Our Curriculum

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

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

• 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

• 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
• Add number 1 to numbers 1–9:
  • Ordered and in mixed order
  • Horizontal and vertical format

Geometry

• Recognize shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle