GPF ECE Curriculum mapped to NCERT ECCE Pre-School Curriculum and the Aakar (Maharashtra) Pre-School Curriculum

1. Early Childhood Education
Mapping the National (NCERT) and the Maharashtra State
(Aakar) Preschool Curriculum
March 2020

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1. Physical and Motor Development
NCERT Preschool Curriculum Aakar Curriculum Parents as Early Teacher
Concepts/Skills
Areas of Development and activities to
support development
Content for Mothers and Parent-Child
Learning Modules
A Gross Motor Skills Gross Motor Skills Gross Motor Skills
Walking Walking in a straight line
Jumping Jumping on both legs
Climbing Climbing including upper body strength
Crawling Crawling
Throwing
Throwing and catchingCathching
Running
Hopping
Rhythmic Movement
Kicking
collecting balls
hanging on rope
Balancing
Sliding
walking backwards
B Fine motor skills and Eye hand Coordination Fine motor development Fine motor development
paper folding
Paper folding- simple fold

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Cutting
Pasting Pasting
Printing Stamping
Peeling
Pounding
Scribbling
closing and opening lids
pincer grasp
Sorting
2. Health, Hygiene and Sanitation
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Health, Hygiene and Sanitation Health
Development of healthy habits, hygiene,
sanitation Cleanliness habits Cleanliness and personal hygiene
How to maintain good health in
children
Age appropriate height and weight
Vaccination/Immunization
Home remedies for common illnesses
Awareness for self-protection

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3. Sensory Development
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3 Sensory Development
Introduction to Environment and Science
Experience
Sensory Development
Sight
Sound Listening
Touch Touch/texture recognition
Smell Smell recognition
Taste Taste recognition
Concept Information
Comparison- Cold and hot
Introducting seasons and weather
Air
Water
Electricity
Flowers फु ले- Flowers
Myself माहजी ओळख- Myself
रंग- Colours
फळांची ओळख- Fruits
भाज्या - Vegetables
पक्षी- Birds
प्राणी- Animals
Natural resources
Community helpers
Field trips

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4. Creativity
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Creativity Fine and Gross Motor Development
Drawing Drawing
Colouring Colouring
Tearing Tearing
Moulding clay work
Arranging things/ Decoration
Rhythmic Movement Movements with music
making sounds like birds and animals
5. Language Development
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Language Development Language Development Language Development
Talking and Listening
Attention and Listening Give instruction
Play games that involve listening and
following instructions
Convention of Speech Story telling माझे ममत्र (My friend)
हे माझे घर (My house)
आत्ता नाही आत्ता नाही (Not now, not
now)
रंग (Colours)

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हाताचे नाक लांब कसे झाले (how the
elephant got its trunk/The curious baby
elephant)
Vocabulary Picture Talk
Video: How to make a picture book for
picture talk
Vocabulary Labelling objects in the environment
Songs
Vocabulary Object description
Word Riddles
Build emotional vocabulary
Describing events from everyday
activites
Creative self expression and conversation Puppets- conversation
A Emergent Reading Pre-reading Language Development
Directionality
Eye-hand coordination- up to down, left
to right
Visual Discrimination Find similarities
Visual Discrimination Odd one out
Identify the object based on its
description
Memory game
Auditory visual association (Phonics) and
Phonological awareness words with similar letters
Letter perception/Recognition oral recitation/recognition of letters

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Print awareness and meaning making
Bonding with books
Pretend reading
B Emergent Writing Pre-writing
Relationships between thoughts and drawing
Creating self-expression through drawing
Mark making and drawing
Differentiating between drawing and writing
Understands relationship and thought and
speech with written language
Eye hand coordination in use of appropriate
writing tools Join the dots and complete the picture
finger movements
pre-writing skills; drawing in flour
Understanding horizontal and vertical
Sensory stimulation for letters
Eye hand cooordination in use of appropriate
writing tools/ Threading Beading under fine motor development
Exposure to Second Language

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6. Cognitive Development
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Cognitive Development Cognitive Development
Pre-math
Size Big- small
गणणताची पूर्व तयारी- १
पेखा मोठा आणण पेक्षा लहान
(Pre-Math: Big and Small)
गणणताची पूर्व तयारी- २ पेक्षा कमी
आणण पेक्षा जास्त
(Pre-Math: More and less)
Length Long-short
गणणताची पूर्व तयारी- ४
पेक्षा लांब आणण पेक्षा आखूड
(Pre-Math: Long and short)
Classification र्गीकरण (Classification)
Classification/ Sorting Classification based on attributes
Pattern making Arranging beads
Sequential thinking Seriation
One to one correspondence
Count and tell how many Counting
अंकांची गंमत- २
र्स्तू मोजणी (Counting)
Counting

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अंकांची गंमत- १
अंक तोंडी म्हणणे
(Number Recitation)
Numeral Recognition Recognize number
अंकांची गंमत - ३
अंक ओळख १ ते ५
Numeral Recognition 1 to 5
Recognize number
अंकांची गंमत - ३
अंक ओळख ६ ते १०
Numeral Recognition 6 to 10
Matching numbers to numerals (added
within the Numeral recognition
modules)
Shapes Circle, triangle, square आकार (Shapes)
Shapes Shapes
Shapes Shapes game
Measurement Measurement
Divide paper into parts
Problem solving Picture puzzle (jigsaw puzzle)
Dominos
Matching
Height
गणणताची पूर्व तयारी- ३
पेक्षा उंच आणण पेक्षा बुटका
Spatial
Time

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Distance
Observation
Identification
Memory
Concept Information
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Reasoning
Curiosity
Experimentation
Exploration
7. Socio-emotional development
NCERT Preschool Curriculum Aakar Curriculum Parents as Early Teacher
Social and Emotional Development Socio-emotional development Socio-emotional development
The anganwadi center and experience
gives children the opportunity to develop
these skills but they are not dealt with in
detail in the Aakar curriculum
Development of prosocial behaviours sharing toys
Awareness of Others mingling with other children
Development of prosocial behaviours opportunity to help
Awareness of Self concept of self becomes stronger
Self-regulation self regulation
Development of prosocial behaviours waiting for turn
Form and maintain positive relationships feeling of being loved by others

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Development of prosocial behaviours opportunities for sociodramatic play
Development of positive self concept and
Self-confidence leadership skills
Decision making decision making skills
Self-confidence feeling of confidence
Awareness of Others/ Problem solving
understanding that not everything can
happen according to their will
Understand others' feelings/ Take
perspective
Form and maintain positive relationships opportunities for making friends
Self-direction and independence with regard
to self-help skills