Bible

Bible time is the most important half hour of the school day. The Bible lessons flow from the word of God through the heart, soul, and mind of the teacher into the heart, soul, and mind of the child. Bible time includes the Pledge to the flag, a patriotic song, Bible hymns and choruses, memory verses, prayer time and a Bible lesson.

Skills Development

Skills Development time is fun time set aside to strengthen listening, fine motor coordination, eye-hand coordination, visual perception and writing skills. The children enjoy a wide variety of activities.

Phonics and Reading

Using the simple, logical phonics system, children in Transitional Kindergarten can learn to read. They begin by mastering the vowels and consonants and their sounds through enjoyable classroom teaching. Forming blends and reading simple words comes naturally after that.

Writing

Students learn manuscript writing in a program that is correlated with their phonics. As they learn the sound and name of each vowel and consonant, they learn to write the lower-case letters. Later, many of the capital letters are introduced. Students practice the letters in writing class in their ABC Writing Tablet. Writing with Phonics is used later in the year for seatwork during reading circles.

Numbers

In Tranistional Kindergarten, children learn to recognize and understand the concepts of numbers. By the end of the year, they should be able to count from 1 to 100, recognize 1-20, distinguish before and after numbers, and answer simple combinations.

Activity Time

Activity time involves a number of fun activities, including Show and Tell, telling time, music, poetry and finger plays, drama and nursery rhymes, and art.

Language Development

Interesting material about animals, people, and places make this a very enjoyable time for the children.