Our school provides developmentally appropriate programs for three, four, and five year old children. Our program offers concrete experiences, which involve early learning skills in math, language arts, science, social studies, art, music, and small and large muscle development. In addition, invaluable learning takes place through social experiences and dramatic play. Our curriculum emphasizes thematic teaching units. It is our desire, not to teach specific doctrine, but to teach children about Jesus and what a special friend He can be to us.
Goals and Objectives
Art
A. To provide the child with enjoyable opportunities for creative self-expression.
B. To help the child appreciate, recognize, and reproduce the colors, form, and textures in the world.
C. To provide opportunities to become familiar with a wide variety of media, tools, and methods.
D. To encourage the child to use media and tools with confidence.
E. To promote in the child a strong and deep appreciation of art in the work of others as well as in their own work.
Language Arts
A. To encourage age-appropriate language development.
B. To provide an environment which helps the child use communication skills in creative and meaningful ways.
C. To provide an environment that helps the child listen to others.
D. To promote an environment that encourages the child to practice foundation skills that lead to later skills in reading and writing.
Mathematics
A. To provide a varied manipulative-based mathematical environment that provides opportunities in the following areas:
1. Classifying, comparing, sorting, and ordering
a. Comparing and ordering by different attributes.
b. Sorting objects by various attributes (color, size, and shape.)
c. Deciding if an object belongs in a set.
2. Measurement
a. Describing location and position.
b. Comparison of height, length, weight, capacity.
3. Geometry
a. Recognizing and naming shapes.
b. Describe similarities and differences in shapes.
c. Copying figures.
d. Concept of inside and outside.
e. Tracing paths with finger or pencil.
f. Reproducing shapes with yarn, straws, etc.
4. Patterns
a. Looking for and extending patterns.
b. Duplicating patterns.
c. Symmetry.
5. Cardinal Numbers
a. One-to-one matching.
b. Rational counting.
c. Identifying one more or less than.
d. Identifying zero.
6. Numeration
a. Recognition of numerals.
b. Grouping elements & naming the number in each group.
7. Ordinal Numbers
a. Comparing two sets to tell which has more or less.
b. Locating an object by numbers (first, second, third.)
8. Problem Solving
a. Setting up verbal problems in the child’s environment.
Motor-Perception
A. Fine motor development
B. Gross motor development
C. Sensory motor development
D. Lateral and directional discrimination
E. Tactile discrimination
F. Visual perception
1. To help children develop basic motor control and coordination.
2. To assist young children in developing body awareness.
3. To provide a variety of play activities.
4. To help young children learn to follow directions and to develop vocabulary.
5. To assist children in exploring different suggested types of locomotion skills.
Music
A. To experience enjoyable, rewarding, and memorable experiences in music.
B. To develop body awareness and coordination.
C. To respond to rhythmic and auditory sensations through the playing of simple instruments.
D. To develop a repertoire of songs for personal enjoyment.
E. To enrich and reinforce learning in other areas, such as Christian learning and worship, vocabulary development and social studies.
Religion
A. To allow the child opportunities to grow in his/her relationship to God.
1. To know Jesus as friend and teacher.
2. To praise God in spontaneous worship and prayer.
B. To allow the child opportunities to grow in his/her relationship toward the Bible.
1. To understand that Jesus speaks to him/her through the Bible.
2. To hear and learn what the Bible says to him/her.
C. To allow the child opportunities to grow in relationship toward the church.
1. To understand the church as God’s family.
2. To pray spontaneously alone and with others.
D. To allow the child opportunities to grow into relationships with others.
1. To understand that he/she belongs to a family, a community, and a world.
2. To show respect for, cooperate with, forgive and receive forgiveness from others.
Science
A. To actively investigate the world around them.
B. To observe the changes going on in their environment.
C. To lose fears by exploring related activities.
D. To share the knowledge of God’s creation which they have gained by observing, questioning, and exploring.
E. To enjoy God’s creation and praise and thank Him for the wonderful world He has given to explore.
Social Studies
A. To develop an understanding of cooperative group living with an awareness of and appreciation for the rights of others.
B. to broaden the child’s social environment through guided opportunities to live, play, work, and meet children of varying backgrounds.
C. To explore the children’s present interests in their environment, focusing on the home, school, church, and community.
D. To aid children in understanding their relationship to parents, siblings, school, church, and community helpers.
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