Nurser 1-1
Nurser 1-1
NURSERY ONE
TERM ONE
WEEK 1 & 2
Objective : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to read , write , take
down numbers number s during random and group things into set of 10.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should carry out activities with pupils in these areas :
(1) reading the num
(2) writing “ “
Week 3 & 4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson ,pupils should be able to fill the missing
numbers between 1-10.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
(4) identify numbers with flash cards (5) number before and number after.
Week 5 & 6
Objectives: at the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to count the items in a
set, say how many ,then write them down.
Lesson :8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should arrange several sets of beads or buttons and get the
pupils to say how many and then write them down .
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to read , write , take
down in dictation, fill in , match, and do skip counting.
Lessons: 8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should guide the pupils to carry out the following activities
under the topic – fill in, 3 atch, skip count and take down during dictation.
Week 9& 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to count correctly
from 1-15, identify and write the numbers
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should guide pupils to do all the previous activities to enhance
identificationi
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TERM TWO
Week 1& 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to read and identify
numbers 1-15
Lesson: 8 Lessons
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Evaluation: Ditto
Week 3&4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to order a given set of
numbers
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Week 5&6
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to read and identify
correctly numbers 1-20
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Week 7&8
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Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to order a given set of
numbers.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Week 9 & 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to carry out horizontal
and vertical addition of numbers .
Lesson : 8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should guide the pupils to use concrete objects to carry out
simple addition : 3 + 4=7
+3
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Week 11
TERM THREE
Week 1 & 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to count , read , write ,
identify, match and fill in number 21-25.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Week 3 & 4
Topic: More work on vertical and horizontal addition using strokes . Introduce
numbers 26-30
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to count and identify
1-30 as well as do simple addition of numbers .
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: teacher guides the pupils to do activity that will aid the understanding
of simple addition –put together
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Week 5 & 6
Topic : Introduce the concept of zero – the spindle box and the spindles box and
more work on 1-30
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state that zero in
concrete term means “nothing or empty”
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should explain to the pupils using spindle box the concept of
zero i.e “empty” and do more activities on 1-30.
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to read, write, identify
1-40. They should also be able to add numbers vertically and horizontally
involving zero.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Materials: picture cards with numbers , pictorial addition cards and large movable
numbers.
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Activities: Teacher should guide pupils to add up numbers involving zero vertically
and horizontally:
3 + 0 + 2 = 5
III II
4 IIII
+2
+0
+1
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Week 9
Topic: Introduce pictorial subtraction- subtraction number rods and the sign.
Lessons: 4 Lesssons
Activities: Teacher should carry out activities that will make the child understand
that subtraction means to take away e.g these are three balls, if one is taken away
, how many is left? Ans: 2 balls. Pupils should also be taught the subtraction
sign(-).
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Week 10
Topic: Introduce vertical and horizontal addition and subtraction – using strokes
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Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to identify and use
addition and subtraction signs - ,+
Lessons: 4 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should carry out activities on subtraction with the pupils 5 – 3 =
2 ,
- 3
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= 3
Week 11
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TEACHING MATERIALS
N:B This is in addition to what has been provided for in the reception class.
PUPILS TEXTBOOKS
TEACHERS TEXT
Week 1 & 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to tell in a few
sentences who she/he is e.g My name is Jenrade. I am 3years old. I love apples.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should guide the pupils to tell the class about themselves In
turns.
Evaluation: -What is your name? How old are you? Which is your best fruit?
N:B This helps to develop the child,s ability to converse with others.
Week 3 & 4
Objectives :At the end of the lesson ,pupils should be able to mention two or
more important things about water.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should guide the pupils to say what they know about water by
telling the class.
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Evaluation: what does your mummy use water for? Should water be wasted ?
What do you use water for? How do we prevent wasting of water?
Week 5 & 6
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to say how not to litter
the floor in and around the class or at home.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should demonstrate to the pupils how to trash waste items
like biscuit and sweet wraps i.e by putting them in the waste bin.
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to tell about his or her
nation in two or three sentences.
. Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher tells the pupils about the nation Nigeria, The salient points of
the conversation should include the name of the country, capital and the
president.
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Evaluation: What is the name of your country? Who is the president of your
country?
Week 9 & 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention two
qualities of a good citizen.
Lessson: 2 Lessons
Activities: teacher should teach pupils to respect national symbols such as the
flag. They should also be taught that good citizens do not fight, steal nor lie.
Evaluation: A good respects the national flag . Yes /No . A good citizen does not
fight. Yes/NO
Week11 & 12
TERM TWO
Week 1& 2
Lesson: 2 Lessons
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Activities: Pupils should be taught not to temper with switch and socket. Pupils
should be told on the danger inherent in sticking things on sockets.
Week 3 & 4
Observation: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention his family
members i.e father, mother, brothers and sisters.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should mention the family members such as father, mother,
sister, brother .
Week 5 & 6
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention the name of
animals in and around the house such as dogs,cats,rabbits.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher tells the pupils that animals that are friendly are called
pets. Other animals found around the home are called domestic animals.
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Evaluation: Mention animals that are pets .What other names do we call friendly
animals .
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to state a major event
that is in the news – e.g The visit of the president of the united state to the
country.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher should narrate the events that are in the news in such a way
that the pupil would be able to recall e.g The US president visited Nigeria on the
first of February 2014.
WEEK 9 & 10
Objectives:At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state why and how
we can conserve our food.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher tells the pupils that it is improper to waste our food by not
eating it. Also, it is improper to eat too much food.
Evaluation: Is it proper to eat too much food? YES/NO Is it good to eat too much
food? YES/NO.
Week 11 & 11
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Topic: Revision,termly test, examination, closing.
TERM THREE
Week 1 & 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state specific names
for family members in the extended family such as uncle s and aunts .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: Teacher mentions the extended family members such as grand father,
grand mother, aunt, uncle.
Week 3 & 4
Objectives:At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention some
animals .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state which animals
are fish and at least to characteristics of fish.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Material: Chart on fish, if possible a life fish can be made available for the lesson.
Activities: The teacher should explain the characteristics of fish displaying life fish
or in pictures.
Evaluation: Where does fish live? How does it breathe? Does fish have limbs?
Week 7 & 8
Objectives:At the end of the of the lesson, pupils should be able to state the
characteristics of insects.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Week 9& 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state which animals
are birds and state the main characteristics of birds.
Activity: The teacher says the characteristics that are known to birds and show
pupils a number of pictures to them .
Week 11 & 12
Week 1 & 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to recall, what was
learnt in year one.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
W eek 3 & 4
Objectives : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to sound , write, and
identify the alphabets from a to l
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Material: All sound paper letters used so far, plain sheets , flash cards and
movable alphabets.
Activities: Teacher should take pupils through the process of tracing , sounding
and writing to enhance understanding and identification.
Week 5 & 6
Topic: More work on the new letters. Do story reading . Answer oral questions.
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Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to link all the
alphabets, take down the alphabet during random dictation.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Material: Movable letters of the alphabet , sand paper letters, story book.
Activities: The teacher puts the pupils through activities like fill in, matching
letters , story reading from any children reading book. Answer oral questions from
the story – Do not wait till the end before questioning.
Week 7 & 8
Topic: Introduce m,n, and p. Link a,b,c …..p Sound, write and identify. Put into
slogan.
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to sound, write,
especially the new letters. Build up all letters of the alphabets.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Materials: All materials for previous weeks and sand paper letters m, n , p
Evaluation: Build letters of the alphabet, fill in, match, sort out and write.
Week 9 & 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to sound, write and
build correctly all the letters of alphabet.
Week 11 & 12
Topic: Revision, termly test, examination and closing
TERM TWO
Week 1 & 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to sound , write and
build up the alphabet even when jumbled – up.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Week 3 & 4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to link all letters in
proper order , take down during dictation , match and fill in letters.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: The routine activities for sounding , tracing , writing should be absolved
to enhance recognition and identification of letters.
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Evaluation:Sort out a pack of mixed letters and arrange in alphabetical order.
Week 5 & 6
Topic: Introduce t, u, v, w
Objectives:At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to link all letters in
alphabetical order and carry out relevant activities .
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Evaluation: Sort out a pack of mixed letters and arrange in alphqbetical order.
Week 7& 8
Topic: Introduce x, y, z
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to build correctly the
letters of the alphabet.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Week 9 & 10
Topic: More work on sounding , writing and identification of the above letters .
story reading, picture reading.
Week1 & 2
Week 3 & 4
Lesson: 8 Lessons
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Week 5 & 6
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to build two letter
phonetic words .
Lesson: 8 Lessons
. Week 7 & 8
Objectives : At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to match words with
words and fill in the missing letters.
Lesson: 8 Lessons
Activities: The teacher takes them through fill in activities. Fill in letters e.g I – t =
it.
Week 9 & 10
“It is a ox” . Do sentence dictation. Answer simple oral question from the
sentences built.
Week 11 & 12
TEACHERS BOOKS
Lesson : 2 Lessons
TERM TWO
SENSORIAL EDUCATION
TERM ONE
TERM TWO
TERM THREE
TERM ONE
Week 1& 2
Objectives : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to classify animals into
three groups – insects, birds, and mammals.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: Cut out pictures of animals such as insects , birds and mammals.
Week 3 & 4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to put up a simple
classification of leaves by their shapes and alaso make a leaf album.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher directs the collection of leaves by the pupils around the
school environment. And he further explains the various leaves collected.
Week 5 & 6
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Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to classify an object
according to whether it is man made or natural.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: A collection of natural and man made things ,objects, e.g sand, shoe ,
books, leaf etc.
Activities :Teacher and pupils should go together to pick leaves in and around the
school.
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention the
common changes that occur around us .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher should take pupils through simple practical illustrations of
what happen when you ; 1. Heat candles 2. Boil water , 3 .burn paper 4. Put iced
cubes in water.
Week 9 & 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention the seven
continents of the world .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
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Materials: The atlas, globe showing the 7 continents of the world ,charts
Activities: The teacher should render a song that will easily impart the 7
continents of the world in pupils memory. Clad your classroom with maps of the
world.
TERM TWO
Week 1& 2
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to state the way a
particular animal move e.g snake- craw, man- walk.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Week 3 & 4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to mention a few
functions of leaves to plants , and the environment.
Lesson: 2 Lesson
Activities: The teacher explains using appropriate charts, the function of leaves to
plnts ,man , and the environment .
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Evaluation: Ask relevant questions on the topic.
Week 5 & 6
ObjectiveAt the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state the
importantance of light to growing plants.
Lesoon: 2 Lessons
Materials: plants grown in the class and the plants grown in the cupboard
Activities: The teacher explains using the difference between the two plants to
show the imports of light to growing plants
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention the oceans
of the world .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher explains using the globe, the oceans of the world i.e
atlantic, pacific, actic, Indian .
Week 9 & 10
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Topic: Water sources and uses
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state the sources of
water and its uses.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: Charts on water sources and uses, rest rooms and wash hand basins in
the school.
Activities: The teacher explains using relevant charts and facilities, the source s of
water and its uses.
THREE THREE
Week 1 & 2
Objectives : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state what happens
when a substance in heated and it cools.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher should carry out practicals in the class to demonstrate
what happens when you heat or cool some substances.
NB :The teacher should not heat oil in class. Ice should be heated to melt and oil
cooled to solidify .
Week 3&4
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher should run some of these equipments in class to show that
they depend electricity to function.
Week 5& 6
Objectives : At the end of the leson , pupils should be able to distinguish between
natural and man made lights .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher should demonstrate the main difference between natural
and man made light i.e man- made light can be turned off. Sun light can not be
turned off by man .
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mention the rivers of
the world .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Week 9 & 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to state what
constitute danger in the school environment and how to avoid it.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: Things and places around the school to which pupils are denied access
e.g pits, electric sockets etc.
Activities; The teacher should explain the danger in such things and areas and
how the pupils can avoid it.
RHYMES
The teacher should break the content of the nursery rhymes for pre-primary bk 2
( LISTED IN THE RECEPTION LIST OF BOOKS) into three terms and each of the
terms into ten weeks.
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TERM ONE
Week 1& 2
Topic: Set grandrules, waiking round the class and taking excuses
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils shpuld be able to walk round the class
courteously and obey the class rules .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher set the grand rules for the term and practicalize the act of
walking round the class and taking excuses before the pupils .
Week 3&4
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher take s out the pupils to the flower beds beside the class to
carry out the weeding exercises .
Evaluation: Ask questions on fowers and weeds growing aroud school and homes.
Week 5&6
Lesson: 2Lessons
Activities: The teacher engage the pupils in role playing to show gratitude i.e
performing an action that will make the pupils to say thank you eg picking
particles from the pupils hair or adjusting their dress for them .
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to tidy the work ground
by sweeping and packing the litters on the ground after work .
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher sweeps and parks some litters while the pupils watch and
further do the same.
Week 9 & 10
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Activities: The teacher folds all kinds of clothes as mentioned above while the
pupils watch and further do the same .
Evaluation: Ask them to fold their class hand towel and toy dresses.
TERM TWO
Week 1 & 2
Topic : Set grand rules, opening of books and the use of sharpener
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to open their books
without destroying its spines and sharpen their pencils without cutting their
fingers and wasting the pencil away.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Week 3 & 4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson,pupils should be able to wash their faces
when they wake up from sleep and wash their hands after using the rest room.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: Wash hand basins , bowls , water, detergent, bar soap etc.
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Evaluation: practical evaluation
Week 5 & 6
Objectives : At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to wash his or her
pants,socks, and face towel. He or she should be able to hang some clothes and
peg them.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: socks, face towel , napkins, detergent, water, basins and bowls etc.
Week 7 & 8
Topic: Mopping
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to mop up water spills
in the class.
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Materials: Mop stick and bucket with water and some detergent
Week 9 & 10
Topic: Greetings
Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to greet on different
occasions in English and his or her native language.
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Lesson: 2 Lesson
Material: charts
TERM THREE
Week 1 & 2
Lesson: 2 Lessons
Week 3 & 4
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to give way to one
another at the door and the entrance.
Week 5 & 6
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to welcome visitors in
an expected manner and according to their age and class level to project the
image of the school.
Material: charts
Week 7 & 8
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to understand when to
talk and when not to talk when others are discussing something important. NB:
Pupils need to be told that it is not good to barge into other peoples discussion
and if need be, it must not be done rudely.
Week 9 & 10
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to understand the need
to maintain decorum on an outing and when it is necessary to do so.