Preschool Curriculum

Religion
  • The preschool religion curriculum goes through the main bible stories. The class will learn about creation, the fall of man, God's unending love, the 10 Commandments as well as many other bible stories. Religion it taught with the use of art activities, puppet shows, worksheets, and short video clips. We highlighting Christmas with a Christmas program with our class. We focus on God's love for each student and what it means to be a desciple in his church.

Art
  • Preschoolers will participate in weekly art activities. During these activities they will be learning, colors, shapes, step by step directions and fine motor skills. The students will participate in student lead art activities as well as teacher lead activities.

Health/Physical Education
  • The students get to practice gross and fine motor skills everyday in either a gym or outdoor setting. The students will participate in games, gross motor STEM activities, and free play. They will be introduced to basketball, volleyball, soccer, and the gross motor activities of skipping, hopping, galloping, and crab walking.

History/Social Studies
  • In preschool Social studies focuses on students everyday communities. Over the course of the year the students will learn about Community workers, Church community, Classroom community and what it means to be a good citizen. The goal is to build their knowledge of  what it means to be a strong Christian and to understand how others live in the world around them.​

Literacy
  • Preschool students use literacy in every center and activity through out the day. The activities are student lead as well as teacher directed. They are allowed space to naturally grow and learn at their own pace while still receiving help and scaffolding from the teacher. With the small classes each student is challenged and moves forward as they are ready. Each students participates in hands on letter and writing activities, small class discussions, large group lessons and center based play. The students also are allowed to develop their knowledge of reading with the use of the classroom smartboard.

​Math
  • Preschool students are taught math concepts with the use of hands on manipulatives and play based learning. They focus on numbers and number relationships as well as colors, and shapes. They learn about patters and how to create them as well the use of measuring tools.

Music
  • Music is used daily to expand upon the preschoolers lessons and understand their daily routine. The students will be taught about musical instruments as well as use music everyday to learn letters, numbers and reinforce the class theme of the month.

Science
  • The preschool science curriculum ties in with the classes monthly themes. It is a hands on curriculum that has the main focus to learn more about the world around them. The students learn to ask questions and challenge what they already know. The year begins with focusing on the difference between living and non living. During this time the students learn about different types of animals. The class rotates every year from learning about farms and farm animals to learning wild animals in their Zoo unit. From their the students begin to learn about habitat and environments. Over the coarse of a year they will learn about their senses, plants, bugs, dinosaurs, colors and planets. They will get to test their engineering skills with many STEM activities and work with basic science tools such at thermometers, measuring devises, microscopes, telescopes, and binoculars. They will learn how to make observations and record what they observed. The students also have access to a science centers during their free play activity time. This allows for student lead observations and experimenting.

Technology
  • Preschoolers will get the chance to use the smart board during large group activities. The smart board is used to expand upon already introduced ideas and concepts. The students work on hand eye coordination with easy click and drag thematic based learning games created by the teacher.