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Grade Level Overview

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Kindergarten

Spiritual Life 

  • Bible - Students learn about God’s plan for creation, redemption, and salvation through Jesus Christ. Students survey the Old and New Testaments and are introduced to God’s infallible Word. They also learn about God’s grace and power through the lives of characters in both Old and New Testaments. 
  • Chapel - Students attend chapel weekly in a lively and powerful worship environment. They are exposed to Biblical principles and stories through weekly speakers. 
  • Scripture Memorization - Students are expected to memorize one verse a week that aligns with our Deep Roots Bible curriculum.

Academic

  • Language Arts:
    • Phonics - Students learn the beginning rules of spelling and phonics through explicit, systematic, and multisensory instruction.
    • Phonemic Awareness - Students learn to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. 
    • Reading Fluency - Students combine their phonics and phonemic awareness skills with print awareness to develop the early building blocks of fluent reading. Students participate in guided and shared reading with phonics-based decodable books to begin to read simple texts with increasing accuracy and confidence. 
    • Reading Comprehension - Students learn to understand stories and informational text through read-alouds. They follow the main idea or events in a story, retell key details, respond to questions, make predictions, and explain characters’ actions. By listening, discussing, and beginning to read simple texts, students learn to understand characters, events, and ideas while making personal and textual connections. 
    • Language Usage - Students learn the proper mechanics of a sentence, content specific vocabulary, basic spelling patterns, and high-frequency words. 
    • Writing - Students create their own personal narrative and begin to explore their writer’s voice through the Writer’s Workshop method. 
    • Listening and Speaking - Students learn to participate in conversations by asking and answering questions and clearly expressing ideas with support and appropriate social skills. 
  • Mathematics - Students focus on understanding numbers and counting, recognizing and creating patterns, and beginning to add and subtract within 10. Students also learn to compare objects by size or quantity, identify basic shapes, and describe their positions in space. 
  • Social Studies - Students learn about community helpers, holidays, historical figures, and how God has used people in our country and world to accomplish His will. 
  • Science - Students are introduced to God’s creation through hands-on, inquiry-based learning across four key areas: life science, earth and space science, physical science, and the human body. Students explore topics such as plants and animals, weather and seasons, forces of motion, and basic health and body systems all while developing observation, classification, and simple experimentation skills with a biblical worldview that emphasizes God as the Creator and sustainer of life. 
  • Handwriting - Through Spalding, students learn correct pencil grip, posture, and correct manuscript letter and number formations. 
  • Physical Education - Students develop basic motor skills, movement patterns, and safe participation in physical activities. Students learn how to run, jump, throw, catch, balance, and move in different directions, while also practicing cooperation, following rules, and modeling Christ-like behavior during games and activities. 
  • Music - Students explore and enjoy music through listening, singing, moving, and playing instruments. They also learn to recognize basic musical elements like rhythm, melody, and dynamics, express themselves through movement and sound, and understand worship as a spiritual discipline.
  • Art - Students learn about the creative process, fine motor development, and self-expression through the exploration of various materials, tools, and techniques. Students use lines, shapes, colors, and textures to create their own artwork while developing an appreciation of God’s creativity and design. 
  • Spanish - Students are introduced to the Spanish language through basic vocabulary, simple phrases, songs, and interactive activities. They begin to develop listening and speaking skills in a fun, immersive environment that builds cultural awareness.

Grade Activities

  • Field Trips
  • Mom & Tea event
  • Bi-monthly Gardening 
  • Graduation

Curriculum

  • Language Arts:
    • Phonics: Spalding
    • Phonemic Awareness: Heggerty
    • Reading Fluency: Abeka & Spalding 
    • Reading Comprehension, Language Usage, Listening and Speaking: Benchmark Advance
    • Writing: Writer’s Workshop
    • Handwriting: Spalding 
  • Mathematics: enVision Math
  • Bible: Deep Roots
  • Social Studies: Abeka
  • Science: Purposeful Design, ACSI

Other Information:

  • Students must be 5 years old by September 1 of the school year to start
  • Teacher/Student ratio: Approximately 20:1
  • School Day: Monday-Friday: 8:15-3:00pm
  • Morning Recess: 25 minutes
  • Lunch/Recess: 45 minutes
  • Classroom Structure: Core subjects taught by the classroom teacher with support from the  instructional aide
  • Enrichment classes taught by specialty teachers: Physical Education, Art, Music, and Spanish