Pre-Kindergarten (4's)

The fours curriculum is connected to the end of the three’s curriculum and builds upon that foundation enabling the fours to begin reading. The first semester we blend initial consonants with the vowels, and in second semester we begin to read short words and sentences.

Even though small muscle development continues in fours, they are enjoying their ability to better control their markers, crayons, scissors, and paint brushes. Soon the children receive a large tri-sided pencil giving them the opportunity to trace the alphabet, numbers, and their names.

When you ask these children, “How old are you?” they proudly smile and hold up little fingers. Counting is so much fun! Our goal is to enable them to count and recognize the numbers and understand the concept of one-to-one correlation. Other cognitive skills are developed, such as sorting, sequencing, classifying, evaluating, matching, measuring, geometric shapes, logical thinking, problem solving, etc.

Not only do the children sing daily with their teachers, but they also have regular visits from our music teacher. The children develop musical skills by listening, clapping and marching to music, playing the rhythm instruments, practicing and participating in our Christmas and spring programs.

Participating in arts and crafts opens up a wide range of activities for our children to explore and create. They will experiment with the various media available crayons, markers, paint, clay, glue, brushes, sponges, scissors, papier-mâché, etc.

Our curriculum covers thematic studies throughout the year about weather, seasons, animals, planting, health, safety, community helpers, American holidays, international days, field trips, and many more topics relating to the world around them. Our kindergarten students observe the marvel of the solar system, and the mysteries of the underwater world.

Running, jumping, climbing, balancing and energetic movement is essential to the muscle development and fitness of our children. Preschoolers play every day on the outdoor playground or in our indoor play areas.

A well-rounded education for preschoolers and kindergartners includes social and personal character development, using Biblical principles. Our school parents often tell us that the character development is one of the things that attracted them to our school; because they are working to instill in their children’s lives at home the same principles that we try to instill in their hearts at school. The school becomes an extension of the home. We look to the future. They will not remain small children; they eventually will grow into elementary students, then teenagers, and then young adults. Now is the best time to teach biblical values, good manners, cooperative interaction and communication with others, study skills, and proper work ethics. Our administration, teachers and staff are committed and unified to this important mission.