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PREFACE

Early Childhood & Care Education lays the foundation for a smooth transition to formal education

from Class 3 onwards. The over-all guiding principle of the ECCE stage is 'recognizing, identifying,
and fostering the unique capabilities of students' and 'achieving Foundational Literacy and
Numeracy'by Grade3. (NCF2022)

Keeping this in view, The Coral Bells Series has been designed to cater to the needs, abilities and

interest of children. The books introduce students to the basic skills of reading, writing, numeracy and
general awareness of life around them.The series has also been designed to develop various skills such
as association skills, visual discrimination, observation skills, comparison skills, and eye-hand

coordination.ItadherestotherecommendationoftheNationalCurriculumFramework(NCF).

In Coral Bells Mathematics , early mathematical skills, both pre-number and numerical skills have
been introduced Rhymes have been included to make learning a joyful experience. Activities such as
matching,identificationandnaminghavebeenfollowedfor easyconceptformation.

Theseactivitieswillenablethchild.

tousetherelevantand necessaryvocabularyappropriately

refinetheabilitytodiscriminate,compare,sort and classifyitemsand objects

exhibittheabilitytopatternand sequence
recognizeand discriminatecommon shapes

recognizecommon colours

recognizeand countnumbers

knownumber names

understand theconceptofzero
understand additionand subtractionusing pictures

The Mathematics Book covers concepts in pre-number and number concept, colours, shapes, space,

temperature, with activities and worksheets. Writing numbers is introduced by a song for easy
Arrow - Coral Bells -Maths-Nursery The Practice book has more rhymes, stories, activities and worksheets to reinforce the skills learnt in
formationof thenumbersandanumberrhymeineachpagefor childrentoenjoywriting.

theCourseBook.

The Teacher's Manual serves as a teacher training tool. It helps the teacher to navigate the course
with expert advice and support. It enables teachers to take into the classroom, the transactional process

andthelearningresourcessuggestedby theNCF.

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