EARLY Education | EC3-Kindergarten
LEARN + play + CREATE
At Christ Academy, we equip students with a strong academic foundation and the building blocks for future learning, all within a loving, Christ-centered environment. Through play, hands-on activities, and manipulatives, our students actively develop their skills in a pace that is appropriate for their learning needs.
Academic Objectives
Our goal for our early education students is that they gain skills and conceptual building blocks that lay the groundwork for future learning. At Christ Academy, these objectives are accomplished by:
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Our Early Education students learn to distinguish sounds, identify phonograms, analyze words, and orally describe and narrate their findings within a given text or story.
EC3 and EC4 students use the DIG curriculum that fosters oral language skills, cricital thinking, and listening comprehension through vocabulary, poems, puppets, activities and play. Students use the Wonders curriculum that carries on in later grades. -
Early Education students learn numbers, shapes, time, and differentiating size. They learn the calendar, days of the week, telling time, and charting weather. Students learn basic math in EC3, Saxon 4 Math in EC4, and Saxon 1st Grade Math in Kindergarten.
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Fine Motor Skills:
Students at a young age are developing basic muscle control to correctly hold a pencil to consistently draw lines, shapes and letters. EC4 students use the “Handwriting Without Tears” curriculum as a foundation for writing.
Large Motor Skills:
Students have many opportunities to develop their large motor skills. They strengthen their skills through recess, gym, play, movement exercises, practicing walking in a straight line, and body awareness.
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Extracurricular activities include art, library, PE, science and music. As they participate in these activities, Early Childhood students develop communication skills, number skills, reading skills, listening skills, and physical skills. These give students an opportunity to learn by doing, encouraging active participation and engagement.
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Our Christian foundations are interwoven into each lesson, conveying the beauty of God’s creation through learning and exploration. The Bible is taught in the classroom with age-appropriate content for children to understand and apply.
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EC3-Kindergaten students attend a weekly Chapel with a Biblical lesson and application. Students throughout all these ages are given leadership opportunities as they speak, pray, and act out lessons or concepts in front of other classmates. After they have learned a particular Bible lesson in the classroom, they can create what they have learned in this Chapel setting. We worship, sing, dance and learn together.
