by Omondi
First Steps Environmental Activities is a competency based course developed to equip the learners with necessary competences, skills, values and knowledge geared towards developing the learner in all aspects. The course employs an inquiry based approach to learning in all activities which equips learners with skills and the quest to learn and discover on their own.
The course:

• Encourages the use of learning materials from the learner’s immediate environment thus giving the learner an opportunity to learn
• Has a variety of activities which enable learners to explore and learn
• Covers all the outcomes in the syllabus
• Has activities which integrate the core competences, values and pertinent and contemporary issues
• Has activities to encourage parental involvement in the learning of the children
• Has activities that enable learners to appreciate and improve their community.

by Wamalwa
Great Minds Maths Activities GD1, Pupils Book, is a comprehensive course based on the new Competency-Based Curriculum, 2018 for primary schools. This course has been developed to enable learners apply the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in their daily use of language. This Grade 1 book is presented in a simple manner. Learners at this level will enjoy using it. here, the teacher becomes a facilitator of learning and not simply a source of knowledge.
The key features of this book include:

• A simple approach to language and presentation that is easy to follow.
• Relevant, well drawn full-color illustrations.
• A variety of competency-based learner-centered activities that help the learners to develop a wide range of skills.
• Suggestions for parents and teachers to be involved in the continuous learning process.
• Songs and poems that help the learners to understand the content within this book.
• Indoor and outdoor activities that learners do in pairs and in groups as they help each other to learn.

KLB Skillgrow Christian Religious Activities Pre-Primary 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 Veronica Odida
Veronica A Odida is a Pre-School teacher of repute at Edel Quinn Nursery School-Riruta with over 10 years of successfully nurturing talent of 3 – 6 year olds.  Her charges have continued to excel in Primary school and beyond. She has a passion of positively impacting the education of children at their respective places of abode.

by Narvekar
Vikas Drawing and Colouring is a series of 10 books in Art Education with a very fresh look. Prepared for students from KG to Secondary levels, these books are designed with a vision of the interests as well as needs of children at various stages. Book A, the introductory book in the series, provides graded colouring exercises for Nursery/ KG kids. What’s more, this book teaches the children to make certain basic decorative patterns using coloured dots and rings of varying sizes. These patterns add variety to pictures and make them more beautiful. Making dots and rings would help improve the motor functions of the hands of children and give more control to their fingers. These exercises may also improve their handwriting. Art teachers may encourage the children to practise more of such exercises in rough drawing books.
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Mastering Number Work is a book intended for use by pre-primary Il pupils. It has been thoroughly researched on and introduces pupils to the simplest and most basic ways of mathematics.
The unique strength of the book lies in the following areas:
* New curriculum concepts and skills with a variety of activities.
* Variety of exercises that test understanding of concept and skills learnt.
* Enough revision exercises for remedial work.