingBeauty |
March
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | LittleChefsDay | Purple | English& ArabicDay | PushAnd Pull | Communities | Cinderella | Nurse | CakeDecoration | |
2 | StickingSequence | The dogandthe bone | |||||||
3 | Summer | SceneryDrawing | MakingVolcano | The monkeyAnd theCats | Fruit SaladMaking | ||||
4 | CardMaking | Warthogs inthekitchen | Barty, theBrave Lamb |
April
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Fire Safety | SilverandGold | Painting | How icechangesinto water | Mice Squeak,We speak | The big badWolf | Fireman | PopcornDay | |
2 | Beach | SpringDay | FreeHand Drawing | ||||||
3 | PaperBoat | ||||||||
4 | Up inthe Sky | KiteMaking | MyShadow | LookCloser | TheSweetieBee |
May
Week | Themes | Color | Days | Art Club | Science Club | Reading Club | Drama Club | Helpers | Contests and Activities |
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1 | Weather | RainbowColors | FunDay | Painting | WatchingtheWeather | Pinocchio | Pilot | FilmViewing | |
2 | Spring | A Bookof Seasons | MeasuringWarmAnd Cold | FromAnne toZach | AnnualDayPreparation |
Primary Themes
September
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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The Things People Do | Society—Know that people have individual characteristics and that this includes work and leisure patterns | Research activity | Visit to souq |
History—Be able to identify the difference in roles and employment between own lives and those of people who have lived in the past roles in | Recording Activity | Snack Day | |
ICT—Know about some of the applications of ICT in everyday life | Extension Activity |
October
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Flowers & Insects | Science – Know about the basic conditions needed for flowers and insects to survive | Research activity | Science Experiment |
Art – Be able to use a variety of materials and processes to represent flowers and insects in art forms | Classifying by characteristics and habitats. | Project | |
International – Know about some of the similarities and differences of common flowers and insects in the different home countries and in the host country | Extension and recording activity | Day – Out |
November
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Fashion & Clothing | To help the children learn the subject knowledge, skills and understandings they need to become aware of the world around them | art & craft, songs & music, science centre | Visit to Shopping Mall |
Art—Be able to use painting and computer generated art as a means of self expression. | Research and recording activity | Project | |
Science—Be able to carry out simple investigations with colors. | Home science class | ||
International—Be able to design and make cycling clothes to meet their requirements | Extension activity |
December
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Celebration | History—Know about celebrations that have taken place in their own lives and in past | Research activity | Bahrain Museum |
Technology—Be able to plan for a celebration in pictures and words and plan and select certain aspects of the celebration such as food, decorations, headgear, etc. | Recording activity | Project | |
Art—Be able to express their own ideas about celebrations in images. | dramatic play, games | National day celebration |
January
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Seasons & Health Care | To teach children the names of seasons and to teach each season have four months. | Games Projects | Projects |
To give information that sick people are kept in a hospital and are taken care of by the doctors and nurses | Journal | Visit to a hospital | |
To teach children how to take care of their health in each season. | Story | Dental Check – up |
February
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Significant People | Art—Use the work of some significant artists to influence their own ideas, creativity and self-expression | Diary writing | Project |
History—know what happened as a result of their actions and what changes they brought about | Acting | Visit to Majlis | |
ICT—Be able to use ICT to research and use stored information about significant people | Research Activity |
March
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Young/Old | Art—Be able to use art as a means to express their views on childhood and old age | Acting | Visit to Al Manar |
History—Know about the main similarities and differences regarding the lives of children and older people in their host and home countries in the past | Recording | Drama | |
Science—Be able to gather information from simple texts about life changes | Research | Journal |
April
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Day/Night | Art—Be able to use a variety of materials and processes when working with day and night | Drawing | Visit to Science Youth Centre |
Geography—Be able to use maps and globes at a variety of scales to locate countries. | Research activity | ||
Science—Be able, with help, to conduct simple investigations about light and dark. | Research activity | Slide Show |
May
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Our World The Environment | Geography—Know about the main physical and human features of school locality. | Recycling | Visit to Beach |
Science—Understand that different environments support different living things. | Cleaning | Project | |
Technology—Know that products in everyday use have an effect on people’s lives and the environment in which we live | Journal |
June
Theme Topic | Aims | Activities | Extra Curricular Activities |
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Holidays | Geography—Know about the weather in some of their holiday destinations | bulletin board | Graduation Party |
History—Know about their own holiday events from past. | Make a brochure | Visit to Travel Agent |