Home Living/ Daily Living
Learning Continuum
Hygiene Curriculum

Learning Areas

Emerging

Developing

Mastery

Literacy

Participates in activities that address concepts such as up/down, right/left, top/bottom

Views/Listens to video of grooming

Receives and interprets information about daily hygiene and grooming tasks from a variety of media

Picks clothing color

Understands pictures/signs for grooming

Learns how to use supplies needed for grooming

Distinguishes hot/cold faucets

Recognizes public bathrooms

Demonstrates awareness of current fashion

Matches clothes in respect to color

Picks out clothes at home

Identifies colors of personal toothbrush and comb

Shops for clothes

Signs or points to picture board sequence of grooming steps with assistance

Demonstrates understanding of use of a variety of grooming products

Uses products according to instructions

Dresses and grooms appropriately for different community events

Expresses own unique style

Selects fashion catalogues/magazine

Signs/points to picture board sequence of grooming steps independently

Communication

Indicates body parts

Communicates steps for hygiene/restroom routine, using personal mode of communication

Communicates needs for hygiene/restroom

Demonstrates a hygiene sequence

Makes a shopping list of grooming products using personal mode of communication

Makes grooming appointment

Performs a hygiene task

Shops for grooming supplies in store

Organizes and follows personal calendar

Math & Science

Indicates amounts of shampoo, soap, toothpaste that are needed

Counts strokes for teeth brushing, or uses timer for teeth brushing

Identifies reasons to keep clean

Identifies a variety of hygiene products

Tolerates use of different products

Uses basic medical terms to accurately describe common medical issues

Indicates hot and cold

Demonstrates understanding of germ or disease transmission

Demonstrates understanding of different hand washing stations

Demonstrates awareness of body parts

Keeps a menstrual calendar

Uses amounts of grooming products such as deodorant, make-up, cologne

Measures bath water

Indicates what constitutes excessive amounts

Samples effectiveness of different products

Understands or is aware of the differences between male and female

Experiments and accepts different hair and cosmetic styles

Uses or accepts hairdryer

Demonstrates awareness of bodily changes in puberty

Follows a bathing schedule

Performs a hygiene task

Uses appropriate amounts of products

Finds male/female bathrooms independently

Develops a preference for grooming/hygiene products

Demonstrates knowledge of gender specific tasks such as menstrual care, shaving

Uses basic medical terms to accurately describe common medical issues

Social Studies

Demonstrates awareness of socially acceptable presentation of self in public (using a tissue for blowing nose, eating with mouth closed, washing hands, indicating when burping/passing gas is acceptable)

Demonstrates awareness of bad hygiene and self-correct

Notices cultural differences, determines appropriate dress, demonstrates appropriate table manners in different settings, uses menu and orders from it

Understands need for privacy

Physical Education & Recreation Leisure Skills

Tolerates sensation of water/brushing, shows partial motor participation in hygiene routine, outside clean up

Knows steps for washing/ showering, awareness of gym dress, knows when to apply deodorant/take bath, dresses appropriately, uses restroom independently

States two habits that promote dental health

Self monitors need for deodorant/ shower/ cologne, takes part in restorative grooming after exercise

Personal Resource Management

Demonstrates awareness of items you may purchase for grooming

Follows steps of grooming routine

Follows steps of grooming routine with picture symbols

Participates in grooming routine

Shops with assistance, chooses correct aisle, chooses brands that he/she prefers, name and states use of two grooming products

Begins appropriate grooming activity associated with a given grooming tool (toothbrush, etc)

Shops with list, compares costs/ range of hygiene products, shops using catalogue/ sales magazine

Initiates daily grooming routine at specific times