KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM

I. THE CURRICULUM

International Curriculum: Students are taught in Japanese standards and programs, the language of instruction is Vietnamese, Japanese and English. Japanese is taught in parallel as the mother tongue; English is taught 4-5 units a week for ages 3 and 4, taught by native English speakers.

Bilingual Curriculum: tudents are taught in Japanese standards and programs, the language of instruction is Vietnamese and English, English lessons include 8 units per week, taught by native speakers.

II. THE OBJECTIVES TO BE ACHIEVED

In early childhood education, we need to achieve 15 goals in five specific fields as follows:

1. Field of "expression"

1.1. Children are rich in sensitivity to the beauty of so many things;

1.2. Children are interested in expressing their own feelings and thoughts;

1.3. Enrich the visualization through living in life and enjoy the many expressions.

2. Field of “the relationship with people”

2.1. Children are happy with the kindergarten activities and feel a sense of satisfaction for acting with your strength;

2.2. Children are friendly to the people around them, deepen the relationship so that children have sentiment and feelings of being more reliant;

2.3. Children get the expected habits and attitudes in social activities.

3. Field of “language”

3.1. Children feel the excitement in expressing their mood in language;

3.2. Children feel the joy of listening to the language, the story of others, expressing their experiences and thoughts and communicating with each other;

3.3. As well as learning the necessary languages in life, children are familiar with Ehon and the stories and have a heart-to-heart talk with teachers and friends.

4. Field of “environment”

4.1. Children are familiar with their surroundings and are interested in many phenomena through contact with nature;

4.2. Children expose to the environment, think and enjoy the innovations and intend to apply them to their live;

4.3. Through thinking and seeing close phenomena, children will have a great deal of sense of the nature and number of things as well as the writing.

5. Field of “health”

5.1. Children act happy, comfortable and feel the full sensation;

5.2. Children are physically active and actively want to mobilize;

5.3. Children have the habit, the attitude that are necessary for health and safety.

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM

Independence – Freedom – Happiness

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COMMITMENT OF ENSURING SAFETY AND IMPLEMENTATING THE QUALITY

OF NURTURING, CARING, AND EDUCATING CHILDREN

1. To ensure the quality of nurturing, caring, and educating children, Japanese International School committed to:

1.1 Make sure not to exceed the number of children as prescribed.

1.2. Ensure the adequacy of management staff, teachers, staff in accordance with regulations.

1.3. Daily and weekly sanitation is implemented and strictly implemented in the following areas: groups, classes, restrooms and surrounding areas..

1.4. Create the good meal for children: Build weekly menu with 4 groups of food, do not cut the number of dishes and dishes guarantee quality as the menu; absolutely not violate the child's food money in any form; ensure the safety of children when eating.

1.5. Strictly implement regulations on food hygiene and safety, ensure safe food purchases.

1.6. Create a safe and healthy living and learning environment for children, special attention should be paid to disease prevention and epidemics such as fresh air, enough light, no damp, no disease vectors (flies, mosquitoes, rats); equipped with tables and chairs to fit the age and stature of the children, ensure adequate equipment for children.

1.7. Create all conditions, many opportunities for children to develop through activities, communication, play, absolutely do not impose, block children; not taught before grade 1.

1.8. Do not insult the body and dignity of children under any form; love, respect children.

1.9. Officials, teachers, staff and children have regular health checks as prescribed.

2. Schedule of the day:

2.1. 3 year old grade:

7.30’ Picking up the students

8.00’ Having breakfast, Free play, Personal preparation

9.00’ Good morning. Teacher reads Ehon

9.30’ Moving in rhythm

10.10’ Activities of learning and playing by topic (Music/ Musical Instruments, Thematic Activities, Number/ Language, Performing Arts/ Role Playing).

11.00’ Preparing for lunch.

11.15’ Having lunch.

12.00’ Cleaning, Dressing, Brushing, Teacher reads Ehon

12.30’ Napping.

14.00’ Dressing

14.30’ Activities of learning and playing by topic (Traditional Games/ Crafts/ Sports/ Outdoors/ Birthday / Cooking/ Working / Playing / Reading comic books, …

15.00’ Having a light meal.

15.15’ Concentrating for finishing school. Teacher reads Ehon.

15.30’ Returning the card, collective activities.

17.00’ Finishing.

2.2. 4-5 year old grade:

7.30’ Picking up the students.

8.00’ Having breakfast, Free play, Personal preparation.

9.00’ Good morning (Activity assignment task, Speaking time). 9.30’ Moving in rhythm.

10.10’ Activities of learning and playing (Music/ Musical Instruments, Thematic Activities, English).

11.20’ Preparing for lunch.

11.45’ Having lunch.

12.15’ Cleaning, Dressing, Brushing, Teacher reads Ehon.

12.45’ Napping.

13.45’ Dressing.

14.00’ Activities of learning and playing (Moving / Swimming, English, Shaping/ Moving, Walking/ birthday, traditional games, cooking, reading and listening to books ehon).

15.45’ Having a light meal, Cleaning.

16.00’ Concentrating for finishing school. Teacher reads Ehon.

16.15’ Returning the card, collective activities.

17.00’ Finishing.

3. The curriculum was implemented in the academic year 2016-2017:

3.1. For 3 year old grade (from September to December):

	September	October	November	December
Event	Admission Ceremony Mid-Autumn Festival	Parent meeting Lessons outside the preschool	Sport Congress	Christmas Slideshows
Large themed activities	Have fun at preschool 1. Play outside Make food by sand, mountains, rivers 2. Play at fixed playground equipment 3. Play in the room Stacking blocks, puzzles, mimicking a mother	Let fly to play Put in a balloon basket Hide and seek, chasing	Organize a fun congress 1. Listen to stories about the sport congress 2. Obstacles (strings, stacking, balancing) 3. Chase, put the ball into the basket 4. Imitate do sports congress	Let's play in the world of the stories 1. The gifts come from Santa Claus 2. Become your favorite animal 3. Become Santa Claus 4. Look for gifts
Art, expression	Tear out to play (use, how to clean the clay) Play with the lines How to use, how to use wax crayons	Make dango cake (clay) Play with lines (draw dotted lines, straight lines, curved lines with crayons) Origami: Make a quadrilateral Let's play with water color	Make a snake and donut 1 Decorate with clay and zinc (粘土) Make a snake or donut cake (with clay) 木の実 · モール指. Hãy Draw a circle Cut 1 times with scissors
Art, expression	Dandelion has blossomed Seem fun Games by hand	The song” Make Dango cake Teachers and friends Freehand musical instruments (How to hold two-carrier palanquin, ring)	Guri and Gura White Bear ‘s pancake	Hurry Santa Claus
Physical activities, Culture	Climb the steep slope Do exercise	The game of bounces down from the various directions Climb and jump down with a rope Go through the balance step (across)	Balanced step (walking cross legged together) Try getting under (pool)	Try dancing マーク飛び
Physical activities, Culture	Moving in rhythm Train, cow, free expression	Rolled chestnut, horse (standing upright, not touching his knees to the ground)	Gallop	Spinner and mannequin
Words, literature	Khớp vật và tên gọi (tiếng Việt, tiếng Nhật, tiếng Anh, từ cuộc sống và các trò chơi)			Sử dụng thẻ điểm để phân tích âm tiết (âm trong, 2 âm)
Words, literature	Wear it, wear it peekaboo Dango cake	Gluttonous worm Elephant walking	Guri and Gura Extract radishes	The gifts of Santa Claus My crayons
Eating and drinking education	Walk to the terrace	Salad vegetables	Guess the name of the food (tactile, taste)	Grow radishes
Nature, numbers	Play with sand	Find the green worm	Play with the grass
Nature, numbers	Compare 2 objects together (know to be small or big through the game)	Compare three objects together (largest, smallest)	Compare 3 objects together (longest, shortest)	Know the relationship of position: upper or lower, before or after (in life)
Game		Hide-and-seek Race		Chase

The curriculum for 3 year old grade in the academic year 2016-2017 (From January to May):

	January, February	March	April	May
Event	Grind kind of rice-cake	Slideshows	Make a speech	Graduation ceremony
Large themed activities	Let's get on the bus to walk Play old games with the Hoshi and Niji groups	Play in the world of stories 2 Become the characters to play Make the big or small tools		Let's play with brothers, sisters 1 Give gifts 2 Make cleanup
Art, expression	Paint and draw in watercolors (with sponge rollers) Cut intercontinental 2 times	Create landscapes Stick with glue	Draw yourself Cut lines with scissors	Clay (shaping)
Art, expression	Lunar New Year	The song when playing mimics	It's like the blue sky Big objects, small objects
Physical activities, Culture	Jump rope (snake)	Run the marathon	Nhẩy dây chun	Xà
Physical activities, Culture	Spindle and puppet	Ara Uma (purebred horse)	Momotaro	Spinning machine, free expression
Words, literature	Karutatori 1	Karutatori 2	A set of words of the same type	A, i, u, e, o of Hati
Words, literature	What did you eat already? Paperback Everyone together flapping "bộp"	Fox and seven baby goats	Baby bear’s pancake	Iro iro ba Paper Drama Grow up, grow up, grow up
Eating and drinking education	Questions and answers about food	Grow Carrots	Cooking, Having a light meal	Make land for the field Plant Sunflower seeds
Nature, numbers	Thiên nhiên vào mùa đông (băng, gió)	Sờ vào cà rốt, củ cải, các loại rau có củ, trồng thủy canh
Nature, numbers	Compare 3 objects together (Arrange objects around you in order from the largest)	Compare the pictures (丸三角四角の弁別) (Distinction	Compare 3 objects together (Count the things around you in order from the longest))	Gather the same things, eliminate the different ones (Reassembled or excluded from the same point of view from particular objects)
Game	Traditional New Year game Maritsuki (beating the ball) Fukuwarai Fly a kite		Cat and mouse

The curriculum for 3 year old grade in the academic year 2016-2017 (From June to August):

	June	July	August	Reference
Event	Summer school
Large themed activities	Let's play with water Swimming pool activities Playing mud Make a shower	Tanabata Festival, children's summer festival Let's play with brothers, sisters Make, decorate the Tanabata Festival	We will become Sora's group Decorations for admission ceremony Peel labels Clean (wipe the floor with rags)
Art, expression	Continuous cutting with scissors	Cut curves by scissors Shoji paper dyeing	Cut art paper (Kirigami) Fold the fish, the worm Play the stamping with watercolor
Art, expression	The song about the frog Rainbow	Tanabatasama	The first victory of the ant
Physical activities, Culture	Moving in rhythm Horse galloping Vehicles are hand-operated	Flip the rainbow 1 Moving in rhythm	Flip the rainbow 2 Moving in rhythm
Physical activities, Culture	Jump rope (spin and jump one time), jump the kinds of rubberband		Shake the ring Jump through the ring	Shake the ring Jump the square box
Words, literature	Kobutatanukikitsuneneko(pigs, panda, foxes, cats)	Name of fruits Japanese fruits Vietnamese fruits	Game of enjoin
Words, literature	Baby bear plays with water Blue and yellow	くだものだもの	Gluttonous worm Asae and little sister
Eating and drinking education		Let’s make grinded ice	Let’s make Jerry
Nature, numbers	Convolvulaceae, 色花Mirabilis jalapa
Nature, numbers		Large quantity, small quantity
Game	Play watercolor (the color from nature)	Let's get together	Fruit Basket

3.2. For 4 – 5 year old grade (from September to December):

	September	October	Novmber	December
Event	Admission Ceremony Mid-Autumn Festival	Parent meeting Lessons outside the preschool	Sport Congress	Christmas Slideshows
Large themed activities	Let's play together Play mud Transport land, making ponds Make a shower with a bottle of water (perforated by nails) Play games that mimic the preferences of each child Let's decorate the Mid-Autumn together Story of the Mid-Autumn Festival Find the materials to decorate Take a walk outside the preschool	Let’s explore Take the bus to the park Cross the bridge (Balancing step, swinging bridge) (throw the ball to the goal, put the ball in) Take a stroll in the surrounding area Mak wooden toys (Nail) Make bus, car with pieces of wood (Nail the wheel)	Organize a sports event Crossing the obstacle (Balancing step, take the rope, put the ball in) Chase Race father / mother and children	Let's celebrate Christmas Decide to be charge of decoration (Group) Decide the game Make a gift
Art, expression	Let's draw freely (Rakugaki) (クレヨン・サインペン絵具刷毛の指導） Let's play with clay (Knead, rounded, interrupted, stretched)	Let's play with water color Paint color impression How to use the pen Pictures of sightseeing by bus	Let's play with water color Hajiki Painting Play with clay (Cut the clay, creat patterns by using tools)	Decorate items (glue, glue) Let's play with clay (Santa's face, oneself’s face.
Art, expression	Dandelion has blossomed とんとんともだち山の音楽家（合奏）(Type in rhythm)	The bear in the forest Cipollino's expedition Type in the rhythm (rattles, bells, triangles)	Yamabiko (shouting for echo) Like the blue sky Melodion "Frog song"	Red nose reindeer Hurry Santa Claus Type in rhythm Small bell
Physical activities, Culture		Gõ theo nhịp
Physical activities, Culture	Creep with amphibian type 4 kinds of horses Crab and rabbit Horse galloping Skip	Vehicle are hand-operated Flip the rainbow 1 2 people	Flip the rainbow 2 4 persons	Maritsuki (hit ball)
Words, literature		Phân tích âm tiết Âm thanh (1~3)		Phân tích âm tiết (3~5)
Words, literature	Gluttonous worm Series of stories about broad bean	Kingkong Multi-colored gecko	Grasshopper jumps Preparation, departure	Grandmother’s Noel
Eating and drinking education			Make rice ball	Make a fried egg
Nature, numbers	科学絵本しぜん年間購読 Play grass and flower	Grow green worm, dragonfly		Eggs, egg kinds
Nature, numbers	Act1 for 1 and know how to compare	Integrated analysis (3 conditions)	Knowing the position relations: above, below	Knowing the position relations: left, right
Game	Play grass and flower Collective play (hide and seek, find color, Hikkoshi Oni)
Other

The curriculum for 4 – 5 year grade in the academic year 2016-2017 (From January to May):

	January, February	March		April	May
Event	Grind sticky rice	Slideshow		Speech ceremony	Graduation ceremony
Large themed activities	Let's play the old game Play spinning, Fukuwarai Karutatori, kites Jump rope, postman		Do ceremony speech (large collective practice) Video to introduce the favorite items		Prepare for Hoshi class
Art, expression	Make color paper Give presents to Sora’s class Make a bag of work (bag of work)	Make the necessary equipment for the speech		Draw pictures of the ceremony speech
Art, expression	Grind kind of rice-cake Lunar New Year	If so, how good it is ….		The flowers know better	Nice to meet you
Physical activities, Culture	Run Marathon, jump rope	Skip rope			Wipe the floor
Physical activities, Culture	Train (forward, backward) Killfish Dragonfly Bear	Arauma 3 beats Vietnam stall jump (slow jump)		Frogs jump in	Chamois
Words, literature	音韻抽出　同じ音　頭	Create sentences Who, what, how		Create sentences Where, who, what, how
Words, literature	Happy New Year Chikarataro	Go to the forest picking pear Go buy gloves		Baby's first victory
Eating and drinking education	Make and eat kind of rice-cake
Nature, numbers
Nature, numbers	対応で数えることができる（列の保存、分解の保存）			How to conduct much, less quantity
Game	Traditional game Fly a kite	Dodgeball in a circle
Other

The curriculum for 4 – 5 year grade in the academic year 2016-2017 (from June to August):

	June	July	August	Reference
Event	Summer school
Large themed activities	Mud, make rivers, rubber pools and swimming activities Imitate do stores Toy shop, plant shop, gold shop, Origami shop		Prepare for the admission ceremony Consider last year's situation Decorate the door
Art, expression	Let's play with water color Paint in the Decalcoman school Paint the chicken	Draw with crayons, watercolor and roller Print Kamihanga with face of the self	Origami, water color, sunflower (Painting and print Kamihanga)
Art, expression	Bayby bear shelters from the rain Type in rhythm	The sun in the palm Tanabata (The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd 's Festival) Type in rhythm
Physical activities, Culture	Swimming activities (take the crocodile style) Skip rope Large round, small round	(顔つけ）	(着衣入水、浮くもの探し）(Find the things on the water surface)
Physical activities, Culture	Skip Skip rope	Somersault, Capricornis crispus	Roll carpet Somersault forward
Words, literature	Phonetic analysis (syllable, plosive)
Words, literature	Swimming ニンジン畑のぱぴぷぺぽ	たなばたプール開きスイミー	Ponyo
Eating and drinking education
Nature, numbers	The flow of a lot of rivers Creatures, floods	Sky, stars, planetarium (DVD)	The story of the universe (DVD)
Nature, numbers	How to add and subtract from 1 to 5
Game	Play types of hide and seek	Dodgeball

4. English:

4.1. Duration:

International system	Bilingual system
3 year old grade: 4 units x 20 minutes/ unit	3 year old grade: 8 units x 20 minutes/ unit
4 year old grade: 4 units x 25 minutes/ unit	4 year old grade: 8 units x 25 minutes/ unit
5 year old grade: 5 units x 30 minutes/ unit	5 year old grade: 8 units x 30 minutes/ unit

4.2. Textbook:Welcome to Our World (1, 2, 3) (National Geography).

♦ SEE THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM HERE.

KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM

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