A Beka Christian Curriculum

Our preschool program is for children that will be attending Kindergarten the following year. The A Beka curriculum is what we use as our teaching guide.  We offer 2 preschool classes. We begin each day learning the pledge to the American flag, Christian flag, and the Bible. The program is designed to prepare your child for entrance into kindergarten, and has proven so by the high Kindergarten testing scores our Preschoolers have received throughout the past years.

At Happy Time we offer the Abeka program for two-year-olds through preschool ages. Abeka is a Christian-based preschool curriculum that features a traditional approach to learning, cross-subject integration, consistent review, and plenty of hands-on activities. And along with the learning, we make sure our kids are having fun at learning and play!

Preschool Curriculum Includes:
  • They write letters in the exact formation with tracing exercises.
  • The preschoolers practice writing as they review their phonics sounds.
  • They learn phonics, counting, and numbers writing activities reinforce what children learn in the classroom. 
  • Numbers pages introduce number concepts and the formation of numbers 1 – 20 to them.
  • Phonics-based reading pages are full of sequenced activities in recognition, sound, and formation of vowels (long and short), consonant-vowel blends, and one-syllable words with one or two vowels.
  • Arts and Crafts – Helps develop motor skills needed to draw, color, cut, and glue.
  • Bible verse alphabet learning and recognition is an essential part of their learning.
  • We start the day with pledges to the bible, the American flag, Christian flag, along with songs and the Lord’s prayer.
  • We count to 100, color, have storytime, song time which includes word spelling of colors.  We sing the days and months songs, trace their names and learn personal information such as an address, phone number, and body parts.  We play with Play-Doh, shave cream, sensory boxes, board games, and other age-appropriate toys.
  • We also practice character-building exercises that are reinforced during free-play indoors and outdoors and so much more.
  • Our program will end with a graduating ceremony at the end of Spring where the children are proud to show off what they have learned.

The Three-Year-Old Curriculum Includes:
  • Numbers, letters, and sounds worksheets for beginning phonics help children recognize letter shapes and learn letter sounds.  Activities include writing practice and using finger paint, glue and crayons.  The children learn number concepts 1 – 15.
  • Learning skills helps children sharpen their listening skills, follow directions and practice eye-hand coordination as they learn while enjoying tracing pathways, doing dot to dot, and learning to color large simple forms on skill sheets.
  • Arts and crafts teach children colors and shapes, follow directions, and develop eye-hand coordination with projects.  Colorful projects give children delightful opportunities to enjoy art and develop motor skills while painting, glue, and color projects with seasonal, religious, and fun themes.
  • We also include songs, enforcing strong character traits during free play indoor and outdoor, storytime, work on fun coloring sheets, learning body parts, and more.

The Two-Year-Old Curriculum Includes:
  • Teachers teach the fundamentals of helping the children with listening skills, following directions, and practicing eye-hand coordination.
  • The children learn number concepts of 1 – 10, colors and shapes, fun songs about animals and the sounds they make, and days and months, alphabet worksheets, story time, painting, playing with Play-Doh, and flashcards.
  • The children practice sitting at a table and using utensils, learning body parts, teaching sharing skills and kindness, potty-training, and more.
 
We feel it is important to show the children how proud we are when they complete the Preschool Program, so we do a graduation ceremony. We set aside a night to invite family and friends to watch a special graduation ceremony for their child. During this ceremony the children will perform some of the things they have learned through the year, and then each child will be presented with a Preschool Graduation Certificate.

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