The primary aims in Transition build upon the basic skills learned in Kindergarten and to accustom children to a more formalized classroom structure and to begin more formal instruction through the programme of inquiry in the disciplines of language, mathematics, science, social studies, arts and physical education.
The children study four units of inquiry (following the four organizing themes) during the course of the year. All units are taught in a trans-disciplinary way, incorporating all disciplines and relevant skills and concepts. In Transition there is a specialist teacher for Italian who work closely with the class teacher to implement the programmes of inquiry.

Language
Listening and speaking
Students are given opportunities to engage in interactive activities through drama and role play. They will follow and give instructions, tell stories and events in sequence and participate in conversation. Children will use oral language for social interaction and to acquire knowledge of people, places and things in their environment and the wider community. They are encouraged to express and form their own ideas through teacher led activities, structured play, games and shared stories.

Reading and Writing
Children will read daily with support and guidance in small groups, independently or in whole-class situations. They will be given opportunities to recognise words in stories, labels and signs. Children will be read to daily and will be given opportunities to experience both fiction and non-fiction and to choose their own reading material. The children gain phonic knowledge through decoding strategies.
Children will write letters and numbers using the correct sequence of movements to support fine motor skills. They will sketch, draw, and make diagrams to mimic the writing process. Children will assign meaning to message and will gradually produce recognizable spellings of a range of words. The children will be encouraged to write daily either independently, in small groups or with the whole class.

Mathematics
Data Handling
Children will sort, create graphs with real objects and compare quantities. They will discuss and identify outcomes that will happen, won’t happen and might happen.

Measurement
Children will identify, compare and describe attributes of real objects, and events in their realm of experience; longer, shorter, heavier, empty, full, hotter, colder. Children will also identify, compare and sequence events in their daily routine: before, after, bedtime, story time, today, tomorrow.

Shape and Space
Students will be able to name, sort , describe and compare everyday 2-D shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle) and 3-D shapes (cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, sphere, pyramid) are introduced. The children will explore and describe the paths, regions and boundaries of their immediate environment (inside. Outside, above below) and their position (next to, behind, in front of, up, down).

Pattern and function
Children will find and describe patterns in their world and also create simple patterns.

Number
Children will read, write, count, compare and order numbers to 20. They will count forwards and backwards to 10. They will be introduced to the mathematical symbols +, -, =. They work with basic addition and subtraction to 10 and select and explain an appropriate method for problem solving.

Science and Social Studies
Transition will consider four main scientific themes; living things, earth and space, materials and matter and forces and energy. Students are engaged in open ended inquiry by formulating questions, observing, planning, collecting data, recording data, organizing data, interpreting data and by presenting research findings.
The social studies domain of PYP encompasses the strands: Human systems and economic activities; social organizations and culture; continuity and change through time; human and natural environments; resources and the environment. Students engage in research, applying and acquiring a variety of concepts and skills through inquiry based units of study.
Transition will study social studies and science and technology within six transdisciplinary themes (who we are, where we are in place and time, how we express ourselves, how the world works, how we organize our ourselves, and sharing the planet). Children will gain and understanding of people and their lives, focusing on themselves, their friends and families.

Visual Arts
In Transition children will begin to recognize that are can be used to express themselves and gain experience in the basic skills of drawing, painting, pasting, cutting and using clay. They will also learn through activities that encourage creativity, experimentation and growth to skills. Children will use basic printing and stamping techniques and begin to explore and recognise surface texture through working with clay, plasticine and collage materials. They will learn to choose the best materials and tools for a particular task and care for them appropriately.

Music
Creating and composing
Children will explore and make choices about sound and create sound effects to complement a story, picture, song or rhyme. Music will be used to express themselves and communicate ideas.

Listening and Appreciation
Children will begin to develop an awareness and appreciation of music from other cultures. They will listen with growing attention and respond to contrasts in musical elements.

Notation
Children will work as a group and follow directions given by hand signals and signs. The will also recognise that sound can be recorded using notation or signs.

Performing: Playing Instruments
Children will use classroom instruments with developing care and control. Fine motor control will be developed by exploring a variety of tuned and untuned percussion instruments. They will also develop anability to maintain a steady beat using body sounds and playing instruments.

Singing
Children will sing in unison simple songs of an appropriate pitch range in their entirety and from memory. They will also explore vocal sounds using the voice to imitate sounds and communicate feelings.

Drama
Creative Exploration and Expression
The children will value imaginary creations and participate in a dramatic play of a familiar story or rhyme. A range of sources as stimuli will be used to engage in imaginative play, for example, personal experiences, objects, stories and pictures.

Performance
Children will explore movement and the use of space. They will also share ideas through mime and mimic a variety of sounds.

Technical Incorporation
Children will retell information about a person, story, rhyme or event. They will also participate in a performance with or without props, costumes or simple sets.

Physical Education
Children in Transition will participate in activities which concentrate on:
Ball skills: eye, hand, eye, foot co-ordination skills.
Listening skills: Listening to short details explanations and copying from a demonstration
Gymnastics: Using floor space to develop body awareness. Different balances and imaginative interpretation of tasks.
Movement and Dance: With a partner and group work, involving rhythm and interpretation of various stumuli; performing in front of others and sharing ideas.