🐨 Level 1 - Cuddly Koala

Age Group: 3 – 3.5 years
Theme: The first step

🔤 Early Literacy

Vocabulary building through themes, story time, songs, rhymes and name recognition. Develops listening, turn-taking, and question-answering skills. Encourages picture comprehension and helps children express emotions, ideas, and preferences confidently. Introduces sequencing, riddles, opposites, and prepositions.

🗣️ Language, Expression & Imitation

Engages children in circle time, picture talk, rhymes, oral reasoning (“What’s wrong?”), puppet shows, and storytelling through daily experiences. Includes different sounds and movements to support expression. Develops confidence to perform, present, and role-play. Encourages creativity and individual expression while building aesthetic appreciation for colours, shapes, and symmetry.

🧮 Math Readiness

Introduces numbers 1 to 10, tracing numbers, and value-based counting using real objects like fruits, cookies, and animals. Identifies basic shapes and their friends. Understands spatial concepts and directions such as left/right and first/last. Applies logic to compare, match, sort, and classify. Develops early problem-solving skills through puzzles and sequencing activities.

💡💡 Discovery

Thematic learning about familiar environments such as My Body, My Home, Garden, Playground, Insects, Birds, Pets, Transport, Fruits & Vegetables, Seasons, and Community Helpers—focusing on recognition, usage, and observation. Children begin to understand basic safety and health practices. Encourages recognition and recall of factual knowledge across themes, while identifying plant and animal life, habitats, and simple life cycles. Builds environmental awareness and scientific thinking through direct exploration of nature. Helps children connect personal experiences with their natural and social surroundings.

🧠 Cognitive Development

Engages in matching and classification activities (same/different), and learns opposites (hot/cold, day/night). Builds understanding of object-function relationships through "What goes together" games. Strengthens thinking skills through picture sequences, memory games, simple logic puzzles like “What’s missing?”, and oral reasoning with “What’s odd?” and riddles. Begins scientific thinking through hands-on experiments like float/sink and sink/pour.

🎨 Creativity & Fine Motor Skills

Builds pincer grasp, pencil grip, hand-eye coordination, and muscle strength through activities such as drawing, colouring, beading, crumpling, play-doh, puzzles, clothespins, stacking, sticking, lacing, and using tweezers. Refines precision, control, and bilateral hand use. Integrates imagination with structured artistic output.

🧘 Movement & Gross Motor Skills

Develops coordination, strength, and balance through a variety of activities such as ball play, yoga (animal poses), jumping in and out of circles, action rhymes, line walking, sand play, obstacle courses, and movement-based storytelling. Encourages body awareness and builds confidence in movement.

🤝 Social-Emotional Development

Develops memory, focus, and turn-taking abilities through circle time, memory games, puppet shows, group activities, storytelling, cooperative play, and birthday celebrations. Recognises and names feelings and emotions through guided discussions and expressive activities. Builds a sense of identity through self-introduction (“What’s your name?”, “Which school do you go to?”). Prepares children for emotional readiness, self-regulation, and smooth social adjustment in formal schooling.