Our Curriculum
We seek to lay a solid foundation for lifelong learning. Each day shifts between Bible, shapes, phonics, math, language arts, crafts, and even homework, bringing a wealth of new and exciting information to engage young minds. Through biblically-based lessons, the children are introduced to social studies, language arts, math, phonics, science, health and safety, arts and crafts, music, and physical education.
2-3 Yr. Olds
Language Arts
Children love to learn new things. With the Language Development Visuals, children develop their language and listening skills as they learn about and discuss God’s creation and the people and world around them. Topics include science, health, safety, manners, community helpers, geography, history, family, colors, and shapes.
Develop language and listening skills through 99 topical studies
including:
- Animals and their habitats: ants, arctic animals, bears, butterflies, birds, cats, camels, ducks, dogs, forest animals, hummingbirds, insects, jellyfish, jungle animals, koalas, ladybugs, lambs, mice, ostriches, pandas, rabbits, reptiles, underground animals, woodpeckers
- Countries around the world: Canada, England, Israel, Japan, Australia, Mexico, The Netherlands, land of Africa
- Health, safety, manners:
- God made me, healthy bodies, kitchen safety, manners, neighbors
- Senses: tasting and smelling, seeing, hearing, touching
- Table manners
- Community helpers: doctor, dentist, firefighter, letter carrier, nurse, pastor, police officer, veterinarian
- Character development: kindness, listening, obeying quickly, being quiet
- Science: apples, eggs, Edison and light bulb, flowers, garden, magnets, night, jungle, peanuts, pond, rain forest, rubber, sea, spring, fall, summer, winter, vegetables, water, wind and weather, zinnias
- Miscellaneous topics: rainbow colors, What color is it?, shapes
and shape pictures, astronaut, buses and boats, cars, Eskimos,
family, farm, games, Here we go!, groceries, house, Indians, jelly,
jam, juice, jellybeans, kindergarten, names, olives, opposites, pairs of things, quarter, quilt, reading, telephone, transportation, yarn, zipper, zoo
Numbers
Learning Numbers with Button Bear is a number-recognition and coloring book especially designed for two-year-olds. This text helps children to listen, follow directions, and practice hand-eye coordination as they learn number concepts 1–10.
Numbers and Skills with Button Bear helps three-year-olds sharpen their listening skills, follow directions, and practice hand-eye coordination as they learn number concepts 1–15. Children enjoy tracing pathways, doing dot-to-dot, and coloring large, simple forms on these skill sheets.
2- Yr.-Olds
- Count from 1–25
- Understand number concepts 1–10:
- Counting objects
- Number recognition
- Proper sequence
3-Yr.-Olds
- Review counting from 1–25
- Count from 26–30
- Review number concepts 1–10
- Understand number concepts 11–15:
- Counting objects
- Number recognition
- Proper sequence
Preschool K-4
Language Arts
The Language Arts curriculum is creatively designed to teach and reinforce phonics, reading and language skills. Children practice reading letters, words and simple sentences. They expand their language
skills as they learn new vocabulary words, increase listening skills as they
hear new information and then answer questions, and strengthen motor
skills as they participate in fun games and activities.
- Recognize:
- The five vowels and their short sounds
- The 21 consonants and their sounds
- The long sounds of the five vowels
- Blend a consonant and vowel together (19 consonants)
- Sound one- and two-vowel words
- Learn these phonics rules:
- c/k rule: k goes with i and e; c goes with the other three, a, o, and u
- When c and k come together we say the sound only once
- s can say “s” or “z”
- q is always followed by u; vowel sound students hear will not be
- short u, but sound of vowel which follows u
- When a word ends in a double consonant, we say its sound only once
- One- and two-vowel words phonetically
- Apply phonics concepts to reading:
- Blends
- One- and two-vowel words
- Simple sentences and stories
- Learn sight words the, a, and I
- Learn purpose of a story title
- Learn that words ending in ’s are possessive
- Know to:
- Capitalize letters at beginning of sentences
- Place period at end of sentences
- Apply phonics concepts through abundant guided and independent practice activities including:
- Letter picture recognition and association
- Blend and word association with picture
- Sound recognition
- Dictation for developing sound recognition and spelling application
- Apply phonics sounds and rules
- Achieve accuracy
- Improve comprehension
- Read sight words the, a, I
- Receive differentiated instruction with ability grouping
- Successfully follow along with oral readers
- Build oral skills including:
- Accuracy
- Expressive reading
- Smoothness
- Appropriate pace
- Develop language and listening skills through 99 topical studies
including:- Animals and their habitats: ants, arctic animals, bears, butterflies, birds, cats, camels, ducks, dogs, forest animals, hummingbirds, insects, jellyfish, jungle animals, koalas, ladybugs, lambs, mice, ostriches, pandas, rabbits, reptiles, underground animals, woodpeckers
- Countries around the world: Canada, England, Israel, Japan, Australia, Mexico, The Netherlands, land of Africa
- Health, safety, manners:
- God made me, healthy bodies, kitchen safety, manners, neighbors
- Senses: tasting and smelling, seeing, hearing, touching
- Community helpers: doctor, dentist, firefighter, letter carrier, nurse, pastor, police officer, veterinarian
- Character development: kindness, listening, obeying quickly, being quiet
- Science: apples, eggs, Edison and light bulb, flowers, garden, magnets, night, jungle, peanuts, pond, rain forest, rubber, sea, spring and fall seasons, summer and winter seasons, vegetables, water, wind and weather, zinnias
- Miscellaneous topics: rainbow colors, What color is it?, shapes and shape pictures, astronaut, buses and boats, cars, Eskimos, family, farm, games, Here we go!, groceries, house, Indians, jelly, jam, juice, jellybeans, names, olives, opposites, pairs of things, quarter, quilt, reading, telephone, transportation, yarn, zipper, zoo
Numbers
In K4, children learn to recognize and understand the concepts of numbers. By the end of the year, they will be able to count from 1 to 100, recognize numbers 1–20, distinguish before and after numbers, and answer simple combinations.
Numbers
- Establish building blocks of learning numbers through object counting
- Recognize numbers 1–20
- Recognize concepts 1–20
- Develop observation, listening, and motor skills through counting sounds and counting while clapping, jumping, hopping
- Count by ones to 100
- Write numbers 1–20
- Associate sets of concrete objects and pictorial representations
with numbers - Develop concepts of patterning and sequencing using colors,
shapes, and numbers - Connect numbers 1–20 in sequence by dot-to-dot
- Comparing:
- Larger and smaller
- Before and after 1–20
- More or less
- Largest and smallest 1–20
- Addition:
- Recognize symbols:
- + (plus)
- = (equal)
- Add 1 to 1–9 using concrete objects
- Recognize symbols:
- Add number 1 to numbers 1–9:
- Ordered and in mixed order
- Horizontal and vertical format
Geometry
- Recognize shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle
