Academics

Special care is given to the social and emotional development of our Toddlers and Twos.

Teachers lovingly guide students as they work on separating from parents, awareness of others (empathy), self-control, making transitions, listening, and self-expression.
We develop large muscles in daily activities such as jumping and dancing.
Fine motor skills are developed through fun activities including puzzles, using play dough with various tools, painting and drawing.
Classroom activities are designed to foster creativity, imagination, problem solving skills, exploration and experimentation.
Children develop their language skills through singing, listening to stories, dramatic play, vocabulary development and speech enhancement. Starting with their own names, children begin to learn about letters and words.
Basic and early math concepts are introduced through hands-on activities. We use our most portable manipulatives, our fingers, for “counting” songs.
Children are learning about the world around them through play.

Children in Threes classes are learning independence and cooperation while discovering play-based academics.

During circle time children are sharing, listening and participating with others.
At centers children play independently and in small groups.
For 3-year-olds we focus on understanding and respecting personal space.
Teachers encourage students to use their words to work out problems.
Children are immersed in language. Books with rhyme and rhythm allow children to play with language and focus on hearing differences and similarities in language. Nonfiction books increase knowledge and provide information about the real world.
Singing songs, finger plays and class discussions further add to language learning.
We build math skills throughout the day with activities such as counting, sorting, graphing, shape and number recognition, and problem solving.
Science skills are developed through observing, exploring, experimenting and predicting.
We provide a Christian environment with daily activities that allow children to grow in awareness of the love of God.

The Fours curriculum provides a smooth transition from skills learned in the 3-year-olds classroom to meet the more complex needs of 4-year-olds.

At 4, children are becoming more aware of language, both oral and written. Their increased attention span allows them to listen to stories more discriminately. They begin to compare stories, understand fiction and nonfiction, and make predictions. Most children are now experienced in dramatic play, which translates to story writing. We provide opportunities for the students to express themselves through take home journals, drama, show-and-tell, and class-made books. We encourage children to write their names on their artwork and use the Handwriting Without Tears approach to learn correct letter formation.
Children in Fours classes are continuing to develop an awareness of numbers, size, space and position of objects as well as a math vocabulary to express these ideas. They are developing concepts of graphing, patterning, one-to-one correspondence, ordinal numbers and recognizing numerals.
Children build confidence with their ability to follow routines independently and know what is expected of them.
Self-management skills are encouraged such as unpacking their backpacks, managing buttons, snaps and zippers, opening their own lunches, and cleaning up.
Fours are also beginning to solve their own problems about sharing and differences of opinion. Teachers encourage these budding skills through teaching, encouragement, and modeling.

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