Objective: To introduce the children to a Christian school environment. Developing academic and social skills through work and play.
Gross Motor Skills Development
The children will develop gross motor skills during gym activities (ball games, obstacles course, dancing, marching and bean bag games).
Free Play Time
This period is designed to develop social and motor skills. Playtime skills include classroom, playground and playroom unstructured play.
Phonetic Awareness
Introducing rhymes, sounds and symbols.
(Reinforced with worksheets, games and hands-on activities).
Letter Knowledge
Will consist of letter recognition, letter identification, letter formation and beginning sounds.
(Reinforced with worksheets, games and hands-on activities).
Book Awareness
Books will be introduced to the children through story time, school library and guest/buddy readers.
Number Awareness
Will consist of counting 1 to 20, recognizing and naming numbers 1 to 20, ordinal numbers, comparing sets and shapes and the calandar.
Studying of holidays/celebration, presidents and famous people, my family, my school, and community helpers, careers and field trips.
Topics covered in science will include: weather and the seasons, nature walks, outer space, experiments, animal kingdom how plants grow, and the life cycle of the butterfly.
Each topic is taught through song, coloring, writing and pronunciation.