Curriculum Goals
We will be using the Creative Curriculum For Preschool to meet our curriculum goals. This is a center based program which encourages children to learn through their play.
Young Disciples: Two year olds are learning that they can be safe and have fun while away from home. We will work to meet the following goals with your 2 year olds:
1. Cultivate cooperation: with the environment as well as with each other.
2. Develop coordination: body awareness, gross motor skills, and fine motor skills to prepare for writing.
3. Develop concentration: this is done through group work as well as through opportunities to choose their own work and work from the beginning to the end of a work cycle.
4. Develop independence in all areas including potty training.
5. Learn basic courtesy and manners: saying please and thank you, how to greet someone new, how to help when someone needs it, etc.
6. Continue to encourage language development: Increase vocabulary as well as learning basic conversation skills (taking turns talking, listening to others, etc.)
7. Begin basic academic skills such as letters, numbers, colors, shapes, etc.
8. To learn about Jesus and what it means to be a disciple.
Primary Disciples: Three, Four and Five year olds continue to learn that it is fun to learn outside of the home and to be part of a larger community. We will work to meet all of the above goals with your child as well as add the following:
· Letter/sound identification
· Beginning writing skills
· Number recognition
· Basic counting skills
· Colors and shapes
· Beginning science and social studies concepts
Children’s Chapel/Daily Prayer: We hold a weekly children’s chapel. This will allow each child the opportunity to praise God, learn about being a part of a community of worshippers, and become aware of God’s presence in their daily life. There will also be many opportunities for prayer through out the school day, i.e.; before snack or at the beginning and end of each day, etc. We want the children to really become aware that God is always there to listen to and help them.