Typical Day in C4

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A Typical C4 Day (Age 5years old)

Arrival and Playground Time

Students are provided with thirty minutes free-play on the playground. Outdoor time develops the children's gross motor as well as their social skills as they learn to play cooperatively with other children. During this time they are supervised by the teacher and teacher assistant.

Circle Time

The day formally begins by coming together on the carpet area for music, stories, alphabet and number exposure, or some topic related to a theme. Large group time is used to discuss plans for the day and reviewing or introducting concepts. This time also includes attendance, classroom duties, calendar and sharing.

Activity Time

The core curriculum subjects incluide Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies.  Students continue discussion about the thematic unit already introduced during Circule time.  During this time students are actively engaged in class participation and discussion about the topic.

Snack

Snack time acts as a learning experience of sitting together, having communal conversation, and eating.  Proper hygiene, sharing, and table manners are emphasized during this time.

Rest/Quiet Time/Story Time

Students are encouraged to look at books individually or, if they prefer, to listen to a story.

Specialist Subjects

These include Music, P.E., Thai Culture and Library class. During this time the students will be instructed by subject specialists. Thematic units will be integrated into the specialist classes wherever possible.

Activity Time

This is an extension of the morning activity where the students are involved in hands-on activities to explore further the topic introduced earlier.  Students may be separated by ability level and work individually or in small groups.  Activities may include worksheets, cut-and-paste materials, matching, sorting, puzzles, manipulatives, and individual or group projects.  These activities provide an opportunity for the teacher to guide learning activities and engage in direct instruction.

A Summary of C4 Curriculum

Everything from C3 level is reinforced and extended.  The C4 level is more prescriptive because it is meant to prepare students for the Primary Program.  Some common topics or themes covered at this level are:  All about Me (Parts of My Body/My Feelings/My Family/My Friends/My Five Senses),  Local Culture and Different Cultures, Living and Non-Living Things, My School, The Seasons, Personal Hygiene, Weather, Plants and Seeds, Animals (Farm/Wild), Animal Habitats, Pets, Extinct Animals, Endangered Species, Community Helpers, Transportation, Protecting our Environment, Types of Homes, Landforms, Tools, Space, and other topics which students may want to know more about.

Skills that are mastered at this level are:

• The ability to identify and touch with both hands the various parts of the body.
• Movements up, down, in and out.
• Jumping with two feet together.
• The use of appropriate vocabulary to express feelings, greeting people in Thai, pointing and telling someone where it hurts.
• Listening with interest to stories.
• Identifying both upper and lower case letters.
• Reciting the alphabet, articulating clearly, building a sight word vocabulary, and being able to copy words or sentences when presented with a model.

Some math skills that are mastered at this level are:

• Being able to count to ten and to count a set of ten objects.
• Being able to identify numbers to ten and to count backwords from ten.
• Identifying and drawing some shapes like circle, square, triangle. rectangle, oval, diamond, heart and star.
• Identifying dimensional shapes like sphere, cube, cylinder and cone.
• Identifying and creating a pattern.
• Making comparisions like more/less, bigger/smaller, empty/full. heavier/lighter.
• Identifying halves.