Preschool Curriculum
Our integrated curriculum fosters a desire and joy of learning. At this age, we facilitate an environment that develops social-emotional learning. Utilizing Learning Without Tears, Star Fall, Second Steps, and general age-appropriate materials and instruction, along with a play-based environment in a center instructional structure, students will begin their academic journey that encourages well-rounded academic and social development. The curriculum addresses the knowledge, understanding, reading, and writing of the alphabet and numbers. They will learn to write their name and begin the reading and writing process through experiential learning. They will learn the calendar, weather, colors, shapes, etc. Students will develop their gross motor and fine motor skills that will help facilitate the use of tools available within their academic and social settings. We root character development through biblical instruction and the practice of Godly spiritual practices.
Pre-Kinder and Kindergarten
Our curriculum is research-based and standards aligned with learning objectives that are above Common Core and California state standards for English, language arts, and mathematics. It is aligned with our elementary program and is intended to help students prepare for our elementary school. Language arts has an emphasis on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words to teach emergent readers. Our social studies program incorporates elements that help students begin to understand environments that foster local civil living. This curriculum dovetails with our early preschool program continuing to address many of the same objectives.
1st - 5th Grade
Our curriculum is multifaceted, integrated, and grounded in a biblical worldview addressing areas of English, language arts, mathematics, science, and history/social studies. It is research-based and standards aligned with learning objectives that are above Common Core and California state standards. We make use of ACSI, Hillsdale Classical Learning, and biblical texts as instructional materials to help deliver a robust curriculum. We also endeavor to make use of those educational tools that facilitate a learning experience that correlates with our environmental and societal technological standards. Language arts provide phonological awareness, and phonemic instruction, facilitating fluency and increasing reading comprehension, and vocabulary. It is intended to enhance the reading and writing process making students good practitioners and communicators in the English language. Mathematics is intended to develop the students' number sense, mathematic computation, problem-solving skills, and project-based learning. Students will become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics applying their knowledge and mathematical reasoning to solve problems based in a real-world setting. Science is grounded in a biblical worldview that explores the scientific process. It has a hands-on experiential approach to learning scientific inquiry and methodology. There is an interdisciplinary approach through the use of STEM that helps to facilitate project-based learning in an integrated curricular fashion. Social studies and history have a distinctly biblical worldview and address the aspects of citizenship and our rich American history. It exposes students from early through present history enhancing their understanding of civic-mindedness and personal and governmental responsibility associated with our constitutional republic and democratic system. Biblical studies are filled with a robust exposure and knowledge of the scriptures making personal application of our Christian beliefs in a complex world.