BEFORE ENTERING KINDERGARTEN

Students are required to know the following before entering Kindergarten:

• Say and recognize ABC’s
• Recognize shapes and colors
• Manipulate beginning sounds of the alphabet
• Print their name, capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet
• Count from 1 to 20
• Distinguish the difference between left and right

CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

Our program involves non-denominational Biblical teaching and prayer. Discipleland is used for out Bible curriculum. Saxon is used for Languange Arts. Houghton Mifflin for Math and A Belka Book for Science and Social Studies.

Language Arts: Phonics and Reading

• Recognition of name, letter names and sounds, and long and short vowels and consonants.
• Beginning phonics rules and special sounds
• Reading of sentences and stories from twelve books containing one and two vowel words and special sounds
• Compound words, syllables, and Rhymes

Language Arts: Writing

• Letters, blends, words, and sentences

Language Arts: Language

• Recognition of sentences by capital letters, periods, and commas

Language Arts: Poetry

• Poems committed to memory

Social Studies

• Community helpers
• Children of the world
• America: Our great country (map studies, famous Americans and places)

Arithmetic

• Number recognition, counting, and writing 1-100
• Number concepts 1-100
• Numbers before and after 1-100
• Numbers largest and smallest 1-100
• Counting and writing by tens to 100
• Counting and writing by fives to 100
• Counting and writing by twos to 100
• Number sequences by ones
• Using number words 1-10 and fist – tenth
• Value of coins and dollar bill
• Telling time
• Using the calendar
• Days of the week
• Addition facts through 10
• One-step story problems in addition
• Beginning subtraction

Science: Plants

• God’s plan for seeds

Science: Animals

• God’s plan for animals
• God’s plan for the seashore

Science: Health and Human Biology

• God’s plan for me

Science: Earth and Space

• God’s plan for the weather
• God’s plan for the seasons