2’s Curriculum
Faith Development & Bible
Sharing our faith and teaching our little ones about Jesus is our number one priority. We want to see students grow in their love for Jesus. These opportunities exist through song and dance, teacher/student interactions, Bible stories and showing Jesus’ love in all that teachers and staff do.
Language Development
Students build language skills and strategies through aural, oral and written instruction. Children learn how to express themselves, use manners and communicate their feelings to both their teachers and their friends.
Mathematics
Our little ones will use age appropriate manipulatives, print, and visuals to grasp concepts in math. These concepts are introduced through play, experience and discovery. These experiences help foster young problem solvers and flexible thinkers.
Science & Discovery
Little ones learn that God created the universe and everything in it and that we are to take care of our world. Children will begin to apply basic concepts of science through discovery and play.
Social Studies
Students will learn about themselves, their families, communities, holidays and events.
Art
Getting messy and being creative is part of learning! Students will develop awareness and learn to express themselves in creative ways through many experiences such as crayons, paint, stickers, stamps, markers and more.
3’s Curriculum
Bible
Jesus Christ is our focus. We want our students to know that they are loved by their Heavenly Father. This is taught through Bible stories, songs and memory verses.
Language Arts: Printing, Phonics, Reading
Phonics
One week of the school year is dedicated to each letter of the alphabet and its sound. Stories, games, songs, and crafts introduce the letters to three-year olds. Our goal is introduction and exposure to letters and sounds.
Printing
We use “Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum” as we introduce letters. Students will learn to recognize and print their name. Markers, crayons and pencils are available to our students to encourage fine motor growth. We use tactile materials like playdough, chalk and sandpaper to strengthen little fingers to help prepare their fingers to hold a pencil.
Reading
We love books! Books of all kinds are read to our little ones each day. Students practice pre-reading skills by looking at pictures and orally dictating stories to friends or a teacher.
Mathematics
We want to create a strong number sense in our students. Numbers 1-10 are taught. Students learn to sort by color, size and shape. Students learn what patterns are and how to create their own.
Science
Students will use their five senses to learn and explore the world around them.
Social Studies
Families, emotions, friendship, self-regulation, being part of a group and learning empathy are all part of our curriculum.
Minds in Motion
Minds in Motion is a program that specializes in developmental activities for 15 minutes per day. This unique program is designed to stimulate a child’s visual processing, auditory processing and motor skills. The goal of the program is to produce better integrated and balanced children who tend to perform better in school.
Prep-K Curriculum
Bible
Prep-K students learn that the Bible is the true word of God. Students learn about sin and the need for forgiveness through Jesus Christ. They learn to talk with Jesus through prayer, memorize His word, and praise him through song.
Language Arts: Phonics, Printing, Reading
Phonics
Students learn to identify capital and lowercase alphabet letters and produce the sounds they make. Games, crafts, stories, and riddles help them identify each letter as a beginning sound. Students learn that letters are put together to make words. Students will learn that the alphabet consists of consonants and vowels.
Printing
Students use pencils, crayons, markers, scissors, and paints to develop and strengthen their fine motor muscles. Students are introduced to the correct way to hold writing instruments and scissors as well as printing posture at the tables. They practice coloring within the lines, cutting on straight and curved lines, forming numbers and letters and printing their name.
Reading
Reading readiness skills are taught including positional words, rhyming, identifying likenesses and differences in pictures and letters, and sequencing pictures and thoughts. Books are read to students in the classroom.
Mathematics
Students learn to recognize and order the numbers 1-20. They are given practice in sorting, graphing, counting out objects, comparing sets, and measuring. Students practice problem solving, critical thinking, using manipulatives and playing games.
Science & Social Studies
Lessons on friends, family, pets, transportation, plants,and holidays as well as important people and events in our country’s history are taught seasonally. Weather is taught during the calendar each morning.
Minds in Motion
Minds in Motion is a program that specializes in developmental activities for 15 minutes per day. This unique program is designed to stimulate a child’s visual processing, auditory processing and motor skills. The goal of the program is to produce better integrated and balanced children who tend to perform better in school.
Kindergarten Curriculum
Bible
Kindergarten students learn that God is the creator, their Savior and Lord. They learn that the Bible is the Word of God. They learn to talk to Jesus through prayer and memorize his word. In Kindergarten we learn that the Bible teaches that everyone has sinned, and sin separates us from God. God sent his only Son, Jesus to die for our sins. Students learn that when we place our faith in Jesus Christ, follow Him and obey his Word we can live with him forever. We study stories from the Bible beginning with Creation, and continuing through the Old Testament and then into the New Testament.
Language Arts: Printing, Phonics, Reading
Printing
Kindergarten students are introduced to the proper way to hold a pencil and the correct printing position. They are taught where the alphabet letters (both uppercase and lowercase) are to be positioned correctly on the lines. Kindergarteners learn how to correctly print these letters. They learn how to print their first and last name, blend, CVC words (short vowel), color words, number words, sight words and Bible verses.
Phonics
During the first quarter of Kindergarten, students learn to identify all 26 letters and sounds, the beginning consonants, vowels as the medial sound in words and C-V blends and phonics charts 1 & 2. In the second quarter of Kindergarten, students learn blend ladders, beginning and ending consonants, CVC words, how to mark vowels, phonics charts 6 & 7 and how to recognize and mark phonics rules. During the fourth quarter of Kindergarten, students continue to strengthen their long vowel recognition and they will learn Phonics charts 8, 9 and 10.
Reading
Reading readiness skills are vital in learning how to read. Students learn skills such as over/under, top/bottom, left/right, how to track from left to right, and similarities/differences which will all help in developing strong readers. Students are taught to blend beginning consonants with a vowel and then add the ending sound to make a CVC word. Students are grouped into reading groups and are provided with different books to read. These books progress in difficulty and help students to review sight words, short vowel and long vowel words.
Mathematics
Kindergarten students start by learning the days of the week and months of the year, shapes, patterning, graphing, and the concrete, pictorial and symbolic stages of the numbers 1-100. Students learn place value up to the hundreds place, how to estimate and measure. They also learn how to add and subtract through the seven families. Students practice problem solving, mental math and how to walk through story problems. During the fourth quarter, students are introduced to coins: penny, nickel, dime and quarter and they also learn about telling time to the hour and half hour.
Science & Social Studies
Science
Kindergarteners will study seasonal related concepts such as farms, harvest, pumpkins, apples, winter animals (penguins, bears), hibernation and the water cycle in the spring. They will study nutrition, the human body and explore concepts such as shapes and symbiolic relationships.
Social Studies
In Kindergarten, we work hard on teaching personal responsibility and good manners while at school, in the bathroom, recess, lunch and dismissal. We learn the Pledge of Allegiance, the Pledge to the Christian flag and to the Bible as well as the history and importance of some of our nation’s symbols. They will learn about farms, Christopher Columbus, Native Americans, the birth of Christ and gingerbread houses in the fall and winter. Winter, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day (Lincoln, Washington) and ground hogs day are all explored with songs, crafts and lessons.
Minds in Motion
Minds in Motion is a program that specializes in developmental activities for 15 minutes per day. This unique program is designed to stimulate a child’s visual processing, auditory processing and motor skills. The goal of the program is to produce better integrated and balanced children who tend to perform better in school
Schedule
Students will arrive at 8:25 and will participate in a variety of activities such as:
- listening to and engaging in Bible stories about Jesus Christ.
- Exploring with paints, crayons, glue and other art materials
- Open ended play with blocks, legos and manipulative materials
- Listen to stories, puppets, poetry, dramatizations and books
- Developing and strengthening early childhood skills: communication, sharing, problem solving, fine motor & gross motor skill, good hygiene and more.
- Developing a heart for Jesus as we pursue Christ-like character and values
- Participating in theme days, special events and classroom parties