🐬 Level 4: Friendly Dolphin

Age Group: 4.5 – 5 years
Theme: Engaging and Exploring

🔤 Early Literacy

Children engage in alphabet sounds (A to Z), phonics, beginning sounds, rhyming words, shadow matching, and storytelling with picture sequences. These experiences build phonemic awareness, expand vocabulary, and strengthen comprehension. They encourage children to express ideas clearly and independently, while laying the foundation for reading and writing through letter-sound recognition and sequencing.

🗣️ Language, Expression & Imagination

Through picture talks, songs, storytelling, rhymes, discussions, and dramatics using costumes and props, children enhance their verbal fluency and creativity. These experiences nurture self-expression, improve vocabulary, and help children become comfortable sharing thoughts, emotions, and imaginative ideas with peers and adults.

🧮 Math Readiness

Children explore counting, addition, sequencing, matching sets, ordinal numbers, capacity, patterns, backward counting, comparing sizes, and number writing (1–10). These activities develop number sense, logical reasoning, and the ability to solve problems using real-life examples. Children gain assurance in using numbers and patterns to explore and make sense of their world.

💡 Discovery

Through thematic learning about the human body (senses, digestion, circulation), nature (life cycles of plants, bugs, birds), and the community (transport, farm life, doctors, firefighters, construction), children expand their general knowledge. They build curiosity, observe closely, and begin to think scientifically while connecting their personal experiences with the natural and social world around them.

🧠 Cognitive Development

Activities like identifying opposites, classifying objects, matching, solving “what’s wrong?” puzzles, riddles, picture sequences, and memory games promote higher-order thinking. Children improve their focus, reasoning, and decision-making skills while learning to approach challenges with clarity and thoughtfulness.

🎨 Creativity & Fine Motor Skills

Children refine fine motor skills and unleash creativity through drawing, tracing, beading, origami, dot-to-dot, playdough, cutting, lacing, stacking, and visual puzzles. These tasks strengthen hand-eye coordination and muscle control, supporting school-readiness and encouraging creative independence in art and daily activities.

🧘 Movement & Gross Motor Skills

Yoga (with animal and bird poses), line walking, ball play, hopscotch, and games like “Stretchy Says” build physical strength, balance, and control. These gross motor activities support body awareness, encourage movement-based expression, and foster physical self-assurance and joy in group play.

🏡 Theme-Based Exploration

Thematic units such as Birthday Party, My Body, Home & School, Kitchen & Living Room, Garden, Park, Farm & Zoo, Aquarium & Sea Life, Doctor’s Clinic, Firefighters, and Construction Sites bring learning to life. Children explore real-world topics that integrate language, math, science, and social understanding, building independence, curiosity, and readiness for primary school.