"Raising world-changers through Christ-centered excellence—from the crib to the classroom."

This fun curriculum will appeal to 4-year-olds and reinforce the beginning phonics and reading skills.

Skills Development

• Recognize vowels and consonants
• Blend a consonant and vowel together
• Sound one- and two-vowel words
• Learn phonics rules
• Apply phonics concepts to reading
• Know capitalization and punctuation

This curriculum will give children kpractice reading letters, words, and simple sentences. Later, students are thrilled to be able to read simple stories in their very own Animal Friends readers.

Skills Development

• Apply phonics sounds and rules
• Achieve accuracy
• Improve comprehension
• Read sight words
• Build oral skills

The literature provides a delightful way for children to expand their language skills as they learn new vocabulary words, increase listening skills, and strengthen motor skills. By learning about the world around them, children will develop an adppreciation for God's creation.

Language Development Skills

• Animals and their habitats
• Coutries around the world
• Health, safety, manners
• Community helpers
• Character development
• Science
• Daily activity miscellaneous topics

Reinforces fine motor skills by cutting, tracing, threading beads, and using tweezers. These activities strengthen hand muscles and improve coordination. 

Expands gross motor skills by running, jumping, climbing, and balancing to develop greater strength, agility, and spatial awareness. 

Encourages physical play and exploration of the natural outdoor environment. 

Kindergartners will practice tracing and then writing lowercase letters of the alphabet and 12 capital letters in cursive. By the end of the year, they are writing blends and words and their own first name.

Uses hands-on science experiments and investigations to explore basic scientific concepts such as cause-and-effect, observation, and inquiry. 

Facilitates nature walks and outdoor exploration for sensory experiences that foster curiosity about the natural world.  

Children will memorize 22 poems, 4 finger plays, and 12 nursery rhymes, including actions and motions. They will develop an appreciation and enjoyment of a wide variety of appealing rhymes and classic poetry. They will gain vocabulary enrichment such s understanding and producing rhyming words and opposite words. 

In K4, children will learn to recognize and understand the concepts of numbers. By the end of the year they will be able to count 1-100, recognize numbers 1-20, distinguish before and after numbers, and answer simple combinations.

• Develop observation, listening, and motor skills through counting sounds and counting while clapping, jumping, hopping
• Compare larger and smaller numbers
• More or less
• Largest and smallest 1-20
• Recognize addition and equal signs
• Add 1 to 1-9 using concrete objects
• Recognize ge

Children will enjoy Bible stories from the Old and New Testament. They will also enjoy learning about the first Thanksgiving, the birth of Christ, and Christ's resurrection. At the end of the year, a cumulative review of Bible lessons will help children remeber what they have learned.

Lessons

• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Holiday Lessons
• Music choruses, holiday songs, patriotic songs
• Prayer Time

Uses ongoing assessment tools that monitor child progress and identify areas requiring additional support or enrichment. 

Provides individualized attention and targeted interventions, as needed, to ensure all children are prepared for transition to kindergarten.