by Gichaga
KLB Skillgrow Christian Religious Activities Grade 1 Teacher’s Guide is a self-sufficient book that spells out the outcomes for each strand and sub-strand while offering suggestions on how best to teach all the lessons. It further gives activities that need to be done within the lesson to develop the expected competences. Most of the activities in the Learner’s Workbook are those that require guidance from the teacher but do not make learners passive recipients of knowledge but actively involve them in the learning process. Mostly, they call for prior preparation on the part of both the teacher and the learner and this has been spelt out in this Teacher’s Guide.
This Teacher’s Guide has a step-by-step teaching of every strand and sub-strand with information that will help the teacher achieve desired outcomes for each sub-strand. The Key Inquiry Questions have been provided to focus the teacher to guide the learning towards the expected lesson competences. There is also clear cross-referencing between the Guide and the Learner’s Workbook to make it easy for the teacher to refer to both.
This Guide has useful tips on integrative teaching particularly where multi-ability learning is supposed to be used to cater for learners of varied abilities. The ways to support learners with special needs have been provided. It also has suggested methods of assessment for every lesson to enable the teacher to monitor the progress of the learner using formative assessment tools. Suggested rubrics are included in this Guide to enable the teacher monitor the achievement of learners in light of the expected competences and take necessary action.
The Guide shows links to pertinent and contemporary issues and values to be developed in every lesson. It also shows links to strands, sub-strands or activities in other learning areas. It further gives suggestions to non-formal activities that would enhance non-formal learning and community service learning by the learner.

by KLB
KLB Visionary Grade 2 Christian Religious Activities Learner’s Workbook has been developed in line with the requirements of the new Competence Based Curriculum Design.The experiences have been developed in tandem with the thematic integrated approach that is recommended for children at this level.The book is generously illustrated to enliven the content and the text follows the design closely. This Workbook has employed a child-centred approach where all experiences are centred on the child’s interests, knowledge and application to real life situations in line with the Life Approach Method of teaching Christian Religious Education. Learners encounter different situations and gain experience from what happens around them. Every lesson has something to draw from day-to-day occurrences. This Learner’s Workbook has, therefore, used short texts in simple language with familiar situations that are created to help learners understand more difficult concepts. Gender equitable roles have been reflected so as to erase the association of certain tasks with specific gender. For example, both boys and girls are involved in household chores, playing musical instruments and actively participating in church activities.The principle of inclusivity has been taken care of by having illustrations of children with special needs involved in common activities with other children to make learners appreciate them as part of the society. This Learner’s book is basically a Workbook with numerous practical activities within and at the end of every lesson to enable the learner to practise doing on their own. The simple exercises like drawing, colouring, singing and reciting memory verses are integrated within the lessons so as to make learning interesting and participatory.

by KLB
KLB Visionary English Literacy Activities Grade 2 Learner’s Workbook is based on the new Competency-Based Curriculum. It has numerous learner-centred activities for each learning strand and sub-strand that allow the learners to discover and create knowledge through doing rather than memorizing facts. The four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are acquired through the involving activities that allow for maximum collaboration and participation among the learners. The activities are designed in a way that enables learners to pace their own learning and even to learn from their peers. The activities in the Learners’ Workbook are tailored to develop the seven core competences as spelled out in the new curriculum, namely communication and collaboration, self-efficacy, critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and imagination, citizenship, digital literacy and learning to learn.Learning in this Workbook is not just confined to the classroom but continued outside the class and even in the family and community.This link to a community is maintained throughout the book. Parent/caregiver engagement is emphasized so that learning becomes a life-long endeavour that goes beyond the classroom and the normal school situation. The Workbook has full-colour illustrations that make the content very attractive to the learners. thus making learning fun.The language used in the book is simple and easy to understand. This makes the desired learning outcomes easy to achieve without undue difficulty to the learners. This is one book that makes learning fun and learning concepts easy to grasp.

by “Mwangi, Mukunga”

KLB Visionary English Literacy Activities Grade 2 Teachers Guide has an accompanying Teacher’s Guide that provides the core competences, the skills, the attitudes, the pertinent and contemporary issues that need to be achieved in every strand and sub-strand. The teacher is made aware beforehand of the desired lesson outcomes and is guided on how to facilitate the learners as they carry out the activities given successfully.
The guide explains clearly how the role of the teacher has changed from that of giver of knowledge to that of a facilitator of learning as learners create their own knowledge through doing, and pace and control their own learning.
The Teacher’s Guide also contains information on how the teacher should help the learners carry out all the activities in the Workbook and how to infuse the pertinent and contemporary issues in them. English Literacy Grade 2 Teacher’s Guide further contains information for the teacher that enables him or her to guide the learners to carry out the activities as well as tips on how to handle special needs and multi-ability learners so that learning is made all-inclusive.
The teacher is also helped to implement a formative assessment strategy in the course of learning so that assessment is not just meant to evaluate what the learners have learned but also provides an opportunity for further learning. An assessment rubric is provided in the guide to help teachers assess the achievement of the learning outcomes on a continuous basis. Teachers and Parents/Caregivers will find this guide very useful indeed.

by KLB
Hygiene and Nutrition Activities is a course intended to equip learners with basic knowledge, skills. and attitudes that promote a happy and healthy lifestyle. The learner is empowered to take care of his or her own wellbeing as well as that of others. The learner is sensitized to adopt healthy practices in order to prevent the occurrence of infections associated with poor hygiene and sanitation practices. This Learner’s Workbook for Grade 2 comprehensively covers the 2017 competency-based curriculum. The learning activities are presented in a simple concise language and in an attractive layout designed to make the workbook learner friendly. This workbook incorporates Pertinent and Contemporary Issues (PCIs) as required in the curriculum designs. Some PCIs addressed include education in the following areas: life skills and values, health, and environment.

by Kihugu, Mogaka
Visionary Hygiene and Nutrition Grade 2 Teacher’s Guide is developed in line with the new competency-based curriculum design. All the aspects in the curriculum design have been properly adopted in this teacher’s guide. The guide outlines specific areas of interest that will guide the teacher step-by-step on activities to be undertaken in the teaching and learning process. The teacher is properly guided on the learning experiences to be undertaken in every lesson.
The guide includes additional content to the teacher. The additional content gives the teacher extra notes that will be helpful in understanding the background and the development of the content.
The guide also outlines measures to be taken in addressing learners with special needs. Different categories of learners with special needs have been highlighted and steps to be undertaken while addressing specific disabilities amongst learners have also been properly outlined.
Answers to the activities in the learner’s book are provided in order for the teacher to evaluate what the learner has jearnt and thus plan for remedial teachings if need be. The guide further stipulates well-framed assessment rubrics according to the lessons. At the end of every lesson, each learner will be assessed based on the designed criterion provided.
The series is authored by a panel of competent and experienced authors in curriculum development and teaching.