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, critical thinking, and listening comprehension through vocabulary, poems, puppets, activities and play. This culminates in recognizing letters and sounds.

Starting in kindergarten, students use the Wonders curriculum that continues through elementary grades. This curriculum provides students with strong reading and writing skills.

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 Math in EC4, and Saxon 1st Grade Math in Kindergarten.

Students in EC and Kindergarten engage in developmentally appropriate hands-on, inquiry-based experiments and investigations.

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. These developmental skills are crucial for Kindergarten readiness and school readiness, and students develop them through play and creativity opportunities.

Large Motor Skills:

Students have many opportunities to develop their large motor skills. They strengthen their skills through recess, PE, play, movement exercises, practicing walking in a straight line, and body awareness.

Extracurricular activities include art, PE, library and music. These give students an opportunity to learn by doing, they encourage active participation and engagement, and foster independence. Students also have the opportunity to participate in Academies where they receive one-on-one or small group instruction in a sports or musical discipline during their school day. Academies vary throughout the year, and this time allows students to learn from professional instructors in a variety of sports or instruments.

Our Christian foundations are interwoven into each lesson, conveying the beauty of God’s creation through learning and exploration. The Holy Bible is taught in the classroom with age-appropriate content for children to understand and apply. 

While students have Bible lessons in their classroom each day and the Truth of God’s Word is woven throughout all academic subjects, EC3-Kindergarten students worship, sing, dance and learn together during a weekly Chapel. This is a special time for them to all join together for a Bible lesson and life application. Even our youngest Warriors are given leadership opportunities as they speak, pray, and reenact Biblical lessons in front of their classmates and teachers.