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School Curriculum
These pages feature the curriculum for each grade level. This curriculum is followed by our teaching staff to provide the highest possible level of achievement with each student. While our teachers have the freedom to add to the curriculum on an as need basis, each parent can expect the basic curriculum to be the guide for each class.
Additional information will be added to these class pages by our teaching staff. Please visit often to review the curriculum and see additional material that is added.
To view the curriculum for a grade, click that grade on the links below.
Kindergarten Curriculum Guide
Bible
- Character: Students learn to demonstrate Godly character qualities (honesty, love, responsibility, self‑control, forgiveness and obedience) through a study of the lives of Adam, Eve, Abraham and Isaac, Moses, Joshua, Daniel and Jesus.
- God’s Word: Students experience and understand that we find answers to life’s most important questions in God’s Word, the Holy Bible.
- Prayer: Students will develop an understanding of the power of prayer and realize that God answers prayer. Students pray together daily.
- Memorization: Students memorize significant verses from Scripture each week.
- Chapel: A Chapel time is held with a children’s pastor weekly.
Text: ACSI Grade K Series
Developmental and Pre-Reading Readiness
- Auditory Perception: Students learn to match words that begin with the same sounds or that end with the same sounds.
- Symbol Perception: Students learn to recognize letters and match letters with the sounds those letters represent.
- Name Recognition: Students learn to recognize and write their first and last name.
- Personal Information: Students learn to identify their birthday, telephone number, and address.
- Directional Movement: Reading readiness is emphasized by demonstrating correct directional movement and pointing to words one to one.
Reading
- Students receive instruction in ability groups, individually, and in the whole group.
- Students enter kindergarten at various stages of reading readiness. In order for each child to feel successful, cluster grouping is necessary. The Accelerated Reader Program is available for those children who can read independently and need the extra challenge.
- Phonics: Students will learn to recognize upper and lower case letters and their phonetic sounds. Short and long vowel sounds are introduced.
- Word Recognition: Students learn word-decoding skills. Students learn to recognize high‑frequency words.
- Reading Comprehension: Students will recall details of stories and identify the beginning, middle and end.
- Standardized Leveled Reading Assessments given as children progress with reading skills
Texts: Sing, Spell, Read and Write, (Pearson Learning Group)
Writing
- Handwriting: Fine motor control is applied as students form letters, begin to form words, and use space on lined paper.
- Beginning Rules of Grammar: Capitalization and punctuation are introduced.
- Students learn how to write a sentence.
- Students practice creative writing. Journal entries are written daily.
- Writer’s Workshop is incorporated throughout the year culminating in a student published book.
- Student produced class books are written and read to correlate with themes being studied.
Text: Sing, Spell, Read and Write (Pearson Learning Group)
Science
- Students learn beginning science skills. They learn to observe, to sort and classify, to use numbers, to measure using length and weight, to discuss and to predict.
- Science topics are explored. Units include: the five senses, magnets, dinosaurs, plants, sink and float, weather, and dental health, animals (nocturnal, zoo, farm), hibernation, life cycles, science experiments.
Text: A Beka Book
Social Studies
- Students study topics related to themselves and their community.
- Social Studies topics are explored. Units studied include:
- Me, My Family, Geographical Awareness
- The Beginning of America: Christopher Columbus, Pilgrims, Indians
- Important Historical and Government Leaders/Famous Americans/Community Helpers
Text: A Beka Book
Mathematics
- Students learn to rote count to 100.
- Students learn to recognize and write numerals to 50.
- One to one correspondence through 20 is taught.
- Students learn to add and subtract numbers. Math facts through 10 are practiced.
- Students learn to count by 2’s to 20, 5’s to 100, and 10’s to 100.
- Students learn to make and read graphs.
- Students are introduced to fractions ½, 1/3, and ¼.
- Students learn to measure using nonstandard measurement tools. Calendar and time (to the hour) measurement is also taught.
- Students learn coin recognition and the value of nickels, dimes and pennies.
- Students explore geometry. The basic shapes are mastered. Spheres, cones, cylinders, and cube figures are introduced.
- Place value is introduced to ones, tens, and hundreds.
- Manipulatives are used extensively in the math curriculum.
Text: ABeka Christian supplemented with Houghton Mifflin: Mathematics
Computer
- Students are exposed to computers daily with an instructional period once a week.
- Keyboarding skills are taught.
- Different uses of the computer are introduced.
Computer Programs:
Math Rescue—Crystalvision Word Rescue--Crystalvision
Magic Math 1 & 2—Jacobson Knight’s Castle--Fisher Price
Colorme!—Innervision Ready For Letters--The Learning Company
Art
- Students are exposed to art in the classroom. Various mediums are used as the children create and explore.
- Special art instruction is done weekly. Art history, eye and hand coordination, aesthetics, and criticism are introduced in simple terms as students explore with various art mediums and tools.
Music
- Students are exposed daily to music in the classroom.
- Students are exposed to different types of music and instruments as they use music to enhance units of study in the classroom.
- Students receive weekly organized instruction. Musical skills covered are: steady beat, loud/soft, high/low, fast/slow, movement, tone/color, practice for the Christmas program and the spring program.
Physical Education
- Organized P.E. with a special teacher using techniques involving both fine motor and large motor skills occurs weekly.
- Working together on teams is emphasized.
- Healthy lifestyle choices are explored.
- Children go outside daily (weather permitting) to enjoy our new playground structure and play area at recess.
Spanish
- Students listen to understand the spoken language, following simple directions.
- Students speak the language using simple memorized phrases.
- Students learn numbers to 20, family members, foods, weather, seasons.
Text: Espanol para ti
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