Listening Skills

Practise matching and identifying environmental sounds, vocal utterances, musical instruments, music styles, nursery rhymes, simple instructions, sequencing sounds, counting syllables, rhyming and alliteration. ​

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Initial Sounds

Covers the sounds of the individual letters for each language, both individually spoken and spoken at the beginning of words. There are extra activities for long vowel sounds. Graphemes are introduced passively.

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Initial Letters

Matching and recognition of written letters, a-z. There is one activity for each letter as well as a selection of round-up activities.

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Initial Blends: Sounds

Covers the sounds of the most common initial consonant blends and fun round-up activities. 

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Initial Blends: Letters

Covers matching and recognition of written blends. Common blends are covered, both individually and in pairs. ​

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Alphabet

Activities focus on learning the names of the letters (rather than their phonic sounds) and on dictionary skills. Includes distinguishing letters from other symbols through to sorting whole words alphabetically. Also letter reversals, and matching upper and lowercase.​

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Tricky High Frequency Words

(For Nguni Languages this will include a Syllabification and compound word exercise)

Multiple choice activities to practice recognition of words that are difficult to learn to read and spell. 

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Everyday Words

Practice recognising, hearing, matching, reading and spelling everyday words for colour, number, days of the week, months and seasons. 

Early Number

Activities designed to give pupils revision of the knowledge learned in practical lessons about numbers one to three.​

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Space, Shape and Measure (ECD | Pre-School | SID-PID)

These activities cover colour, 2D and 3D shape, positional words, opposites, sequencing shapes and time awareness (non-clock time). 

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Space, Shape and Measure (Foundation Phase)

Includes activities covering matching and recognition of geometric 2D and 3D shapes, sequencing shapes, counting sides, nets, weight, length, capacity, and planes and symmetry. ​

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Numbers 0 - 5

Graded activities covering comparison of quantity, counting sets of objects, counting on, counting back, numeral recognition and matching sets to numerals. 

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Numbers 5 - 10

Graded activities covering odd one out sets, counting sets, counting on, numeral recognition, more than, less than and simple addition up to 10.​

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Numbers 0 - 100

This has activities based around the 100 square, covering more than, less than, counting in 2s, 5s, 10s etc., number bonds in 10s and doubling.​

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Money

Activities about cash, from coin recognition to working out change.   Includes “What can you afford?” activities.  Coin images use photographs, giving realism whilst retaining clarity for VI students.

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Time

Activities around time, from times on-the-hour up to counting on and back in units of 5 minutes, and everything in between. Many activities give you a choice of analogue or digital clocks. Includes an activity on weeks, months and seasons.

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Living Things (ECD | Pre-School | SID-PID)

This comprises simple activities which introduce the topics of human beings, animals and plants as well as the world around us. ​

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Living Things (Foundation Phase)

This contains slightly harder activities which develop the knowledge gained from Life Processes and Living Things within the Life Science Curriculum.​

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Materials

These activities look at materials from everyday life and their properties and cover ECD level as well as Foundation Phase of the Life Science Curriculum.​

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Forces & Electricuty

This includes the physical processes of the Life Science Curriculum with graded activities covering electricity and forces.​

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Light, Sound & Space

These activities cover the topics of Earth and Space and Light and Sound. The activities around Space give a wide breadth of knowledge to a pupil’s interest in this popular area of science.​